Need Help Writing a Wedding Toast?

It is often easier for individuals to comment on an impersonal subject than to express their personal feelings. It is not surprising then that most of us find writing a wedding toast to be an extremely daunting task. Familiarity with the audience, their expectations of you, anxiety as to how they will react to your speech etc., make the task even more uninviting. However, including thoughtful quotes in your wedding toast will give you a head start when you begin writing a wedding toast.

Lord Byron
There is no instinct like that of the heart.

C. S. Lewis
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives… a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Mother Teresa
A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

Emily Dickinson
That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love.

Henry David Thoreau
Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

James Thurber and E. B. White
Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.

Margaret Anderson
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Robert Heinlein
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Søren Kierkegaard
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Barnett Brickner
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.