Marriage Quote by Star Jones

“Big drama” isn’t a guilty confession here; it’s a strategy. Star Jones frames marriage less as a private vow than as a public event, and in doing so she name-checks a whole ecosystem of celebrity culture that treats romance as content. A wedding is intimate, semi-sacred, bounded by family ritual. A parade is civic theater: permission to be seen, applauded, and validated by strangers. The line is funny because it’s blunt, but it also has the crisp honesty of someone refusing the polite lie that weddings are only about love.

The subtext is control. If you want a parade, you’re not waiting to be discovered; you’re commissioning spectacle. That maps neatly onto Jones’s era of fame: the early-2000s peak of tabloid TV and lifestyle branding, when the “personal” life became an extension of the media job. A parade is also a kind of performance contract: the crowd gives you attention, you give them a story they can consume. It’s not romantic so much as transactional, and that’s why it lands.

There’s an extra edge to “always said,” which positions this not as a whim but as a long-standing identity claim. Jones signals she’s comfortable being read as too much - too loud, too ambitious, too visible - and flips that critique into a punchline. The intent isn’t just to demand extravagance; it’s to insist that her milestones deserve the scale usually reserved for institutions, not individuals. In a culture that rewards women for being palatable, “parade” is a refusal to shrink.