52 Romantic Quotes Perfect for a Wedding Speech

Looking for a romantic quote to use in your wedding vows that won’t make you gag? Check out these 52 oh-so-romantic, not-too-cheesy love quotes. We’re sure these will get your creative juices flowing! Have fun!

LOVE QUOTES FOR YOUR WEDDING SPEECH

• “Happiness is anyone and anything at all that’s loved by you.” – You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown.

• “I didn’t fall in love with you, I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way.” – A real groom

• “And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.” – Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet.

• “And I’d chose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and choose you.” A real groom

• “’cause I know there is strength in the differences between us, and I know there is comfort where we overlap” – Ani Difranco’s Overlap.

• “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (and yes, Matthew 6:21, too)

• “Who, being loved, is poor?” – Oscar Wilde

• “Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.” – Otomo No Yakamochi

• “I love your feet because they have wandered over the earth and through the wind and water until they brought you to me.” – Pablo Neruda

• “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ” – Rita Rudner

We know that nerves can get the best of you when it’s time to write your wedding vows or speech. So to help you get through the process without too much pain we have assembled this incredible list of romantic quotes.

Nowhere else on the internet will you find such complete and inspirational romantic quotes. Adding any of these to your wedding speech or vows along with a few one-liners and real emotions are sure to impress your spouse.

LOVE QUOTES TO ADD TO YOUR PERSONAL WEDDING VOWS

• “I lost my way all the way to you, and in you I found my way. – Atticus

• “If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ” – Ernest H. Shephard (this is often erroneously attributed to A.A. Milne, but he never wrote these words)

• “We need a witness to our lives. There are a billion people on the planet… I mean, what does anyone’s life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things… all of it, all of the time, every day. You’re saying, ‘Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness.’” – Shall We Dance?

• “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – The Essential Rumi

• “I love you, not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you. I love you, not only for what you have made of yourself but for what you are making of me.” – Roy Croft.

• “I love you right up to the moon — and back.” – Sam McBratney’s Guess How Much I Love You.

• “We are all a little weird, and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” – Robert Fulghum.

• “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” – When Harry Met Sally.

• “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – The Fellowship of the Ring.

• “No, I mean, I like you very much. Just as you are.” – Bridget Jones Diary

• “One plus one equals both.” – Gregory Maguire’s Son of a Witch.

• “Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.” – William Shakespeare.

• “Because of you, I laugh, I smile, and I dare to dream more than I ever have. Thank you for the miracle of you. You are and always will be, the love of my life, my soulmate, my person. – Via Pinterest

• “You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones.” – Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time.

• “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” – Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace.

• “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.” – Katharine Hepburn.

• “There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” – Mother Teresa.

• “What will survive of us is love.” – Phillip Larkin’s An Arundel Tomb

• “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller

WRITE KILLER WEDDING VOWS WITH THESE ROMANTIC QUOTES

• “Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.” – Henry David Thoreau.

• “To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.” – Robert Brault.

• “You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said to have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” – George Moore.

• “We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabell Lee.

• “Love doesn’t sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new.” – Ursula K. Le Guin.

• “He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.” – Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.

• “Love me, and the world is mine.” – David Reed.

• “You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

• “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.

• “Love is like a friendship caught on fire.” – Jeremy Taylor.

TRADITIONAL WEDDING VOWS

Of course, including romantic quotes in your wedding vows is not mandatory. Thousands of couples choose to recite the traditional wedding vows. So, if you aren’t great at writing or don’t want to include quotes that are cliché you can stick to the tried and true traditional wedding vows.

ROMANTIC LOVE QUOTES

• “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach.

• “Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald.

• “I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion — I have shudder’d at it — I shudder no more — I could be martyred for my religion — Love is my religion — I could die for that — I could die for you.” – John Keats.

• “My Creed is Love, and you are its only tenet.” – John Keat.

• “I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.” – Javan.

• “Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.” – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve.

• “The only thing that matters is what they feel, and how much they feel, for each other. And if it’s half of what we felt — that’s everything.” Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

• “In this life, we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” – Mother Theresa.

• “Love me when I least deserve it because that’s when I really need it.” – Swedish Proverb

• “Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein.

• “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche.

• “I want to wake up at 2 am, roll over, see your face, and know that I’m right where I’m supposed to be.”