WEDDING QUOTES IV

quotations about weddings

Wedding quote

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


A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

CHARLES SIMMONS

A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker; Containing Over a Thousand Subjects


It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law -- the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding. Or, to put it another way, any union celebrated with personalized toasting flutes is doomed.

MICHAEL FOLEY

The Age of Absurdity


A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah

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A wedding ring is a symbol of commitment; a promise, a pledge, and a vow. The promise is to forsake all others, to stay devoted and true; the pledge is to honor that promise selflessly, to see the whole thing through; and the vow is to keep that pledge unwaveringly, until the days are few. It is a mutual agreement to become one instead of two.

J. W. LORD

Author of Worlds


A wedding is the last gasp of your childhood family.

KAREN SCHWARTZ

Clearing the Aisle


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


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

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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

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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


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


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


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


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


Weddings are completely focused on the couple, and couples have to decide which elements of tradition to keep, which to jettison and, because tradition is always evolving.

PETER MCGUIRE

"Good Friday: Why are so many of us still Catholic?", Irish Times, April 13, 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


The Associated Press reports that funeral home weddings are on the rise thanks to new, progressive views on death from millennials, older generations opting for less expensive funerals, and a shortage in venues for wedding celebrations.

MICHAEL D'ESTRIES

"Funeral home weddings are a thing now", Mother Nature Network, July 24, 2015


Some brides believe sugar cubes tucked into their wedding gloves leads to a sweet union.

EDITOR

"Wedding Planner: Weddings are steeped in traditions, superstitions", Delta Optimist


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

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I cried during my wedding, but my wife did not. That's natural, because I was losing my freedom, and she was gaining a slave.

JAROD KINTZ

So Many Chairs and No Time to Sit