quotations about weddings
In the social media age, having the "best wedding ever" is now a prerequisite for getting married, so just imagine the stress that also brings if the bride suddenly has doubts. Calling off a wedding has a lot of negative effects -- family disappointment, gossip as to why it ended, financial strain. I think some brides just get to the stage where they have spent/planned so much that it's just easier to go through with it than call the whole thing off.
TIFFANY WRIGHT
"6 wedding problems that may signal marriage failure", Fox News, April 12, 2017
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
Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Much Ado About Nothing
This day of days
Your separate ways
Become one.
ADRIAN LOMAS
"Wedding Day"
Within weddings lies the very fullness of human experience.
CASEY SCHWARTZ
"Dear Google, Is There a Shrink for That?", New York Times, February 6, 2016
Let the vow of this day keep itself wildly and wholly
Spoken and silent, surprise you inside your ears
Sleeping and waking, unfold itself inside your eyes
Let its fierceness and tenderness hold you
Let its vastness be undisguised in all your days.
JANE HIRSHFIELD
"A Blessing for Wedding", Come, Thief: Poems
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 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
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
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
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
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
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Wilhelm Tell
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
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
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
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
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
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
Cling closer, closer, life to life,
Cling closer, heart to heart;
The time will come, my own wed Wife,
When you and I must part!
Let nothing break our band but Death,
For in the world above
'Tis the breaker Death that soldereth
Our ring of Wedded Love.
GERALD MASSEY
On a Wedding Day