“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”
A wedding is a beginning disguised as an event. These quotes capture the romance, nerves, joy, and deeper meaning of the day two people stand up in front of everyone they know and make an improbable promise.
“A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.”
“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”
“I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.”
“I don't ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not.”
“A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”
“In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.”
“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.”
“I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?”
“Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.”
“Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.”
“Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.”
“All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.”
“A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.”
“Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.”
“It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.”
“An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.”