There are many ways to add a creative, nontraditional touch or two to your wedding. Incorporating cute sayings from your favorite movie, walking down the aisle to a nontraditional love song or adding a unique touch (like changing the tempo) to a more traditional song are just a start.
Cute Quotes from Film
"(We) are joined by the bonds of love. And you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords." -- The Princess Bride"This is true love -- you think this happens every day?" -- The Princess Bride
"Take love, multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for you." -- Meet Joe Black
"This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime." -- The Bridges of Madison County
"You are what I never knew I always wanted." -- Fools Rush In
"True love lasts a lifetime." -- Love Actually
"It's the saddest part of my day, leaving you." -- Love Actually
"There are only four questions of value in life: What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: Only love."-- Don Juan DeMarco
"It doesn't matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other." -- Good Will Hunting
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Moulin Rouge
"I love that you get cold when it is 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle in your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night...when you realize 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
Nontraditional love songs
Do you hate those sappy love songs that seem to be on constant rotation on the radio around Valentine's Day, but still enjoy a sincere love song? Try these:- "Call and Answer" by the Barenaked Ladies
- "Green Eyes" by Coldplay
- "Come Away with Me" by Norah Jones
- "Forever" by Ben Harper
- "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (a.k.a. Brother Iz)
- "At Last" by Etta James
- "Be Mine" by REM
- "Crazy Love" by Van Morrison
- "Power of Two" by Indigo Girls
- "By Your Side" by Sade
- "Always On My Mind" by Phantom Planet
- "Indoor Fireworks" by Elvis Costello
- "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" by the Police
- "It had to Be You" (There are numerous versions of this song. Try the ones by Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday or Harry Connick Jr.)
- "Isn't She Lovely?" by Stevie Wonder
- "Just my Imagination" by the Temptations
- "The Wedding Song" by Bob Dylan
- "Sleepwalk" by Ben Lee
- "Such Great Heights" by the Postal Service or Iron and Wine
Inspiration from Literature
"Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow." -- from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran."Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken."
-- from "Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare.
"As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change...I will always keep falling in love with you." -- Karen Clodfelder
"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"All the world spoke the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert." -- from The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
"There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in that world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning." -- from The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo.