When making or writing in a wedding card or a the tag for a gift, one should be sure to make it extra special. Most brides will keep their bridal cards as remembrances of this very treasured time in their lives. Cards may be passed around for friends and relatives to read, as well.
With the sayings following, one can make a charming and touching homemade card to delight a bridal couple and enhance any gift.
Loving Wedding Day Words, Sayings, and Quotes
Following are touching, sweet, and sentimental words for or about the newly married couple. These might also be appropriate in bridal shower cards.
- Marriage--a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose. - Beverly Nichols
- Heaven give you many, many merry days. - William Shakespeare
- There are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love. - I Corinthians 13:13
- A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness. - Dean Stanley
- Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts. - William Shakespeare
- I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. - W.B. Yeats
- Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness. - Milton
- When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. - Joseph Campbell
- Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. – Plautus
- One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. - Honore de Balzac
- Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same. - Emily Bronte'
Beautiful Love Poems for the Bride and Groom
Nothing says true love quite like a poem or prose. These are lovely and short enough to be included in a greeting card.
- Come live with me and be my love, / And we will some new pleasures prove / Of golden sands and crystal brooks, / With silken lines and silver hooks. - John Donne
- He is the half part of a blessed man / Left to be finished by such as she: / And she a fair divided excellence / Whose fulness of perfection lies in him. - William Shakespeare
- To have and to hold from this day forward, / for better or worse, for richer for poorer, / in sickness and in health, / to love and to cherish to death do us part. - Book of Common Prayer
Wedding Humor
It never hurts a relationship to keep a good sense of humor. This is a cute little poem, perfect for the couple who enjoys a good laugh. This would also be a cute part of a best man toast at a reception.
To keep your marriage brimming,With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it:
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
For more quotes and Wedding Day ideas, read the Suite 101 articles Quotes & the Meanings of Flowers, The Meanings of Colors of Roses, and How to Buy Good Diamonds and Understand Quality: Buying a Nice Diamond Engagement Ring, Anniversary Necklace, or Gift.
Also see the websites Love Words, Quotes, and Romantic Gifts and Weddings, Planning a Wedding, and Getting Married
Janienne Jennrich - Janienne Jennrich, Topic Editor for Kids & Teen Parties and for Hair, is an award-winning freelance writer & webmaster.
