quotations about weddings
Wedding, what's a wedding? It's a prehistoric ritual. True, yes, but a wedding is also life at its most hopeful--full of promise and happiness and love.
JAY MULVANEY & DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN
Kennedy Weddings: A Family Album
It sounds like a con and diverting from actual issues that LGBTQ+ face. And in 2017, I just can't see myself in a white dress walking down the aisle, I just don't think it's necessary anymore. And maybe it's the rise of feminism that makes me what to move away from this patriarchal bond. But weddings are overrated and its all just a concept and a show.
LESLEY NARANJO
"Why Millennials Shouldn't Care About Getting Married, Ever", Lariat News, April 3, 2017
The best wedding I've ever been to was in a bar, and there were not very many flowers, and after we went for pizza.
SHANE FERRO
"Why you should never look at Pinterest while planning your wedding", Business Insider, June 4, 2015
Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.
RICHARD HOVEY
The Marriage of Guenevere
Gosh, I love spring weddings. Everything is fresh and new, and it's the perfect time for a romantic new start for two people in love.
JANE BOURSAW
"Planning a Spring Wedding? My Top 5 Spring Wedding Favors", Reel Life with Jane, February 5, 2016
Weddings are run on a very tight schedule and if the ceremony doesn't start when it should, guests will be eyeballing the open bar and not the bride.
JEN GLANTZ
"The 6 Things You'll Do To Earn The Title of Worst Bridesmaid Ever", Bravo TV, April 5, 2017
I'm a firm believe that every girl should get one Barbie dream wedding in her lifetime, but if that marriage craps out, I'm also a firm believer that all future weddings must be banned to beaches and back yards.
CHRISSY ANDERSON
The Hope List
I'm seeing a huge trend to much, much smaller weddings. A smaller guest list means the couple is able to really spend quality time with all of their guests. A huge wedding can feel like a three-ring circus. There is so much excitement that you only have a minute to talk to each guest.
MANDY CONNOR
"Where (and why) to have a small New England wedding", Boston Globe, January 14, 2016
Thanks to film and media fuelling the big marriage myth, people often enter into it expecting perfection -- or at least a version of the Hollywood dream. Disclaimer: It's all a trick.
KATY HORWOOD
"14 reasons marriage is totally over-rated", Metro, November 16, 2015
It has been said that a wedding is the bride's day and the groom goes along for the ride. I believe this to be partially true, and I also believe that he might roll his eyes occasionally when you make suggestions or try to involve him in planning the minutiae that you find so important. Don't feel let down. You're interested in the perfect wedding ... but almost better yet, he's only really interested in you!
STEVE SINT
The Bride's Guide to Wedding Photography
For talk six times with the same single lady,
And you may get the wedding dresses ready.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Weddings are the biggest relationship killers out there. If you can survive the wedding, they say, the rest is a piece of cake.
NOAH HAWLEY
Other People's Weddings
Weddings are not over until they are sealed with a kiss.
SUSAN MARG
Las Vegas Weddings
Tis the season for weddings, as happy couples everywhere prepare to tie the knot. If you're planning to be married between now and the end of summer, chances are good that you've pinned down all your closest single friends for places in your bridal and house parties, invitations are out, shopping for gowns is done, fittings are done, making venue, music, food and travel arrangements for the various events ... are all complete, if not in the final phases, and you're right on track with your diet to make sure your dress fits on the big day. Everything is going swimmingly. OR, your invitations are lost, all the people you've invited in hopes they'd just send a gift are actually coming, you still have nothing to wear, you've gained 10 lbs., your bridal party is MIA, your groomsmen want to recreate "The Hangover" for a bachelor party, you and your betrothed aren't even on speaking terms, and your mother and mother-in-law to-be are in some kind of feud over whether or not to have a sit-down or buffet reception.
BRANDIANNE HINTON
"Wedding is a four-letter word *#&@!", The Port Arthur News, April 14, 2017
Even for couples who don't intend to wear rings on a day-to-day basis, the exchanging of the rings is a ceremony ritual that really resonates. When I talk with brides and grooms post-wedding, they mention that the tradition created an unexpected level of intimacy and became a real marker of the fact that they, and their guests, were in fact at a wedding and not a birthday party.
TAMI SUSSMAN
"7 Wedding Traditions You Shouldn't Ditch", Pop Sugar, April 7, 2017
Weddings are memories in the making. Photographers, videographers, photo booths, selfie sticks, and more will all be working overtime to capture your big day.
ERIN CELLETTI
"DJ-Offered Add-Ons You Might Want to Consider", Brides, April 7, 2017
If celebrity envy is the bread and butter of the entertainment zeitgeist, then celebrity weddings are the crack cocaine. Imagine the greatest day of your life: You're surrounded by your friends and family, and pledging your eternal devotion to the love of your life. Now imagine all of that, except objectively way better--that's a celebrity wedding.
AMY ZIMMERMAN
"Why Hollywood Is Falling in Love With Secret Celebrity Weddings", The Daily Beast, March 15, 2017
Many a wedding takes place when a man can't afford to go steady with a girl any longer.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entré e of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.
GERMAINE GREER
The Female Eunuch
Remember, a wedding is a celebration of your union, and there's no price tag on what your love and your promises mean to your future. Don't fall into the trap of thinking a bigger wedding means you love each other more.
SHARON NAYLOR
How to Have a Fabulous Wedding for $10,000 or Less