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“Wishing you a marriage where care comes naturally: a thoughtful question, a welcome at the door and the lovely certainty that your day matters to someone.”

“You arrive at this marriage with much to offer and much still to discover. May you encourage each other's curiosity wherever the coming years take you.”

“May your marriage fill the calendar with plans you both look forward to, and leave enough empty afternoons for the pleasures you haven't discovered yet.”

“There is something deeply lovely about bringing the people you have become to one shared decision: a marriage you can each be proud to call your own.”

“After the wedding guests go home, may happiness keep turning up in your kitchen, on your walks and in the little things you save to tell each other.”

“Here's to bringing all your experience to marriage and still making gloriously silly memories together. May today's laughter find plenty of company.”

“May the friendship you bring to your marriage keep the conversation interesting, the teasing gentle and the seat beside you your favourite place to be.”

“Here's to a marriage with room for both your well-loved ways, your separate passions and the traditions you have yet to invent together.”

“You bring so much living to this wedding day: stories, discoveries and hard-earned understanding. May your marriage give you wonderful things to add.”

“Your wedding belongs to the two of you, not to anyone else's timetable. Wishing you every happiness in the life you choose together.”

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhereI go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is youhere is the deepest secret nobody knows(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which growshigher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apartI carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”

“Look after my heart - I've left it with you.”

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

“When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”

“It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.”

“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”

“To our new family member: may the years ahead bring you both plans worth making and mornings you look forward to, with plenty of occasions for us to raise a glass together.”

“As you begin married life, we hope our place in it will be a helpful one: ready to celebrate your choices, listen when invited, and lend a hand when you ask.”

“With a warm welcome to our family, we wish you both a marriage with room in the calendar for each other, even when there is nothing particular to celebrate.”

“We’re so glad to welcome you into our family. May your marriage give you both the encouragement to try something new and the freedom to discover talents you haven’t met yet.”

“On your wedding day, our wish for you both is a home where a difficult day can be spoken about honestly and asking for comfort is as natural as pulling up a chair.”

“As we welcome you into the family, we wish you both a marriage where you still invite each other along on the smallest errand, simply because the company makes it better.”

“Welcome to the family, and here’s to a marriage with plenty of happy nonsense—kitchen celebrations, spontaneous outings, and jokes that are funny only to you two.”

“Our wedding wish for you both is a life rich in small pleasures: a familiar footstep, an unhurried breakfast, and good news you can hardly wait to tell each other.”

“As you join our family, bring your traditions, your opinions, and your own way of celebrating. We look forward to getting to know you, not asking you to become like us.”

“Today gives us another person to cheer for, another birthday to remember, and so many reasons to gather. Welcome to the family—we’re delighted that it’s you.”

“Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.”

“I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still holding hands and laughing after fifty years of marriage. That's what I want. I want to be someone's forever.”

“Marriages may be made in heaven, but a lot of the details have to be worked out here on earth.”

“Marriage is more about snore strips and flannel nightgowns than candlelight dinners.”

“In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.”

“I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.”

“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy”

“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.”

“I grew up with a front-row seat to what a happy, healthy marriage looks like. Never perfect, constantly evolving, always united.”

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

“May your happiness always be shared, your victories celebrated twice and your quietest moments feel just as meaningful as the occasions that bring everyone here tonight.”

“The greatest gift in a marriage is not finding someone without flaws; it is finding someone whose hand makes every imperfect day feel worth facing.”

“Love may arrive quietly, but with you two it became unmistakable: a steady choice that gathered strength until it led naturally to this wonderful day.”

“Here’s to a marriage where neither of you has to perform: just two honest people, laughing loudly, loving generously and growing more certain in your own skin.”

“A true partner notices the small things, welcomes the unedited version of you and turns ordinary moments into memories worth carrying for the rest of your life.”

“You have found a love generous enough to make room for both your dreams, your imperfections and the wonderfully ordinary life you are building side by side.”

“Whenever life brings a difficult day, may your kindness be the first light in the room and the love you share be the reason you keep moving forward together.”

“The finest marriages are built by two people who can tell the truth, share the joke, forgive the flaw and still want the same person beside them tomorrow.”

“Some people spend years imagining a happier life; you two have made the real thing better than the picture, simply by choosing each other every day.”

“May marriage give you the freedom to be completely yourselves, the courage to enjoy every chapter, and enough joy to keep the dance floor busy for years to come.”