WEDDING QUOTES II
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
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
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
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
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
Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.
RICHARD HOVEY
The Marriage of Guenevere
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
Weddings are not over until they are sealed with a kiss.
SUSAN MARG
Las Vegas Weddings
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
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
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
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
After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
HEINRICH HEINE
Book of Songs
Marriage as an institution is thousands of years old. It has changed in its purpose somewhat, but if you go far enough back, it was essentially a way to confer legitimacy on procreation. That is, it was about making sure that a father's son was really his. That's for a lot of reasons, but a big one is for the transfer of property from father to son, bypassing the women in the family entirely, in most cultures. These days, it's about commitment and love and having a great party. It's also about transferring your money to two dozen different vendors who have doubled their normal prices just because you said the word "wedding."
SHANE FERRO
"Why you should never look at Pinterest while planning your wedding", Business Insider, June 4, 2015
The first thing to do when wedding planning seems to be taking over your life is to take a break. Hit pause, put your binder and magazines away, and agree not to talk about your wedding for a full 24 hours. Your love and your marriage? By all means, dream away! But forget about the details and the to-do lists.
JAIMIE MACKEY
"What to Do If Wedding Planning Is Stressing You Out", Brides, April 10, 2017
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
A wedding is not a wedding without the feast -- the ceremonial extension of celebration to the community, where the meal laid on is not just a feeding but an elaborate and extravagant bacchanal, accompanied by much drinking and the offering of public toasts. Nor is a wedding a wedding without the intensity of sexual consummation in the nuptial bed. Most couples these days are well experienced at sexual intercourse by the time they reach their wedding day. Even so, they do not neglect that special act of coupling on their wedding night, even though they may be tired from dancing and smiling and talking with friends. Here ceremony finally reaches the flesh.
KARL E. SCHEIBE
The Drama of Everyday Life