Congratulatory phrases for a wedding: 80 nice and original ideas

Why conform to the usual congratulations when you can stand out from the crowd? Weddings of friends or an original couple are the most fun and it is right to pay homage to them with appropriate phrases. Today we will try to inspire you with 80 irreverent and witty phrases that we hope you can use at the next event. Are you a bride and are you looking for something different for your special day? Watch the alternatives to classic white rice in the video.

Funny wedding wishes

The wedding day is unique and unforgettable and remains engraved in the memory of the guests but above all of the spouses! For a couple it is the moment in which eternal love is promised, and therefore it is a reason for celebration.
During the course of the day there will be many speeches and words that will be said to wish you a happy life together with the new couple; you never know when, perhaps at the launch of the bouquet or during dinner, or even at the end of the celebrations when taking pictures in the corner of the photo booth. It is not always easy to find the right terms to celebrate such an important occasion, that's why we wanted to collect the most beautiful greetings phrases for a wedding, in a fun and witty way! We know that it is not easy to be funny without falling into excesses, which is why some of these quotes are designed specifically to lighten the day of the couple (already full of emotions) with irony.

Obviously many of these cute wedding wishes are centered around the wedding day and what it entails being a husband and wife. You can choose to take a cue from the famous words of writers and philosophers such as Socrates and Oscal Wilde, or prefer those of ordinary people who did not want to leave their signature.

Read on and discover the 80 funniest ideas for greeting wishes during a wedding, to use in your greeting cards or videos for younger couples.

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Nice wedding phrases

You know, the secret of a happy marriage is to often say the four magical words…. "Let's go out for dinner"!
(Anonymous)

The rationale for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
(Oscar Wilde)

Get married: if you find a good wife you will be happy; if you find a bad one, you will become a philosopher.
(Socrates)

Marriage is an alliance made between a man who cannot sleep with the window closed, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.
(George Bernard Shaw)

Marriage is an alliance between two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets all of this!
(Ogden Nash)

Finally I will be able to come and see the games with you! Best wishes for a lot of happiness!

Marriage is that institution that allows two people to face difficulties together that they would never have had if they had not married. Best wishes!

Flowers and violins today, but tomorrow… only diapers! Congratulations!

Nothing will ever be the same again: congratulations on your choice. You are an example of courage and recklessness! I wish you all the best!

Remember that you are not marrying her, she is the one who graciously allows you to be her husband. Congratulations!

I didn't bother buying you a gift. It would be just another thing to argue when you get divorced! Congratulations!

Freedom lost! But happy life sentence! Best wishes!!

Dear big brother, today is a "Yes, I do"! From tomorrow a "Yes, Dear" for the rest of your life! Best wishes!

You have finally made your big dream come true! For a moment I thought I had to make you lunch forever!

May this day be really special and fun… because the hard work starts tomorrow! Happy Newlyweds!

Just married. And from tomorrow she's in charge! Congratulations!

The secret to a happy marriage remains a secret.
(Anonymous)

Many wishes for your wedding! Now we are waiting for the invitation to dinner with photos and a video to watch!

Best wishes for just "one" of these days!

Best wishes to the lucky groom and the beautiful bride!

A special wish to the most beautiful spouses in the world!

It is said that marriage is the tomb of love! Perhaps for some it will be like this, but for you it will surely be a whole other story! Best wishes to the most beautiful spouses in the world!

Add happiness ... Subtract disappointments .... Multiply ... and NEVER divide !!

May you always live together: like RAI 1 and RAI 2 like Italia 1 and Canale 5.

nice wedding phrases: to crown a unique day

Funny quotes about marriage

Even celebrities (sometimes) get married! Here's what actors, philosophers, poets and scientists have to say on the subject:

Women cry on their wedding day. Men after.
(Boris Makaresko)

Marriage is the only war in which one sleeps with the enemy.
(François de la Rochefoucault)

Love is the thing that allows a woman to sing while drying the floor after her husband has crossed it with his shoes full of mud.
(Hoosier Farmer)

One should always be in love. That's why you should never get married!
(Oscar Wilde)

They say marriages are heaven sent. The same goes for thunder and lightning.
(Clint Eastwood)

Getting married is like putting your hand in a sack full of snakes, hoping to get an eel out.
(Leonardo da Vinci)

Marriage is like a cage; we see the birds closed outside trying furiously to enter, and those closed inside trying furiously to get out.
(Michel de Montaigne)

