What to write when the card is open in front of you and nothing is coming. Grouped by how well you know them and how formal you need to be.
In this guide
- Short and warm
- For close friends
- For family
- Formal or for colleagues
- Quotes worth borrowing
- The rule that makes any card better
Short and warm
- “So happy for you both. Here's to a wonderful life together.”
- “Wishing you both every happiness, today and always.”
- “Congratulations — what a beautiful day, and what a good match.”
- “To many, many years of exactly this.”
- “So glad we were there. Congratulations to you both.”
- “Wishing you a marriage as good as your wedding.”
For close friends
- “I have watched this one from the beginning and I could not be happier. Congratulations.”
- “You two are the best argument for marriage I know.”
- “Thank you for letting us be part of it. It was the best day.”
- “Congratulations. Now please go and be insufferably happy somewhere.”
- “Twenty years of friendship and I have never seen you like this. It suits you.”
For family
- “Welcome to the family. We could not have chosen better ourselves.”
- “We are so proud of you both, and so glad today happened.”
- “Two families, one very good decision. Congratulations.”
- “Wishing you the kind of marriage the rest of us learn from.”
Formal or for colleagues
- “Warmest congratulations on your marriage. Wishing you both every happiness.”
- “Congratulations to you both on your wedding day. With very best wishes.”
- “Wishing you a long and happy marriage. Congratulations.”
Quotes worth borrowing
- “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë
- “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” — Mignon McLaughlin
- “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but of looking outward together.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” — Robert Browning
- “I have found the one whom my soul loves.” — Song of Solomon 3:4
The rule that makes any card better
Add one specific sentence about them. “The bit in your vows about the coffee was the best thing I have heard at a wedding.” Couples read every card in the week after the wedding and keep the ones that prove someone was paying attention.
From Sagevow
Vows read from a phone screen never photograph well. Linen vow books do, and they stay on the shelf long after the last dance.
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