34 messages · 4 tones · 6 recipients

Wedding Wishes: What to Write in a Wedding Card

Enduring wishes for couples embarking on partnership, marriage, and home life together.

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Recipients with at least 8 messages have a dedicated page. The rest are listed with their current count and appear in the full set below.

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Married CoupleWarm
38w · 216c

Partnership rooted in kindness

“Seeing the mutual respect, quiet kindness, and genuine joy you bring out in each other is a gift to everyone who knows you both. May your marriage be a place of steady shelter, deep laughter, and enduring friendship.”

Best for: Wedding card for close friends or family members.
Married TeammateFormal
23w · 150c

Warm professional congratulations

“Warmest congratulations to you both on your wedding day. Wishing you a lifetime of good health, shared happiness, and prosperous years ahead together.”

Best for: Card from coworkers and team members.
Close FriendsShort
21w · 139c

Concise celebration of marriage

“To a wonderful couple: wishing you a lifetime of great conversations, shared adventures, and deep peace together. Cheers to your beginning!”

Best for: Gift tag or brief card inscription.
Long-Together CoupleWarm
39w · 202c

An announcement rather than a beginning

“You have been building this life together for years, so today is less a beginning than an announcement. Congratulations to you both. It has been a good thing to watch, and we are glad to be here for it.”

Best for: Couple who lived together for years before marrying.
Married CoupleShort
18w · 100c

A wish for the ordinary weeks

“Congratulations to you both. Wishing you a marriage as easy in the ordinary weeks as it looks today.”

Best for: Short inscription where the card is already crowded with signatures.
Close FriendsLight Humor
30w · 172c

A better question to be asked

“Congratulations. After years of being asked when you two would finally do this, you can now enjoy the far superior question of when you are having everyone over for dinner.”

Best for: Friends who were asked about their plans rather too often.
Couple Marrying AgainWarm
30w · 191c

Choosing it a second time

“Choosing this again, with clear eyes and everything you both already know, takes more than doing it the first time. Congratulations. Wishing you a great many quiet, unremarkable, happy years.”

Best for: Second marriage, or a couple marrying later in life.
Married CoupleShort
17w · 88c

For a gift tag

“With love on your wedding day, and for the long ordinary stretch of days that follow it.”

Best for: Gift tag or the inside of a very small card.
Close FriendsLight Humor
22w · 151c

Surviving the planning

“Congratulations to a couple who have somehow made planning a wedding together look survivable. On that evidence the marriage should be straightforward.”

Best for: Couple who organized the whole thing themselves.
Friend and Their PartnerWarm
40w · 198c

Knowing one of them much longer

“I have known one of you for a very long time and the other for long enough to be thoroughly delighted about all of this. Congratulations to you both, and thank you for letting us be part of the day.”

Best for: Wedding of an old friend, writing to the couple together.
Married ColleagueWarm
35w · 201c

From the people they work with

“Congratulations on your wedding. Thank you for the invitation, and for the excellent excuse to see everyone somewhere that is not the office. Wishing you both a wonderful day and an easy year after it.”

Best for: Colleague who invited the team to the wedding.
Colleague Taking LeaveShort
18w · 100c

Take the whole two weeks

“Congratulations to you both. Enjoy the day, and take the full two weeks. We will manage without you.”

Best for: Colleague heading straight from the wedding into leave.
Married ColleagueFormal
36w · 197c

After hearing the day went well

“Congratulations on your marriage. It has been a pleasure hearing the plans take shape over recent months, and a greater one to hear the day itself went so well. Wishing you both a very happy start.”

Best for: Formal note from a colleague who was not at the wedding.
Newly Married ChildWarm
36w · 201c

A parent watching the choice

“Watching you choose someone this well is the part we did not know to hope for. Congratulations to you both. Our door, our table and our advice all remain available, in roughly that order of usefulness.”

Best for: Parent writing to a child and their new spouse.
Married CoupleFormal
36w · 200c

A formal wish from the wider family

“With every good wish on your marriage. You have chosen thoughtfully and you have chosen well, and the family you are joining is fortunate to have you. Wishing you both a long and steady life together.”

Best for: Formal card from an aunt, uncle, or grandparent.
New In-LawShort
11w · 71c

Welcoming someone properly

“Welcome to the family, properly this time. Congratulations to you both.”

