One Mutual Happiness

Our day of marriage shall be yours;
One feast, one house, one mutual happiness.

—Two Gentlemen of Verona,
Act V, Scene iv

Pronouncement

A contract of eternal bond of love,
Confirm’d by mutual joinder of your hands,
Attested by the holy close of lips,
Strengthen’d by interchangement of your rings;
And all the ceremony of this compact

—Twelfth Night,
Act V, Scene i

Two Become One

O, two such silver currents, when they join,
Do glorify the banks that bound them in;
And two such shores to two such streams made one.

–King John,
Act II, Scene i

Joined Hands

Love for thy love, and hand for hand I give.

—Henry VI Part 1,
Act III, Scene i

Boundless and Infinite

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep. The more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.

—Romeo and Juliet,
Act II, Scene ii

A Charming Path to Wedlock

No sooner met but they look’d; no sooner look’d but
they lov’d; no sooner lov’d but they sigh’d; no sooner sigh’d but
they ask’d one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but
they sought the remedy- and in these degrees have they made pair
of stairs to marriage.

—As You Like It,
Act V, Scene ii

At the Top

Till the last step have brought me to my love;
And there I’ll rest.

–Two Gentlemen of Verona,
Act II, Scene vii

We Complete Each Other

He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such as she:
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

—King John,
Act II, Scene i

Invocation

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

–Henry VI Part 3,
Act IV, Scene vi

Heaven on Earth

A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.

—All’s Well That Ends Well,
Act IV, Scene ii

Wedding Toast

Honor, riches, marriage, blessing,
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you.

–The Tempest,
Act IV, Scene i

Unity Ceremony

God, the best maker of all marriages,
Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one!
As man and wife, being two, are one in love.

—Henry V,
Act V, Scene ii

Declaration

Thee will I love, and with thee lead my life…
Give me your hand.

—The Comedy of Errors,
Act III, Scene ii

Simple Vows

’Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth, but the plain single vow that is vow’d true.

—All’s Well That Ends Well,
Act IV, Scene ii

Commitment

I will requite your love, taming my wild heart to your loving hand.

—Much Ado About Nothing,
Act II, Scene iii

I Give My Heart

My heart is ever at your service.

—Timon of Athens,
Act I, Scene ii

Only You

I would not wish
Any companion in the world but you:
Nor can imagination form a shape
Besides yourself to like of.

—The Tempest,
Act III, Scene i

We Give Ourselves

As you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for
you and dote upon the exchange.

—Much Ado About Nothing,
Act II, Scene i

Growing Together

So we grow together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition;
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;
Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,
Due but to one and crowned with one crest.

–A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act III, Scene ii

Formal Vows

And the conjunction of our inward souls
Married in league, coupled and linked together
With all religious strength of sacred vows;
The latest breath that gave the sound of words
Was deep-sworn faith, peace, amity, true love.

—King John,
Act III, Scene i

Deep As the Ocean

O… that thou didst
know how many fathom deep I am in love! But it cannot be sounded;
my affection hath an unknown bottom.

—As You Like It,
Act IV, Scene i

Traditional

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken,
It is the star to every wand’ring bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

—Sonnet CXXVI (116)

Wedding Dance

Play, music; and you brides and bridegrooms all,
With measure heap’d in joy, to th’ measures fall.

—As You Like It,
Act V, Scene iv

Knit Your Hearts

…to knit your hearts
With an unslipping knot…By this marriage,
All little jealousies, which now seem great,
And all great fears, which now import their dangers,
Would then be nothing.

—Antony and Cleopatra,
Act II, Scene ii

Celebration

Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love
Accompany your hearts!

—A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act V, Scene i