Marriage Quote by Sinead O'Connor

O'Connor turns a familiar social guilt-trip into a small act of rebellion. The line starts with that nagging complaint - "you never invited me" - the kind of sentence that tries to turn someone else's milestone into an unpaid debt. She quotes it like a meme before memes: instantly recognizable, slightly whiny, designed to summon obligation. Then she pivots: "but I prefer casual weddings". It's funny because it refuses the premise that a wedding is a mandatory performance with a fixed guest list and a hierarchy of closeness. "Casual" is the sabotage word. Weddings are where families, reputations, and expectations put on their good clothes; O'Connor wants the opposite, an event that doesn't demand obedience or spectacle.

The subtext is classic Sinead: a refusal to be managed. In a culture that treats weddings as social proof - of stability, of adulthood, of belonging - she asserts the right to keep intimacy small and untheatrical, or even to treat marriage as something that doesn't need an audience. There's also a defensive tenderness in the joke: when people complain about not being invited, they're often really saying, "What am I to you?" O'Connor's answer is bracing: relationships don't get validated by seating charts.

Given her public history - both celebrated and punished for not playing nice - the line lands as more than a quip. It's an artist insisting that private life isn't a public tour date, and that love doesn't owe anyone a plus-one.