wedding

We don__ treat each other very well, I suppose. Even from the start. It was as though we had the seven-year itch the day we met. The day she went into a coma, I heard her telling her friend Shelley that I was useless, that I leave my socks hanging on every doorknob in the house. At weddings we roll our eyes at the burgeoning love around us, the vows that we know will morph into new kinds of promises: I vow not to kiss you when you__e trying to read. I will tolerate you in sickness and ignore you in health. I promise to let you watch that stupid news show about celebrities, since you__e so disenchanted with your own life.Joanie and I were urged by her brother, Barry, to subject ourselves to counseling as a decent couple would. Barry is a man of the couch, a believer in weekly therapy, affirmations, and pulse points. Once he tried to show us exercises he__ been doing in session with his girlfriend. We were instructed to trade reasons, abstract or specific, why we stayed with each other. I started off by saying that Joanie would get drunk and pretend I was someone else and do this neat thing with her tongue. Joanie said tax breaks. Barry cried. Openly. His second wife had recently left him for someone who understood that a man didn__ do volunteer work.

Marriage is not 'I', its 'We'.

The events of life are unrepeatable.

All the same, we should get to bed,_ whispered Hermione. __t wouldn__ do to oversleep tomorrow.___o,_ agreed Ron. __ brutal triple murder by the bridegroom__ mother might put a bit of a damper on the wedding.

A wedding ring is a symbol of commitment; a promise, a pledge, and a vow. The promise is to forsake all others, to stay devoted and true; the pledge is to honor that promise selflessly, to see the whole thing through; and the vow is to keep that pledge unwaveringly, until the days are few. It is a mutual agreement to become one instead of two.

She stood above the sink and broke the Swarovski glass frame _ a wedding gift _ with her hands. Her thumb got cut. As blood drops fell into the sink, like mercury balls she thought, she lit the photo on fire. Ashes fell into the sink. Fire and vermilion. Ashes and blood. Her marriage from start to finish.

It's an extraordinary thing to meet someone who you can bare your soul to. And who will accept you for what you are. I've been waiting, what seems like a very long time, to get beyond what I am. And with Bella, I feel like I can finally begin. So I'd like to propose a toast to my beautiful bride. No measure of time with you will be long enough. But let's start with forever.

I know that you always take around because you talk so much, but I like to always know what's happening in your world.

Instead I__e built a house made of lies that have come crashing down around me.

The fact that I am marrying the man of my dreams is all that matters.

... it is easier to tell someone closer to you before you tell your partner.

It__ like my whole life my left ring finger has been lacking something, and finally it feels complete.

With all the strength; Love encompasses compassion, determination, tolerance, endurance, support, faith and acceptance of whom you love.

As I see it, you GET married - but you MAKE a marriage.

I will tell him that I've always thought he was a monster. And that I want to be his bride

They__e taking us to the room to change. Do you think we__l have time for a quickie? Because we never got around to doing it against the wall.__e blinked at her. She thought he hadn__ heard her. Finally he smiled, slowly at first, his grin becoming broader as she slid her hand onto his thigh. __e will always make time for a quickie,_ he said. __nd that is a wedding vow.

She would grace his home with her charm and beauty and she would make his bed joyous, all without ever having to shame his hearth with another man's memory of her shamelessness.

Hey wedding DJ, there is no way in hell I'm paying you $1,000 when all you're doing is plugging your iPod into the sound system #AHOLE