Wedding invitations often seem much the same, so when someone does something different, it really catches the attention of guests. A couple of years ago, I received an invitation that was nestled within a cover folder. The cover was an artist’s woodblock limited print and had a beautiful design that included a sweet love quote. I loved this idea of giving a beautiful keepsake to everyone you invite to your wedding, not just those who are able to attend. If you want to try something similar, or even just print a sweet love quotation at the top or on the back of your wedding invitation, there are many from which to choose. Quotes can also be incorporated into your vows or day-of stationery. I made a list of my favorite classic quotes from literature and poetry, if you need some inspiration.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
John Keats
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
William Wordsworth
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Brontë
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
Willa Cather
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
Love betters what is best.
William Wordsworth
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love recognizes no barriers.
Maya Angelou
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen
‘Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
You are my sun, my moon and all my stars.
E.E. Cummings
I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
Arthur Conan Doyle
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss
But we loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allen Poe
For you, a thousand times over.
Khaled Hosseini
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
Doubt thou that the sun is fire, Doubt that that the sun does move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt that I love.
William Shakespeare
Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
Virginia Woolfe
To love or have loved, that is enough.
Victor Hugo
Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
You have been the last dream of my soul.
Charles Dickens
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde
I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world as me.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own.
Charlotte Brontë
I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
E.M. Forster
We are asleep until we fall in love!
Leo Tolstoy
Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott
Love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
You pierce my soul.
Jane Austen
You are my dearest one. My reason for life.
Ian McEwan
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
J.R.R. Tolkien
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep.
William Shakespeare
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther
There is only one happiness in life: To love and be loved.
George Sand
Where there is love there is life.
Ghandi
Great love affairs start with champagne.
Honoré de Balzac
I found the one my heart loves.
Song of Solomon 3:4
True love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
Love recognises no barriers, it jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
Maya Angelou
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.
Henry David Thoreau