WEDDING QUOTES IV
quotations about weddings
The first thing to do when wedding planning seems to be taking over your life is to take a break. Hit pause, put your binder and magazines away, and agree not to talk about your wedding for a full 24 hours. Your love and your marriage? By all means, dream away! But forget about the details and the to-do lists.
JAIMIE MACKEY
"What to Do If Wedding Planning Is Stressing You Out", Brides, April 10, 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
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
A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.
GELETT BURGESS
The Maxims of Methuselah
Within weddings lies the very fullness of human experience.
CASEY SCHWARTZ
"Dear Google, Is There a Shrink for That?", New York Times, February 6, 2016
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Wilhelm Tell
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
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
If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
GEORGE ADE
Forty Modern Fables
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
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
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
Your wedding day FLIES. No matter how much you spent, what hoops you jumped through, and what the weather is doing -- take a minute to slow down and take it all in. Chances are it will be the best day of your life.
KRISTEN S.
"4 Budgets, 4 Weddings", Brides, April 5, 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
A wedding is the last gasp of your childhood family.
KAREN SCHWARTZ
Clearing the Aisle
Pinterest reports that brunch weddings are the next big thing we'll be attending. Coffee and nuptials, anyone?
LIZ CONNOR
"Is there anything more millennial than the 'brunch wedding' trend?", Evening Standard, April 13, 2017
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
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
Weddings, christenings, and burials follow each other.
MUSAEUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
A marriage is not a ceremony anymore; it is an event, and event managers have stepped in to make it the greatest show on earth. They go overboard trying to outdo each other in innovativeness with the result there are themed weddings, fusion weddings and marriages at expensive resorts or at unique locations. The guests receive an invitation that is more a glossy, professionally designed, multi-paged, stones-encrusted and scented brochure than a simple card. Each leaf takes you through the bewildering programmes planned and only some close reading reveals when the actual nuptials will take place.
KHYRUNNISA A.
"Oh, My Gold!", The Hindu, February 5, 2016