quotations about weddings
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 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
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
The Associated Press reports that funeral home weddings are on the rise thanks to new, progressive views on death from millennials, older generations opting for less expensive funerals, and a shortage in venues for wedding celebrations.
MICHAEL D'ESTRIES
"Funeral home weddings are a thing now", Mother Nature Network, July 24, 2015
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 wedding is the last gasp of your childhood family.
KAREN SCHWARTZ
Clearing the Aisle
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
This day of days
Your separate ways
Become one.
ADRIAN LOMAS
"Wedding Day"
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Wilhelm Tell
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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