Quotes from A Beautiful Wedding

“And when a Maddox boy falls in love, he loves forever.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“I want you to know that whatever love is, this has got to be it. We were best friends first, and we tried not to fall in love, and we did anyway. If you’re not with me, it’s not where I want to be. I’m in this. I’m with you.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“A Maddox boy will take you all the way to the edge, but if you go with him, he’ll follow you anywhere…”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“I know you know I love you. What you may not know is that there is nothing I want more than to be your husband. But if you’re not ready, I’ll wait for you, Pigeon. I’m not going anywhere. I mean, yeah. I want this, but only if you do. I just . . . I need you to know that you can open this door and we can walk down the aisle, or we can get a taxi and go home. Either way, I love you.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“He will love you with everything he has for as long as you let him.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“The only thing I'm afraid of is a life without you, Pigeon."

"Then you have nothing to be afraid of," I said. "We're forever.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“She told me to find a girl worth fighting for. The one that doesn’t come easy.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“If you're not with me, it's not where I want to be.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“True marriage begins well before the wedding day,” And the efforts of marriage continue well beyond the ceremony’s end. A brief moment in time and the stroke of the pen are all that is needed to create the legal bond of marriage, but it takes a lifetime of love, commitment, forgiveness, and compromise to make marriage durable and everlasting.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“We don’t know each other, but I know that you must be very special. I can’t be there today, to watch my baby boy promise his love to you, but there are a few things that I think I might say to you if I were.

First, thank you for loving my son. Of all my boys, Travis is the most tender hearted. He is also the strongest. He will love you with everything he has for as long as you let him. Tragedies in life sometimes change us, but some things never change. A boy without a mother is a very curious creature. If Travis is anything like his father, and I know that he is, he’s a deep ocean of fragility, protected by a thick wall of swear words and feigned indifference. A Maddox boy will take you all the way to the edge, but if you go with him, he’ll follow you anywhere.

I wish more than anything that I could be there today. I wish I could see his face when he takes this step with you, and that I could stand there with my husband and experience this day with all of you. I think that’s one of the things I’ll miss the most. But today isn’t about me. You reading this letter means that my son loves you. And when a Maddox boy falls in love, he loves forever.
Please give my baby boy a kiss for me. My wish for both of you is that the biggest fight you have is over who is the most forgiving.

Love,
Diane”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“Nothing was better than coming up with new ways to make her fall in love with me all over again. I lived for that shit now, and it was way more satisfying.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“My wish for both of you is that the biggest fight you have is over who is the most forgiving.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“The only thing that made sense were the thoughts on repeat inside my head: I was about to become the husband of the second woman I’d ever loved.

It was almost time. Damn. Shit, yeah! Fuck, yes!

I was getting married!”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“I guess the beautiful disaster turned into a beautiful wedding."

"Miracles do happen," I said remembering the conversation she and I had what seemed like a lifetime ago.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“Hey," Trenton said, breathless and sweaty.

He pulled a few yellow strands of fake hair from his face.

"Did you lose a bet?" I asked.
"As a matter of fact, I did."

Taylor and Tyler were across the room, slapping their knees and laughing so hard they could barely breathe.

I slapped Trenton's ass. "You look hot, bro."

"Thanks," he said. The music started and he shook his hips at me. I pushed him away, and, undeterred, he danced across the room to entertain the crowd.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“I now understand the whole jumping on the couch and punching the floor thing. I don't know how to express how I feel! Where's Oprah?”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“I said no strippers," I said, watching dumbfounded as Trenton danced around the room to Britney Spears.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“I just want you to know, before I make my promises, that I'm super stubborn. You already know I'm hard to live with, and you've made it clear on dozens of occasions that I drive you crazy. And I'm sure I've driven anyone who's watched these last few months crazy with my indecision and uncertainty. But I want you to know that whatever love is, this has got to be it. We were best friends first, and we tried not to fall in love, and we did anyway. If you're not with me, it's not where I want to be. I'm in this. I'm with you. We might be impulsive, and absolutely insane to be standing here at our age, six months after we met.

This whole thing might play out to be a completely wonderful, beautiful disaster, but I want that if it's with you.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“Stop listening to everything I say. I’m probably not going to make sense for the next six months while I try to process the fact that I’ve gotten everything I’ve ever wanted.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“Travis Maddox was the kind of gorgeous every girl dreamed about, and he was my reality”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“My God, that woman was fucking sexy. She didn’t even have to try, and all I wanted was to be all up in her business. Now that we were engaged that didn’t sound like such a bastard thing to think.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“Fuck you, whore, I am not a mean drunk .”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“The twins, Taylor and Tyler, threw confetti in my face, music began to blare, and then I saw the worst thing I'd ever seen in my life: Trenton in a man thong, covered in about ten pounds of body glitter. He had on a cheap, yellow wig, and Cami was laughing her head off, cheering him on.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“Nothing was better than coming up with new ways to make her fall in love with me all over again.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“If I had to do it all over again, I’d rather endure the pain in the beginning than have had it easy and then have it all go to shit later on.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“I wasn’t sure if seeing Abby hurt would ever make me feel anything less than a little crazy, but she didn’t need a hotheaded boyfriend. She needed an understanding husband.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“I'm just trying not to have a Tom Cruise moment
[…]
He was having a very Tom Cruise moment”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

“He was mine, and I was his. If I knew anything at all, it was that only those two things mattered.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from A Beautiful Wedding

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