We have entered full swing into the wedding season. From mid-May through September I receive numerous requests asking me to perform a wedding. This is a season of excitement, stress and maxed out credit cards! However, beneath it all busy hum is the ongoing declarations of love between two people who long to share their covenant decision with friends and family. So, in honor of the season, here are some great thoughts and quotes about love and marriage…
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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.
~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Brontë
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning
When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels desert heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy. ~The Brahma Sutras
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love.
~Robert Fulghum,True Love
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet ~ Plato
My beloved is mine and I am his ~ Song of Songs
You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
~ John Keats
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. ~ Socrates
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Lao Tzo
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. ~Erma Bombeck
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~ Dr. Seuss
Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.” ~ Erich Fromm
Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ~ Elizabeth Browning
Love is like playing the piano.
First you must learn to play by the rules,
then you must forget the rules
and play from your heart.
~ Anonymous
Kissing is like drinking salted water.
You drink, and your thirst increases.
~ Chinese Proverb
Nothing can come close to the sheer joy
I feel in marrying my best friend
~ Anonymous
I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
when the winds are breathing low,
and the stars are shining bright.
~ Percy Byssthe Shelley
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
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