Best for: Short line to a new brother or sister-in-law.
Sibling and Their PartnerLight Humor
30w · 160c

Legally obliged, genuinely willing

“Congratulations. I have been legally obliged to like you for some years now and am pleased to report I would have chosen to anyway. Enjoy every part of the day.”

Best for: Sibling writing to their new in-law.
Manager Getting MarriedFormal
28w · 171c

A note to your own manager

“Congratulations on your marriage. Wishing you and your partner every happiness in the years ahead, and a genuinely uninterrupted break before you come back to any of this.”

Best for: Formal congratulations to a manager on their wedding.
Team Member Getting MarriedWarm
30w · 192c

Organized through a busy quarter

“Congratulations. You have organized a wedding alongside one of our busiest quarters and dropped neither, which is faintly alarming and very much in character. Wishing you both a wonderful day.”

Best for: Manager writing to a team member who planned a wedding around work.
Mentor Getting MarriedWarm
34w · 188c

Nothing to offer but delight

“Congratulations on your marriage. You have given me a great deal of useful advice over the years, so it is a pleasure to have nothing to offer here except unqualified delight for you both.”

Best for: Mentor or long-standing advisor getting married.
Newly Married CoupleWarm
30w · 173c

From the wider family

“We have watched this become serious in the way these things do, slowly and then obviously. Congratulations to you both. You are very welcome in this family, and always were.”

Best for: Aunt, uncle or cousin writing to the couple.
Grandchild MarryingWarm
34w · 173c

From a grandparent

“Sixty years ago somebody wrote us a card much like this one, and it turned out to be right. Congratulations to you both. Be kind on the ordinary days; they are most of them.”

Best for: Grandparent writing to a grandchild and their partner.
NewlywedsShort
14w · 95c

A short family line

“Congratulations to you both. Delighted, entirely unsurprised, and very glad to have been there.”

Best for: Short line in a family card.
Child MarryingWarm
25w · 163c

A parent letting go slightly

“We are not losing anyone today, whatever the speeches claim. We are gaining someone we already liked enormously. Congratulations to you both, and welcome properly.”

Best for: Parent writing on the day, to both partners.
Married ColleagueWarm
31w · 184c

Back from the wedding

“Congratulations. It has been a genuine pleasure watching the planning take over your desk for six months, and an even better one hearing the day itself went perfectly. Enjoy the leave.”

Best for: Colleague whose wedding planning was visible at work.
ColleagueLight Humor
26w · 166c

On the out-of-office

“Congratulations on the wedding, and on what I understand is the most emphatic out-of-office message this company has seen. Entirely correct. Enjoy every second of it.”

Best for: Colleague who has set very firm boundaries for their leave.
Newly Married ColleagueShort
13w · 76c

Short team message

“Congratulations to you both. The team is delighted. Do not check your email.”

Best for: Quick message in a work channel.
Colleague Marrying AbroadWarm
27w · 157c

A wedding far away

“Congratulations to you both. Sorry to be missing it by several thousand miles, and looking forward to the photographs and a proper account when you are back.”

Best for: Colleague having a destination wedding you cannot attend.
Married CoupleFormal
32w · 189c

A formal note between friends

“With warmest congratulations on your marriage. It was a privilege to be there, and a pleasure to see two people so evidently well matched make it official. Wishing you both every happiness.”

Best for: Formal card for a wedding with a traditional tone.
Manager MarryingWarm
31w · 191c

To your own manager

“Congratulations on the wedding. Thank you for the invitation and for handing over more thoroughly than anyone has ever handed over anything. Enjoy the leave without a single thought about us.”

Best for: Manager who prepared the team meticulously before leaving.
ManagerShort
16w · 105c

Brief note upward

“Congratulations to you both. Wishing you a wonderful day and a completely undisturbed fortnight after it.”

Best for: Short note to a manager getting married.
Team Member MarryingWarm
26w · 153c

From a manager, before the leave

“Congratulations. Everything is covered, nothing is urgent, and I have told the team that anyone who contacts you will answer to me. Have a wonderful day.”

Best for: Manager writing as a report starts wedding leave.
Newly Married ReportShort
19w · 123c

On their return

“Welcome back, and congratulations again. Ease into the week; nothing that happened while you were away needs solving today.”

Best for: Report returning to work after their wedding.
Mentor MarryingWarm
31w · 173c

Congratulating someone who advised you

“Congratulations on your marriage. You have talked me through a great many decisions over the years, so it is a pleasure to have absolutely nothing useful to add to this one.”

Best for: Mentor or long-standing advisor getting married.

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