10 messages · 4 tones

Wedding Wishes for Friends

10 messages written for friends specifically, across 4 tones. Every one is ready to copy as it stands, or to adapt.

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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.
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 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.

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