WEDDING QUOTES V

quotations about weddings

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


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


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


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

Tags: William Shakespeare


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


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


Weddings can get so bogged down in the endless exigencies of organizing and planning that the experience itself, when it finally occurs, can seem as though it has very little to do with the love that inspired it in the first place.

DAPHNE ROSE KINGMA

Weddings from the Heart

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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 gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Wilhelm Tell

Tags: Friedrich Schiller


Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

COLLEY CIBBER

The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure: A Comedy

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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


This day of days
Your separate ways
Become one.

ADRIAN LOMAS

"Wedding Day"


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


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


Unless I'm at a wedding, I don't like veiled threats.

JAROD KINTZ

This Book Has No Title


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 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


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

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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