Standing up for a friend or sister as her maid of honor is not only an incredible honor, it’s a big responsibility. From planning a bachelorette party, to making sure the bridesmaids dresses are ordered to giving a speech at the reception, there’s a lot to do.
While most maid of honors look forward to the bachelorette party and the actual ceremony and reception, many aren’t quite so keen to speak in front of a large crowd. If you’re nervous about public speaking or aren’t used to writing, crafting your speech can be a chore.
To help inspire you, we’ve curated over 150 maid of honor speech quotes for your use. No matter what your speaking style, you’re sure to find a quote or two to enhance your speech.
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Maid of Honor Speech Quotes For Best Friend
If you’re looking for a quote to celebrate your friendship with the bride, here is a mix of silly, serious and heartfelt quotes that you can use in your maid of honor speech.
1. “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now
2. “In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.”
— Unknown
3. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
— Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the United States
4. “Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.”
— Misty Copeland, American ballet dancer
5. “There are friends, there is family and then there are friends that become family.”
— Unknown
6. “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.”
— Irish proverb
7. “Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”
― William Shakespeare, “The Passionate Pilgrim”
8. “Friendship is when people know all about you but like you anyway.”
— Unknown
9. “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
— Unknown
10. “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Maid of Honor Speech Quotes For Sister
If you’re looking for a quote to celebrate your friendship with the bride, here is a mix of silly, serious and heartfelt quotes that you can use in your maid of honor speech
11. “Having a sister is like having a best friend you can’t get rid of. You know whatever you do, they’ll still be there.”
— Amy Li
12. “Our roots say we’re sisters, our hearts say we’re friends.”
— Unknown
13. “Acquaintances were always on their best behavior, but sisters loved each other enough to say anything.”
— Lauren Weisberger
14. “I’m the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don’t have anything. It’s hard. I love her too much. That’s what counts.”
— Venus William
15. “Sisters make the best friends in the world.”
— Marilyn Monroe
16. “A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.”
— Deborah Tannen
17. “If you don’t annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don’t love her anymore.”
— Pearl Cleage
18. “Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.”
— Carol Saline
19. “If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.”
— Linda Sunshine
20. “What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.”
— Claire Cook
21. “Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.”
— Anonymous
Maid of Honor Speech Ending Quotes
22. Please join me in raising a glass to the happy couple — to Ryan and Mariah!
23. Ladies and gentlemen, if you would please rise for a toast to Ryan and Mariahl. May you both grow old together, but stay young at heart. Cheers!
24. Let’s all raise a glass to the newlyweds. May the love you share today serve as the bedrock of a happy, healthy and everlasting marriage. Cheers!
25. Let us raise our glasses to the beautiful couple — may they always be as happy as they are in this moment. Here’s to Ryan and Mariah.
26. Raise your glass and join me in a toast to Ryan and Mariah — may you always remember the love that brought you here today.
27. From all of us on your wedding day — may your marriage be always loving and beautiful. Here’s to Ryan and Mariah!
28. Here’s to Ryan and Mariah. May you share joy that grows deeper, friendship that grows closer and a marriage that grows richer through the years. Cheers!
29. Without these two very special people here today, none of this would be possible. And the best part is, most of us will get to enjoy their company throughout the night. So please join me in giving a special toast to — the bar staff!
30. Let us raise our glasses to the beautiful couple. And may I remind you, no one will judge if you get more than a bit tipsy — so cheers!
31. To the wonderful couple, may their marriage be everlasting, and every wedding speech they hear be funnier and shorter than mine. Cheers!
32. Here’s to the husband and here’s to the wife. May their love last for the rest of their life. Cheers!
33. Now I want everyone to raise their glasses. Give it a little swirl. Now stick your nose in there and see if you can pick out the fruity notes. I can’t believe some of you did that. Here’s to the lovely couple — Ryan and Mariah!
