Traditional Wedding Quotes
Sharing traditional wedding quotes with your guests is yet another chance to incorporate a heartfelt sentiment or add meaningful expression to your wedding day.
Wedding poems, sayings, quotes and prayers are truly significant when they echo your values, relationship and wedding style.
Choose a traditional wedding quote that particularly speaks to your heart.
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Having a more traditional wedding? Embellish your Invitations with a beautiful traditional wedding quote that speaks to your style and formality.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
- Martin Luther
It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.
- Mother Teresa
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Sam Keen
I love you for all that you are all that you have been and all you’re yet to be.
- Anonymous
Each day I love you more Today More than Yesterday and Less Than Tomorrow.
- Rosemonde Gerarde
Love is not only something you feel. It’s something you do.
- David Wilkerson
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
- Audrey Hepburn
Jennifer Smith
Founder of UnveiledWife.com
& Author of The Unveiled Wife
Expert Advice
“Choose what will reflect the kind of love you desire to have with your spouse 50 years down the road and consider how everything you share during the ceremony becomes a blessing to those present as well.”
Jennifer’s Favorite Wedding Quote
Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
- Ecclesiastes 4:12
From sweet to sentimental—set your ceremony to rights with a traditional quote for your Wedding Programs. For longer quotes and poems—opt for Folded Programs.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, aways perseveres. Love never fails ... And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
- 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8, 13
What is a vow, but an intention spoken out before the world so that the world, in hearing, might take part in aspirations of the willing heart? In our coming here today to join and bless the joy of your becoming wed, may we enter in the truth of the words you've said, “I do.”
- Maureen Tolman Flannery
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.
- Micael Leunig
Love isn’t blind; it just only sees what matters.
- William Curry
Best Day Ever! From your wedding stationery to seating directions, paint a pretty picture with a wedding saying that’s as adorable as your flower girl or as sweet as a rose.
And suddenly, all of the love songs were about you.
I love you to the moon and back.
As God decreed, we agreed.
Love builds a happy home.
I still fall for you every day.
I love your heart.
All of me loves all of you.
Head over heels.
True love lasts forever.
The best is yet to come!
What is more romantic than a traditional wedding poem that tugs at the heartstrings?! Look to the classics and be inspired!
On this day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, life for, dream with, love.
- Unknown
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to come.
- Robert Browning
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
- David Viscott
Create a beautiful, meaningful ceremony with a traditional reading that matches your style and tone.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempets, and is never shaken; It is te star to ever wandering bark Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time’s fool, though rose lips and cheeks within his bending sickle’s compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
What is a vow, but an intention spoken out before the world so that the world, in hearing, might take part in aspirations of the willing heart? In our coming here today to join and bless the joy of your becoming wed, may we enter in the truth of the words you’ve said, “I do.”
- Maureen Tolman Flannery
Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
- Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago
I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I love you. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I ...
- William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Love inspires! Join their hearts to yours—bless your guests with a romantic love quote—worthy of your wedding.
In as much as love grows in you, so in you beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We were together.
Best wishes are in order! Find the right words to make your toast, speech, or prayer sing with your congratulatory words.
Blessings to the happy couple! May your journey be happy, your commitment deep and your joys increase every day from this day forward.
Wishing you a lifetime of days as beautiful as this one and many more days of blessings and celebrations!
There is no remedy to love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful and romantic, a traditional quote from a famous author or classic masterpiece will put a classic spin on your wedding stationery.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet from the Portuguese
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
- Emily Brontë
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If music be the food of love, play on.
- William Shakespeare
Embrace tradition and the institution of marriage with a meaningful quote that gives power and strength to your vows.
On this day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life.
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, until death do us part.
From sappy to sentimental everybody loves a good love quote! Be inspired to bring out your inner romantic and get your guests reaching for the tissues.
The best friend will probably get the best spouse, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
- Boris Pasternak
I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious—your heart, your soul.
- Leo Tolstoy
Love goes towards Love
- Shakespeare
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
- Pearl Bailey
May Joy and Peace surround you both, contentment latch your door, and happiness be with you now and God Bless you evermore.
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face; The rain fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
Wishing you always walls for the wind, A roof for the rain, Tea beside the fire, And the love and laughter of those you hold dear.
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