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Wedding Poems

Wedding poems can be used as part of the wedding vows, ceremony readings, wedding programs, wedding speeches and wedding toasts.

There is an almost endless selection of wedding poems to choose from. here is a small collection of some of the most romantic wedding poems we know of - we plan to keep adding to it often. Some selections below are snippets from longer poems - bits that can be interjected in many places in the wedding ceremony and reception.

A selection of romantic wedding poems

Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be!
By Robert Browning

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you, not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. I love you for putting your hand into my heaped-up heart and passing over all the foolish things you can't help dimly seeing there and for drawing out into the light all the beautiful belongings that no one else had looked quite far enough to find. I love you because you are helping me to make of the lumber of my life not a tavern, but a temple; out of the works of my every day not a reproach, but a song.... You have done it without a touch, without a word, without a sign. You have done it by being yourself.
By Roy Croft

Love does not consist in gazing in each other,
but of looking outward together in the same direction.
By Antoine de St. Exupery

"There is only one happiness in life -
to love and be loved.
By George Sand

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
By Friedrich Halm

Your words are my food, your breath my wine.
You are everything to me.
By Sarah Bernhardt

If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except love's sake only. Do not say,
'I love her for her smile - her look - her way
Of speaking gently - for a trick or a thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day.'
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee - And love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry:
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms
Without the aid of the seasons.
By Kahlil Gibran

Came but for friendship,
and took away love.
By Thomas Moore

Love is friendship set on fire.
By Jeremy Taylor

Lovers, forget your love
And list to the love of these
She a window flower
And he a winter breeze ...
By Robert Frost

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes
and then he asked me would I yes
and his heart was going like mad
and yes I said yes I will yes.
By James Joyce

Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his heighth be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
By William Shakespeare