WEDDING QUOTES IV
quotations about weddings
A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.
CHARLES SIMMONS
A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker; Containing Over a Thousand Subjects
Weddings are meant to be a celebration of love, but all too often this sentiment gets hijacked by the pressures of delivering a "perfect day."
KATE WATSON
"Deerly beloved, Neptune's Stag & Doe delivers on laughs", The Coast, January 28, 2016
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
Weddings are more heavily border-patrolled than Trump's America.
STEPHEN DERWENT PARTINGTON
"Kenyans, why the 10,000 chairs at a function?", SDE Entertainment News, April 4, 2017
She could hear the voices and laughter coming from the yard, and she thought, really, this was the best part of any wedding, not the ceremony or the cake or the dancing but the downtime when they were all together without the lights shining on them.
ELIN HILDERBRAND
Beautiful Day
Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed.
PETER SCOTT
There's a Spouse in My House
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
A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.
GELETT BURGESS
The Maxims of Methuselah
Some brides believe sugar cubes tucked into their wedding gloves leads to a sweet union.
EDITOR
"Wedding Planner: Weddings are steeped in traditions, superstitions", Delta Optimist
These days, a wedding is to show wealth, to show status--this is wrong from the beginning. The whole of society should not pay the price for two families to show off.
OU VIRAK
"Rules for Street Weddings Do Exist--For Some", The Cambodia Daily, January 16, 2016
All good fairy tales begin, "Once upon a time" and end with, "They lived happily ever after." Almost every little girl begins to plan her "special day" by the time she can string that many words together in a sentence. At the risk of sounding sexist, while little boys are playing cowboys and indians or conquering outer space, little girls are trying to decide which one of them would clean up well enough to participate in her wedding.
ANONYMOUS
introduction, Unique Weddings
Planning a wedding can be an overwhelming experience. Bridal trends are ever-evolving and once you fall down the rabbit hole of countless Instagram accounts, Pinterest boards and wedding magazines, it can be hard to know where on earth to begin.
EMILY BLATCHFORD
"Wedding Trends Of 2016, As Predicted By Experts", Huffington Post, February 2, 2016
Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Is there anyone who thinks that the resolution can come later when it is really needed? So it is not needed then, not on the wedding day, when the eternal pledge is entered into? But then, later? Can he mean that there was no thought of leaving one another, but of enjoying the first gladness of their union-and so united, of finding support in the resolution? Then when toil and trouble come, and need, be it physical or spiritual, stands at the door, then the time is there? Aye, indeed, the time is there-the time for the resolved individual to muster up his resolution; but not just the time to form a resolution. It is true that distress and failure may help a man to seek God in a resolution; but the question is whether the conception is always the right one, whether it is joyful, whether it does not have a certain wretchedness, a secret wish that it were not necessary, whether it may not be out of humor, envious, melancholy, and so no ennobling reflection of the trials of life. There is in the state a loan association to which the indigent may apply. The poor man is helped, but I wonder if that poor man has a pleasant conception of the loan-association. And so there may also be a marriage which first sought God when in difficulty, alas, sought Him as a loan-association; and everyone who first seeks God for the first time when in difficulties, always runs this danger. Is then such a late resolution, which even if it were a worthy one, was not without shame and not without great danger, bought at the last moment, is that more beautiful, and wiser than the resolution at the beginning of marriage?
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Thoughts on Crucial Situations in Life
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
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
I cried during my wedding, but my wife did not. That's natural, because I was losing my freedom, and she was gaining a slave.
JAROD KINTZ
So Many Chairs and No Time to Sit
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
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
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