What happiness is will only be known after getting married. But then it will be too late.
(Peters Sellers)

Marriage is the most expensive way for the average man to have laundry ready, clean and ironed.
(Burt Reynolds)

A wedding is always done by two people who are prepared to swear that only the other is the one who snores.
(Terry Pratchett)

I was married to a Marxist and a Fascist, and no one ever took the trash out.
(Lee Grant)

I never believed in divorce until I got married.
(Diane Ford)

When you are fed up with yourself, get married and get fed up with someone else.
(Arthur Bloch)

If you decide to sacrifice the admiration of so many men for the criticisms of just one, go ahead, get married.
(Katherine Hepburn)

Do not allow a woman to change you, when she has done so she will be tired of you.
(Hermann Hesse)

A man, if I may believe a friend of mine, always has two characters: his own, and what his wife attributes to him.
(Albert Camus)

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy too.
(Oscar Wilde)

It's not that I'm against marriage; however, it seems to me that a man and a woman are the least suitable people to marry.
(Massimo Troisi)

Before the wedding, keep your eyes peeled. Then close one.
(Benjamin Franklin)

When a girl gets married, she trades the attentions of many men for the carelessness of one.
(Helen Rowland)

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Marriage is an alliance between two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets all of this!
(Ogden Nash)

Unable to suppress love, the Church at least wanted to disinfect it, and decreed marriage.
(Charles Baudelaire)

Women have become so deeply educated ... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, with the exception of happy marriages.
(Oscar Wilde)

If you think the wedding will be perfect, you are probably still at the wedding reception.
(Martha Bolton)

The groom does not have to see the bride's dress before the wedding, because it brings bad luck. Do you know what brings even more luck? To get married.
(Hank Moody)

A wedding is like a funeral, except you can smell the flowers yourself.
(Grace Hansen)

What God created divided, why should man unite it?
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Marriage is a community made up of a master, a mistress and two slaves, which makes two people altogether.
(Ambrose Bierce)

If a man opens the car door to his wife, either the car is new or the wife is new.
(Philip of Edinburgh)

It is not true that husbands, as soon as they see a beautiful woman, forget that they are married. On the contrary: in those moments they painfully remember it.
(Mark Twain)

Love is more liked than marriage, as novels are funnier than history.
(Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort)

Twenty years of love affair make a woman like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make it something like a public building.
(Oscar Wilde)

All men make mistakes, but married men find out first.
(Red Skelton)

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman could want: the older she gets, the more he will be interested in her.
(Agatha Christie)

A woman marries a man hoping that he will change, and he will not change. A man marries a woman hoping she won't change, and she will change.
(Bettina Arndt)

Marriage is the most expensive way to get free laundry.
(Franklin P. Jones)

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be many more.
(Friedrich Nietzsche)

Love is blind, but marriage restores sight.
(Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

Marriage is the only adventure open to cowards.
(Voltaire) Marriage is taken more seriously by bachelors than married couples.
(Cesare Pavese)

It is a universally recognized truth that a bachelor with a good fortune needs a wife.
(Jane Austen)

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then gets married anyway, deserves all the consequences.
(Isadora Duncan)

Before I got married, I had six theories about raising children. Now, I have six children and no theory.
(John Wilmot)

funny wedding phrases: Ogden Nash

Ironic aphorisms about marriage proposals and soul mates

Haven't you found the most suitable congratulation phrase for your friends who are about to get married yet? Try searching through this latest selection: irreverent jokes and ironic aphorisms about soul mates and about the life to spend with your husband or wife.


You are in love with each other and you are so happy together.Soon, you will understand that the only thing you will do is harass each other. Congratulations!

Wait! Do you really want to sign a marriage contract while knowing it doesn't have a deadline?

There is nothing worse than a friend getting married. Now my parents have all the more reason to persuade me to marry. Congratulations!

The first year of marriage is statistically the most difficult, while the others are the impossible ones.

It is now done. Now you can spend a fabulous married life comfortably on the sofa. Congratulations!

May your love always rise ... like taxes. Congratulations!

Congratulations! Now you have a beautifully complicated life.

The secret to a happy marriage remains a secret. Congratulations!

If love is madness, marriage is a straitjacket.
(Mirco Stefanon)

Love is like those furnished hotels where all the luxury is found in the entrance.
(Paul-Jean Toulet)

I asked her to marry me, and she said no! And since then we have been living happily ever after.
(Spike Milligan)

You have put your soul mate in peace. Best wishes!
(anobianJulie, Twitter)