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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wedding
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a birthday/Christmas/wedding cake (=a special cake for a birthday etc)
▪ Lucy had twelve candles on her birthday cake.
a church wedding (=in a church)
▪ She wants to have a church wedding.
a party/wedding invitation
▪ He had a wedding invitation from Rob and Jen.
a wedding dress
▪ Have you chosen your wedding dress yet?
a wedding gift
▪ Some people prefer to give cash as a wedding gift.
a wedding photo
▪ Shall I show you our wedding photos?
a wedding photograph
▪ Your wedding photographs will keep the memories of the big day alive for you.
a wedding present
▪ His wedding present to her had been a diamond necklace.
a wedding reception
▪ There were over 200 guests at our wedding reception.
a wedding ring
▪ He gave her a diamond wedding ring on their wedding day.
a wedding/marriage ceremony
▪ It was a beautiful wedding ceremony.
a wedding/marriage feast
▪ This dish is traditionally served at wedding feasts.
diamond wedding
funeral/wedding/carnival etc procession
golden wedding
marriage/wedding vows
▪ She wrote her own marriage vows.
sb’s wedding day (=the day when someone gets married)
▪ She wanted everything to be perfect for her wedding day.
shotgun wedding
silver wedding anniversary
▪ a party to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary
wedding anniversary
▪ Jack and Kim celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary in January.
wedding bells (=rung when people marry in a church)
▪ Mark and Bridget seem very happy and we expect to hear wedding bells soon.
wedding celebrations
▪ The wedding celebrations can last for a week or more.
wedding chapel
wedding dress
wedding guests
▪ We need to send out invitations to all the wedding guests.
wedding ring
wedding vows
wedding/evening/ball gown
▪ a white silk wedding gown
white wedding
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
golden
▪ Her golden wedding band gleamed on the shelf.
▪ Another successful choice would be a golden wedding anniversary.
▪ The pair, both 73, decided to quit on the same day they celebrated their golden wedding.
▪ The golden weddings and stories of handbell ringers and emergent skiffle groups were getting a bit tame, by comparison.
royal
▪ The royal wedding is creating little media frenzy around the world.
▪ It's the odd details that get to you, the picture of the royal wedding on the mantelpiece.
white
▪ And we did not want to miss the opportunity of having such a wonderful day, complete with the white wedding car.
▪ Who will dream my face as white as wedding sheets, my lips vague as laundered bloodstains?
▪ Yesterday he donned white suit and cowboy boots for the service while Lynn sported a white silk wedding gown.
▪ Sally Watkin talked to three adventurous couples who defied the tradition of the white wedding and opted for something completely different.
▪ In theory you can use the usual wedding speeches, simply omitting any references to white weddings.
▪ I've got this smart suit on and Marie's wearing this white wedding dress with all these frilly bits.
■ NOUN
anniversary
▪ The couple plan to celebrate the victory and their seventh wedding anniversary by taking their children to Disneyworld in Florida.
▪ At the moment, I do quite a few barn dances, mainly for wedding anniversaries.
▪ What would the photos of my twenty-fifth wedding anniversary have revealed?
▪ No concessions are made to their infant's chicken pox or wedding anniversaries.
▪ Back home it was 6.30 am and ironically the morning of his wedding anniversary.
▪ The idea of making a special flower picture to commemorate a particular wedding anniversary works very well.
▪ Another successful choice would be a golden wedding anniversary.
▪ Finally the couple may be celebrating a birthday, a wedding anniversary or some other red-letter day.
bell
▪ Talking about wedding bells, she was.
▪ By then I was hearing wedding bells, and not only for Old Red and Margaret.
▪ Myra has wedding bells ringing in her ears all day.
breakfast
▪ Before me were the remains of an impromptu wedding breakfast.
▪ It was almost certainly the first wedding breakfast that particular Lyons' teashop had provided.
▪ Gradually the wedding breakfast was breaking up.
cake
▪ The final chapter - on whither the wedding cake - had this reviewer in helpless stitches.
▪ Encrusted with statues, pillars, and reliefs, it looks like a huge wedding cake in stone.
▪ Everybody saved all their food coupons for the wedding cake.
▪ We all eat wedding cakes from Gisella Tect.
▪ The white pony comes complete with veil, wedding cake, wedding ring, comb and ribbon, for perfect grooming!
▪ But this is no ordinary wedding cake - it's a knitted one!
▪ Three sides of the Piazza were bordered by arched colonnades, tiers upon tiers of them, like a massive wedding cake.
▪ And to round it off their was a tiered wedding cake - all provided by Mrs White.
ceremony
▪ At the wedding ceremony Sir George's cousin Edward received the suit as a memento.
