Wedding invitations are, in effect, an invitation to celebrate love. Aside from giving the relevant information, the wedding invitation should represent you as a couple. A simple phrase on love can be just the thing to define what you and your SO are all about. That’s why we at Zankyou have selected the 40 most romantic phrases for you to peruse. Tissues in hand because we’re sure some tears are about to drop.
1. “Love is real, real is love.” John Lennon
2. ““When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.” – William Shakespeare
3. “Love does not need to be understood, but only demonstrated.” – Paulo Coelho
4. “Love is one soul living in two bodies” – Aristotle
5. “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antonie de Saint-Exupery
6. “The heart wants what it wants. There is no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’t that.” – Woody Allen
7. “The measure of love is to love without measure” – St. Augustine
8. “That love is all, is all that we know about love” – Emily Dickinson
9. “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – Paul McCartney
10. “I love you not for who you are, but for who I am when I am with you” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
11. “Love is all you need. All you need is love.“ – John Lennon
12. “In every living thing there is the desire for love.” – D. H. Lawrence
14. “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” – Willa Cartha
15. “Love is of all passions the strongest for it attack simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.” – Lao Tzu
16. “You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person you cannot live without.” – unknown
17. “Where there is love, there is life.” – Mahatma Ghandi
18. ““To love is to recognize yourself in another.” – Eckhart Tolle
19. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller
20. “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
21. “Love conquers all.” – Virgil
22. “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” – Pablo Picasso
23. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein
24. “Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love” – Nelson Rockefeller
25. “Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.” – E. E. Cummings
26. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Eden Ahbez
27. “Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time.” – Jeaniene Frost
28. “It is love alone that gives worth to all things.” – Teresa of Ávila
29. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
30. “Love is a game of tic-tac-toe, constantly waiting for the next x or o.” – Lang Leav
31. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
32. “Any time not spent on love is wasted.” – Torquato Tasso
33. “The love we give away is the only love we keep.” – Elbert Hubbard
34. “Only in the eyes of love you can find infinity.” – Sorin Cerin
35. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
36. “Life’s a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.” – Tim Bergling
37. “Love, and you shall be loved.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. “Love is trembling happiness.” – Khalil Gibron
39. “With the power of love; our two hearts can enlighten the whole world.” – Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
40. “Fortune and love favor the brave.” – Ovid
What did you think of our selection from the minds of those in music, art, literature and cinema? Which would you choose? Let us know in the comments below!
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