marriage quotes

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne


Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. ~H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques, 1916


The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. ~Peter De Vries


I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner


Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911


Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. ~George Bernard Shaw


Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work. ~Author Unknown


Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~Simone Signoret


Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickner


A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. ~Anne Taylor Fleming


Woke up in bed with a gorgeous woman, who I'm going to have lunch and the rest of my life with. ~Jason Barmer, pedestriansaint.com


More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. ~Doug Larson


One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. ~Judith Viorst


Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night. ~Paul Hornung


Divorce: The past tense of marriage. ~Author Unknown


Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ~Katherine Hepburn


A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. ~Robert Anderson, Solitaire & Double Solitaire


There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. ~Menander


It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ~Benjamin Disraeli


The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966


In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all. ~Anne Sophie Swetchine


In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced. ~Robert Sexton


An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. ~Pliny the Younger, Letters


If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. ~W. Somerset Maugham


If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods,
Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless
Against them while they stand so.
~Maxwell Anderson


After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6º of marriage! ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. ~Iris Murdoch


English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. ~Author Unknown


A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~Paul Sweeney


Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had. ~Francis Rodman


Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ~Beverley Nichols


Valentine's Day is when a lot of married men are reminded what a poor shot Cupid really is. ~Author Unknown


Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb


A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. ~James H. Boren


All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ~Raymond Hull


One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it. ~George MacDonald


As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. ~Socrates


Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. ~Mark Twain


Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. ~Jean Rostand, Le Mariage, 1927


Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. ~Isadora Duncan


When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. ~G.B. Shaw, Getting Married, 1908


A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day. ~Gene Perret


Here's to matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented! ~Heinrich Heine


The reason for much matrimony is patrimony. ~Ogden Nash


I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan. ~Claire Cloninger, "When the Glass Slipper Doesn't Fit and the Silver Spoon is in Someone Else's Mouth"


A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals


Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering. ~Author Unknown


Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools. ~William Congreve


Marriage ceremony: an incredible metaphysical sham of watching God and the law being dragged into the affairs of your family. ~O.C. Ogilvie

Wedding Clothes

Indian wedding

Indian weddings are very bright events, filled with ritual and celebration, that continue for several days. They are generally not small affairs, with anywhere between 100 to 10,000 people attending. Oftentimes it is possible that many of the attendees are unknown to the bride and groom themselves. Though most Indian marriages are arranged, some couples in urban areas have what are known as "love marriages", where the partners decide to marry each other without family involvement or assistance. The traditional Indian wedding is more about two families being brought together socially, with much less emphasis on the individuals involved.In general ,the ceremonies taking place in most of the traditional wedding are more or less common .The proposal for a boy in marriage by the girl's relations or vice versa is called bardekhi, The match-maker, who conducts the preliminary negotiations, is called agua.When a suitable boy has been found if, during the negotiations, a member of the bride's house visits the bride groom's, or vice versa.The betrothal consists in paying the tilak on the occasion of the formal proposal and acceptance of the proposal of marriage. The period of marriage ceremonies dates from the presenting tilak, and is called lagan .The marriage procession,barat is the first formal visit of the bridegroom to the bride's house.


Many of the wedding customs are common among Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and even Muslims. They are a combination of local, religious and family traditions.

Shaadi is a Sanskrit word for wedding. Asian weddings are a mainstay in the social calendar of the whole community. Many wedding traditions which have originated in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have carried over to second and third generation immigrant populations in western countries such as the UK and United States. Increasingly younger Asian couples are starting to incorporate Western features into their weddings such as speeches the first dance as well as the traditional wedding cake.

Asian weddings tend to be very lavish affairs and have been estimated at costing on average £30,000 in the UK[citation needed ] compared to an average of 17000.

source : - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_wedding