100 wedding toast examples
The generator above will give you five custom toasts in seconds. Below is a curated selection of short toasts across every tone — save the ones that resonate, or use them as inspiration to write your own.
Heartfelt
- To the bride and groom — may your love be modern enough to survive the times and old-fashioned enough to last forever.
- Here's to a love that's quiet on the easy days and brave on the hard ones.
- May you be each other's safe place — and each other's first call.
- To the love we're celebrating tonight — may every year add depth to what you already have.
- May your home be a place you both want to come back to.
Funny
- May you grow old together — but never grow up.
- To the happy couple — may your love be as strong as your coffee, and your problems as small as your phone bill.
- Marriage is finding the one person you can annoy for the rest of your life — and have them annoy you right back. To the lucky couple.
- Here's to a lifetime of disagreements you'll laugh about later.
- May you always remember whose turn it is to do the dishes.
Classic & cultural
- May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back. (Irish)
- May the best of your todays be the worst of your tomorrows. (Scottish)
- À l'amour, à la santé, et à la longue vie. (French)
- Per cent'anni — for a hundred years together. (Italian)
- Mazel tov — to a sweet and joyful life together. (Hebrew)
- Στην υγειά μας — to our health and long life together. (Greek)
Modern
- To choosing each other — every day, on purpose.
- Here's to two people who decided to keep showing up.
- May the best version of your love still be ahead.
- To the partnership we get to witness — keep going.
- To you both — for proving the rest of us right.
Famous wedding quotes for toasts
A great quote is the easiest way to elevate a short toast. The lines below are public-domain or traditional, so you can use them freely. Frame each one with a single sentence of your own before reading the quote, then a single sentence after — that three-part structure is the bones of every good quote-based toast.
- Khalil Gibran: “Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”
- Rumi:“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere — they're in each other all along.”
- Shakespeare, Sonnet 116: “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”
- 1 Corinthians 13: “Love is patient. Love is kind.”
- Lao Tzu:“Being deeply loved gives you strength, while loving deeply gives you courage.”
How to give a great wedding toast
Keep it under 60 seconds, land the last line clearly, stand up with planted feet, skip inside jokes, and rehearse aloud twice the day before. A great toast is shorter than you think and ends sooner than you want — 50 to 80 words is the sweet spot. Three rules, in order of importance:
- Keep it under a minute. A good toast hits 50–80 words. If you're past 100, you wrote a speech.
- Land the last line. The call to raise glasses (“to {a} and {b}”) is the one moment everyone's waiting for. Pause before it, say it slowly, look at the couple.
- Stand up. Stop fidgeting. Plant your feet, hold the glass at chest height, and look across the room — not at the floor, not at your phone.
- Avoid the inside joke. Anything that requires explaining doesn't belong in a toast. Save it for the after-party.
- Don't skip the rehearsal. Read it out loud twice the day before — that's the difference between a toast that lands and one that drifts.
The best toasts feel inevitable — like the room was waiting for exactly those words. You get there by writing one true sentence about the couple, framing it with a quote or shared image, and ending on the glass. That's the whole craft.