WEDDING QUOTES III
quotations about weddings
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
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
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
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
For talk six times with the same single lady,
And you may get the wedding dresses ready.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
HEINRICH HEINE
Book of Songs
Every bride is beautiful. It's like newborn babies or puppies. They can't help it.
EMME ROLLINS
Dear Rockstar
Even for couples who don't intend to wear rings on a day-to-day basis, the exchanging of the rings is a ceremony ritual that really resonates. When I talk with brides and grooms post-wedding, they mention that the tradition created an unexpected level of intimacy and became a real marker of the fact that they, and their guests, were in fact at a wedding and not a birthday party.
TAMI SUSSMAN
"7 Wedding Traditions You Shouldn't Ditch", Pop Sugar, April 7, 2017
Tis the season for weddings, as happy couples everywhere prepare to tie the knot. If you're planning to be married between now and the end of summer, chances are good that you've pinned down all your closest single friends for places in your bridal and house parties, invitations are out, shopping for gowns is done, fittings are done, making venue, music, food and travel arrangements for the various events ... are all complete, if not in the final phases, and you're right on track with your diet to make sure your dress fits on the big day. Everything is going swimmingly. OR, your invitations are lost, all the people you've invited in hopes they'd just send a gift are actually coming, you still have nothing to wear, you've gained 10 lbs., your bridal party is MIA, your groomsmen want to recreate "The Hangover" for a bachelor party, you and your betrothed aren't even on speaking terms, and your mother and mother-in-law to-be are in some kind of feud over whether or not to have a sit-down or buffet reception.
BRANDIANNE HINTON
"Wedding is a four-letter word *#&@!", The Port Arthur News, April 14, 2017
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
Instead of focusing on THE day, focus on the relationship that led to it and the lifetime of love and companionship ahead of you both.
BRANDIANNE HINTON
"Wedding is a four-letter word *#&@!", The Port Arthur News, April 14, 2017
Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed.
PETER SCOTT
There's a Spouse in My House
If celebrity envy is the bread and butter of the entertainment zeitgeist, then celebrity weddings are the crack cocaine. Imagine the greatest day of your life: You're surrounded by your friends and family, and pledging your eternal devotion to the love of your life. Now imagine all of that, except objectively way better--that's a celebrity wedding.
AMY ZIMMERMAN
"Why Hollywood Is Falling in Love With Secret Celebrity Weddings", The Daily Beast, March 15, 2017
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
At every turn, weddings are distillations of deeply held ideas about identities, localities, histories, and the present. Better yet for scholars of cultural practices, these ideas are performed at weddings, enacted on a series of community stages for the community, by the community.
TIMOTHY J. COOLEY
Making Music in the Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians
Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her pure and tender heart. Always woman needs man to be her friend. She needs the vigor of his purpose, the ardor of his will, his calmer judgment, his braver force of action, his reverence and his devotion.
MARY CLEMMER AMES
Outlines of Men, Women, and Things
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
Like many of you, I've been to several big weddings over the years. There was one in the gorgeous gilt ballroom of a five-star hotel in Washington, D.C., another with a 10-piece band that played overlooking a California bluff, and the three-day affair I secretly dubbed "the wedding that wouldn't end." But the wedding I remember most fondly was a much smaller celebration, held in a backyard on Cape Cod. It rained buckets that August afternoon, so we huddled in a small tent during the ceremony, then took off our shoes and danced in the wet grass. It was a close-friends-and-immediate-family type of festivity, a happily chaotic afternoon, relaxing, and so much fun: the best wedding I've ever been to.
JACI CONRY
"Where (and why) to have a small New England wedding", Boston Globe, January 14, 2016
If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
GEORGE ADE
Forty Modern Fables
The funny thing is that although we place so much energy and importance on our wedding day, it isn't the biggest day of our life. The biggest day of your life is every day thereafter. Because it's not the pledge to love someone that matters, but the act of fulfilling that pledge that is most important.
LAURA WOLF
Diary of a Mad Bride