quotations about weddings
A wedding is at once a crowded place
and a private room, packed with trusts
and empty of all but the heart's letters
which one other heart may read and decipher.
MARK MCMORRIS
The Blaze of Poui: Poems
Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, affairs of state -- everything is a pretext for a good dinner.
JEAN ANOUILH
Cécile
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
A wedding is a deeply serious drama. All of the feasting and the invocation of sacred and secular authorities is meant to provide weight to the transformation that is being accomplished -- no less than the binding of two previously unrelated individuals into a permanent covenant of unity.
KARL E. SCHEIBE
The Drama of Everyday Life
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
Love may be blind, but marriage can blindside you.
LOIS SMITH BRADY
"The Vows Column at 20", New York Times, May 18, 2012
A wedding is just one day, and soon forgotten by everyone but you as the next year's set of invitations roll in. Aiming for perfection is not only cripplingly expensive, it's a sure route to exhaustion, disappointment and general insanity.
RUTH TIDBALL
Getting Hitched: The Rough Guide to Weddings for Girls & Guys
Most couples get married because it's time, not because they're in love. They might have money issues, parental pressure, or they're simply tired of being alone--so they pick Mr. Good Enough and tie the knot.
H. M. WARD
The Wedding Contract
Weddings, christenings, and burials follow each other.
MUSAEUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Unless I'm at a wedding, I don't like veiled threats.
JAROD KINTZ
This Book Has No Title
Planning a wedding is hell. Things are said. Doors are slammed. Quarrels about the most inconsequential things--yellow tablecloths or white? hors d'oeuvres set out on tables or passed around on trays?--are often pitched at such a level that it seems the combatants may never recover from them. Much of the anxiety, of course, is tribal. It is wrenching to have to open the sacred circle to admit an outsider.
CAITLIN FLANAGAN
To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife
The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.
JUDITH MCNAUGHT
A Kingdom of Dreams
Weddings are sometimes the gigs of last resort for musicians -- sweating through a rented tux, awkwardly MC-ing the bridal party introduction and getting a front-row seat to humanity's foibles by the open bar.
AUGUST BROWN
"Being wedding DJs wasn't their first gig, but it pays the bills and serves a purpose", Los Angeles Times, February 6, 2016
A wedding is the only time a woman will ever have veto over what her best friends wear.
AMY CAMERON
afterword, My Wedding Dress: True-Life Tales of Lace, Laughter, Tears and Tulle
Planning a wedding will be the first test of your marriage. You need to know and agree why you're doing it.
ALI W.
"4 Budgets, 4 Weddings", Brides, April 5, 2017
Weddings aren't all bad though. They serve good food most of the time and that's really the whole point isn't it? It's why we dress up and go to weddings. What, you thought I put on this lipstick to impress you? Pfft. My lips need to dress up if they're going to be getting some biryani action. It's called respect.
NIFATH KARIM CHOWDHURY
"3 Things I Hate about Weddings", The Daily Star
Marriage is a wonderful institution; a wedding is a wonderful thing; and yet, planning a wedding can be a remarkably demanding gauntlet.
MICHAEL R. PERRY
Groom's Survival Manual
Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.
VICTOR HUGO
Les Miserables
Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Weddings take months to organize, and there are fittings and invitation lists and old aunts being coy about the honeymoon, and having to have somebody's perfectly hideous cousin for a bridesmaid. And then hundreds of appalling wedding presents. Toast-racks and Japanese vases and pictures that never, in a million years, would you want to hang on the wall. And you spend all your time writing insincere thank-you letters with your fingers crossed, and everybody gets tense and miserable and there's lots of bursting into tears. The miracle is that anybody ever gets married at all, but I bet most girls have nervous breakdowns on their honeymoons.
ROSAMUNDE PILCHER
Coming Home