We Found the Best Way to Announce Your Engagement on Social Media

We Found the Best Way to Announce Your Engagement on Social Media

Wedding engagements symbolize the start of a lifelong partnership. Whether you or your significant other popped the question, you’ve both agreed to take that fateful walk down the aisle. To celebrate your declaration of love, we’ve rounded up some of the best engagement quotes to share with your families and friends.

If your loved ones were lucky enough to witness your engagement these lovey-dovey quotes won’t come as a surprise. However, if they missed the special moment, these engagement quotes and messages could hint at your upcoming nuptials. Sharing these quotes can be a fun and unique way to reveal your big news.

Whether you post them on Instagram or Facebook, social media is a surefire way to get the message out. If you’re more on the private side and prefer to keep your life changes offline, you can simply share these quotes via text or even inside a card announcing your engagement.

No matter how you share these sweet and endearing messages, those reading them will be delighted to learn about the latest chapter in your love story. However, if you’re not the one headed down the aisle, these quotes can also be incorporated into wedding toasts or attached to bridal shower gifts for a thoughtful touch.

From famous authors to popular poets to pop songs, these engagement quotes, lyrics, and inspiring sayings about marriage will commemorate your big step toward wedded bliss.

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  • “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach

  • “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” – Anonymous

  • “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn

  • “The highest happiness on earth is marriage.” — William Lyon Phelps

  • “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.” — Simone Signoret

  • “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • “You don’t marry someone you can live with—you marry the person you cannot live without.” — Anonymous

  • “The best proof of love is trust.” — Joyce Brothers

  • “Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.” — Leo Buscaglia

  • “True love is the best thing you’ll ever find.” — Anonymous

  • “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” — Robert Browning

  • “Thee lift me, and I lift thee, and we’ll ascend together.” — Quaker proverb

  • “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • “Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.”— Albert Einstein

  • To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott

  • “Engagement marks the end of a whirlwind romance and the beginning of an eternal love story.” — Rajeev Ranjan

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  • “Wherever you are is my home, my only home.” — Jane Eyre

  • "There is no cure for love other than marriage." — Irish love proverb

  • “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou

  • “And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.” — Kiersten White

  • “Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.” — Michael Leunig

  • "Once you've found the right person, you just know." — Sophie Turner

  • “Love reminds you that nothing else matters.” — Amy Bushnell

  • “Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.” — Sam Levenson

  • “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” — A.A. Milne

  • The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller

  • “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — Carl Jung

  • “We may have started as individuals, but now we are as one.” — Bryon Pulsifer

  • “To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott

  • “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • “Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.” — Anonymous

  • “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Bronte

  • “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” — Ernest Hemingway

  • “I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me.” — Kamand Kojouri

  • “What is done in love is done well.” — Vincent van Gogh

  • “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything,”— Katharine Hepburn

  • “I would bend my knee a million times to stand by you.” — Jordan Kimball

  • “Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.” — Dante Alighieri

  • “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle

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  • “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  • “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.” — Will Ferrell

  • “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” — Ruth Bell Graham

  • “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Hermann Hesse

  • “Marriage is not kick-boxing, it’s salsa dancing.” — Amit Kalantri

  • “I’ve found someone who refuses to let me be anything but myself.” — Hayley Paige

  • “Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.” — Unknown

  • “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

  • “We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.” — St. Bernard of Clairvaux

  • "Marriages, like a garden, take time to grow. But the harvest is rich unto those who patiently and tenderly care for the ground." — Darlene Schach

  • "Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." — Franklin P. Jones

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  • “Love is the soul’s light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.” — Rumi

  • “I have found the one my soul loves.” — Song of Solomon, 3:4

  • “My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement.” — Winston Churchill

  • “Well, I found a woman, stronger than anyone I know / She shares my dreams, I hope that someday I’ll share her home” — Ed Sheeran, “Perfect”

  • “Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.” — Gloria Steinem

  • “Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” — Kahil Gibran

  • “Love is sharing your popcorn.” ― Charles M. Schultz

  • “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” — Robert A. Heinlein

  • “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” — Peter Ostinov

  • “That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.” — Paul Tournier

  • “I’ll love you till the day that I die.” — Billie Eilish “Birds of a Feather”

  • “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” — George Sand

  • “Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.” — Nora Roberts

  • “It’s a beautiful night, we’re looking for something dumb to do / Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you” — Bruno Mars, “Marry You”

  • “You are the best thing that's ever been mine” — Taylor Swift, “Mine”

  • “Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together, and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.” — Amy Bloom

  • “I couldn’t tell fact from fiction / or if my dream was true / The only sure prediction / in this whole world was you.” — Maya Angelou, “Senses of Insecurity”

  • “I do love nothing in the world so well as you — is not that strange?” — William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing”

  • Here’s to a lifetime of friendship, purpose & unconditional love.” — Bindi Irwin

  • “I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.” — Jules Asner

  • "I feel like this is the beginning, though I've loved you for a million years." — Stevie Wonder, “You Are the Sunshine of My Life”

  • “I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” — Charles Dickens

  • “We are not perfect, we learn from our mistakes. And as long as it takes, I will prove my love to you.” — Sara Bareilles

  • "Every heart sings a song, incomplete until another heart whispers back." — Plato

  • "Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story." — Jennifer Smith

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