Quotes About Expectations

It was important to me to have a wedding and walk in white, because sometimes we feel that at a certain age you should act a certain way. You can find love at any age. You just have to go for it.

If a guy can't handle you in sweatpants, than he doesn't deserve you in a wedding dress.

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage.

Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

When I hear women talking about how their wedding is going to be/was the best day of their life, I can't help but think, You just haven't taken enough MDMA in a field at 3 a.m., love.

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

I never grew up dreaming about a wedding - I don't think about things like that. I don't know how to explain it. All I care about is to be happy.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value.

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

Weddings are giant Rorschach tests onto which everyone around you projects their fears, fantasies, and expectations - many of which they've been cultivating since the day you were born.

A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them?

What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day.

Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eighth or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise you know? 'oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought

Don't say a woman is crazy just because she runs away from her wedding.

A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.

Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant

We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.