Lynn Coady Quotes

Marriage is when two people love each other so much that they promise that if they ever, ever stop they'll fill out tons of paperwork.

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

O month when they who love must love and wed.

As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.

I can see why people love the idea of a big white wedding - it is a day when they are the centre of attention and get to wear a beautiful dress. But that sounds awful to me because that is like getting ready to walk down the red carpet.

I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

I love going to weddings.

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.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

I want to be a simple bride when I get married. I want a beach wedding where I am running around on the sand in a white dress.

My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.

Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.

For a girl, the wedding is when you're married. For a guy, it's when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.

Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.

I want a big church wedding.

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.

A wedding is such a girl thing.

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

I'm obsessed with getting married, but I don't even have a boyfriend.

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

I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

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.

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