Emily V. Gordon Quotes

I love going to other people's weddings, but I have never desired a big white wedding for myself, and it has never been put on me as a pressure, an expectation.

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.

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.

There are so many moving parts to a wedding, and I, it turns out, am a bit of a perfectionist.

It doesn't matter whether the bride or the bridegroom writes the letters of thanks for wedding presents provided that these go out immediately after the arrival of each present and are not in the handwriting of the bride's mother.

I love dress shopping, and I love talking about the wedding food. That's what makes me happy. If you tell me to do a guest list, I cry. I hate it.

Those are the men who will dance at your wedding.

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.

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

Whenever I get married, it will be a Bengali wedding. If I won't have a Bengali wedding, my mother won't come. She has warned me. So, I am going to have a Bengali wedding for sure.

I'll never have a wedding. I don't want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.

When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.

When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn't know that my wedding was tacky. I didn't know that I was getting married in a quinceanera dress, because there was nobody there to cry over me and tell me I look like a fool.

If you've chosen someone to be in your bridal party, she should be a good enough friend that she does not want to upstage you.

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.

I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.

You have to make your wedding day all about you.

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

No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock or because he's filling a job opening for husband or significant other.

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

A bride is a bride the first time around. The white dress and the white veil are symbolic. So many people are breaking the rules that people don't know what the rules are.

I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong in everybody involved.

People might be surprised because I settled for an arranged marriage, but that's what's chosen for us.

I do not want my man to be exhausted for our wedding day, especially our wedding night.