Wedding Blessings, Toasts and Good Wishes
Words of wisdom for new brides and grooms You can use these romantic quotations as wedding toasts, but there are many other ways to use them too. Try adding one to a gift tag or card or, for a romantic touch, write some out and put one in an envelope for each night of the couples honeymoon. If you're in the bridal party, consider adding a quote or two to the wedding program or handing a different one out with each of the wedding favors. We're sure you'll think of great ways of your own to use these wonderful words of wisdom.
The most precious possession
that ever comes to a man in this world
is a woman's heart.
-- J. G. Holland Wishing you
A house full of sunshine,
Hearts full of cheer,
Love that grows deeper
each day of the year.
-- from an old Welsh blessing One word frees us
of all the weight and pain of life;
That word is love.
-- Sophocles We are born for love.
It is the principle
of existence
and its only end.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In as much as love grows in you,
so in you beauty grows.
For love
is the beauty of the soul.
-- St. Augustine Love is like a rose,
the joy of all the earth...
Love is like a lovely rose,
the world's delight.
-- Christina Rossetti Life is to be fortified by many friendships.
To love, and to be loved, is the greatest
happiness of existence.
-- Sydney Smith Love is not getting, but giving.
-- Henry van Dyke May your joys be as bright as the morning,
your years of happiness
as numerous as the stars in the heavens,
and your troubles but shadows
that fade in the sunlight of love.
-- An Old English Blessing Nothing is sweeter than love;
nothing stronger, nothing higher,
nothing wider, nothing happier,
nothing fuller, nothing better
in heaven and earth...
love flies, runs, and rejoices;
it is free and nothing can hold it back.
-- Thomas a Kempis God, the best maker of all marriages,
combine your hearts in one,
your realms in one.
-- Shakespeare True love's the gift which God has
given
To man alone beneath the heaven...
It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
In body and in soul can bind.
-- Sir Walter Scott We do not wish you joy without sorrow
Nor endless day without the healing
dark,
Nor brilliant sun without the restful
shadow,
Nor tides that never turn against your
bark.
We wish you love, and strength, and
faith, and wisdom,
Goods, gold enough to help some
needy one,
We wish you songs, but also blessed
silence,
And God's sweet peace when every
day is done.
-- Dorothy Nell McDonald From every human being there rises a
light
that reaches straight to heaven. And
when
two souls that are destined to be
together find
each other, their streams of light flow
together,
and a single brighter light goes forth
from their united being.
-- Baal Shem Tov Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of
trouble, attempts what is above its
strength, pleads no excuse of
impossibility
It is therefore able to undertake all
things.
-- St. Thomas Aquinas Love comforteth, like sunshine after
rain.
-- Shakespeare A marriage...makes of two fractional
lives a whole;
it gives to two purposeless lives
a work, and doubles the strength
of each to perform it;
it gives to two
questioning natures
a reason for living,
and something to live for;
it will give a new gladness
to the sunshine,
a new fragrance to the flowers,
a new beauty to the earth,
and a new mystery to life.
-- Mark Twain Happiness is only in loving.
-- Tolstoy Any time that is not spent on love is
wasted.
-- Torquato Tasso Heaven give you many, many merry days!
-- Shakespeare Who can doubt that we exist only to
love?
We live not a moment exempt from its
influence.
-- Blaise Pascal That love is all there is
Is all we know of love.
-- Emily Dickinson Those who love deeply never grow old.
-- Sir Arthur Wing Pinero The world is full of beauty
when the heart is full of love.
-- W. L. Smith Love means the body, the soul,
the life, the entire being.
-- Guy de Maupassant Love is the life of the soul.
It is the harmony of the universe.
W. E. Channing
Give all to love;
obey thy heart.
-- Emerson Were there nothing else
For which to praise the heavens
but only love...
Only love were cause enough
for praise.
-- Tennyson
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