For Better, for Worse: Realistic Wedding & Marriage Quotes! 👰🏼‍♀️

Oh how good it is to be in love: butterfly in your stomach, sweaty hands, constant daydreaming… I’d say love is even better than chocolate, and that’s saying something because I’m addicted to anything with the slightest cocoa percentage (any molten chocolate cake fan out there?) So, for all the lover girls and lover boys out there, what’s more dreamy than getting engaged and married to the love of your life? Not saying that everyone is craving the married life (you’re the master of your own life so you do you), but, for quite a lot of people, it is the consecration of deep and undying love!

While a wedding ceremony and a healthy marriage are wonderful experiences that hold so much happiness in store for you (having someone to go get sweet treats with or to fill your water bottle before going to bed are only a few perks of it), it’s not all that glamorous all the time. That’s something that social media tends to forget, so, we’ve compiled a list of the best wedding and marriage quotes that don’t gloss over the sometimes harsh reality of life!

Married Life Isn’t for the Fainthearted, and It’s Time to be Honest About It! 🙏🏻

Wedding Do’s and Don’ts 💍

• "Your wedding will be magical. The credit card bill won’t be.”
• "Never skimp on the photographer. You’ll want proof you looked that good at least once.”
• "Say ‘I do’ to the marriage, not just the cake tasting.”
• "Your dream Pinterest wedding is great—until you realize you have to actually pay for it.”
• "A seating chart can end friendships faster than forgetting a birthday.”
• "DIY weddings are fun—if you enjoy crying over hot glue and glitter at 2 AM.”
• "If they can handle you during wedding planning, they can handle you forever.”
• "Elope now. Send postcards later.”
• "Something will go wrong at your wedding. That’s the first lesson in marriage.”
• "The best wedding plan? One that leaves room for laughter and extra cake.”

You Love Them, but god, They get on Your Nerves Sometimes 🥲

• "Marriage is just taking turns saying, ‘I thought you were going to do that.’”
• "Love is patient. Marriage is sighing loudly until they get the hint.”
• "Every marriage has one person who loads the dishwasher like an engineer and one who just shoves things in randomly.”
• "Marriage is just a lifelong debate over where to eat.”
• "I love you, but if you steal the blanket one more time, we’re having separate beds.”
• "Nothing says ‘soulmate’ like arguing over how to properly fold towels.”
• "If I had a dollar for every time my spouse ignored my brilliant advice, I could retire.”
• "The secret to a happy marriage? Selective hearing.”
• "Marriage is agreeing to spend forever with someone who never puts the cap back on the toothpaste.”
• "Love is patient. Marriage is realizing they will never close the kitchen cabinets.”

The Ups and Downs of Marriage 🤫

• "Some days, marriage is a romcom. Other days, it’s a documentary about survival.”
• "Marriage isn’t 50/50. It’s 90/10, and the roles change daily.”
• "You’ll laugh together. You’ll cry together. And sometimes, you’ll cry because they ate the last slice of pizza.”
• "Love is blind, but marriage is eye-opening.”
• "Sometimes marriage is butterflies; sometimes, it’s ‘Who left this wet towel on the bed?!’”
• "Love isn’t finding someone perfect—it’s finding someone whose flaws you don’t mind dealing with forever.”
• "Marriage is fun. Marriage is work. Marriage is wondering how they still don’t know where you keep the scissors.”
• "A strong marriage is built on love, trust, and occasionally hiding in the bathroom for alone time.”
• "The best marriages have one person who loses things and one who knows where everything is.”
• "Marriage is a journey. Some days, it’s a scenic drive. Other days, you need a GPS.”

The Myth of Happily Ever After 🧚🏻

• "They never tell you that ‘happily ever after’ involves a lot of laundry.”
• "No one lives happily ever after—just mostly happily, with occasional bickering."
• "Fairy tales end at the wedding for a reason.”
• "A great marriage isn’t made of magic—it’s made of effort.”
• "Love stories don’t show the part where they argue about whose turn it is to buy toilet paper.”
• "Happily ever after is just a series of compromises in a house full of socks on the floor.
• "Forever sounds romantic until you realize it includes every single morning before coffee.”
• "Cinderella didn’t have to deal with Prince Charming’s loud chewing habits.”
• "The ‘after’ in happily ever after is when the real work begins.”
• "Love is a fairy tale. Marriage is the long, occasionally chaotic sequel.”

Marriage: A Lifelong Team Project (That Sometimes Feel Like Group Work) 🤓

• "Marriage is like group work—one person does most of it, and the other takes credit.”
• "A successful marriage is just two people taking turns being the strong one.”
• "Marriage: where you become co-CEOs of a family with zero prior experience.”
• "Real teamwork is surviving IKEA furniture assembly together.”
• "Teamwork makes the dream work—until someone forgets to refill the toilet paper.”
• "Marriage: where ‘compromise’ means you both lose a little, but at least you lose together.”
• "Marriage is just long-term collaborative problem-solving with occasional snack breaks.”
• "Marriage is a team sport, but sometimes it feels like one person is the coach, and the other forgot their uniform.”
• "Marriage is a partnership: one person remembers important dates, and the other says, ‘Wait, that’s today?!’”
• "Being married means having a lifelong project partner for building a home, raising kids, and finding lost keys.”
• "Marriage is the only team where you win by making sure your teammate looks good too.”