62+ Wedding Wishes for Your Best Friend

For the card, the speech, the message the morning of.

• I have watched you become someone worth marrying. Today the rest of the world catches up.
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• Congratulations. I have never seen you this settled, and it suits you.
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• You found someone who makes you more yourself, not less. That is the whole thing.
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• Wishing you a marriage as easy and as loyal as our friendship has been.
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• Today you gain a partner and I keep a best friend. Everyone wins.
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• Congratulations to my best friend, who has waited for the right one and was right to wait.
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• May your life together be full of ordinary good days. Those are the ones that count.
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• I have known you long enough to say this properly: you have chosen well.
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• Wishing you both a marriage built on the same patience you have shown me for years.
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• Congratulations. Go be ridiculously happy — you have earned it.
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One-liners for a card, a story or a gift tag.

• Happiest day for my happiest person. Congratulations.
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• Best friend, best day, best decision. Congratulations.
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• From playground to wedding aisle. Congratulations.
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• You found your person. I am so glad.
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• Congratulations to my best friend and my favourite couple.
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• Wishing you a lifetime of the good stuff.
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• Officially married, permanently my best friend.
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• Here is to forever, starting today.
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• Congratulations. Now go and be happy loudly.
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• So proud of you today and every day.
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For a toast, or a card that needs to sound like you.

• Congratulations on finding someone willing to put up with what I have tolerated for years.
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• I am legally required to be happy for you today, but I actually am. Congratulations.
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• Welcome to marriage, where every argument is about the thermostat.
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• Congratulations. You are now someone else’s problem, and I could not be more relieved.
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• To my best friend: thank you for finally getting someone else to answer your 1am texts.
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• Congratulations on the wedding. Sorry in advance about the speech.
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• You have upgraded from best friend to spouse. I am taking this personally.
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• Marriage is just deciding who is right for the rest of your life. Good luck.
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• Congratulations. I have known you far too long to give a serious speech, so here we are.
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• Wishing you both a long, happy marriage and separate blankets.
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For the card itself, where there is room to mean it.

• I have watched you become yourself, and today you are marrying someone who sees all of it.
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• Of everyone I know, you are the one I was least worried about getting this right.
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• Wishing you a marriage as easy to be around as your friendship has been.
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• I have had a front-row seat to this whole thing and it has been a privilege.
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• May the rest of it be as good as watching you two get here has been.
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• Congratulations. You picked well, and so did they.
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• Here is to a marriage built on the same things your friendship was.
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• Wishing you years of the ordinary happiness you both deserve.
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• You have been my person for a long time. Glad you found yours.
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• Congratulations on marrying the one who finally made sense.
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• May your worst day together still be better than most people best.
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• Thank you for letting me watch this happen up close.
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For a speech line or a card from the wedding party.

• Standing next to you today was the easiest yes I have ever given.
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• I have known you long enough to know exactly how right this is.
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• Best job I have ever been given. Congratulations.
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• Honoured to be up here, and genuinely happy for you both.
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• I have seen you at your worst, so trust me when I say this is your best.
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• Thank you for making me part of the biggest day you will have.
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• Congratulations. I knew before you told me, for the record.
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• Nothing about today surprised me except how well it went.
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• Here is to the two of you, from the one who has been there throughout.
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• Proud of you today, and most other days.
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For a wedding you cannot get to.

• Congratulations. Gutted to be missing it, thrilled it is happening.
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• Celebrating you from the wrong country today.
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• Wishing you both everything, from a long way away.
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• Sorry I could not be there. Not sorry about how happy I am for you.
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• Congratulations. Send photographs and leave nothing out.
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• Raising a glass to you at an unreasonable hour here.
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• Wishing you a brilliant day — I will celebrate properly when you are back.
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• Congratulations from the friend who could not make the flight.
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• Thinking about you both all day today.
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• Have the day you have been planning. I will catch the next one.
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