WEDDING QUOTES III
quotations about weddings
If celebrity envy is the bread and butter of the entertainment zeitgeist, then celebrity weddings are the crack cocaine. Imagine the greatest day of your life: You're surrounded by your friends and family, and pledging your eternal devotion to the love of your life. Now imagine all of that, except objectively way better--that's a celebrity wedding.
AMY ZIMMERMAN
"Why Hollywood Is Falling in Love With Secret Celebrity Weddings", The Daily Beast, March 15, 2017
Even for couples who don't intend to wear rings on a day-to-day basis, the exchanging of the rings is a ceremony ritual that really resonates. When I talk with brides and grooms post-wedding, they mention that the tradition created an unexpected level of intimacy and became a real marker of the fact that they, and their guests, were in fact at a wedding and not a birthday party.
TAMI SUSSMAN
"7 Wedding Traditions You Shouldn't Ditch", Pop Sugar, April 7, 2017
Weddings remind us that our lives have meaning and that love is the strongest bond, the happiest joy, and the loveliest healing we can ever experience.
DAPHNE ROSE KINGMA
Weddings from the Heart
Every bride is beautiful. It's like newborn babies or puppies. They can't help it.
EMME ROLLINS
Dear Rockstar
The funny thing is that although we place so much energy and importance on our wedding day, it isn't the biggest day of our life. The biggest day of your life is every day thereafter. Because it's not the pledge to love someone that matters, but the act of fulfilling that pledge that is most important.
LAURA WOLF
Diary of a Mad Bride
Weddings are great fun unless you are planning one.
EMIL DROZD
"Weddings always featured food, dancing, drinking", Columbus Telegram
Tis the season for weddings, as happy couples everywhere prepare to tie the knot. If you're planning to be married between now and the end of summer, chances are good that you've pinned down all your closest single friends for places in your bridal and house parties, invitations are out, shopping for gowns is done, fittings are done, making venue, music, food and travel arrangements for the various events ... are all complete, if not in the final phases, and you're right on track with your diet to make sure your dress fits on the big day. Everything is going swimmingly. OR, your invitations are lost, all the people you've invited in hopes they'd just send a gift are actually coming, you still have nothing to wear, you've gained 10 lbs., your bridal party is MIA, your groomsmen want to recreate "The Hangover" for a bachelor party, you and your betrothed aren't even on speaking terms, and your mother and mother-in-law to-be are in some kind of feud over whether or not to have a sit-down or buffet reception.
BRANDIANNE HINTON
"Wedding is a four-letter word *#&@!", The Port Arthur News, April 14, 2017
Many a wedding takes place when a man can't afford to go steady with a girl any longer.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
A wedding ring is a symbol of commitment; a promise, a pledge, and a vow. The promise is to forsake all others, to stay devoted and true; the pledge is to honor that promise selflessly, to see the whole thing through; and the vow is to keep that pledge unwaveringly, until the days are few. It is a mutual agreement to become one instead of two.
J. W. LORD
Author of Worlds
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
HEINRICH HEINE
Book of Songs
For talk six times with the same single lady,
And you may get the wedding dresses ready.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
A wedding is not a wedding without the feast -- the ceremonial extension of celebration to the community, where the meal laid on is not just a feeding but an elaborate and extravagant bacchanal, accompanied by much drinking and the offering of public toasts. Nor is a wedding a wedding without the intensity of sexual consummation in the nuptial bed. Most couples these days are well experienced at sexual intercourse by the time they reach their wedding day. Even so, they do not neglect that special act of coupling on their wedding night, even though they may be tired from dancing and smiling and talking with friends. Here ceremony finally reaches the flesh.
KARL E. SCHEIBE
The Drama of Everyday Life
I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to Lund Washington, September 20, 1783
Every bride and groom would do well to remember that in wedding, the we comes before the I.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The first thing to do when wedding planning seems to be taking over your life is to take a break. Hit pause, put your binder and magazines away, and agree not to talk about your wedding for a full 24 hours. Your love and your marriage? By all means, dream away! But forget about the details and the to-do lists.
JAIMIE MACKEY
"What to Do If Wedding Planning Is Stressing You Out", Brides, April 10, 2017
It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law -- the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding. Or, to put it another way, any union celebrated with personalized toasting flutes is doomed.
MICHAEL FOLEY
The Age of Absurdity
A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
Instead of focusing on THE day, focus on the relationship that led to it and the lifetime of love and companionship ahead of you both.
BRANDIANNE HINTON
"Wedding is a four-letter word *#&@!", The Port Arthur News, April 14, 2017
Like many of you, I've been to several big weddings over the years. There was one in the gorgeous gilt ballroom of a five-star hotel in Washington, D.C., another with a 10-piece band that played overlooking a California bluff, and the three-day affair I secretly dubbed "the wedding that wouldn't end." But the wedding I remember most fondly was a much smaller celebration, held in a backyard on Cape Cod. It rained buckets that August afternoon, so we huddled in a small tent during the ceremony, then took off our shoes and danced in the wet grass. It was a close-friends-and-immediate-family type of festivity, a happily chaotic afternoon, relaxing, and so much fun: the best wedding I've ever been to.
JACI CONRY
"Where (and why) to have a small New England wedding", Boston Globe, January 14, 2016
Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her pure and tender heart. Always woman needs man to be her friend. She needs the vigor of his purpose, the ardor of his will, his calmer judgment, his braver force of action, his reverence and his devotion.
MARY CLEMMER AMES
Outlines of Men, Women, and Things