Marriage Quote by Sinead O'Connor

Las Vegas is doing a lot of work here: not the cliché of excess, but a stage for control. When Sinead O'Connor frames her "dream wedding" as "casual, quick, not religious", she’s treating marriage less like an institution you submit to and more like a performance you direct. That’s the tell. The language isn’t dreamy; it’s logistical. "Quick" and "not religious" read like antidotes to the expectations that usually swarm women’s weddings: family pressure, church scripts, public judgment, the whole purity-theater industry.

Then she pivots: "most of all, very romantic". It’s a sly reclamation. She refuses the idea that romance requires tradition, or that reverence has to be routed through religion. Vegas, in her telling, becomes romantic precisely because it’s stripped down - a place where you can decide what counts. For an artist whose public life was defined by fighting institutions that wanted to define her (church, media, nationalist pieties, even fans), the appeal of a wedding that’s "casual" feels like self-defense dressed up as fantasy.

The subtext is also autobiographical pragmatism. "I've been married before" acknowledges experience without apology. She’s not selling innocence; she’s selling intention. In a culture that treats second (or third) marriages as either sadder or messier, O'Connor flips it: the dream arrives after the lessons. Vegas isn’t an escape from reality; it’s a shortcut to the version of love that feels most hers.