A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.475, 4 Sep.

Young men a wooing, for God that you bought, Be well ware of wedding and think in your thought: 'Had I wist' is a thing, it serves of nought.

-Anonymous
c.1425  The Second Shepherd's Play, part of theYork cycle of Mystery Plays, l.91^3.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

-Asquith, Margot
Of Lady Desborough. Quoted in The Listener,11  Jun1953.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
Quoted in Humphrey Carpenter W H  Auden (1981), pt.2, ch.6.

My young love said to me,'My brothers won't mind, And my parents won't slight you for your lack of kind.' Then she stepped away from me, and this she did say, 'It will not be long, love, till our wedding day.'

-Colum, Padraic
  Wild Earth,'She Moved through the Fair'.

'Halloa! Here's a church!† Let's go in!† Here's Miss Skiffins! Let's have a wedding.'

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^1 Great Expectations, ch.55.

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been, Lives in a dream. Waits at the window, wearing the facethat she keeps in a jar by the door, Who is it for? All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

-Paul
  'Eleanor Rigby'.

Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

-Rich, Adrienne Cecile
  Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law,'Snapshots of a Daughter- in-Law,1'.