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Quotes About Weddings

And yet that hardness brings out the softness in us all," said the redhead, "the soul in us that makes us cry at births and weddings and wakes and those sad times when the pebbles of the gravedigger dance upon the coffin lid. Sure, and it makes us more human. Yes, this emergency room is not a mean bad place, now, is it?
~ Samuel Shem
My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.
~ Sarah Dessen
Big weddings meant big money and, with Bee's fiancé, Kevin Yu, from a family that owned a big pharmaceutical company, big attention. Personally, I wanted to know if she planned to change her name, switching from Bee Little to Bee Yu, but had not found a way to work this into a meeting. Yet.
~ Sarah Dessen
The sky was the colour of sad weddings.
~ Scarlett Thomas
For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.
~ Anna Quindlen
As a supporter of secularism, I am willing to accept same-sex weddings in a state-sanctioned register office, on grounds of equity. As a believer in Islam, however, I insist that no mosque be forced to hold one against its wishes.
~ Mehdi Hasan
People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.
~ Margaret Atwood
That's what's so touching about weddings: Two people fall in love, and decide to see if their love might stand up over time, if there might be enough grace and forgiveness and memory lapses to help the whole shebang hang together.
~ Anne Lamott
We are bombarded with media images of weddings, engagement rings, parties, and flowers, but this is not love. Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion and generosity.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date.
~ Brigitte Nielsen
I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.
~ Christopher Walken
It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Life, weddings, relationships, road trips, gardening, making out, haircuts: few of the fun things in life always go as expected.
~ Ariel Meadow Stallings
From Addy in Berlin came the news that all social gatherings had been banned except for weddings and funerals, where the number of people could not be higher than twelve. (I wonder if that's counting the bride and groom, Cole's mother said, and his father joked: How about the corpse?)
~ Sigrid Nunez
Paradox is not suited to burials, nor to weddings or births, in fact. Sinister — or grotesque — events require commonplaces; the terrible, like the painful, accommodates only the cliché.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on.
~ Elliott Erwitt
She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.
~ Henny Youngman
Spring was in the air—ripe, verdant, full of promise. And with the spring came the rush and clamor of weddings. Marietta
~ Mary Alice Monroe
I had no one to hold. What if this was my life, attending weddings, sitting in pews, listening to I do's, perpetually wishing for someone to share my life with? Where the fuck was the alcohol?
~ Stephanie Klein
Mothers don't cry at weddings because they're sentimental-- xxx Mothers cry because they know how hard it's going to be.
~ Sean Stewart
I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.
~ Erin Morgenstern
Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
~ Ethel Merman
Chris told her later that he had overheard their priest declaring that the accident would not have happened if Chris had attended church regularly. For Chris, the priest's belief was such an insult he did not enter a church again except to attend weddings or funerals.
~ Bernie Chowdhury
Weddings happen once. That's the point. They're a bluster of confetti and hope all wrapped up in sticky wedding cake and four-year-old girls in big dresses with massive bows.
~ Claudia Winkleman