▪ Saturday's 35-minute wedding ceremony was as simple as Anne and Tim had wanted.
▪ The priest was shot dead as he drove back to his parish after conducting a wedding ceremony, but nothing was stolen.
▪ The wedding ceremony publicly marks the beginning of commitment to another through marriage.
▪ They forbade lavish wedding ceremonies, bringing to an end the glitzy Punjabi wedding.
▪ We managed to persuade him not to perform the whole work during the wedding ceremony.
church
▪ Last night, Horsewell's distraught girlfriend cancelled their church wedding.
▪ Like the ceremonies at City Hall, church weddings for lesbians and gays give no legal standing.
▪ You see, I wanted a church wedding.
▪ I said I wanted to be best man, I said I wanted a church wedding.
▪ If we'd had a church wedding, she'd have done the white-lace-and-trimmings bit, the full veil-and-trail number.
day
▪ This day, long before you were born, was my wedding day.
▪ Award winning Gary Hooker of Saks specialises in beautiful wedding day transformations.
▪ Margarita Georgiou brought her wedding day forward after cancer victim Nick was told by doctors he didn't have long to live.
▪ The sick smile that Odilo sported throughout his wedding day seems, in retrospect, all too appropriate.
▪ Thus ended Mary's wedding day.
▪ I was dancing much of the time on the wedding day.
▪ However, she took Tom's advice and busied herself preparing for Anna's wedding day.
▪ We intend tomorrow for our wedding day, and Mr. Williams shall officiate.
dress
▪ Brides-to-be can also catch a glimpse of a specially commissioned wedding dress.
▪ He saw the wedding dress, across the chair.
▪ She had always loved to sew, and when she had started to design in earnest wedding dresses had proved irresistible.
▪ Eventually, much later, a wedding dress was found inside.
▪ That night I was again subjected to the ordeal by wedding dress.
▪ They ran after me but I could run much faster without the wedding dress.
feast
▪ My words have been grubby confetti, faded, tacky, blown far from the wedding feast.
▪ Village wedding feasts may soon forsake smoked salmon canapés in favour of such things as Lincolnshire chine and Wiltshire porkies once again.
▪ Here was the connubial complement to Miss Havisham's wedding feast but without the cobwebs.
▪ So they lived happily in his fortress for a month and a day, celebrating their wedding feast.
▪ The priest made a short speech praising the families and the outstanding simplicity of the wedding feast.
▪ Witness their behaviour at the Lapithae wedding feast when the centaur Eurythion tried to rape the bride.
gift
▪ The small heated swimming pool hidden from view near the rose walk was a wedding gift from the Army.
▪ Yes, he would give Ebert the lookalike as an early wedding gift.
▪ This was Nahum's wedding gift to his bride.
gown
▪ Yesterday he donned white suit and cowboy boots for the service while Lynn sported a white silk wedding gown.
guest
▪ A great drive of deer had been organised for the wedding guests.
invitation
▪ A sign warning trespassers printed in the copper-plate script normally reserved for wedding invitations would inhibit nobody.
▪ However the first indication your guests will receive as to your plans, is when their wedding invitation arrives.
night
▪ This was her wedding night and she was going to be sleeping alone.
▪ The monster had promised to be with me on my wedding night, but he had not planned to kill me.
▪ She entered a cocoon from which a butterfly would emerge on the wedding night.
▪ He would not see his bride before the wedding night so all sorts of pictures could float in the mind.
▪ He went back to his parents' council house on the wedding night.
▪ He made a sour kind of joke out of it, that they must wait until their wedding night.
▪ But I knew that the monster would not visit us until our wedding night.
▪ He taunted me, asking me if I knew what was going to happen to me on my wedding night.
party
▪ You don't want all the wedding party to have heard the speech in advance of the wedding.
▪ If you want a beastly dull wedding party, don't bring Lulu.
▪ On 16 August 1987 he was called to an incident following a wedding party in West London.
▪ The wedding party was in full swing when she arrived back at the château.
▪ It had been a marvellous wedding party and it was followed by a wedding night that she knew she would never forget.
▪ Cathy is the daughter of local Magistrate Harry Hall and the wedding party all saw the funny side of it.
▪ Walter sees a friend among them and asks if this is a private wedding party.
photograph
▪ Her wedding photograph showed her with a prettily plump figure.
▪ The tragedy comes a month after these wedding photographs were taken.
▪ He removed the vase and put it on the occasional table next to the wedding photograph.
▪ Not exactly a wedding photograph, but close.
▪ The woman in the wedding photograph.
