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 favours. 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

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

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.00
-- Dorothy Nell McDonald

A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives 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 Mument 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