169 Romantic Wedding Quotes by Famous People

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy if not you’ll become a philosopher.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about he goes off and gets married.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

I am about to be married and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

In Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

In my 50s I’ll be dancing at my children’s weddings.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

That is ever the way. ‘Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

I’d imagine my wedding as a fairy tale… huge beautiful and white.

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

The trouble with wedlock is that there’s not enough wed and too much lock.

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach the clock no longer ticks it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals they symbolize the human race.

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

I remember when I was in school they would ask ‘What are you going to be when you grow up?’ and then you’d have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

When I design a wedding dress with a bustle it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.

Monica Seles: I’d hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That’s why we didn’t sell the pictures of our wedding and we got offered millions of dollars for them millions.

I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.

When it’s over I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that too. But that one felt all right.

When I decided to get married at 40 I couldn’t find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That’s when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

I chose my wife as she did her wedding gown for qualities that would wear well.

In the ’50s a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn’t have to keep up the facade.

I don’t know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain’t even never been to a wedding.

Personally I’m an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding… I’d be upset.

A wedding is such a girl thing.

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast nor blasted were their wedded days with strife each season looked delightful as it past to the fond husband and the faithful wife.

I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you my wedding pictures got downloaded just as much as my bikini pictures.

People always complain ‘you never invited me to your wedding’ but I prefer casual weddings.

Never get married in the morning – you never know who you might meet that night.

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

O month when they who love must love and wed.

And we’ve got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

I want the big drama. I always said I don’t want a wedding I want a parade.

There’s a higher form of happiness in commitment. I’m counting on it.

When he came back from downtown he had forgotten to bring his license his identification the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.

I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.

A person’s character is but half formed till after wedlock.

All weddings except those with shotguns in evidence are wonderful.

The one thing that I’m in charge of in this wedding is the food.

I’m one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it’s going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I’ve been happily married to my profession for years.

Of course I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

I’ve been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama – then candidate Obama – going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I’ve seen well since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of ’til death do we part.

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love trust partnership tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

I’ve always been the type to fall in love fast and with every boyfriend I plan out my wedding in my head.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

I did get to keep the wedding dresses from ‘Runaway Bride’. They’re all boxed up in my garage. I’ve never opened them. It’ll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

I want a big church wedding.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It’s a metaphor for women’s lives their creativity.

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

A man’s got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

I don’t ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not.

I think if you’re at the point where you’re popular enough to sell your wedding photos to OK! Magazine then you don’t need the money.

I’ve been sober for two-and-a-half years My children are happy. In August my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.

I love a black wedding dress.

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding and heaven help us the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be ‘the happiest moment’ of one’s life.

I hadn’t been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn’t show for my wedding.

I’ve never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I of course used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something.

I try to remember as I hear about friends getting engaged that it’s not about the ring and it’s not about the wedding. It’s a grave thing getting married. And it’s easy to get swept up in the wrong things.

I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.

I hated the royal wedding.

I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like but I’ve always dreamed about decorating my baby’s nursery.

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for ‘Wedding Crashers’ and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

I love auditioning. Since ‘The Notebook’ and ‘Wedding Crashers’ I don’t have to audition anymore and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don’t audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

Wedding is destiny and hanging likewise.

I would absolutely definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I’d like it to be a special day not a photo shoot. And once you’ve done that your marriage becomes everybody else’s business.

I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I’d never done karaoke before.

The wedding took place in Vermont where they have legalized gay civil unions and I married a woman.

I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I’m a bridesmaid which I’ve been lucky enough to be several times.

I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It’s not about a production number it’s about a meaningful moment between two people that’s witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.

I love doing comedy. Absolutely love it. After ‘Wedding Crashers’ people suddenly realized that it was something I could do.

It’s interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids’ friends know me from ‘Wedding Crashers’ and not so much Bond. My kids have a good laugh. I was 20 then. The look I had then was the look that a lot of their friends are assuming now. They think it’s cool. What goes around comes around.

When I auditioned for ‘Wedding Crashers’ the producers had never seen any of my other work except for Bond. I got ‘Wedding Crashers’ partly because I was a Bond girl.

When I planned my wedding the first time my ex-husband and I we were both struggling comics. I had a TV show that had gotten cancelled. Basically I rented a wedding gown the reception hall smelled like feet.

For my first wedding I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I’m not one of those pretty criers.

A big part of being in a wedding is the financial obligation and that’s something that people don’t really talk about but if you’re asked to be in a wedding you’re gonna have to fork over some cash.

The only time I ever look good dancing is if I’m next to my dad at a wedding.

For me life has either been a wake or a wedding.

I hope that when I’m 80 years old people will still be talking about my wedding.

