60 Sweet Engagement Quotes for Every Kind of Couple

Getting engaged is a pretty big deal, and sharing the exciting moment with friends and family is probably one of the first things you'll want to do once you've said 'yes!', so an engagement quote is the best way to do this. 

Whether you're seeking the perfect engagement quote to include in your caption of the engagement announcement on Instagram, or perhaps you're planning an engagement party and want the right words to express how you feel for your partner or the newly-engaged couple - in any case, a sweet engagement quote might be just the thing you need. 

When it comes to picking the perfect quote it's important you select one that's authentic to you and your relationship. Don't worry too much about whether everyone will understand the selected quote as long as it's meaningful to you as a couple.

From long and short engagement wishes to tips on how to announce your engagement with quotes, here is our expert guide on everything you need to be prepared.

To make the decision easier we've compiled 60 sweet engagement quotes from films, songs and literature that you can use to celebrate the amazing news. We've even included a few funny ones if you aren't a fan of the soppy stuff.

• Quotes About Engagement
• Funny Quotes For Engagement
• Happy Engagement Quotes
• Engagement Quotes for a Friend
• How to Announce Engagement Quotes
• Engagement Announcement Tips

Quotes About Engagement

Sweet and simple but endlessly romantic, these quotes about engagement will perfectly sum up the significance of this special union. Ideal for close friends in need of betrothal quotes for a toast to the engaged couple, or for the fiancés to share in a speech or a letter to each other, these classic quotes about engagement won't leave a single dry eye in the house.

• "True love stories never have endings." - Richard Bach
• "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." - Audrey Hepburn 
• "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin
• "The highest happiness on earth is marriage." - William Lyon Phelps
• "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
• "Every heart sings a song, incomplete until another heart whispers back." - Plato
• "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
• "You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person you cannot live without" - Anonymous
• “Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.” - Anonymous
• "Once you've found the right person, you just know." - Sophie Turner
• “Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favourite.” – Anonymous
• “I will forever be there to laugh with you, to lift you up when you are down and to love you unconditionally through all of our adventures in life together.” – Anonymous 
• “Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.” – Anonymous
• “Here’s to a lifetime of friendship, purpose & unconditional love.” - Bindi Irwin
• "The one where we got engaged" - Friends
• "Let's start with forever." - Twilight
• "I wanna make you smile whenever you're sad. Carry you around when your arthritis is sad. All I wanna do is grow old with you." - The Wedding Singer
• "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

Funny Quotes for Engagement

If you want to make people laugh whilst announcing "I'm engaged", quotes that are light-hearted and fun are the perfect way to go. From silly quotes to funny quotes, engagement announcements aren't complete without someone poking fun at the happy couple.

Perfect for loved ones of the nearlyweds to include in a speech, toast, or Instagram post, they're great for passing on your engagement wishes for a best friend.

• "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
• “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
• "It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." - Rita Rudner
• “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.’” - Anonymous
• “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

Happy Engagement Quotes

When planning to announce an engagement, happy quotes work every time. After all, it's a happy occasion! From engagement quotes for friends to use or even the happy couple themselves, this list focuses on sharing the joy far and wide.

If you're stuck for words on engagement announcements, what to write in an engagement card, or how to pass on your wishes for an engagement, this selection should certainly help. And remember - if you find some quotes you particularly love, why not save them to use again later as engagement anniversary quotes. 

• "I feel like this is the beginning, though I've loved you for a million years." - Stevie Wonder
• “We are not perfect, we learn from our mistakes. And as long as it takes, I will prove my love to you.” - Sara Bareilles
• "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
• "Cause you make me feel so brand new, and I want to spend my life with you." - Al Green
• "You're my end and my beginning." - John Legend
• "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 and again: I love you." - John Green
• "For you, a thousand times over." - Khaled Hoesseini
• "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
• "Wherever you are is my home, my only home." - Jane Eyre
• "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
• "Grow old with me! The best is yet to be." - Robert Browning
• "I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• "You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." - Arthur Conan Doyle
• “I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” - Charles Dickens
• “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

Engagement Quotes for a Friend

Friends and family of the happy couple have the opportunity to have fun with their choice of quotes here! As you know the couple best, you might want to pass on your congratulations with some funny quotes about engagement that you know would make the nearlyweds smile.

Or you could go down a different route, and explore some clever engagement quotes that describes marriage in a new and unique way. Whatever your engaged wishes to a friend might be, we hope this list inspires you. 

• "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
• "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
• "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 Crowel
• “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

How to Announce Engagement with Quotes

So, you've found the perfect "we're engaged" quotes to share the good news? Great! The next challenge is working out how to announce the engagement with the quotes that you've selected, as there are quite a few ways to do this.

For couples that want a little privacy around the time of your engagement, you could wait a few days and then post a snapshot of the day you got engaged later on, with a caption that includes some retrospective "when we got engaged..." quotes. That's one way to make a splash on Instagram!

If you are willing to allocate some budget towards the announcement, you could also send out some beautiful engagement announcement letters in the post to your nearest and dearest - just remember to keep some for yourselves as souvenirs of the happy occasion. These invitations can be decorated with your favourite engagement quotes to make them even more romantic. 

And if you want to announce your engagement in true style, why not throw a little party?

Order a cake with the words "We're Engaged" on it in icing, but keep it hidden in a box until the perfect moment. When the time is right, invite all your friends to gather round for a toast, then open the lid of the cake and reveal what's inside - they'll love it!

Whichever way you choose to announce your engagement, make sure it's in a way that feels comfortable for you.

And thinking ahead, we know you only just got engaged but the wedding will be here before you know it! So, why not check out these funny love and marriage quotes you'll want in your wedding speech.