75 Sweet Engagement Quotes for Every Kind of Couple

Shocker: getting engaged is a pretty big deal and sharing the exciting moment with family and friends is probably one of the first thing’s you’ll want to do after saying ‘yes!’. That's why we’ve pulled together some engagement quotes to help you find the perfect words to break the news.

Whether you want quotes about engagement to include in the caption of your next Instagram post, or you’re just trying to find the right words to say at your engagement party or write in a newly engaged pal’s engagement card, these heartfelt, romantic and funny one-liners might be just the thing.

The most important thing is that you pick the engagement quote that feels authentic to you and your relationship. Don’t worry too much about whether others will understand – as long as it’s meaningful to you as a couple.

75 Best Engagement Quotes UK

From lengthy and short engagement wishes to funny, traditional and clever engagement quotes, these sweet lines from films, songs, literature, celebrities, philosophers and more will help you to celebrate the amazing news.

• Romantic Engagement Quotes
• Funny Engagement Quotes
• Engagement Announcement Quotes For Instagram
• Quotes to Write in An Engagement Card
• Religious & Traditional Betrothal Quotes
• Celebrity Quotes About Engagement

Romantic Engagement Quotes

Sweet, simple but utterly romantic, these romantic quotes make great engagement quotes for couples as well as engagement congratulations for friends and family. Perfect for sharing in a speech or toast, or writing in a card, there won’t be a dry eye in the house!

• “True love stories never have endings” – Richard Bach
• “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides” – David Viscott
• “If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love” – Michel de Montaigne 
• “Love reminds you that nothing else matters” – Amy Bushnell
• “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction” – Antoine
• “Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story” – Jennifer Smith
• “If I know what love is, it is because of you” – Herman Hesse
• “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again” – Albert Einstein
• “You don’t marry someone you can live with; you marry the person you cannot live without” – Anon
• “Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart” – Anon
• “I will forever be there to laugh with you, to lift you up when you are down and to love you unconditionally through all our adventures in life together” – Anon
• “Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive” – Anon
• “I wanna make you smile whenever you’re sad. Carry you around when your arthritis is bad. All I wanna do is grow old with you” – The Wedding Singer
• “You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I’ve never been so strong. Now I’m where I belong” – Maya Angelou
• “Cause you make me feel so brand new, and I want to spend my life with you” – Al Green
• “Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches” – The Princess Bride
• “When you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible” – When Harry Met Sally
• “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard, and we’re gonna have to work at this every day. But I wanna do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever. You and me. Every day” – The Notebook
• “Some people are worth melting for” – Frozen
• “We are not perfect; we learn from our mistakes. And as long as it takes, I will prove my love to you” – Sara Bareilles
• “I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul” – Charles Dickens
• “Here’s to all the places we went. All the places we’ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again; I love you” – John Green
• “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
• “I love you, not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• “I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t know I needed you. You must have been sent to me” – Kamand Kojouri

Funny Engagement Quotes

If you want to make people laugh with your big announcement, witty engagement quotes that are fun and light-hearted are the way to go. And if you’re looking for funny quotes about engagement to write in a card, you’ve also come to the right place (someone’s got to poke fun at the happy couple, right?)

• “Before marrying a person, you should make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are” – Will Ferrell
• “Why do married people live longer than single people? I think it’s because married people make a special effort to live longer than their partner – just so they can have the last word” – Janet Periat
• “The secret of a happy marriage remains… a secret” – Henny Youngman
• “We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It’s called love” – Gene Perret
• “It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life” – Rita Rudner
• “I love you more than I hate everyone else” – Rainbow Rowell 
• “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight” – Phyllis Diller
• “The most important four words for a successful marriage: ‘I’ll do the dishes’” – Anon
• “I have an engagement ring, which is my favourite accessory” – Jules Asne
• “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers” – Ruth Bell Graham
• “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards” – Benjamin Franklin

Engagement Announcement Quotes For Instagram 

Because is any engagement actually official until it’s hard launched on social media? To help you craft the perfect caption for your Instagram engagement announcement, these ‘am engaged’ quotes could provide the perfect finishing touch. Or why not save them for later to use as engagement anniversary quotes?

• “I feel like this is the beginning, though I’ve loved you for a million years” – Stevie Wonder
• “Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favourite” – Anon
• “You’re my end and my beginning” – John Legend
• “The one where we got engaged” – inspired by Friends
• “Let’s start with forever” – Twilight
• “You are the best thing that’s ever been mine” – Taylor Swift
• “Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you” – Bruno Mars
• “Heaven is a place on earth with you” – Lana Del Ray
• “For you, a thousand times over” – Khaled Hosseini
• “Wherever you are is my home, my only home” – Jane Eyre
• “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be” – Robert Browning
• “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought” – Arthur Conan Doyle
• “I’ve found my lobster” – Friends
• “You are my greatest adventure” – The Incredibles
• “Who won in life? Me. Because I get to marry you” – Definitely, Maybe 

Quotes to Write in an Engagement Card

Whether it’s an engagement message for a friend, short engagement wishes, or you’re just struggling on what to say in an engagement card, these engagement quotes offer up some of the easiest ways to pass on your congratulations. We’ve even included a few funny options to make the newlyweds smile!