The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather Samuel Miliband in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.

Most kids don’t get to go their parents’ wedding.

My husband Jim converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages I would always lay a wager than the man If not the wedding day is absolutely fixed on.

When I had a job catering I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

I thought I was attractive when I shot ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding.’ Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.

On my wedding day. I didn’t want a natural blushing-bride look – I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look so even though I had the white dress I had pink net underneath.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding.

I just wrapped this movie called The Wedding Crashers which was a pretty big break for me.

My family is almost exactly like the one in ‘Monsoon Wedding’. We are very open fairly liberal loud people.

My wedding was at home so I didn’t really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches actually designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

I didn’t finish my dress until about three days before my wedding – I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours but that didn’t dissuade me from wearing it.

I’m a jewelry girl. I became with friends with designer Irene Neuwirth a few years ago. At that point I just used to wear my wedding rings. Very low key. Now if I could I’d be draped from head to toe in her jewelry all the time. Everything she makes is beautiful.

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress investment of goodwill affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a wedding without it being stressful!

I don’t follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding or event.

I don’t want a huge wedding. I don’t want it to be some huge spectacle.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case a suffragette who had never married. After her death he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

Jody Hill who I created ‘Eastbound And Down’ and ‘Fist Foot Way’ with was my best man at my wedding.

When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: ‘Do I want this fork or that fork?’ But in the end people aren’t going to remember what napkin holder you choose.

Recently I was in Bernalda my dad’s ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel so we had my sister’s wedding there. It was beautiful.

That to me was the most poignant part of Diana’s wedding as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did – and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.

I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market.

As a pastor you get invited into the most poignant moments of people’s lives. Whether it’s a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit you get invited into the center of the event whether or not you know the people.

It happened in Miami in Coral Gables a great big ol’ Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress but I never knew if it was a joke or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

I got my first big paycheck for ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding.’ This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesn’t happen like that anymore but this was in the ’90s. It was the golden age!

For her fifth wedding the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.

After I had the Caesarean I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams’ wedding.

We all went to Kelsey’s wedding and yeah we go to parties. We also go to each other’s house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey’s and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyone’s idea of a good time but we had a good time.

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer’s office above the coffee shop where we’d been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying ‘By the time you get this Daddy I’ll already be Mrs. Blaise!’

I’ve chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave he bought me three wedding rings already!

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah there was no cake. Today there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

I have a crusade against fondant also shortening. There’s no reason why wedding cakes can’t taste good if you know what you’re doing.

I’ll get pretty much everything the way I want it. I’ve always dreamed of a beach wedding.

I’d hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don’t have that right.

It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress and I have enjoyed every moment of it. It was such an incredible honor to be asked and I am so proud of what we and the Alexander McQueen team have created.

For a girl the wedding is when you’re married. For a guy it’s when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.

I always envisioned myself having a traditional and elegant wedding.

I like wearing my wedding ring it’s nice.

Well… Actually I got picked because I was the only one who fit the wedding gown – they had my size.

When I was in high school there was ‘Superbad’ and ‘The Girl Next Door’ and ‘Wedding Crashers’ and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that’s smart funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like ‘Superbad.’ That movie was so good and so funny.

I used to work all the time and now if there is a wedding there’s a concert I’m there.

My biggest blast-off hit was ‘You Raise Me Up.’ If you ever have a wedding or a funeral it’s a good pick.

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in ‘American Wedding’. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence and it really just jumped off the page.

If you’re going to plan a wedding then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

Growing up I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in ‘The Sound of Music.’

I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.

I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends’ weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever so she made it easy for me.

When Andrew went with the girls we were talking all morning and he was saying ‘It’s okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect.’ Because we’re such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th.

I wear my wedding ring. We talk about when we’re going to get married again which we hope is going to take place some time in this incredibly hectic calendar year.

It’s important to still look like yourself on your wedding day so I didn’t do anything drastic.

A lot of people think I’m that guy in ‘Betsy’s Wedding’ but I’m not. What it is for me is that on some level I connect with the character emotionally.

We are all so close. We are godfather to each others’ kids. I was the best man at Jesus’ wedding.

I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I’m very grateful for that… spending the day on my own being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing.

I believe that anybody who gets married should go to a counselor for months before the wedding. I think that’s going to save guys a lot of money and the ladies a lot of heartbreak.

I’ve thought about it a hundred times. I even buy bridal magazines sometimes. I want David Tutera to do my wedding.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!

You have to make your wedding day all about you.

I’m taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

I mean I do wear a wedding ring and take it off when I shoot.

Those are the men who will dance at your wedding.