wedding

/ˈwɛdɪŋ/

name 3noun 2verb 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

church, registry office | royal | white

VERB + WEDDING

attend, come to, go to | arrange | invite sb to

conduct

My uncle conducted the wedding ceremony last Saturday at the church in the village.

WEDDING + VERB

take place

Their daughter's wedding took place at a beautiful church in the countryside last summer.

WEDDING + NOUN

day, night | invitation | plans, preparations

date

My parents are finally planning their wedding date for next summer.

dress, gown | clothes, outfit, suit

band, ring

My parents still wear the simple wedding rings they received on their marriage day.

finger

She admired the diamond on her wedding finger as she walked down the aisle.

list

The couple created a wedding list so their guests would know which gifts to buy.

group, guests, party | album, photographs, video | anniversary

bells

When they got engaged, her mother immediately started planning the wedding dress and decorations.

PREP

at a/the ~

We had a great time dancing at the wedding last Saturday.

Definitions

noun

A marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.

Her announcement was quite a surprise, coming a month after she published the words "I hate weddings with a passion and a fury I can only partially explain rationally."

Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz.

The joining of two or more parts.

The wedding of our three companies took place last week.

1900, Eve Emery Dye, McLoughlin and Old Oregon, 2005 facsimile edition, page 56, That wedding of the fur companies is historic.

verb

To participate in a wedding.

"Snowball" was the name of this good steed, and great care had evidently been taken in her grooming to make her worthy of her name, her bridle being also gaily decked with coloured ribbons, for, as John said, when attending to these duties, "You don't go out a weddinging every day, do you, old gal?"

"Where you goin' get weddinged?" she inquired one day. / "We shall be married at the Episcopal Church, Yin Yang,"

name

A district of Mitte borough, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

A surname.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the act of marrying

marriage

noun — the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is perfor

nuptials
hymeneals

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

shotgun wedding

A wedding in which the bride is already pregnant.

If Red Skelton's joke can still elicit laughs, it is only because there is a minority who can still remember a shotgun wedding and even recall the understandings that lay behind th

penny wedding

A wedding at which the guests contribute payments in order to fund the event and to benefit the newly-married couple.

"Vera true, vera true—we'll have a' to pay, I doubt, less or mair—a sort of penny-wedding it will prove, where all men contribute to the young folk's maintenance, that they may not

Example Bank

Her announcement was quite a surprise, coming a month after she published the words "I hate weddings with a passion and a fury I can only partially explain rationally."

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Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz.

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Rumor has it that there will be a wedding in our village ere the daisies are in bloom.

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"Where you goin' get weddinged?" she inquired one day. / "We shall be married at the Episcopal Church, Yin Yang,"

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Getting married is entirely different than getting weddinged.

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Usage Notes

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