50 Best Man Proposal Quotes About Asking Someone to be Your Best

If you have been a best man in a wedding or chosen a best man for your wedding, you will relate to these best man proposal quotes.

We have all been to weddings and seen the people standing up for the bride and groom and realized they must hold importance in those people’s lives.

With the best man, that importance is magnified as it is the position with the most responsibility for the groom and is generally given to a best friend or family member.

It is often tricky to pick your best man as you don’t want to hurt the feelings of your other friends or family members.

But it’s important to choose someone meaningful to you and someone who will do a good job.

On the other side of the coin, when a good friend gets engaged, you may compete with others to be the best man, so what is your sales pitch?

Read these best man proposal quotes to learn how others have dealt with choosing or being chosen as the best man in a wedding.

Top Best Man Proposal Quotes

Below find some of the best quotes on friendship to use in your best man proposal.

1. “Friends are born, not made.” — Henry B. Adams

2. “A joy shared is a joy doubled.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best of me.” — Henry Ford

4. “A true friend is the greatest of all blessings.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

5. “A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.” — Frances Ward Weller

6. “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” — Jim Morrison

7. “A best friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.” — Irish Proverb

8. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow Wilson

9. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” — Arnold H. Glasow

10. “A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Man Proposal Quotes for the Groom to Use

Here are some great generic lines to put on a card to give your future best man and groomsmen.

11. “Bro, do me a solid.”

12. “Game on. Will you be my best man?”

13. “So, you might have to write a speech…”

14. “I want you! Report for groomsmen duty.”

15. “I hope you’ve been practicing your dance moves.”

16. “Fact. I am getting married. Also fact. You will be my best man.”

17. “This was all her idea. My (future) wife made me give you this.”

18. “This definitely could have been a text. But she made me get you a card.”

19. “Dude, will you be my bridesmaid chasing, suit-wearing, bachelor partying, bow-tie tying, best man?”

20. “Looking to build a groomsmen club. And now your service is required, will you be my groomsman?

Best Man Proposal Quotes to Showoff Your Speech Skills

When making your best man proposal, use these quotes to win over the bride with your ability to come up with a touching speech for the wedding day.

21. “Love is life.” — Leo Tolstoy

22. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.” — Sophocles

23. “To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.” — Mark Twain

24. “The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.” — William Lyon Phelps

25. “You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.” — David Levesque

26. “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” — Mignon McLaughlin

27. “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

28. “The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” — Julia Child

29. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow, this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

30. “There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day, knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.” — Ronald Reagan

Best Man Proposal Quotes About Friendship

If you’re making a pitch for being the best man, use these quotes to highlight the importance of friendship.

31. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell

32. “A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be somewhere else.” — Len Wein

33. “Friendship is not about whom you have known the longest; it is about who came and never left your side.” — Yolanda Hadid

34. “A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” — Lois Wyse

35. “A true friend is someone who is always there during the highs and lows and never judges you for your choices.” — Doug Larson

36. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” — C.S. Lewis

37. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” — Bernard Meltzer

38. “Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.” — George Washington

39. “It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” — Muhammad Ali

40. “A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.” — William Penn

Additional Best Man Proposal Quotes About Friendship

Here are a few more quotes you can add to your argument pleading your case to be the best man.

41. “A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” — King Solomon

42. “My best friend is the man who, in wishing me well, wishes it for my sake.” — Aristotle

43. “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” — Sylvia Plath

44. “A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need.” — Proverbs 17:17

45. “A good friend will help you move. But a best friend will help you move a dead body.” — Jim Hayes

46. “A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.” — Samuel Richardson

47. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” — David Tyson Gentry

48. “We are so close that you’re my twin. We’ve been together through thick and thin.” — Nishan Panwar

49. “A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” — Proverbs 18:24

50. “You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” — Laurence J. Peter

What Are Some Qualities of the Best Man?

The best man is an important position and should be someone important to you, but it is a good idea that they have some or all of the following qualities:

• Responsible – they will be tasked with multiple things before and during the wedding
• Trustworthy – you want someone your can count on
• Positive person – you want a doer, not a complainer
• Caring – he should care about you and your future bride

Please share these best man proposal quotes with your family and friends and post any comments about the best man in the comment section below.