“On the publicity tour of ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding,’ I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.”
– Nia Vardalos
“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.”
– Jane Seymour
“I thought I was attractive when I shot ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding.’ Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.”
– Nia Vardalos
“The most dangerous food is wedding cake.”
– James Thurber
“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
“I did get to keep the wedding dresses from ‘Runaway Bride’. They’re all boxed up in my garage. I’ve never opened them. It’ll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.”
– Julia Roberts
“I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it’s not about the ring and it’s not about the wedding. It’s a grave thing, getting married. And it’s easy to get swept up in the wrong things.”
– Gwyneth Paltrow
“My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.”
– Alice Roosevelt Longworth
“I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.”
– Ellie Goulding
“No wedding bells for me anymore. I’ve been happily married to my profession for years.”
– Shirley Bassey
“I want a big church wedding.”
– Sienna Miller
“Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.”
– King Edward VIII
“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 wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It’s a metaphor for women’s lives, their creativity.”
– Vera Wang
“I’ve been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama – then candidate Obama – going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I’ve seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of ’til death do we part.”
– Mitt Romney
“I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
“A man’s got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.”
– John Mayer
“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.”
– Paul Sweeney
“I don’t ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not.”
– Jessica Simpson
“A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.”
– Eddie Cantor
“I’ve been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.”
– Trey Anastasio
“In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.”
– Enid Bagnold
“I think if you’re at the point where you’re popular enough to sell your wedding photos to OK! Magazine then you don’t need the money.”
– Johnny Vegas
“Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.”
– Helen Rowland
“There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.”
– Vera Wang
“We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.”
– Paul McCartney
“I love a black wedding dress.”
– Vera Wang
“I’ve always been the type to fall in love fast and, with every boyfriend, I plan out my wedding in my head.”
– Kim Kardashian
“I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be ‘the happiest moment’ of one’s life.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
“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.”
– Jennifer Aniston