Wedding Blessings Quotes:

Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

source: A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

topic: Letting Go, Kindness, Blow, Making Friends, Bff

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

source: 1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

topic: Love, Valentines Day, Soul, Marriage Ceremony, Souls In Love

May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy.

- James Dillet Freeman

topic: May, Wedding Blessings, Wedding Poetry, Wedding Ceremony

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

- Mignon McLaughlin

source: Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

topic: Love, Relationship, Anniversary, Husband Love, Husband To Be

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

- Martin Luther

topic: Love, Relationship, Family, Husband To Be, Husband Wife

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.28, Lulu.com

topic: Wedding, Memories, Wind, Wedding Blessings, Wedding Poetry

When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.429, Simon and Schuster

topic: Heart, Two, Iron, Bronze, Wedding Blessings

I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

topic: Passion, Men, Use, Marriage Ceremony, Love Poems

May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.

- James Dillet Freeman

topic: Understanding, Tolerance, May, Wedding Blessings, Wedding Ceremony

And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

topic: Thee, After Death, Love Poems, Love Vows, Wedding Blessings

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

- Rumi

topic: Love, Inspirational, Happiness, Meant To Be Together, Marriage And Love Inspirational

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

- George Eliot

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Soulmate Love, Soulmates Best Friends

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Love, Marriage, Wedding, Marriage Speech, Marriage Toast

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Wedding, Heart, Hands, Inspirational Wedding, Standing Apart

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

- Rumi

source: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

topic: Inspirational, Blessed, May, Being Blessed, Wedding Blessings

May this marriage be blessed.May this marriage be as sweet as milk and honey.May this marriage be as intoxicating as old wine.May this marriage be fruitful like a date tree.May this marriage be full of laughter and everyday a paradise.May this marriage be a seal of compassion for here and hereafter.May this marriage be as welcome as the full moon in the night sky.Listen lovers, now you go on, as I become silent and kiss this blessed night.

- Rumi

topic: Love, Sweet, Laughter, Seals, Wedding Blessings

love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Marriage, Moving, Sea, Marriage Advice, Marriage Toast

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

source: 1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

topic: Love, Sight, Grace, Marriage Ceremony, Writing Poems

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Love, Marriage, Dance, Marriage Advice, Marriage Anniversary

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.147

topic: Inspirational, Angel, Blessing, Irish Beer, Irish Drinking