34. For one last time, I’m going to ask everyone that can still stand — join me in giving a toast to the newlyweds. To Ryan and Mariah!
Funny Quotes for Maid of Honor Speech
35. “A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.”
— Brendan Behan, Irish poet
36. “Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.”
— Jim Carrey, actor
36. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
— Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist
37. “It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.”
— Robert Frost, American poet
38. “Men wear the pants in the relationship but women control the zipper.”
— Unknown
39. “An archeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
— Agatha Christie, English novelist
40. “A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.”
— Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress
41. “A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”
— Terry Pratchett, English author
42. “Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there.”
— George Burns, American comedian
43. “It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
— Rita Rudner, American comedian
Love Quotes for Maid of Honor Speech
There’s no time better than a wedding to talk about love. If you’d like to pay homage to the love your friend shares with her new spouse, one of these beautiful quotes should do the trick.
44. “Love one another and you will be happy; it is as simple and as difficult as that.”
— Michael Leunig, Australian cartoonist
45. “When two people love each other they don’t look at each other they look in the same direction.”
— Ginger Rogers, American actress
46. “We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in the full glow of love for others.”
— Walter Rauschenbusch, American theologian
47. “To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher
48. “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion than a good marriage.”
— Martin Luther, German theologian and writer
49. “Love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”
— Emily Giffin, American author
50. “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”
— Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist
51. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
— Mignon McLaughlin, American journalist
52. “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
— Voltaire
53. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
— Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher and poet
54. “To love without condition, to talk without intention, to give without reason, to care without expectation; That’s the spirit of true love.”
— Unknown
55. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
— Aristotle, Greek philosopher
56. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
— Audrey Hepburn, American actress
57. “There is only one happiness in life – to love and be loved.”
— George Sand, French novelist
58. “You know your feelings are real when you spend more time thinking of the one you love than of yourself.”
— Unknown
59. “The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.”
— Josiah Gilbert Holland, American novelist and poet
60. “When love reigns, the impossible may be attained.”
— Indian proverb
61. “You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.”
— Colleen Houck, American writer
62. “Happy marriages begin when we marry the one we love, and they blossom when we love the one we married.”
— Sam Levenson, American humorist
63. “In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.”
— Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
64. “Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.”
— Barbara Johnson, American literary critic
65. “The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.”
— Bell Hooks, American author
66. “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
— Antoine de Sainte-Exupery, French aviator, writer and poet
Disney Quotes for Maid of Honor Speech
67. “People always do crazy things when they’re in love.”
— Meg, Hercules
68. “Can you feel the love tonight? You needn’t look too far. Stealing through the night’s uncertainties, love is where they are.”
— The Lion King
69. “Love is an open door.”
— Anna and Hans, Frozen
70. “Love is putting someone else’s needs before yours.”
— Olaf, Frozen
71. “Some people are worth melting for.”
— Olaf, Frozen
72. “Far better than any dream girl is one of flesh and blood. One warm and caring and right before your eyes.”
— Grimsby, The Little Mermaid
73. “So this is love. So this is what makes life divine.”
— Cinderella, Cinderella
74. “Listen with your heart. You will understand.”
— Grandmother Willow, Pocahontas
75. “How do you spell love? You don’t spell love. You feel it.”
— Piglet and Pooh, Winnie the Pooh
76. “This is love. You’re not gonna find another girl like her in a million years. Believe me, I know. I’ve looked.”
— Aladdin
77. “To face the future with another, who means more than any other, is to be loved.”
— The Rescuers
78. “Love is a song that never ends.”
— Bambi
79. “Side by side with your loved one, you’ll find enchantment here.”
— Lady And The Tramp
Movie Quotes for Maid of Honor Speech
Even Hollywood can offer good advice sometimes. Here are some of the best quotes from movies to include in your speech.
80. “It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.”
— Professor Slughorn, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
81. “It doesn’t matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other.”
— Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting
82. “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.”
