quotations about weddings
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
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
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
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 couples tie the knot, many changes are in store, many compromises will be made and many lasting memories will be created. But in the weeks and months before their big days, couples can easily get caught up in the whirlwind of wedding planning, never taking inventory of their feelings until their wedding days have arrived. Come their wedding days, couples should not be surprised if some nerves set in. A survey from the anxiety self-help resource The Fear Source indicated 71 percent of brides-to-be suffered from some type of nerves during the lead-up to their weddings. Ninety-two percent of brides experienced nerves on the day of the wedding or the evening before, while 66 percent reported that it affected their daily lives prior to their weddings or hampered their performance and enjoyment during the day itself.
STAFF WRITERS
"Try to tame those wedding-day nerves", Keep Me Current, February 4, 2016
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
Love may be blind, but marriage can blindside you.
LOIS SMITH BRADY
"The Vows Column at 20", New York Times, May 18, 2012
Weddings, christenings, and burials follow each other.
MUSAEUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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
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
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 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
Unless I'm at a wedding, I don't like veiled threats.
JAROD KINTZ
This Book Has No Title
Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
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
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
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
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
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