Circe Quote by Circe Madeline Miller

“Brides never fare well in stories. Stories can sense happiness and snuff it out like a candle.”

— Carmen Maria Machado

“My wedding day took place on a non-descript afternoon in the middle of January, well away from any big deal occasions like Christmas or…

— Kerry Fisher

“It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed---the two bridemaids were duly inferior---her father gave her away---her mother stood with salts…

— Jane Austen

“Mothers! They promise you they'll never get married again, and next thing you know you're a bridesmaid.”

— Mindy Schanback

“Weddings, I began to understand, were vile, filthy things when they ran amuck.”

— Laurie Notaro

“No one should have to walk down a church aisle with a bouquet of flowers unless she was the bride, already had been the…

— Julia Quinn

“It was easy to be nice to an attractive woman over a dinner table. The despair came later, with children and tiredness and the…

— Nick Hornby

“She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.”

— Kate Chopin

'Bridesmaids,' I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It…

— Kay Cannon

“ Bride , n. - A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“May your wedding night be like a kitchen table, all legs and no drawers.”

— Melinda Heald

“their wedding night and the life that would follow.”

— Grace Fisher