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Marriage Quote by Jim Lampley

"I wear my wedding ring. We talk about when we're going to get married again, which we hope is going to take place some time in this incredibly hectic calendar year"

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There’s something almost comically modern about the way Jim Lampley frames commitment: not as a vow etched in stone, but as a scheduling problem inside “this incredibly hectic calendar year.” The line does two jobs at once. First, it reassures: “I wear my wedding ring” is a visual, public shorthand for seriousness, fidelity, continuity. It’s a celebrity’s way of saying, Don’t read instability into our story; the symbol is still on.

Then he undercuts the neatness of that symbol by admitting they’re talking about getting married “again.” The word “again” is the tell. It implies a previous marriage between the same people, or a relationship that has already gone through the full ceremonial machinery and now needs a reboot. Either way, it suggests a partnership that’s being maintained in real time, with improvisation and repair, not just romantic inevitability.

The “we talk about” phrasing matters, too. It’s intimate but also PR-safe: it invites the audience into a soft-focus domestic conversation without giving up any hard details. And by blaming the delay on a “hectic calendar year,” Lampley plugs the gap between private life and public labor. In celebrity culture, time is never just time; it’s tours, broadcasts, obligations, brand management. The subtext is less “we can’t wait” than “we’re still us, just busy,” a deft attempt to make postponement sound like endurance rather than uncertainty.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Lampley, Jim. (2026, January 16). I wear my wedding ring. We talk about when we're going to get married again, which we hope is going to take place some time in this incredibly hectic calendar year. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wear-my-wedding-ring-we-talk-about-when-were-91525/

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Lampley, Jim. "I wear my wedding ring. We talk about when we're going to get married again, which we hope is going to take place some time in this incredibly hectic calendar year." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wear-my-wedding-ring-we-talk-about-when-were-91525/.

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"I wear my wedding ring. We talk about when we're going to get married again, which we hope is going to take place some time in this incredibly hectic calendar year." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wear-my-wedding-ring-we-talk-about-when-were-91525/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.

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Jim Lampley (born April 8, 1949) is a Celebrity from USA.

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