A Contemporary Touch to your Traditional Wedding Invitation
Text by Angel Onu-Njoku
Getting the wording right for your invitations is very important especially when you are having a contemporary wedding, but don’t worry if your family would like to keep the traditional etiquettes that dictate the order names are presented and list your parents’ names we have you covered.
Modern wedding invitations are all about personalization. Whether you’re a hopeless romantic or a die-hard humorist, be inspired to personalize your wedding card with a few moving words about love that would add the perfect finishing touch to your wedding invitation — From serious to humorous, put a fresh twist on your invitation with a significant wedding quote. That said, many of these wedding invitation sayings are also perfect for wedding toasts.
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
— Mignon McLaughlin
“A bell’s not a bell ’til you ring it
A song’s not a song ’til you sing it
Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay
Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!”
— Oscar Hammerstein II
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
“Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance.” — 1 Corinthians 13:7
“Love is something eternal. The aspect may change, but not the essence.” — Vincent Van Gogh
“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.” — Michael Leunig
“My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We’ll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.”
— Frederick Saunders
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brönte
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” — Henry Van Dyke
“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations; it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.” — Honore de Balzac
“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.” — Bob Marley
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” — Robert A. Heinlein
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” — Paulo Coelho
“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
— William Shakespeare
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.” — Luciano De Crescenzo
“True love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.” — Sir Walter Raleigh
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep. The more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
— William Shakespeare
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
— Sam Keen
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” — Ann Landers
“Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.” — Elbert Hubbard
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