“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.”—Elizabeth Bowen, novelist.

“There is nothing more admirable than two people who see eye-to-eye keeping house as man and wife, confounding their enemies, and delighting their friends.”—Homer, poet.

May you have many children
and may they grow mature in taste
and healthy in color
and as sought after
as the contents of the glass.

The man or woman you really love will never grow old to you.
Through the wrinkles of time, through the bowed frame of years,
You will always see the dear face and feel
The warm heart union of your eternal love.

To the lamp of love – may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial.

May the roof above you never fall in and may you both never fall out.

Marriage: A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves – making in all, two.

May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future.

It don’t matter where you get your appetite, as long as you eat at home!

My greatest wish for the two of you is that through the years your love for each other will so deepen and grow, that years from now you will look back on this day, your wedding day, as the day you loved each other the least.