“I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.”
– Christopher Walken
“I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.”
– Adam Sandler
“I’d imagine my wedding as a fairy tale… huge, beautiful and white.”
– Paris Hilton
“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.”
– Mary Oliver
“That is ever the way. ‘Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.”
– James M. Barrie
“Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There’s immense happiness that can come from working towards that.”
– Nick Cave
“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
“The trouble with wedlock is that there’s not enough wed and too much lock.”
– Christopher Morley
“When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.”
– Ethel Merman
“A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”
– Friedrich Schiller
“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.”
– Gwen Stefani
“When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.”
– Vera Wang
“A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.”
– Helen Rowland
“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
– Lord Byron
“In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.”
– Groucho Marx
“In my 50s I’ll be dancing at my children’s weddings.”
– Michael J. Fox
“An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.”
– William Feather
“I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”
– Lord Byron
“Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”
– Ambrose Bierce
“Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.”
– Phyllis Diller
“The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.”
– Heraclitus
“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.”
– Joseph Addison
“A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.”
– Honore de Balzac
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.”
– Barbara de Angelis
“It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.”
– Robert Frost
“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy if not, you’ll become a philosopher.”
– Socrates
“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”
– Groucho Marx