Non-mushy/cliche wedding quotes?
October 14, 2014 6:06 PM Subscribe
I'm making a photo book for my sister-in-law and want to add some quotes about futures together, marriage, happiness, etc without being overly cliche or rom-com. Throw your best ones at me!
I had the honor of photographing my sister-in-law's wedding. My "official" wedding gift will be a nice photo book that I'm putting together. I don't want only photos, and would like to add some nice quotes about having a happy life, marriage, romance, and love without sounding like it's a romantic comedy movie. The book is photos on a black background with white text areas.
About them/the wedding:
It was a simple river-side wedding with a small group of people (They loved our courthouse wedding and wanted to match that somehow.)
They're both goofy and weird (as is all the family, glad I fit in!)
Their vows were romantic, but not overly cliche or gushing. Their friend officiated and said some nice things, but I can't remember a specific line as I was busy snapping photos.
They're very low-key and not over-the top and would probably like something funny, although this will be their wedding book. They're not religious.
So any ideas for some good quotes that can accompany their photos?
I have about 30 photos total which will be about 15 ish pages. Not all the pages will have a quote, so I'm looking for about 10 total quotes.
I had the honor of photographing my sister-in-law's wedding. My "official" wedding gift will be a nice photo book that I'm putting together. I don't want only photos, and would like to add some nice quotes about having a happy life, marriage, romance, and love without sounding like it's a romantic comedy movie. The book is photos on a black background with white text areas.
About them/the wedding:
It was a simple river-side wedding with a small group of people (They loved our courthouse wedding and wanted to match that somehow.)
They're both goofy and weird (as is all the family, glad I fit in!)
Their vows were romantic, but not overly cliche or gushing. Their friend officiated and said some nice things, but I can't remember a specific line as I was busy snapping photos.
They're very low-key and not over-the top and would probably like something funny, although this will be their wedding book. They're not religious.
So any ideas for some good quotes that can accompany their photos?
I have about 30 photos total which will be about 15 ish pages. Not all the pages will have a quote, so I'm looking for about 10 total quotes.
From Miss Manners' Guide to the Turn of the Millennium (p. 186):
While exclusionary interest in one other human being, which is what we call courtship, is all very exciting in the stages of discovery, there is not enough substance in it for a lifetime, no matter how fascinating the people or passionate the romance. The world, on the other hand, is chock full of interesting and curious things. The point of the courtship — marriage — is to secure someone with whom you wish to go hand in hand through this source of entertainment, each making discoveries, and then sharing some and merely reporting others. Anyone who tries to compete with the entire world, demanding to be someone's sole source of interest and attention, is asking to be classified as a bore.posted by willbaude at 6:43 PM on October 14, 2014 [5 favorites]
'Why don't you ever want to talk to me?' will probably never start a satisfactory marital conversation. 'Guess what?' will probably never fail.
I collected a bunch of these when I got married - the placecards all had a quote about marriage on the back. But that was 14 years ago and I have moved 9 times since then, so I have no idea where they are. Some that I remember using, courtesy of a search for "marriage" on brainyquote.
"I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late." - Max Kaufmann.
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin
"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
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short." - Andre Maurois
posted by jeoc at 6:46 PM on October 14, 2014 [4 favorites]
"I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late." - Max Kaufmann.
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin
"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
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short." - Andre Maurois
posted by jeoc at 6:46 PM on October 14, 2014 [4 favorites]
My sister and her boyfriend did a dramatic reading of this Calvin & Hobbes strip at my recent wedding.
posted by augustimagination at 12:31 AM on October 15, 2014
posted by augustimagination at 12:31 AM on October 15, 2014
What a great gift idea! I don't know if these are too cliche for what you are looking for, but I have recently been using quotes from this page all the time for my SO. I like to send them in emails or put them on Word Docs to leave for him on his computer.
lovequotes.tumblr.com
What I like about these is that there are mostly handwritten, so it looks more personal. I'm not sure if you are planning to print them out or hand-write them yourself, but I think that might be cute to have different styles of handwriting if you opt to print the quotes. There are some funny ones here too.
Another thing I do is Google terms like "tumblr love quotes" or "tumblr marriage quotes." That usually pulls up some really good ones that don't sound like they came out of a Hallmark card written in gold scroll font. Tumblr tends to be what I go to for these sorts of things, and like I said, I have taken to doing it daily or multiple times a day because it is sweet and kills boredom ;) My SO always loves it.
Good luck!
posted by LillyBird at 2:09 PM on October 15, 2014
lovequotes.tumblr.com
What I like about these is that there are mostly handwritten, so it looks more personal. I'm not sure if you are planning to print them out or hand-write them yourself, but I think that might be cute to have different styles of handwriting if you opt to print the quotes. There are some funny ones here too.
Another thing I do is Google terms like "tumblr love quotes" or "tumblr marriage quotes." That usually pulls up some really good ones that don't sound like they came out of a Hallmark card written in gold scroll font. Tumblr tends to be what I go to for these sorts of things, and like I said, I have taken to doing it daily or multiple times a day because it is sweet and kills boredom ;) My SO always loves it.
Good luck!
posted by LillyBird at 2:09 PM on October 15, 2014
Our wedding had this bit that Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain, of course), wrote to Olivia Langdon in a letter before their impending wedding:
This 4th of February will be the mightiest day in the history of our lives, the holiest, & the most generous toward us both -- for it makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each whereby to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, a new mystery to life; and Livy, it will give a new revelation to love, a new depth to sorrow, a new impulse to worship. In that day the scales will fall from our eyes & we shall look upon a new world. Speed it!posted by DirtyOldTown at 7:06 PM on October 15, 2014
Joseph Campbell: "Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one."
posted by Lexica at 3:22 PM on October 16, 2014
posted by Lexica at 3:22 PM on October 16, 2014
Civil marriage is at once a deeply personal commitment to another human being and a highly public celebration of the ideals of mutuality, companionship, intimacy, fidelity, and family. “It is an association that promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects.” Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and the decision whether and whom to marry is among life’s momentous acts of self-definition.Goodridge vs Department of Public Health (Massachusetts Supreme Court case finding a right to same-sex marriage)
It is undoubtedly for these concrete reasons, as well as for its intimately personal significance, that civil marriage has long been termed a “civil right.”
Without the right to marry – or more properly, the right to choose to marry – one is excluded from the full range of human experience and denied full protection of the laws for one’s “avowed commitment to an intimate and lasting human relationship.”
posted by saeculorum at 11:48 AM on November 4, 2014
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