#wedding

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#marriage #nicholas-sparks #novels #romance #wedding

The priest then turning toward the bride, inquired: "Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband, etc., etc., so long as ye both shall live?" To which the bride, throwing aside her veil, answered, firmly: "No! Not if he were the last man and I the last woman on the face of the earth and the human race was about to become extinct and the angel of Gabriel came down from above to ask it of me as a personal favor." The effect of this outburst, this revelation, this explosion, may be imagined but can never be adequately described. ↗

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

#reversal #wedding #imagination

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#lovers #marriage #stage #stars #wedding

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade. ↗

— Trisha Goddard

#after #facade #felt #hours #keep

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

#baby #bride #corpse #every #father

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#case #death #discovered #gowns #had

When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later. ↗

— Eydie Gorme

#back #bring #came #days #downtown

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. ↗

— Grace Hansen

#except #flowers #funeral #get #just

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#battle #before #go #into #me

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three. ↗

— Heraclitus

#carry #chain #heavy #sometimes #takes