Epigrams are a good starting point if you’re thinking about writing wedding vows. Great writers use epigrams for obvious reasons. These short statements cause a reader to think more deeply about the statement being made. Above all, an epigram leaves an impression with you after you’ve read it.

If you’re searching for the words to express your heartfelt emotions, you can use the following epigrams to spark an idea. In addition, you can make a ceremony your own and create a new bond as newlyweds by complementing your deeply felt words with a unique gesture. Read on to find out how couples made their wedding vows extra special.

Musical Wedding Vows

Words are pleasantly accompanied by music. Julia and Timothy exchanged vows as Ennio Morricone’s ‘Gabriel’s Oboe from The Mission’ played. Here are two epigrams about love and song:

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. - Oscar Wilde 

... you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you ... -  e.e. Cummings

Secret Wedding Vows 

Sometimes it’s OK to keep secrets. Sharee and Dylan wrote their wedding vows individually as a surprise for the ceremony. The bride and groom discovered on their special day that their vows were very similar. Epigrams can eloquently explain how two hearts become one:

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle

I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion. - Charlotte Brontë

Playful Wedding Vows

Wedding ceremonies don’t need to be serious. Amy and Aaron had a chocolate ceremony during their wedding vows. Marriage, like chocolate, is always nourishing, but it can sometimes be bitter and sweet. Quirky epigrams about love clearly make their point:

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. - Dr. Seuss

I look at her sometimes and wonder, out of all the faces in the world, how did I find one that was so perfect for me. - Atticus, internet poet

Promises and Wedding Vows

Heartfelt thoughts don’t always conform to wedding vows. Alysha and Jake shared both personal promises to each other and wedding vows during their ceremony. The promises were written in letters that they opened the night before the wedding. Look to nature for poetic thoughts about love.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by the imagination. - Voltaire

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. - Victor Hugo

Furry Friend and Wedding Vows

Three is not always a crowd. Kate and Mark decided to share their day with their Kelpie Spud. Their pet was the ring bearer, and even though the couple’s memorable professed vows made everyone laugh, Spud the show during the ceremony. Take a cue from the Golden Age of Hollywood movie stars, who knew how to capture the spotlight, when writing your vows.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. - Audrey Hepburn

It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. - Judy Garland

Epigrams can help you find the perfect words for your wedding vows. As you write these vows, remember that your wedding day is only the beginning of your journey through life as a couple. The best is yet to come. Think of Mark Twain’s words as you start your new life together:

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

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