Wedding speech quotes that don't feel recycled.

Use one quote, late in the speech, set up briefly. Don't stack them. Don't open with one. Don't paraphrase your way through three.

""For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.""

""Love recognises no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.""

""To love another person is to see the face of God.""

""Once the realisation is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvellous living side by side can grow up.""

""Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.""

""A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.""

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

""Marriage is not a love affair, it's an ordeal. It's a religious exercise, a sacrament, the grace of participating in another life.""

""The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.""

""It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.""

""Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'""

""Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.""

""She is a friend of my mind. The pieces I am, she gathers them and gives them back to me in all the right order.""

""Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.""

""If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.""

""I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.""

""Marriage is a great institution. I'm just not ready for an institution.""

""Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.""

""Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.""

""The very essence of romance is uncertainty.""

• Set it up. One sentence explaining why this quote.
• Slow down. Pause before and after.
• Make it land for them. Add one line connecting the quote back to the couple.

""When Sarah first told me about Tom, she said something I keep thinking about. She said: 'He listens like it's the only thing he's doing.' Toni Morrison wrote that real love is 'a friend of your mind — gathering the pieces of you and giving them back in the right order.' That's Sarah and Tom. They put each other in the right order.""