Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations.

As a supporter of secularism, I am willing to accept same-sex weddings in a state-sanctioned register office, on grounds of equity. As a believer in Islam, however, I insist that no mosque be forced to hold one against its wishes.

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.

I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.

Everyone likes to go to weddings.

I've been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of the wedding freaking out.

It's not that I think weddings - or marriages - are letdowns. It's just that I want to see my wedding as one awesome achievement on a continuum of achievements, all of which were, in their way, just as beautiful and profound for having led me to the current one.

I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my husband and even family events such as birthdays and friends' weddings and things that I've always just missed out on because of softball.

I love planning parties and love planning weddings.

Before 'Insecure,' I was a wedding emcee - a host for weddings. That's a world that a lot of people are not familiar with.

I love weddings.

I love going to weddings. I love movie scenes of weddings. Even, like, TV-show weddings - I cry at every wedding.

Private weddings are becoming something of a family tradition. My daughter Saethryd married her husband Jason at Marylebone Register Office in 2005 while my wife and I had a lunch at Pizza Express.

At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.

Let there be no more weddings. Get thee to a nunnery.

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 on everybody involved.

Girls usually have a papier mache face on their wedding day.

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

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.