The Bard is the man. He's definitely said a fair few words about love. And other topics totally relevant to weddings. I decided to trawl Shakespeare's most famous works and pick out some rad quotes and readings from which to steal for your vows, readings, speeches, ironic ramblings, and ceremony in general. Shakespeare was a tongue-in-cheek dude, so there's a lot of snark, sweetness, realism, and general awesomeness to nick for your needs.

"I burn, I pine, I perish."
- Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew (totally stolen for10 Things I Hate About You, as well!)

"If music be the food of love, play on."
- Orsino in Twelfth Night

"Come, let's away to prison;
We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,
And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news."
- Lear in King Lear

"I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?"
- Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing

"If love be blind, it best agrees with night."
- Juliet in Romeo and Juliet

"But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
- from Sonnet 8

"He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him."
- King John

"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

"One half of me is yours, the other half yours
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours."
- The Merchant of Venice

"A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee."
- All's Well That Ends Well

"Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love."
- Hamlet

"Such is my love, to thee I so belong,
That for thy right myself will bear all wrong."
- from Sonnet 88

"Honour, riches, marriage-blessing,
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you!
Juno sings her blessings upon you."
- The Tempest

"All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me."
- from Sonnet 43

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