When considering a wedding script, couples often focus on longer readings from religious texts or innumerable other sources. However, well chosen phrases, sprinkled in the text can have a power impact, too. Consider the following quotations provided in A World of Ways to Say “I Do” by Noah Benshea and Jordan Benshea
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. –Virgil
If love were what the rose is, and I were like the leaf, our lives would grow together in sad and singing weather. –Algernon Charles Swinburne
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. –Plato
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. –Mother Teresa
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labor, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories? –George Eliot
In marriage, every day you love, and every day you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness. –Bill Moyers
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. –Ranier Maria Rilke
There is no remedy for love but to love more. –Henry David Thoreau
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. –Goethe
Immature love says, “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says, “I need you because I love you.” –Erich Fromm
Life has taught me that love does not consist of gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction. –Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The best portion of a good man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and love. –William Wordsworth
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thought creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. –Lao-Tzu
