Ring Inscriptions

Many people choose to have something special inscribed in the inside of each other's wedding band. Here are some ideas on inscriptions.

• a line from your vows...
• Latin: Ab imo pectore (English: From the bottom of my heart)
• All my love - all my life
• All my love, Leslie 05/25/96
• Always for Forever
• Latin: Amorem meum tibi semper dabo (English: I will keep giving you my love always)
• a portion of "As long as I live, my heart will never change/My choice is made, no other will do" from a poem by Dorothy Dunnet
• As you wish
• Be in love
• Constant and true
• Eternal, Leslie 5/25/96
• Forever Entwined
• Forever in Our Thoughts 5-25-96
• Forever Thine May 25, 1996
• Forevermore
• From this day on...5-25-96
• Grow old with me
• I Will Never Love Another
• In heaven, too, you will have my hand
• Love N Kisses
• LPF CAF May 25, 1996
• One Life One Love
• Greek: Oti kalon philon aiei (English: Whatsoever is beautiful is loved always)
• My Best Friend May 25, 1996
• My Love is Forever Yours
• Never Another You
• Never To Part
• Over Hill Over Dale Our Love Will Never Fail
• Latin: pari passu (English: side by side)
• "Whither thou goest" on one ring and "I shall go" on the other
• With All That I Am
• With You Always LPF 5-25-96
• XOXOXOXOX
• You Are My Strength and My Love
• You shall never walk alone
• the sign for infinity

The following list was taken from a post by Selene (selene@eskimo.com) on the soc.couples.wedding newsgroup and is reprinted here with her permission. Strange spellings are old english spellings or typos. Enjoy!


Love me, and leave me not - from Shakspeare, Merchant of Venice

Annulus hic nobis, quod sic uterque, dabit - from Ben Johnson's "The Magnetic Lady"

by Herrick:
And as this round
Is nowhere found
To flow, or else to sever,
So let our love,
As endless prove,
And pure as gold forever

Pure _and_ Endless - from Davison's "Poetical Rhapsody", 1611

God Send me well to kepe - Henry VIII to Anne of Cleves

from "The Card of Courtship, or the Language of Love, fitted to the Humours of all degrees, senes, and conditions", 1653:
Thou art my star be not irregular.
Without thy love I backward move.
Thine eyes so bright are my chief delight.
This intimates true lover's states.
My life is done when thou art gone.
This hath no end my sweetest friend.
Our loves be so no ending know.

Thou wert not handsome, wise, but rich;
'Twas that which my eyes did bewitch.

Whom God hath joined let no man put asunder.

Divinely knit by God are we,
Late two, now one, the pledge you see.

We strangely met, and so do many,
But now as true as ever any.

As we begun, so let's continue.

My beloved is mine and I am hers.

True blue will never fade.

Against thou goest I will provide another.

In loving thee, I love myself.

A heart content cannot repent.

I do not repent that I gave my consent.

No gift can show the love I owe.

What the eye saw the heart hath chosen.

More faithful than fortunate.

Love him who gave thee this ring of gold,
'Tis he must kiss thee when thou'rt old.

This circle, though small about,
The devil, jealousie, shall keep out.

If I think my wife is fair,
What need other people care?

This ring is a token I gave to thee
That thou no tokens do change for me.

My dearest Betty is good and pretty.

I did then commit no folly
When I married my sweet Molly.

'Tis fit men should not be alone,
which made Tom to marry Jone.

Su is bonny, blythe, and brown,
This ring hath made her now my own.

Like Phillis there is none,
She truly loves her Choridon.

Constancy and heaven are round,
And in this the emblem's found.

As God hath knit our hearts in one,
Let nothing part but death alone.

God our love continue ever,
That we in heaven may live together.

Weare me out, love shall not waste,
Love beyond lyvie still is placed.

Weare this text, and when you looke,
Uppon your finger, sweare by th' booke.

Let me never take a wife,
That will not love her as his life.

If in thy love thou constant bee,
My heart shall never part from thee.

There is no other, and I am he,
That loves no other, and thou art she.

Eye doth find, heart doth choose,
Faith doth blind, death doth lose.

As God hath made my chyce in thee,
So move thy heart to comfort mee.

God hath kept thy heart for mee,
Grant that our Love may faithful bee.

The eye did find, ye heart did chuse,
The hand doth find, till death doth loose.

First feare ye Lord then rest content,
So shall wee live and not repent.

Divinely kni by grace are wee,
Later two, now one, ye pledge here see.

Breake not thy vow to please the eye,
But keep thy love, so live and dye.

Love thy chast wife beyond thy life. (1601)

I love the rod and thee and God. (1646)

Pray to love; love to pray. (1649)

More weare - more were. (1652)

Late two, now one: the pledge here see. (1657)

In thee my choice I doe rejoice. (1677)

In loving wife spend all thy life. (1699

Endless as this shall be our bliss. (1719 - Thos. Bliss)

Be truly wise lest death doth surprise.

In thee my choice I doe rejoice.

God for me appointed thee.

Virtue passeth riches.

Let me in thee most happy bee.

Live in love and fear the Lord.

No force in love can move in affixed love.

God hath sent my heart's content.

Godly love will not remove.

United hartes death only partes.

You and I will lovers die.

I have obtained what God ordained.

We joyn our love in Christ above.

God gives increase to love and peace.

Let reason rule affection.

God did decree our unitie.

Heart content cannot repent.

Live, love, and be happie.

Noe heart more true than mine to you.

Thy consent is my content.

In thee I find content of mind.

Of all the rest, I love thee best.

A blessing we do hope to see.

In love devine we love to joine.

Hearts united live contented.

In love and joy I will live and die.

In thy breast my heart shall rest.

The love is true that I.O.U.

My love is fixed I will not range.

This is the thing I wish to win.

My promise past shall never last.

I joy to find a constant mind.

Well projected if accepted.

God's blessing be on thee and me.

I like my choice to well to change.

Love him in heart whose joy thou art.

As Christ decreed so we agreed.

A loving wife prolongeth life.