Quotes about weddings
George R.R. Martin - A Storm of Swords
Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently.
Sarah Ruhl - Eurydice
I hate parties.And a wedding is the biggest party of all.All the guests arrived and Orpheus is taking a shower.He's always taking a shower when the guests arrive so he doesn't have to greet them.Then I have to greet them.
Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
They had paused before the table on which the bride’s jewel were displayed, and Lily’s heart gave an envious throb as she caught the refraction of light from their surfaces – the milky gleam of perfectly matched pearls, the flash of rubies relieved against contrasting velvet, the intense blue rays of sapphires kindled into light by surrounding diamonds: all these precious tints enhanced and deepened by the varied art of their setting. The glow of the stones warmed Lily’s veins like wine. More co
Jamie Farrell - Blissed
Wow. You really know how to make a woman happy...""I have a night-eight percent success rate with always knowing what will make a woman happy," he said. Lindsey chuckled softly. "And how do you quantify that?""Would you like to know," he said.Nat wanted to know.
Jamie Farrell - Blissed
Get back to work.""Fine way to talk to your wife.""If you were my wife, I would've slapped your ass too."She stared at him a beat too long. She did love the feel of his hands on her ass.
Jamie Farrell - Blissed
My clue is that you're supposed to keep going once you've found me."His eyes narrowed. Thoughtfully, as though he were looking for the words she wanted to say instead. "Keep going in the maze?" he said slowly. "Or keep going somewhere else?"The man had an evil streak. "The maze," she said firmly.Helpfully. Like a dutiful daughter of Bliss."Because there are a few places I'd like to go with you.
Jamie Farrell - Blissed
There's something you need to know," he said.Her own breath came out loud and uneven. He was entirely in her personal space, but she'd given him enough power as it was. She wouldn't back away, wouldn't let him see her agitation. He tucked her hair behind her ear. Tension took hold of her body. She shuddered, looked up to tell him to stop, but he bent forward, his lips parted, a single freckle on his cheek drawing her attention while his lips got closer and closer and closer until ---"For future
Sara Raasch - Snow Like Ashes
Congratulations, everyone," I announce as I open the door to Noam's study. "You've finally broken Meira, the crazy, orphaned soldier-girl. She's snapped, all thanks to the mention of floral arrangements.
Susan Mallery - Sister of the Bride
Katie, honey, you need a date for your sister’s wedding.”“I had a date, Mom. He’s marrying the bride.
Hilary Grossman - Dangled Carat
She kept reminding me she was at a wedding, which didn’t really help my emotional state, if you know what I mean.
Bill Collins -
Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you should!
Bill Collins -
Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you sh
Amen Muffler -
Better be a desperate single with many options than a sad married with no option.
Tami Lund - Naked Truth
He did that slow perusal thing with his eyes that guys did when they wanted a girl to know they liked what they saw. A slow smile curved his lips. “Yep.”She recognized that look. She may have been out of the dating game for far too long, but she still understood the process. What she didn’t know was how to respond.
Jen Kirkman - I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids
I had no idea that marriage was only supposed to be between two people who wanted to get between the sheets and make more people. What ever happened to marrying for love— or to get on your partner’s health insurance policy, or for presents? No one was going to buy two people in their thirties a four-slice toaster if we just continued to live in sin.
Michelle M. Pillow -
If I propose to myself and myself says yes, I get to have the cake, right? I love me, so I’m thinking 12 tiers.
David W. Jones - The Enlightenment of Jesus: Practical Steps to Life Awake
Comparing marriage to football is no insult. I come from the South where football is sacred. I would never belittle marriage by saying it is like soccer, bowling, or playing bridge, never. Those images would never work, only football is passionate enough to be compared to marriage. In other sports, players walk onto the field, in football they run onto the field, in high school ripping through some paper, in college (for those who are fortunate enough) they touch the rock and run down the hill o
Sarah Ruhl - Eurydice
I hate parties.And a wedding is the biggest party of all.All the guests arrived and Orpheus is taking a shower.He's always taking a shower when the guests arrive so he doesn't have to greet them.Then I have to greet them.A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.