• “We’re all a little weird. And life is weird. And when we find someone, whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness and call it love – true love” – Robert Fulghum
• “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
• “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person” – Mignon McLaughlin
• “Here’s to a lifetime of friendship, purpose and unconditional love” – Bindi Irwin
• “The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife” – Barbara de Angelis
• “To keep the fire burning brightly, there’s one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart – about a finger’s breadth – for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule” – Marnie Reed Crowell
• “We start a relationship with someone not only because of how great they are but how great they make us feel. And because they have granted us this extraordinary gift – a chance to experience love, joy, compassion and security – it is our exclusive privilege to make them feel wonderful about themselves, especially during days when they, themselves, don’t feel so wonderful” – Kamand Kojouri
• “Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile” – Franklin P. Jones

Traditional & Religious Betrothal Quotes

Sometimes it might feel more appropriate to include more traditional engagement blessings in a card or text message, which is where these betrothal day wishes come in. If you’re looking to include religious betrothal wishes, the key is to make sure the couple will appreciate that. If you’re unsure of their religious beliefs, keep your engagement greetings more general. Even a simple, ‘congratulations on your engagement’ will do if you can't find the right quote. 

• “Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end” – Rumi
• “May joy and peace surround you both, contentment latch your door, and happiness be with you now, and God bless you ever more” – Irish blessing
• “There are three things that matter most: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love” – Corinthians 13:13
• “The highest happiness on earth is marriage” – William Lyon Phelps
• “Every heart sings a song, incomplete until another heart whispers back” – Plato
• “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 is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres” – Corinthians 13:4-8
• “Love is a fruit in season at all times and within easy reach of every hand” – Mother Teresa

Celebrity Quotes About Engagement

Nothing warms our hearts quite like a celebrity wedding, and nothing gave us the feel-good factor quite like these engaged life quotes from famous faces!

• “Once you’ve found the right person, you just know” – Sophie Turner
• “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other” – Audrey Hepburn
• “My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked” – Elizabeth Taylor
• “She didn’t say yes. She said HELL YES!” – Ludacris
• “Forever isn’t long enough” – Sofia Richie
• “The day we met I knew you were the one. Together forever ‘til our days are done” – Avril Lavigne
• “I never knew that a person’s presence and heart could feel like a real home. I never knew love could be so unquestionably beautiful. I never knew until you” – Joey King

Engagement Quotes: FAQ

How to Announce an Engagement With Quotes

So, you’ve found the perfect ‘we’re engaged’ quotes to help you share the good news? Great! The next challenge is working out how to incorporate them into your announcement.

For couples who want to soak up the good news privately at first, why not wait a few days before posting a snapshot of the day you got engaged on social media and using your choice of engagement quote as the caption? Or you might choose to do this and only send to close friends and family.

If you’re willing to allocate some budget towards your engagement announcement, you could send out some beautiful engagement announcement cards to your nearest and dearest via post – just remember to keep one or two back for yourselves as a souvenir of the happy occasion! These engagement cards could feature one or some of your favourite engagement quotes or sayings about love.

And, of course, if you want to announce your engagement in true style – how about throwing an engagement party? Be sure to include a cake featuring the words ‘we’re engaged’ but keep it tucked away until you want to make the big reveal. When the time is right, gather everyone round for a toast and watch those engagement congratulations and hugs roll in!

What to Write in an Engagement Card

If you’re stuck for words and feeling unsure on what to say in an engagement card, our selection of quotes to write in an engagement card should help. Want more tips? We’ve got everything you need to know about what to write in an engagement card from relationship expert and presenter Anna Williamson.

What to Write on an Engagement Instagram Post

If you’re posting your engagement announcement on Instagram, you’ll want to accompany that perfect pic with the perfect engagement caption. Consider what type of couple you are – will you go for something sweet and sentimental, or are funny captions more your thing?

Or, if words don’t feel appropriate – how about just posting your image or carousel with emojis? The most important thing is to keep it concise, whether it’s with a romantic quote or a witty one liner, as well as relatable and authentic to your personalities.

Still stuck for ideas? When in doubt, copy and paste these sweet and funny engagement quotes for Instagram (we won’t tell!).

When it comes to commenting on someone else’s engagement post, if you feel like a simple ‘Congrats!’ doesn’t suffice, these inspiring engagement quotes will make the newlyweds smile.

OK, so we may be getting a little ahead of ourselves, but the wedding will be here before you know it! Check out these funny love and marriage quotes to include in your wedding speech.