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 are all about love, but the wedding planning part? Well, that's more about decisions and logistics and details ... definitely not romantic!
JAIMIE MACKEY
"What to Do If Wedding Planning Is Stressing You Out", Brides, April 10, 2017
Despite all the planning and preparation that goes into their weddings, couples often find their wedding days to be whirlwind days that seem to fly by.
DEB HUTMIRE
"Victoria's Wedding and Reception Hall will make that day more than special", Perry County Tribune, January 20, 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
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
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
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
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
Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
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
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
A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.
CHARLES SIMMONS
A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker; Containing Over a Thousand Subjects
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
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"
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
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
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
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
Unless I'm at a wedding, I don't like veiled threats.
JAROD KINTZ
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