Wedding Wishes & Quotes | 90+ Ideas for the Happy Couple

You’ve picked out the perfect outfit, wrapped the gift, booked the hotel room, and maybe even practiced your dance-floor entrance. The excitement of the wedding day is building: The music, the flowers, the joy of seeing two people say “I do.” Then, you finally sit down to sign the card… and your mind goes blank.

What should you write? How heartfelt should wedding wishes be? Should you keep it traditional, funny, or personal?

This guide will help you craft meaningful and memorable wedding card wishes, whether the happy couple includes close family, friends, coworkers, or anyone celebrating their big day.

If you want to get really creative and make a custom wedding card, try QuillBot’s image generator. It can show you lots of ideas, and it’s completely free to use. It can also help you create custom images when you’re writing wedding captions for Instagram or anniversary wishes.

What to write in a wedding card

Here are a few simple tips for crafting the perfect wedding message:

• Start with “Congratulations, [Name + Name].”
• Add a personal touch. Mention something unique about the couple or your relationship with them.
• Share a wish for their life together, such as a lifetime of “love,” “laughter,” or “adventure.”
• Keep the tone appropriate: Warm for family, casual for coworkers, sentimental for close friends.
• Close with a sincere sign-off, such as “With love,” and your name.

Use these tips with any of the wedding wishes below.

Wedding wishes for family

Whether you’re welcoming a new family member or celebrating someone you’ve known all their life, these messages are warm, heartfelt, and meaningful.

• Wishing you a lifetime of love, joy, and shared dreams.
• So happy to welcome another wonderful person into our family.
• May your wedding day be the start of a beautiful forever.
• Cheers to a marriage filled with laughter and understanding.
• May your love strengthen with every passing year.
• So proud to celebrate this special day with you both.
• May your journey be blessed with harmony and happiness.
• Wishing you a home filled with warmth, joy, and peace.
• May today be just the beginning of many beautiful memories.
• Sending all my love on your wedding day and always.
• So grateful to share this joyful moment with you.
• Wishing you endless reasons to smile together.
• Your happiness means the world to us!
• Love and blessings for your beautiful future together.
• Wishing you a lifetime of shared adventures.
• May your love always feel like home.
• So honored to see you both glowing with happiness.
• Watching you find your forever person has been such a joy.
• Our family feels more complete with the two of you together.
• Here’s to years of family celebrations and moments that bring us all closer.
• May every season of your marriage be filled with love and growth.
• Your love story is a gift to our whole family.

Wedding wishes for friends

These wedding wishes are perfect for close friends, lifelong besties, or newer friendships that still deserve something heartfelt.

• Congratulations to one of my favorite couples!
• Wishing you both a love that grows stronger every day.
• So excited to celebrate your beautiful day with you!
• May your marriage be filled with joy, adventure, and laughter.
• Here’s to a lifetime of friendship, love, and partnership.
• Your love story is one of my favorites. Cheers to forever!
• Wishing you a wedding day as beautiful as your hearts.
• May your home be filled with love and warm memories.
• From this day forward, may you never stop choosing each other.
• Cheers to love, happiness, and lifelong best friendship.
• So proud to watch you start this new chapter.
• Wishing you both joy and endless fun together.
• May your bond only deepen as the years go by.
• Here’s to the happiest “I do” of all time!
• Cheers to happily ever after and unforgettable memories.
• May your special day be magical and your future even brighter.
• Sending big love on your big day!
• I can’t wait to watch your adventure unfold.
• Marriage looks amazing on you already.
• Wishing you a life full of inside jokes, late-night talks, and shared dreams.
• From spontaneous road trips to quiet nights in, may your life together be everything you hoped for.

Wedding wishes for coworkers

Professional yet warm, these messages are perfect for colleagues, managers, or work friends.

• Congratulations on your beautiful wedding day!
• Wishing you both a lifetime of love and joy.
• So happy for you! Enjoy every minute of today.
• May your marriage be filled with happiness and support.
• Cheers to a bright future together!
• Congratulations on the start of your amazing future together.
• Cheers to new beginnings and lifelong happiness.
• Warmest wishes as you start this exciting journey.
• Wishing you a joyful celebration and a happy future.
• Best wishes for many beautiful years together.
• Congratulations! Enjoy this beautiful new chapter.
• Wishing you love and happiness today and always.
• Warmest wishes for a lifetime of happiness.
• Enjoy every moment of your celebration and every memory you make together.
• May your wedding day be everything you imagined, and your life together even better.

Short wedding wishes

Sometimes the sweetest messages are short and simple. These are perfect for wedding cards, gift tags, or quick congratulations.

• Congratulations to you both!
• Wishing you a lifetime of love.
• Cheers to forever!
• So happy for you!
• Best wishes on your wedding day.
• Here’s to love and laughter.
• Wishing you joy always.
• Congrats on your beautiful day!
• Cheers to the happy couple!
• Wishing you a wonderful future together.
• Love and blessings to you both.
• So excited for your new chapter!
• Wishing you endless happiness.
• May today be the start of forever.
• Sending you so much love.
• Congratulations on this amazing day!
• Wishing you both the very best.
• Here’s to a beautiful journey ahead.
• So thrilled to celebrate with you.
• Cheers to your happily ever after!

Wedding wishes quotes

These are perfect for adding a touch of elegance, inspiration, or tradition to any wedding card. If you include a famous quote with your wedding card wishes, be sure to include quotation marks and the name of the author.

• “Two souls but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” —John Keats
• “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.” —Nicholas Sparks
• “Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” —Robert Browning
• “Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.” —Kahlil Gibran
• “You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.” —Kahlil Gibran
• “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” —James Baldwin
• “There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving, but who wants easier?” —Mary Oliver
• “Love is a friendship set to music.” —Joseph Campbell
• “To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.” —Mark Twain
• “Once upon a time, there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” —Nicole Krauss
• “We loved with a love that was more than love.” —Edgar Allen Poe
• “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” —Henry David Thoreau
• “Those who love each other shall become invincible.” —Walt Whitman
• “Love is not something we give or get;  it is something we nurture and grow.” —Brene Brown
• “And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.” —Maya Angelou
• “When he looked into her eyes, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke, the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.” —Paulo Coelho

Frequently asked questions about wedding wishes

What’s a wedding hashtag generator?

A wedding hashtag generator is an online tool that creates hashtags for people’s weddings.

For example, a couple consisting of Claire Smith and Steve Smith might use the hashtag #smithsquared.

QuillBot’s AI hashtag generator can generate wedding hashtags faster than you’ll say “I Do.”

What are some wedding thank you messages?

Wedding thank you messages should show that you’re grateful for the gift and/or the love and support on your special day. You might also mention one of your favorite moments with the person during your wedding.

Thank you for the thoughtful wedding gift, Aunt Jean. The vase looks beautiful in the kitchen window of our new home, and I think about you every time I see it. We are so lucky to have such a loving family.

Thank you for the generous gift certificate. We’re excited to get some new camping gear for our honeymoon to the Grand Canyon. Thank you also for making the long trip to be there for us on our special day. It wouldn’t have been the same without you!

Thank you for coming to our wedding and for taking such beautiful photographs. We will treasure these photographs forever and can’t wait to show them to our kids someday.

If you need help with word choices for wedding thank you messages or wedding wishes, QuillBot’s free Paraphrasing Tool can help.