“I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'”
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.
“I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.”
“I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'”
“I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.”
“A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.”
“I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.”
“I don't think it's possible to have a wedding without it being stressful!”
“The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.”
“I hated the royal wedding.”
“One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish, and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.”
“Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.”
“The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.”
“When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.”
“When I planned my wedding the first time, my ex-husband and I, we were both struggling comics. I had a TV show that had gotten cancelled. Basically, I rented a wedding gown the reception hall smelled like feet.”
“The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.”
“When I auditioned for 'Wedding Crashers,' the producers had never seen any of my other work except for Bond. I got 'Wedding Crashers' partly because I was a Bond girl.”
“The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.”