Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants. — Vera Wang
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. — Eddie Cantor
I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!. — Alan Jay Lerner
The animals sacrificed feet of the bride during the wedding ceremony. — Turkish Proverbs
When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party? — Kabir
The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy. — Janet Street-Porter
Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God. — Myles Munroe
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. — Rumi
I'm gonna walk down the aisle in style and profile. — Ric Flair
I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture. — Dorothy Malone
You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it. — Bess Truman
If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows. — Sam Kinison
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. — Joyce Brothers
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. — Lao Tzu
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. — Douglas William Jerrold
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. — Edwin Louis Cole
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. — Helen Rowland
Wedlock is a padlock. — John Ray
Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps. — Joe Murray
Wedding Ceremony Image Quotes
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it. And if I was a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
Marriage Ceremony Quotes
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
My true love hath my heart, and I have his — Philip Sidney
The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men. — Nellie L. McClung
Let there be spaces in your togetherness — Kahlil Gibran
We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment. — Cassandra Clare
May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding. — James Dillet Freeman
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year. — Hedy Lamarr
The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so. — Paul Martin
Wedding Quotes
I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. — Lewis Grizzard
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho
While other nations do battle, you lucky Austria, you wed. — Maria Theresa
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. — Ronald Reagan
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret. — Big Pun
Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. — Albert Einstein
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Corpses and annoying guests stink by the third day — Mexican Proverbs
Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong. — Cecelia Ahern
There’s days in training where everything flows and days in training where they don’t. You just pray that doesn’t happen the night of the fight. — Holly Holm
Past is gone, present is going, and tomorrow is day after tomorrow’s yesterday. So why worry about anything? God is in all this. — R.K. Narayan
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. — Sarah Ruhl
Wedding Speech Quotes
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. — Gwendolyn Brooks
We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others. — Walter Rauschenbusch
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. — J. D. Salinger
Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light. — Phoebe Cary
Night and day you are the one,
Only you beneath the moon and under the sun. — Cole Porter
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude — Rainer Maria Rilke
Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all. — Henny Youngman
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. — Herbert V. Prochnow
That love is all there is, Is all we know of love. — Emily Dickinson
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. — Robin Williams
Wedding Love Quotes
When I am in the battlefield, I love it more than my wedding night with the most beautiful of women — Khalid ibn al-Walid
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. — Nicole Krauss
My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite. — William Shakespeare
I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? — Walt Whitman
My attachment to my wedding ring is a powerful symbol of the infinite love that I have for my wife and children. — Gad Saad
And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you. — Kiersten White
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. — Leo Tolstoy
Wedding Poetry Quotes
And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ] — E. E. cummings
Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. — Louis de Bernieres
May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy. — James Dillet Freeman
Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring. — C. J. Dennis
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. — Anne Bradstreet
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd? — John Donne
grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made. — Robert Browning
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping,
For only the hand of God can contain your hearts. — Kahlil Gibran
i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows — E. E. cummings
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you — E. E. cummings
Wedding Party Quotes
Equality always concerns two parties: the one that’s paying and the one that’s receiving. — Ursula von der Leyen
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. — Erma Bombeck
I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge. — Tori Amos
I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something. — Christopher Walken
A divorce party - that's really better than a wedding party — Nujood Ali
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
Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church; and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and — Robert Eldridge Willmott
We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey's and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but we had a good time. — David Hyde Pierce
Weddings are crazy. When you get right down to it, a wedding is a party, and not an important party, really. But for young people, it becomes the biggest thing in their lives. After it's over, they realize it wasn't that big a deal. — Dave Barry
Wedding Pictures Quotes
Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number. — Anna Quindlen
You might be a redneck if you had to remove a toothpick for wedding pictures. — Jeff Foxworthy
I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you, my wedding pictures got downloaded just as much as my bikini pictures. — Cindy Margolis
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 press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions. — Katy Perry
Right now the tabloids are saying I'm pregnant, and they're naming the baby. It's hilarious. I don't know when I'll want to get married. I never pictured myself as a bride, but after my sister's wedding,I did start thinking about what kind of wedding I'd want. I don't think I want a big one. — Beyonce Knowles
I don't have anything to say in any picture. — Garry Winogrand
You don't take a picture, you make a picture. — Ansel Adams
My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings. — Patrick Demarchelier
When Joe and I got married two years ago, we were both super strictly Paleo and we were shredded for the wedding! All of our wedding pictures consequently turned out fantastic. I wish I could say I was as thin now as I was then! — Eva LaRue
Getting Married Quotes
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house. — Rod Stewart
If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable. — Matt Chandler
If I meet my ideal woman, I want to get married straight away. And start making a world of just the two of us. — G-Dragon
I don't want to study, I want to get married! — Russian Proverbs
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a law-abiding citizen. Among both black and white Americans so described, the poverty rate is in the single digits. — Walter E. Williams
I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married. — Barack Obama
It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst. — Zach Braff
Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. — Richard Bach
We sit in a room, laugh, and all come up with comedy situations, which we work out. Sometimes we cross the line, like getting a guy to pull out of his own wedding while the ceremony's taking place. — Joe Gatto
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. — Margery Williams
I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. — Pablo Neruda
We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day — Jim Croce
A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. — Richard Bach
If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty, except for the memory of how they were answered by you. — Jim Croce
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. — Victor Hugo
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time. — Margery Williams
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. — Louis de Bernieres
When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real. — Margery Williams
Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. — Louis de Bernieres
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O, no! It is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. — William Shakespeare
Real isn't how you are made... It's a thing that happens to you. — Margery Williams
To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take. — Madeleine L'Engle
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep. — Kahlil Gibran
Love one another, but make not a bond of love. — Kahlil Gibran
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. — William Shakespeare
In the process of planning and having a wedding, I forgot there would actually be a marriage, a union of minds, bodies, souls, and issues that would come together as soon as the ceremony was over. — Iyanla Vanzant
Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. — Madeleine L'Engle
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come. — William Shakespeare
Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself. — Alistair Cooke
Love is a mighty power,
a great and complete good.
Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth.
It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders
all bitterness sweet and acceptable. — Thomas a Kempis
When you are Real you don't mind being hurt. — Margery Williams
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. — Kahlil Gibran
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
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join. — Elbert Hubbard
I have always thought beach weddings are beautiful. A sunset ceremony with a beautiful sky, white drapes and fire lanterns. — Ricky Whittle
Every fair from fair sometime declines — William Shakespeare
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