Jon Richardson Quotes

Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy.

Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.

When I got married, I hired a great choir - the St. James Choir, an all-black gospel choir - to sing at my wedding.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs.

I'm still waiting for someone to call me to cater their wedding. But that's gonna cost you. If you want my cousin Jerez to play the sax, that's going to cost you a little more. The sky's the limit after that.

As a little girl, I thought I'd like to get married on the beach. But I'm not the quintessential girl who had these sort of fantasies about that stuff.

I always envisioned myself having a traditional and elegant wedding.

Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.

I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.

My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.

All I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that.

Any experience of a girl picking out her wedding dress is amazing, but I have to say it was really special to work with David's dad, to see him in action with his team.

It is really scary. I think it's a natural feeling to have nerves when it comes to a wedding.

There is no way in the world anyone else could do my wedding other than myself, along with whomever I select to do various things.

I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.

Being a bride for Gaultier was a very special moment for me.

Really, a wedding is the first and biggest party people throw in their lifetime, so there's a lot of challenges and a lot of pressure.

We served Twinkies and Sno Balls at our wedding. We put them on silver trays so they looked elegant - but they were the real deal!

I don't want to have a big wedding. I don't crave that ritual of dress fittings, party planning and all eyes being on you.

I didn't know the colors of my wedding or what my bouquet would look like!

Your wedding day is supposed to be your big day, and yet a lot of engaged couples find that instead of creating an event that will be important to them, they're dodging through a minefield of modern etiquette traps.

I'd fantasised about being married since I was a little girl and dressed up in my mum's wedding dress.

Having made all the decisions, I think a wedding day is a day when you want to forget what you are wearing and be in the moment.