— Billy Crystal, When Harry Met Sally
83. “Why is it that people get married? Because we need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet. What does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything… The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things, All of it… all the time, every day. You’re saying ‘Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go unwitnessed – because I will be your witness’.”
— Susan Sarandon, Shall We Dance?
84. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.”
— Noah, The Notebook
85. “You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever.”
— Jamie, Love & Other Drugs
86. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.”
— Christian, Moulin Rouge
87. “Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start with that, what are you going to end up with?”
— Joe Black, Meet Joe Black
88. “They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that’s true”
— Big Fish
89. “Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with.”
— Juno
90. “When you love someone, and you love them with your heart, it never disappears. When you’re apart, and when you love someone, and you’ve done all you can do, you set them free. And if that love was true… when you love someone, it will all come back to you.”
— Forget Paris
91. “True love cannot be found where it does not truly exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does.”
— Kissing A Fool
92. “Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away.”
— Hitched
93. “Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
— Dead Poet Society
94. “Soul mates. It’s extremely rare, but it exists. It’s sort of like twin souls tuned into each other.”
— When Dreams May Come
95. “I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you’re with them.”
— The Accidental Tourist
TV Show Quotes for Maid of Honor Speech
96. “Would I rather be feared or loved? Umm… easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”
— Michael Scott, The Office
97. “I think we all deserve someone who wants to be with us.”
— Phyllis Vance, The Office
98. “One thing that will make you give up on everything you thought you know, every instinct, ever rational calculation. Love.”
— Jim Halpert, The Office
99. “I wish there was some way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve left them.”
— Andy Bernard, The Office
100. “Love is the water of life, drink deeply.”
— Michael Scott, The Office
101. “You’ve got to forget about logic and fear and doubt. You’ve just got to do everything you can to get to the one woman who’s going to make all this worth it. At the end of the day, you’ve got to jump.”
— Jim Halpert, The Office
102. “Friends are the family we choose.”
— Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy
103. “But at the end of the day, the fact that we show up for each other, in spite of our differences, no matter what we believe, is reason enough to keep believing.”
— Dr. Miranda Bailey, Grey’s Anatomy
104. “I can tell you from experience, with a little coffee and sunlight, the troubles will get smaller and the world will keep standing. I promise.”
— Dr. Richard Webber, Grey’s Anatomy
105. “But love doesn’t make sense. You can’t logic your way into it or out of it. Love is totally nonsensical. But, we have to keep doing it or else we’re lost and love is dead and humanity should just pack it in. Because love is the best thing we do.”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother
106. “If I had to dream up the perfect woman, she wouldn’t even come close to you.”
— Cory Matthews, Boy Meets World
107. “Imagine a future moment in your life where all your dreams come true. You know it’s the greatest moment of your life and you get to experience it with one person. Who is standing next to you.”
— Peyton Sawyer, One Tree Hill
108. “All we really need to survive is one person who truly loves us.”
— Penny Widmore, Lost
109. “You find your soulmate, you get married, you stay together until you die. Period.”
— Jack Pearson, This Is Us
Bible Quotes for Maid of Honor Speech
If you’re speaking at a Christian or Jewish wedding, you may want to include a quote from the Bible in your speech. While many of the quotes are from the New Testament, there are a few great Old Testament quotes about love that would work for Jewish nuptials. Here are 10 of the best quotes about love and marriage from the Good Book.
110. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.”
— 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
111. “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”
— Ephesians 5:25
112. “Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.”
— Song of Solomon 8:7
113. “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.”
— Ecclesiastes 4:9
114. “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
— 1 Peter 4:8
115. “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.”
— Ephesians 5:21
116. “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.”
— Ephesians 4:2
117. “Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.”
— Romans 12:10
118. “Do everything in love.”
— 1 Corinthians 16:14
119. “Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.”
