quotations about weddings
If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as much as to one another, and the community gathers around them to hear and to wish them well, on their behalf and its own. It gathers around them because it understands how necessary, how joyful, and how fearful this joining is. These lovers, pledging themselves to one another "until death," are giving themselves away, and they are joined by this as no law or contract could join them.
WENDELL BERRY
Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays
A wedding is the last gasp of your childhood family.
KAREN SCHWARTZ
Clearing the Aisle
The fact is that no two weddings are alike. Who's to say what percent of your budget needs to go to food, wine, or your gown? That's a matter of your personal taste, finances, and circumstances.
MARCY BLUM & LAURA F. KAISER
Weddings For Dummies
The Associated Press reports that funeral home weddings are on the rise thanks to new, progressive views on death from millennials, older generations opting for less expensive funerals, and a shortage in venues for wedding celebrations.
MICHAEL D'ESTRIES
"Funeral home weddings are a thing now", Mother Nature Network, July 24, 2015
Pinterest reports that brunch weddings are the next big thing we'll be attending. Coffee and nuptials, anyone?
LIZ CONNOR
"Is there anything more millennial than the 'brunch wedding' trend?", Evening Standard, April 13, 2017
I cried during my wedding, but my wife did not. That's natural, because I was losing my freedom, and she was gaining a slave.
JAROD KINTZ
So Many Chairs and No Time to Sit
Weddings are completely focused on the couple, and couples have to decide which elements of tradition to keep, which to jettison and, because tradition is always evolving.
PETER MCGUIRE
"Good Friday: Why are so many of us still Catholic?", Irish Times, April 13, 2017
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Wilhelm Tell
You have to be true to your own heart. Maybe you always wanted the princess gown. Maybe you always wanted the barn wedding I'm old school, so I'd recommend getting some magazines, but people are finding good ideas online, too.
CINDY CHAPPELL
"'Country rustic' theme popular for Valley weddings", The Daily Item, January 26, 2016
A wedding is a loaded occasion. As much as people are gathered to celebrate you and your beloved, they bring with them their own feelings and associations about marriage itself, which may be positive or negative. The ideal guest recognizes those feelings and is able to put them aside, if they are less than positive, to focus on your celebration. However, as we all know, not all your guests are "ideal", and some of the guests carrying the most baggage may be your immediate family members.
GABRIELLE KAPLAN-MAYER
The Creative Jewish Wedding Book: A Hands-on Guide to New & Old Traditions
A marriage is not a ceremony anymore; it is an event, and event managers have stepped in to make it the greatest show on earth. They go overboard trying to outdo each other in innovativeness with the result there are themed weddings, fusion weddings and marriages at expensive resorts or at unique locations. The guests receive an invitation that is more a glossy, professionally designed, multi-paged, stones-encrusted and scented brochure than a simple card. Each leaf takes you through the bewildering programmes planned and only some close reading reveals when the actual nuptials will take place.
KHYRUNNISA A.
"Oh, My Gold!", The Hindu, February 5, 2016
Your wedding day FLIES. No matter how much you spent, what hoops you jumped through, and what the weather is doing -- take a minute to slow down and take it all in. Chances are it will be the best day of your life.
KRISTEN S.
"4 Budgets, 4 Weddings", Brides, April 5, 2017
When I was younger, I hated going to weddings. Invariably, after the wedding and during the reception, my grandmothers, my aunts, and any other female relatives would come up to me and poke me in the ribs, cackling, "You're next." They finally stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals!
JIM KRAUS
Bloopers, Blunders, Jokes, Quips & Quotes
When it comes to weddings, no two "dream weddings" are the same. With venues, menus, dresses, and floral arrangements having essentially infinite options and combinations, it's no surprise that no two wedding budgets are the same either.
ALEXIS DENT
"4 Budgets, 4 Weddings", Brides, April 5, 2017
Weddings are not just weddings, but rather pressure-cooker moments that contain layer upon layer of psychologically fraught material.
CASEY SCHWARTZ
"Dear Google, Is There a Shrink for That?", New York Times, February 6, 2016
This day of days
Your separate ways
Become one.
ADRIAN LOMAS
"Wedding Day"
While they can be joyous events, weddings are also mighty expensive, what with the cost of booking venues, buying dresses, renting tuxes, and all the rest.
AMANDA CUDA
"Have a white wedding without spending too much green", CT Post, April 3, 2017
Marriage has always been portrayed as the downside of weddings. Weddings are glamorous and usually involve weight loss; marriage is dull and involves weight gain. Every bride and bridegroom is beautiful; every husband and wife is exhausted. At a wedding everything is new. And later, is anything new?
LOIS SMITH BRADY
"The Vows Column at 20", New York Times, May 18, 2012
I found the guy! After more than twenty years of being single and jerked around and cheated on and alone, I found my soul mate. Pardon my French, but you think I give a shit about the flowers?
LAUREN WEISBERGER
Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns
Remember that weddings are truly primal rituals and set off chains of chaos in even the most stable of family units.
TESS AYERS & PAUL BROWN
The Essential Guide to Gay and Lesbian Weddings