25 Wedding Wishes and Quotes for the Card or the Toast

Wedding wishes have a specific job: congratulate the couple, wish them well, and do it in a way that feels genuine rather than generic. This guide covers the range — from sincere blessings to the kind of dry marriage humor that gets a real laugh at the reception.

For the Card

Congratulations. GOD, bless you today and for the rest of your married lives is simple and works for nearly any relationship to the couple. Let good luck and understanding stay with you forever. Happy wedding day is a good alternative if you want something slightly less traditional.

For something with a bit more depth, A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences says something genuinely true about long relationships, not just a generic well-wish.

For a Toast

If you’re actually speaking, not just writing a card, A wedding is a start of togetherness. Of walks in the rain, basking in the sunshine, shared meals, caring for one another and sensing the love that a marriage carries gives you a real opening line with some substance to it. Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that works well as a closing line — short enough to land, honest enough to mean something.

Marriage Humor

Weddings have room for a joke, especially from someone close to the couple. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it’s not so hot and Marriage is a short break between novels both work well in a toast from someone who knows the couple well enough that the joke reads as affectionate, not cutting.

A happy man marries the girl he loves. A happier man loves the girl he marries has a bit of clever wordplay that works well written in a card.

On What Makes It Last

A few wedding quotes go beyond the celebration itself and speak to what actually sustains a marriage. The difference between an ordinary marriage and an extraordinary marriage is in giving just a little ‘extra’ every day, as often as possible, for if we both shall live is a good one for a toast with a bit more substance, and True love is spending one day getting married and the rest of your life feeling glad you did works as a warm, simple closing line.

Wishing you the joy and happiness that you both deserve, make sure you kiss every night before going to bed has a bit of practical, affectionate advice built into the wish itself — a nice alternative to a purely abstract blessing.

Congratulating the Couple Directly

• I congratulate you on your wedding and wish you half of the most beautiful things in the world. The other half I’ll leave for me
• I wish you to live in peace and in a perfect union at least till your golden jubilee
• The day we say I do will be the greatest day of my life — a good one for the couple themselves to use, not a guest

On Partnership

Marriage based on common sense and mutuality is one of the greatest things of life and Marriage is a means of survival for two people both frame marriage as a genuine partnership rather than just romance — a good angle if the couple you’re celebrating is more practical than sentimental.

Choosing the Right Tone

A card from a close friend can go funnier than one from a colleague or distant relative — read the relationship before picking a line, especially with the marriage-humor quotes above. When in doubt, sincere and short beats clever and long.

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Our wedding category has the complete set, and our anniversary wishes and quotes guide covers what comes after the wedding itself.