Perfect Quotes and Readings For Your Special Day

A wedding ceremony can be many things. They can be religious, funny, sentimental, or romantic. They can be Star Wars themed, Disney themed, Fairytale themed, or Jane Austen themed. It can be overwhelming trying to decide what you want in your ceremony. I've written performed many ceremonies, and one thing is obvious: anything goes. Here are a few of my favorite quotes and readings:

1.   “When you look for the right person, you always end up with the wrong one. But when you just sit by the corner and wait, he comes along and shares the corner with you.”
-Unknown

2.   From this day forward,You shall not walk alone.
My heart will be your shelter,
And my arms will be your home.
–from “Illuminata” (1994), Marianne Williamson

3.   There comes a time when you meet someone and you just want to make them smile for the rest of your life. -Unknown

4.   We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
 -Robert Fulghum

5.   Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything. 

-Katharine Hepburn

6.   Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

 -Jeremy Taylor

7.   Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.

 –Blood Rites by Jim Butcher

8.   We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

 –True Love by Robert Fulghum

9. When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
-When Harry Met Sally

10.  I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
-Paulo Coeko

11. We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet.. I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... All of it, all of the time, everyday. You're saying "Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go unwitnessed because I will be your witness."
-Shall We Dance

12.  You don't marry the person you can live with, you marry the person you cannot live without.
-James Dobson

13. I don't want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don't want gemstones or gold. I want a steady hand, a kind soul. I want to fall asleep knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and to be loved.
-Shana Abe

14.  They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in life: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett

15. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more; that plants a fire in our hearts and bring peace to our minds.
-Nicholas Sparks

16.  Think not because you are now wed, that your courtship is over.
-Antonio Mendoza

17. A great spouse loves you exactly as you are. An extraordinary spouse helps you grow; inspires you to be, do, and give your very best.

18.  Love is a partnership of two unique people who bring out the best in each other, and know that, even though they are wonderful as individuals, they are even better together.
-Barbara Cage

19. To love a person is to see their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
-Unknown

20. Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairytale.
-Unknown