The Wedding Quotes

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine

Dear Alec,
As your best friend and parabatai, I am offended not to have been asked to be your best man at the wedding. Et tu, Brutus.
-Jace
Alec , he really is upset. He hasn't washed his hair in three days.
-Clary
- Cassandra Clare

I'm going out with Colin Osgood today, and he's meeting me here. If you start making kissy noises, I will strip you of all your coffee privileges.
Rachel pretended to think seriously about it, then asked, "Can I make a joke?"
"No."
"A limerick?"
"No." "
Can I hum the "Wedding March" as you leave?"
"No.
- Sarah Addison Allen

He wanted Livia back. Kyle probably wanted to talk her ear off all about the wedding, but he needed Livia here. He ached for her.
- Debra Anastasia

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
- Susan B Anthony

To keep one's marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash
- Meg Cabot

Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness. So have some self respect and don't let things get too far before the wedding day.
- Meg Cabot

I just want to let you know that when I look into my future, I see nothing but you." That's what Chaz had whispered in my ear at some point during the wedding last night.
Then he'd whispered. "And you're not even wearing Spanx.
- Meg Cabot

The evening light was like honey in the trees
When you left me and walked to the end of the street
Where the sunset abruptly ended.
The wedding-cake drawbridge lowered itself
To the fragile forget-me-not flower.
You climbed aboard.
Burnt horizons suddenly paved with golden stones,
Dreams I had, including suicide,
Puff out the hot-air balloon now.
It is bursting, it is about to burst
- John Ashbery

I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.
- Melina Marchetta

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
- Enid Bagnold

The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process of marriage that it seemed to celebrate a mystic double death with its ritual.
- John Steinbeck

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
- William Shakespeare

You are thirty minutes late."
"Yes."
"Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?"
"No."
"Why not, pray tell?"
"Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.
- Charles Bukowski

Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us."
That was all.
And that was everything.
- Jack Canfield

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.
- Terry Pratchett

I just wrapped this movie called The Wedding Crashers which was a pretty big break for me.
- Bradley Cooper

You have your wonderful memories, people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember.
- Joan Didion

Will Scott grinned. Grizel Beaton had slapped his face four times, and apart from these four small misjudgements, they had never touched on a topic more personal than which of Buccleuch's bastards to invite to the wedding. But he liked her fine; and she was good and broad where it would matter to future Buccleuchs, which summed up all his mind so far on the subject.
- Dorothy Dunnett

Let's consider the subject exhausted except for choosing the wedding gift. Something tasteful with poison in it, perhaps. Although I can't think which of them deserves it the more.
- Dorothy Dunnett

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.
- Elliott Erwitt

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.
- Craig Ferguson

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
- Henry Fielding

I notice that, as the wedding date approaches, some doors are opening and others are closing. I have no control.
- Suzanne Finnamore

Marriage is a conspiracy from Tiffany, florists, the diamond industry, and Christian fundamentalists. The only thing good about it is the diamond ring, the wedding gifts, and the honeymoon.
- Suzanne Finnamore

Reuben says in many cultures, the wedding ceremony and all of it's rituals are much the same as a funeral: a transition into another phase of life.
It is like dying and being reborn, if you believe in the afterlife. If you don't believe in an afterlife, then you are toast
- Suzanne Finnamore

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
- Karen Joy Fowler

I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath;
I am the memory of a moment of happiness;
I am the last gift of the living to the dead;
I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.
- Kahlil Gibran

As a matter of fact, she has refused to marry me."
"So when's the wedding?" Ramsey asked.
- Julie Garwood

Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night.
- Julie Garwood

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.
- Trisha Goddard

When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.
- Eydie Gorme

Larry is back in town...The wedding is set for October. Tammy is threatening to have me in the wedding. Some friends they are.
- Laurell K Hamilton

Are you sure about that he called off the wedding, Jolene? Sometimes Zeb misspells stuff in e-mails, and it comes across badly.
- Molly Harper

Great. We can pick out our colors."
"What?"
"For the wedding. I'm thinking melon and mint. Supposed to be really hot next spring."
Cal laughed out loud, the first time I'd ever heard him do that. "It's a plan. See ya, Sophie.
- Rachel Hawkins

Let Piers and Owen make the wedding arrangements, just don't expect the bride to be there like a dog called to heel. I'll choose my own Gris-damned husband, thank you. If I even want one, and I'm not exactly certain of that. I want life on my own terms, not on the dictates of tradition and of haggling over power and land.
- Cat Hellisen

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
- Anthony Holden

f I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head
- Khaled Hosseini

...We have seven people who knew the skewers were there: the wedding planner, the reception hall manager, the dressmaker, the florist, the veil-maker, the cake-maker, and the caterer. I haven't ruled out the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker, either.
- Linda Howard

And out came an insult with the velocity of a whisper. But I could see I offended, so I zipped up my pants and left the wedding reception.
- Jarod Kintz

I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market.
- Monique Lhuillier

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

He says he had to go help someone in a desperate situation. Who,
exactly, he refuses to say. He doesn't know when he's going to be back, but suggests we put
off the wedding for a few days. The rotter! How dare he just zoom off and not tell me where
he's going, or who he's going to help, or what exactly he's up to!
Yeah, how dare he go out and be all heroic and stuff when you want him here slobbering
over your big boobs.
- Katie Macalister

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.
- Brian May

Well... Actually I got picked because I was the only one who fit the wedding gown - they had my size.
- Kevin Mcdonald

The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.
- Arthur Miller

The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the "I do" of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married.
- Kathleen Norris

They have started to arrive. An endless cascade of luxuriously quilted envelopes, thumping onto the doormat. The wedding invitations.
- David Nicholls

I tell you what it is. It's...when I didn't see you, I thought about you every day, I mean every day in some way or another -"
"Same here -"
"- even if it was just 'I wish Dexter could see this' or 'where's Dexter now?' or 'Christ, that Dexter, what an idiot', you know what I mean, and seeing you today, well, I thought I'd got you back - my best friend. And now all this, the wedding, the baby - I'm so happy for you, Dex. But it feels like I've lost you again.
- David Nicholls

The wedding ring she's wearing is collar enough," Jack bit out. "I know. I put it on her finger. You can see that fucking diamond from space.
- Sophie Oak

And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
- Karl Pilkington

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.
- Helen Reddy

I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.
- Julia Roberts

I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.
- Jane Seymour

When Renee and I talked about it years later, we agreed on one point: We were insane. Renee always said, "If any of our kids want to get married when they're twenty-five, we'll have to lock them in the attic." We were just kids, and everybody who came to the wedding party was guilty of shameful if not criminal negligence-- look at the shiny pretty toaster, isn't it cute to see the babies playing with it in the bathtub? Jesus, people!
- Rob Sheffield

Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"!
- Danielle Steel

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.
- Janet Streetporter

The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse's ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.
- Adriana Trigiani

The weddings that I've been in have been pretty mellow.
- Kristen Wiig

Uh - do you want to do it outside?
Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too.
- Eileen Wilks

Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.
- Eileen Wilks

He was stoutly opposed to the idea of marrying anyone; but if, as happens to the best of us, he ever were compelled to perform the wedding glide, he had always hoped it would be with some lady golf champion who would help him with his putting, and thus, by bringing his handicap down a notch or two, enable him to save something from the wreck, so to speak.
- P G Wodehouse