wedding

[Wed·ding]

The act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony

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Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.

Noun
the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; "their marriage was conducted in the chapel"

Noun
the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed

Noun
a party of people at a wedding


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Wed

n.
Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.


Wedding

Wed"ding , n. [AS. wedding.] Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.
Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz.
&hand; Certain anniversaries of an unbroken marriage have received fanciful, and more or less appropriate, names. Thus, the fifth anniversary is called the wooden wedding; the tenth, the tin wedding; the fifteenth, the crystal wedding; the twentieth, the china wedding; the twenty-fifth, the silver wedding; the fiftieth, the golden wedding; the sixtieth, the diamond wedding. These anniversaries are often celebrated by appropriate presents of wood, tin, china, silver, gold, etc., given by friends. &hand; Wedding is often used adjectively; as, wedding cake, wedding cards, wedding clothes, wedding day, wedding feast, wedding guest, wedding ring, etc.
Let her beauty be her wedding dower.
Wedding favor, a marriage favor. See under Marriage.

Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.

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Usage Examples

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

A wedding is such a girl thing.

And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.

A big part of being in a wedding is the financial obligation, and that's something that people don't really talk about, but if you're asked to be in a wedding, you're gonna have to fork over some cash.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people.

'That's What She Said' is not Hollywood's standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up 'girl' women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.

After I had the Caesarean, I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her, I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.

For a girl, the wedding is when you're married. For a guy, it's when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.

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