WEDDING QUOTES IV
quotations about weddings
A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
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 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
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
Every bride and groom would do well to remember that in wedding, the we comes before the I.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
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
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
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
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
In the social media age, having the "best wedding ever" is now a prerequisite for getting married, so just imagine the stress that also brings if the bride suddenly has doubts. Calling off a wedding has a lot of negative effects -- family disappointment, gossip as to why it ended, financial strain. I think some brides just get to the stage where they have spent/planned so much that it's just easier to go through with it than call the whole thing off.
TIFFANY WRIGHT
"6 wedding problems that may signal marriage failure", Fox News, April 12, 2017
If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as much as to one another, and the community gathers around them to hear and to wish them well, on their behalf and its own. It gathers around them because it understands how necessary, how joyful, and how fearful this joining is. These lovers, pledging themselves to one another "until death," are giving themselves away, and they are joined by this as no law or contract could join them.
WENDELL BERRY
Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays
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
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 is the last gasp of your childhood family.
KAREN SCHWARTZ
Clearing the Aisle
Weddings can get so bogged down in the endless exigencies of organizing and planning that the experience itself, when it finally occurs, can seem as though it has very little to do with the love that inspired it in the first place.
DAPHNE ROSE KINGMA
Weddings from the Heart
A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.
GELETT BURGESS
The Maxims of Methuselah
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
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Wilhelm Tell