— Proverbs 3:3
Song Quotes for Maid of Honor Speech
120. “Once in a lifetime love/A love like we’ve all dreamed of”
— Alan Jackson, Once In A Lifetime Love
121. “You can’t buy love/But you can make it”
— Shania Twain, You Can’t Buy Love
122. “Two young people without a thing/Say some vows and spread their wings/And settle down with just what they need/Livin’ on love”
— Alan Jackson, Livin’ on Love
123. “But when somebody loves you/There’s nothing you can’t do”
— Alan Jackson,When Somebody Loves You
124. “May you stay/Forever young”
— Bob Dylan, Forever Young
125. “Say goodbye to all your pain and sorrow/Say goodbye to all those lonely nights/Say goodbye to all your blue tomorrows/Now you’re standing in the light”
— The Eagles, You Are Not Alone
126. “What is the secret of this tie that binds/Two souls in communion, both body and mind/Is it special magic or just the nature of things?”
— The Grateful Dead, The Stranger
127. “Show me something built to last”
— The Grateful Dead, Built to Last
128. “They love each other/Lord, you can see that it’s true”
— The Grateful Dead, They Love Each Other
Advice Quotes for Maid of Honor Speech
129. “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
— Phyllis Diller, American comedian
130. “Real giving is when we give to our spouses what’s important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.”
— Michele Weiner-Davis, Divorce Busting
131. “Be presidents of each other’s fan clubs.”
—Tony Heath
132. “Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.”
— Barnett R. Brickner, Rabbi
133. “You win or the relationship wins.”
— Terry Hargrave, marriage expert and author
134. “A husband and wife may disagree on many things but they must absolutely agree on this: to never, ever give up.”
— FierceMarriage.com
135. “Be one another’s favorite place to go to when your minds search for peace.”
— Unknown
136. “The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.”
— Alexandra Penney, American journalist
137. “The first duty of love is to listen.”
— German-American philosopher
138. “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”
— Ruth Bell Graham, American Christian author
139. “A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet
140. “The success of marriage comes not in finding the “right” person, but in the ability of both partners to adjust to the real person they inevitably realize they married.”
— John Fischer, American philosopher
141. “The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.”
— Robert C. Dodds, author
142. “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threaded, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last.”
— Simone Signoret, French actress
143. “The development of a really good marriage is not a natural process. It is an achievement.”
— David and Vera Mace, co-authors
144. “Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.”
— Amy Bloom, American author and psychotherapist
145. “Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner, it feels limitless, not limited.”
— Gloria Steinem, American journalist
146. “Happy marriages are based on a deep friendship. By this I mean a mutual respect for and enjoyment of each other’s company.”
— John M. Gottman, American psychologist
147. “What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Russian author
148. “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”
— Oscar Wilde, Irish poet
149. “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ come together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
— Dave Meurer, American author
150. “Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.”
— Franz Schubert, Austrian composer
151. “The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.”
— Amy Grant, Christian music artist
152. “A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.”
— Nanette Newman, English actress and author
153. “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, American consultant
Anonymous Quotes for Maid of Honor Speech
Some of the best marriage quotes around come from anonymous sources. Whether you want to offer advice, be funny or say something heartfelt, you’re sure to find a quote here that’s worthy of being included in your speech.
154. “Here’s to the groom, a man who kept his head even while he lost his heart.”
— Unknown
155. “Don’t ever stop dating your wife and don’t ever stop flirting with your husband.”
— Unknown
156. “Spending time with each other each and every day is a secret ingredient to making your marriage last a lifetime.”
— Unknown
157. “My speech is going to be like a mini-skirt: long enough to cover the essentials and short enough to hold your attention.”
— Unknown
158. “For a marriage to have any chance, every day at least six things should go unsaid.”
— Unknown
159. “They say you don’t marry the person you can live with, you marry the person you can’t live without. That sums up these two perfectly.”
— Unknown
160. “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.”
— Unknown
161. “Love is blind — marriage is the eye-opener.”
— Unknown
