Tom Waits Quotes

I hated the royal wedding.

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

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

My wedding was a very private affair for close family and friends, so I had decided to hold a reception in my native town.

I'm not cynical, but I don't really want to have a boyfriend or husband again.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.

My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

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

I get offered: 'Here's a girl who's mad at another girl for having a wedding on the same day.' That'll be a big hit, but I don't want to do that.

I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic.

The weddings that I've been in have been pretty mellow.

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.

He [Dewey] looks like the little man on the wedding cake.

I don't want to write poems about the royal wedding. I would have to be moved by the event.

Artie said it would be nice if we got married. I said it would be nice, too. The next thing I knew, we were on our way to Las Vegas.

I'm 5 feet 3, but I was 6 feet 4 when I married Ava.

A wedding, a great wedding, is just a blast. A celebration of romance and community and love... What is unfun about that? Nothing.