A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. — Eddie Cantor
The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy. — Janet Street-Porter
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. — Rumi
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
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 speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart. — Peggy Noonan
The sun will stand as your best man
And whistle
When you have found the courage
To marry forgiveness
When you have found the courage
to marry
Love. — Hafez
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
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest — Winston Churchill
You've got to realize that when all goes well, and everything is beautiful, you have no comedy. It's when somebody steps on the bride's train, or belches during the ceremony that you've got comedy! — Phyllis Diller
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him. — Oscar Wilde
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. — Franz Schubert
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. — Graeme Simsion
Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity. — Kahlil Gibran
Marriage is sanctified when it is cherished and honored in holiness. That union is not merely between husband and wife; it embraces a partnership with God. — Russell M. Nelson
Wedding Toast 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
I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always — Red Skelton
Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercises your freedom of thought.
Night and day you are the one,
Only you beneath the moon and under the sun. — Cole Porter
grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made. — Robert Browning
Without love, the world itself would not survive. — Lope de Vega
I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence.
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. — Menander
A husband is like a fire. He goes out when unattended. — Evan Esar
Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her. — Helen Rowland
Wedding Ceremony Quotes
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
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
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
The animals sacrificed feet of the bride during the wedding ceremony. — Turkish Proverbs
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
Do not hurt anyone with your speech, for the divine dwells in every heart.
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
My true love hath my heart, and I have his — Philip Sidney
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
Wedding Marriage 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
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho
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
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.
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
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. — Irwin Corey
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson
Wedding Poetry Quotes
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
And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ] — E. E. cummings
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
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. — Anne Bradstreet
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. — Robin Williams
Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd? — John Donne
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 Quotes
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
While other nations do battle, you lucky Austria, you wed. — Maria Theresa
When I am in the battlefield, I love it more than my wedding night with the most beautiful of women — Khalid ibn al-Walid
If money is speech, then speech is no longer free - it's expensive. It's high time we overturn citizens united.
When Jesus sees a heart that can't wait, He cant wait either. At the wedding at Cana, Jesus may have done nothing if it wasn't for Mary's faith. How many situations are we in now that God won't act without our faith? — Reinhard Bonnke
You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts. — Owen Wilson
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
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra
My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite. — William Shakespeare
You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh. — Jay Leno
Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. — George Carlin
Wedding Blessings Quotes
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
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
Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day. — Francis Quarles
When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze. — Cassandra Clare
How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage! — Arthur Frederick Saunders
Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two. — Honore de Balzac
It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents. — H. L. Mencken
Honor, riches, marriage-blessing
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you! — William Shakespeare
Wedding Sentiments Quotes
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour. — M. M. Musselman
Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. — Jefferson Machamer
Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away — Robert Frost
I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation. — Gloria Steinem
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
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
The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must
be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal. — Frank Pittman
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die. — Bayard Taylor
I love thee, I love thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old. — William Shakespeare
The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it. Sexual union, then, is where the words of the wedding vows become flesh. — Christopher West
That love is all there is, Is all we know of love. — Emily Dickinson
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold. — Anne Bradstreet
Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wedding Day Quotes
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? — Dorothy Parker
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
The day you marry your dreams is the day you divorce your nightmares. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too. — Rainer Maria Rilke
It was just enough to sit there without words. — Louise Erdrich
The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion. — Bell Hooks
All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart. — Ogden Nash
No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out. — Oscar Wilde
Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery. — George Jean Nathan
I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine. — Rumi
Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown. — Tony Benn
I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking. — Eddie Marsan
I had been at the newspaper for a few months. It wasn’t regarded as the paper, it was their paper. There was a sense of community because they reported, we reported, I reported the little things, the whist drives, the weddings, the funerals, the little speeches. In one sense it was the most boring copy in the world to anyone picking it up, but, on the other hand, it was crucial to the people who lived in those communities. — Harold Evans
And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I find weddings really boring. They give speeches, your aunt kisses you on the cheek, and you're at a boring table. But it's different when it's your own. — Isla Fisher
With tears running down her face, Cecily had reminded him of the moment at her wedding to Gabriel when he had delivered a beautiful speech praising the groom, at the end of which he had announced, “Dear God, I thought she was marrying Gideon. I take it all back. — Cassandra Clare
IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis the Sixteenth, the drums drowning his speech on the scaffold. Herman Melville at breakfast, feeling a sardine to his cat. Poe's wedding. Lewis Carroll's picnics. The Russians leaving Alaska, delighted with the deal. Shot of a seal applauding. — Vladimir Nabokov
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