wedding
wed·ding (wed′iŋ)
noun
- the act or ceremony of becoming married; marriage
- the marriage ceremony with its attendant festivities
- an anniversary of a marriage a golden wedding
- a joining together
Etymology: ME < OE weddung < weddian: see wed
Possessives
- daughter: Not even the one for his daughter's wedding.
Converse of object
- them: July 2001: The marriage of John Carr to Alex Murphy took place in Las Vegas in July and was an Elvis themed wedding.
- finance: Wedding Finances - Like some information on ways to finance that Wedding to Remember?
- attend: If you have recently attended a wedding we photographed, or maybe you where the bride and groom!
- celebrate: In 1994 they celebrated the wedding of their youngest daughter, Rachel.
Adjective modifier
- handmade: Please quote WS4U when ordering.* Telephone: 07881 858299 Old School House Designs Handmade Wedding Stationery Designed Exclusively for your Special Day.
- civil: Civil weddings for up to 80 guests can also be catered for.
- golden: Congratulations, Mom and Dad, on your Golden Wedding.
- forthcoming: Many of our guests have requested your details for their forthcoming weddings, and we wish you every success for the future.
- 25th: This in turn makes a wonderful personalized ' 25th wedding ' anniversary gift.
Modifies a noun
- dress: Re: my wedding dress shop has gone bankrupt!
- reception: We can provide you with the most unique venue for your Wedding Reception.
- stationery: Visit our website to see our bespoke wedding stationery or call us to discuss an individual design.
- cake: HJ Wedding cakes require all information to provide a price for your final cake.
- invitation: First, consider the many purposes of a wedding invitation.
- ceremony: You are welcome to hold a wedding ceremony conducted by a minister at the hotel.
Noun used with modifier
- diamond: Not only are there esthetic factors to bear in mind, your diamond wedding ring holds also a deeper significance.
- dream: In fact with all the available options for you in Chicago, your dream wedding will be a blast.
- silver: Congratulations on your Silver Wedding, January 12, 1999.
- designer: Fashion shows will be at 12 o'clock and 2pm, featuring top designer wedding dresses and fashion designs.
Young men a wooing, for God that you bought, Be well ware of wedding and think in your thought: 'Had I wist' is a thing, it serves of nought.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
'Halloa! Here's a church! Let's go in! Here's Miss Skiffins! Let's have a wedding.'
Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
My young love said to me,'My brothers won't mind, And my parents won't slight you for your lack of kind.' Then she stepped away from me, and this she did say, 'It will not be long, love, till our wedding day.'
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been, Lives in a dream. Waits at the window, wearing the facethat she keeps in a jar by the door, Who is it for? All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
