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The Most Beautiful Bookish Wedding Quotes

Callie Ryan Brimberry

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Callie Ryan Brimberry is a teacher, writer, and editor in Virginia. She spends her free time leaving books on park benches and in random coffee houses hoping her margin notes read like love letters to those who’ve yet to fall in love with reading.

Planning a bookish wedding? Then you will most definitely want to incorporate bookish wedding quotes wherever and whenever you can! From using quotes on your library card table numbers to creating custom literary wedding invites to using calligraphy to embellish table runners with your favorite authors’ romantic notes on love, a bookish wedding quote can transform any part of your wedding into a moment that makes a bookish heart beat wildly.

 

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My favorite way to incorporate bookish wedding quotes is in the intended couple’s vows or the speeches given by the wedding party. I’ve gathered some of my favorite bookish wedding quotes that are sure to make wedding guests swoon, and even a few that will make them laugh.

Bookish Wedding Quotes For The Happy Couple’s Vows

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” —Maya Angelou

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“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” —Emily Bronte

“Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.” —Robert Browning

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“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” —Charles Dickens

“Wherever you are is my home, my only home.” —Jane Eyre

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“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald

“We loved with a love that was more than perfect.” —Edgar Allan Poe

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“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” —William Shakespeare

“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river; to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.” —Virginia Woolf

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“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.” —Kiersten White

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you.” —Charlotte Bronte

 

Bookish Wedding Quotes for Wedding Party Speeches

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“Remember tonight…for it is the beginning of always.” —Dante Alighieri

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.” —Milan Kundera

“It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.” —Hunter S. Thompson

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“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” —Henry David Thoreau

“It is such a happiness when good people get together—and they always do.” —Jane Austen

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.” —Leo Tolstoy

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“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” —Aristotle

“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.” —E.E. Cummings

 

A Few Funny Bookish Wedding Quotes

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.” —Oscar Wilde

“To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.” —Oscar Wilde

 

Of course, there are longer romantic quotes and literary readings to include in your wedding, too.