Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georgina Chapman

My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

Georgina Chapman

I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but that didn't dissuade me from wearing it.

Fanny Burney

Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding--my stars!--I should never be able to support it!

It was important to come because of the wedding.

Judith Martin

A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I take thee... to be my awful wedded husband

Petra Nemcova

I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.

Madeleine L'Engle

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. And then, in the midst of near despair, something has happened beneath the surface. A bright little flashing fish of hope has flicked silver fins and the water is bright and suddenly I am returned to a state of love again - till next time.

Jon Secada

It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.

John Heywood

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

James Thurber

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

Elvis Presley

When I get married, it'll be no secret.

Elliott Erwitt

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

Joseph Campbell

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Karl Pilkington

And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Emily Blunt

Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.

Katharine Whitehorn

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

Langston Hughes

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Lisa Kleypas

Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.

Khalil Gibran

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.

Khalil Gibran

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

Khalil Gibran

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Khalil Gibran

Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature.

All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle— Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high heaven, And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdain'd its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea— What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me?

Piper Laurie

I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid.

Shirley Bassey

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

Paul McCartney

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.

Helen Rowland

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

Maggie Gallagher

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

John Mayer

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.