Toast takes place at the end of dinner and right before the first dance, in the modern wedding itinerary. This acts as an emotional build up for the guests and the bride and groom, before they step out on the dance floor for the evenings "big event". The idea is to not only have the friends and family raise the glass in the name of love, the bride and the groom and what they are there for, but to also talk a bit about soul binding and true love and truly inspire the guests. Here are some quotes that you can use in your big toast that will be sure to get the ladies feeling warm and fuzzy inside.



It is important as a public speaker that you weave the quote in at the appropriate time. The best idea for saying the quote is either as an introduction or as a conclusion to your speech. With any speech, essay, movie or story you are going to want to have a nice introduction, a nice body and a nice close. So use the quote as a tool to make your speech well rounded and well written. Also, remember that cards and written speeches are always frowned upon and if you absolutely must have something written down to anchor you, then try writing down key points and improvising the actual sentences to be said as this will seem more professional and rehearsed.

May your love be like the misty rain, gentle coming in but flooding the river.

-- Traditional African

Insomuch as love grows in you, so beauty grows. For

love is the beauty of the soul.

-- St. Augustine

We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.

-- Walter Rauschenbusch

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

-- Lao Tzu

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:

That word is love.

-- Sophocles

Night and day you are the one,

Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.

-- Cole Porter

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

-- Plato

Love is a fire that feeds our life.

-- Pablo Neruda

Love is friendship set to music.

-- Anonymous

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

-- Kahlil Gibran

The strongest and sweetest songs

yet remain to be sung.

-- Walt Whitman

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

-- Gwendolyn Brooks

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

-- Marc Chagall

We love because it's the only true adventure.

-- Nikki Giovanni

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

-- John Keating, in Dead Poets Society (1989)

They do not love that do not show their love.

--William Shakespeare

When people care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

-- Langston Hughes

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

-- Emily Bronte

That love is all there is

Is all we know of love.

-- Emily Dickinson

A great flame follows a little spark.

-- Dante Alighieri

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

-- George Sand

Without love, the world itself would not survive.

-- Lope de Vega

When love reigns, the impossible may be attained.

-- Indian proverb

Love is life.

-- Leo Tolstoy

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

-- Voltaire

Love is a moment that lasts forever.

-- Anonymous

Love is all you need.

-- John Lennon/Paul McCartney

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

May your dreams ride on the wings of angels who know their way home to the skies.

-- Anonymous