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Weddings have always borrowed their language from the poets, lovers and mystics who have devoted their lives to listening for the form, shape and texture of love.
Because love, when it matters most, often exceeds ordinary speech. At a ceremony, couples are asked to say something lasting about a feeling that is still unfolding. Borrowed words become a way of holding that moment steady.
Some of the words we return to are well-known. They have been spoken aloud for centuries, carrying weight through repetition and use. Others are less known but still resonate in a deeply familiar way.
What matters is not so much where the words originate but why they endure.
All of these words and quotes speak of love as something lived, earthy, grounded - not just conceptual or abstract.
The type of words that make you feel more human, more alive and more connected to yourself and your loved one.
Explore ceremony locations at Gabbinbar, where four signature settings offer a distinct sense of place for vows shaped by history, beauty and quiet meaning.
FAMOUS WEDDING CEREMONY QUOTES
"Where there is love, there is no room for any other thing." - Rumi
"Love is the bridge between you and everything." - Rumi
"Love, and do what you will." - St Augustine of Hippo
"The measure of love is to love without measure." - St Augustine of Hippo
"Where there is love, there is no labour, or if there is labour, that labour is loved." - St Teresa of Ávila
"Love has no why." - Meister Eckhart
"Where there is no love, put love, and you will draw out love." - St John of the Cross
"Love was his meaning." - Julian of Norwich
"Love moves the sun and the other stars." - Dante Alighieri
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"For one human being to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"i carry your heart with me
(i carry it in my heart)" - E E Cummings
"love is the voice under all silences." - E E Cummings
"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul." - Pablo Neruda
"That love is all there is,
is all we know of love." - Emily Dickinson
"To love what is mortal." - Mary Oliver
"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom." - Rabindranath Tagore
"Grow old along with me.
The best is yet to be." - Robert Browning
LESSER KNOWN WEDDING CEREMONY QUOTES
"If there’s one thing I am sure of, I am sure that you have always belonged with me." - Akif Kichloo
"I believe in the kind of love that doesn’t demand me to prove my worth. I crave a natural connection, where my soul can recognise a feeling of home in another. Something free flowing, something simple. Something that allows me to be me without question." - Joey Palermo
"Love is never just about affection. It’s about vulnerability, trusting someone with the parts of you that could break you." - Adeife Adeyeye
"For as long as the sun sets and the moon rises, it is you that I want in all of my tomorrows." - Ida Banks
"Falling for him wasn’t falling at all. It was walking into a house and suddenly knowing you’re home." - r.i.d
"May you fall in love with someone who speaks your language, so you don’t have to spend a lifetime translating your soul." - Unknown
"We recognised each other immediately. Perhaps we came from another life where we hadn’t yet finished loving each other." - Unknown
"If you love something, love it completely. Cherish it, say it, but most importantly, show it." - Unknown
"Everything is temporary but love. Love outlives us all." - Unknown
"And I saw forever in you." - Unknown
"I love you not loudly, but in ways that last." - Unknown
"I was already complete when I met him.
He just filled my life with so much colour.
To go on without him seemed absurd." - B Diaz
"The search stopped at you.
I like myself more when you’re around.
I breathe a little deeper.
I sleep soundly and love without fear.
And I think it all comes down to one thing,
you understand me like no one else ever has." - S Collinson
"Hand in hand. You and me.
Today, tomorrow, forever." - Unknown
"The best definition of love I heard.
Love is giving someone the power to destroy you and trusting they won’t use it." - Unknown
"Do you know why real love is rare.
Because it’s tested.
By distance.
By miscommunication.
By timing.
By life.
But if two souls still choose each other, again and again, despite the chaos, that’s not just love.
That’s unbreakable." - Unknown
"May the love that feels safe even in silence find you." - Unknown
"The first time you caught my eye
it was not love at first sight.
Instead a quiet curiosity was planted in my chest and I knew
it was only a matter of time before
you sunk beneath my bones and nurtured this deep seated familiarity
into a love so fierce that I would question
if I had ever been in love before." - Lyra Wren
Explore ceremony locations at Gabbinbar, where four signature settings each offer a distinct sense of place, shaped by history and beauty.