K.R. Grace - The Phoenix
Seriously, why was it tradition to stand when the bride came in? It blocked her from seeing her groom, who was the only reason she was there in the first place.
Groucho Marx -
Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.
Sarah Ruhl - Eurydice
I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.
Amen Muffler -
Better be a desperate single with many options than a desperate married with no option.
Ariel Meadow Stallings - Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
Life, weddings, relationships, road trips, gardening, making out, haircuts: few of the fun things in life always go as expected.
Roman Payne - The Basement Trains
Be there a picnic for the devil,an orgy for the satyr,and a wedding for the bride.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Love is a universal language.
Emme Rollins - Dear Rockstar
Every bride is beautiful. It’s like newborn babies or puppies. They can’t help it.
James Hauenstein -
I have heard that the French like to say, "Nobody grows old during a happy occasion at the dining table." With such wonderful family and friends all around us for Mitchell's and Stacie's wedding, I know their love will always stay young and true to one another, because of the love and happiness we all have in this room today!
Roman Payne -
The lot of the brideto be wed before beddesired until rotten.The lot of the authorto be read before bedadmired then forgotten.
Amby C. Ezem -
And when you lay in bed with your wife,are you mentally there or with the women on TV? Or the women who you've been intimate with though the screens? You not only compare your wife to these women but also love her as though she was someone elsePhysically present when making love to her but mentally absent from herYou kiss her lips while your heart kisses the "screen woman
Joyce Rachelle - Sewing Figs
But men are bound to saySome things that, though untrue,Will get you down the aisleUntil you say "I do.
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
... I regularly frequent St. George';s, Hanover Square, during the genteel marriage season; and though I have never seen the bridegroom's male friends give way to tears, or the beadles and officiating clergy in any way affected, yet it is not at all uncommon to see women who are not in the least concerned in the operations going on -- old ladies who are long past marrying, stout middle-aged females with plenty of sons and daughters, let alone pretty young creatures in pink bonnets, who are on th
DeBorrah K. Ogans - How Do I Love Thee: Food for Thought Before You Say "I DO"
Many couples spend a great deal of time planning their wedding, but little time planning their marriage.
Donna Andrews - Murder With Peacocks
If you're not entirely sure you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, it seems to me that the last thing you'd want to do is to set in motion a very lengthy, time-consuming, expensive, and highly public process designed to lead inexorably to just that.
Jamie Brenner - The Wedding Sisters
That’s what marriage was at its best: You didn’t have to tell your partner to look out, that you were falling. They were just there to catch you.
Denise Fields - Bridal Bargains: Secrets to Throwing a Fantastic Wedding on a Realistic Budget
Newspaper columnist Dave Barry once wrote that the motto of the wedding industry is, 'Money can't buy you happiness, so you might as well give your money to us.
DeBorrah K. Ogans - How Do I Love Thee: Food for Thought Before You Say "I DO"
In Marriage You Learn To Give Up The "Me ness for We ness!
Sloane Crosley - I Was Told There'd Be Cake
I was stunned. I pulled the phone away and looked quizzically at the hole-punched speaker. Aside from the blood obligation to be my sister's maid of honor, it had never occured to me that I would get asked to be in anyone's wedding. I thought we had reached an understanding, the institution of marriage and I. Weddings are the like the triathlon of female friendship: the Shower, the Bachelorette Party, and the Main Event. It's the Iron Woman and most people never make it through. They fall off th
Sarah Ruhl - Eurydice
A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.
Mira Jacob - The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
The band in the ballroom announced the cover of a special request, and after a pause, the woman's voice sang out the breathy first line of Etta James's "At Last." Chairs barked as guests rose to greet the champion of all wedding songs, the one that always brought indifferent or fighting or estranged couples to the dance floor for momentary reconciliation.
Jamie Brenner - The Wedding Sisters
That was the thing about weddings: they forced family members to deal with one another, like it or not.
Saleem Haddad - Guapa
Oh, I loathe weddings. I loathe sitting down and participating in inane conversations with proud parents and smug couples who all look like they might secretly hate each other.