Quotes About Weddings

I tried to get a job in music but was too unique to stand behind someone as a backing vocal or to sing in weddings.

I love planning weddings - I'm the wedding planner.

Shopping for weddings can be really stressful, and not just for the bride!

Ashwin and I don't like elaborate weddings, so we had a court marriage.

Even at weddings, I'm quite often put on the children's table, even though I'm very much a full adult.

Hours later Kaderin paced in the main cabin of the jet, furious over more things than she could process. The first: because of the Lykae's stunt, she was being forced into this situation with Sebastian. And she'd left the diamonds. Silly Valkyrie. The second: two of her half-sisters, her coven mates, had been wed, and she'd heard of it after the fact. They are so not getting gifts from me. Were her sisters that averse to her presence at weddings? Am I that dismal?

And then my husband works every second weekend, sermons on Sunday, baptising on Saturdays, weddings.

Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.

Weddings, I began to understand, were vile, filthy things when they ran amuck.

... the sort of smiles used at weddings, turned on very carefully to half pressure to prevent them wearing out.

Some people buried their fears in food, she knew, and some in booze, and some in planning elaborate engagements and weddings and other life events that took up every spare moment of their time in case unpleasant thoughts intruded. But for Nina, whenever reality, or the grimmer side of reality, threatened to invade, she always turned to a book.

There is a tradition in Judaism that happiness and sorrow must be intermingled. On Passover, you are instructed to remove drops of wine before drinking it to lessen your pleasure. Each drop removed represents a tragedy that befell those who went before you. It's the same at weddings. The couple breaks a glass by stepping on it together. This is so they will remember past sorrows in the midst of their present joy.

Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong in everybody involved.

In one large sample of women, for instance, the annual probability of divorce among those whose weddings cost more than $20,000 was more than three times that of those whose weddings cost between $5,000 and $10,000.

In 1980, the cost of an average American wedding, adjusted for inflation, was $11,000, a princely sum in most parts of the world even today. But by 2014, that figure had escalated to $30,000, and in Manhattan the average wedding now costs more than $76,000.1

I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.

that weddings are far more than marriage ceremonies; we know that they are occasions for family stock-taking and catharsis; that

Three McCrae weddings in less than a year," he commented, as if casually discussing the weather. Then he grinned. "Is it catching?

I hate weddings. Weddings are nothing more than catering with virgins. Sorry, in the old days it was virgins; now it's baby mommas.

'Bridesmaids' is my favorite movie - I laugh every time.

You're so sexy, René. I'm serious. You're a sexpot." Maybe weddings bring out the romance in us all.

You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.

I don't do karaoke. I don't dance, even at weddings. I'm the grumpy one sitting down drinking wine.

Weddings are fun. After all, it's only once in a lifetime. Then you have the housework and the babies and the work begins. A girl has to have something to remember.