▪ I recognized him from the wedding photograph old Ma Scamp had flashed in front of me.
present
▪ Sarella concentrated on choosing a wedding present they would both like and an outfit she could wear again later.
▪ Hatton said something about buying him a record player for a wedding present.
▪ She took a painting some one gave us as a wedding present.
▪ His main task was tastefully to accommodate as many wedding presents into their new homes as was practicable.
▪ At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present.
▪ I was hoping to surprise you - a sort of unexpected wedding present, but it was no good.
▪ Gunnell gave herself the perfect wedding present when she unwrapped an Olympic gold medal in the 400metres hurdles.
▪ Drink on Sunday at - where wedding present?
procession
▪ At 2.50, the first of the royals will travel the half mile from the castle gates in the wedding procession.
▪ Now the wedding procession started homeward.
▪ All the wedding procession goes to church.
reception
▪ Meetings, rallies, dances and wedding receptions all brought the small communities together.
▪ The couple also got £2,000 cash that helped to make their wedding reception a feast to remember.
▪ The castle's impressive great hall is a popular venue with local couples for wedding receptions.
▪ This is the ideal hotel if you are planning a small wedding reception.
▪ Food for more than 100 guests at two wedding receptions was alleged to have been prepared at the kitchen.
▪ It is an ideal location for wedding receptions, having large attractive grounds.
▪ In addition to meeting rooms and lounges, a large function room is used for conferences and is hired for celebrations such as wedding receptions.
ring
▪ If you buy your engagement ring from them you will get a 10 percent discount on your wedding ring or rings.
▪ Beaverbrooks recommend you choose your wedding ring about three months before the big day so that you have no last minute worries.
▪ She recognized her wedding ring but nothing else.
▪ Yet a far stronger and more symbolic object remains - the wedding ring.
▪ Custodians keep an alert lookout for any female without a wedding ring, as lipstick is not good for marble.
▪ She had, after all, a wedding ring on her finger, so there must have been a Mr Salt.
▪ And don't forget the 10 percent discount you will receive on further purchases when you choose your wedding ring at Beaverbrooks.
▪ Aunt Margaret had one single piece of jewellery, besides her fat gold wedding ring.
■ VERB
attend
▪ The answer was that he had flown out quite coincidentally to attend a wedding.
▪ The Orthodox, in particular, barred marriage with Hicksites or even attending their weddings.
▪ On Sunday all of them had attended a cousin's wedding.
▪ Most of his colleagues in the Computer Department attended the wedding.
▪ He was allowed to postpone serving the sentence in order to attend his daughter's wedding.
▪ If attending a wedding or party of close friends, you should have the time of your life.
▪ Minnie did not attend the wedding but everyone else thought that Helen was a beautiful bride.
▪ Today Leeson had a free hour before attending a wedding.
celebrate
▪ Top wedding: Two pensioners celebrate their wedding on Saturday at a top nightclub.
▪ They were married at Chiseldon, Wiltshire, and recently celebrated their diamond wedding.
▪ So they lived happily in his fortress for a month and a day, celebrating their wedding feast.
▪ The pair, both 73, decided to quit on the same day they celebrated their golden wedding.
▪ He leaves a wife, Kerry, with whom he would have celebrated his second wedding anniversary this month.
hold
▪ Wellesley and Dartmouth functions, mostly, but we also held four weddings there, including our daughters'.
invite
▪ A politician invited to make the wedding speech can be relied upon to dish up some predictions along with the eternal verities.
▪ Sarah was invited to Diana's wedding and entertained her royal friend in her apartment near Clapham Junction in south London.
▪ Auntie Nellie only came to visit on special occasions so I expect Dad must have written to invite her to the wedding.
▪ Could Mr Moon, then, be invited to the wedding without his wife, Amabel had wondered?
plan
▪ This is the ideal hotel if you are planning a small wedding reception.
▪ But a family planning a wedding reception would be able to claim exemption from import duty.
wear
▪ When and I got married I had to wear a size 16 wedding dress.
▪ She would not wear a wedding ring.
▪ But you dressed differently, I remember that and you also wore a wedding ring.
▪ She was wearing a wedding dress made of rich material.
▪ She wore a wedding ring, but she could surely never have had any children of her own.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After the wedding the bride and groom went straight to the airport for their flight to Fiji.
▪ Are you going to have a traditional white wedding?
▪ Have you sent out the wedding invitations yet?
▪ Mom always cries at weddings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Jacques Lipchitz, who had recently married, decided to commission Modigliani to paint a wedding portrait.
▪ He had wanted her himself so badly, and when he'd heard of her wedding he had been insanely jealous.
▪ He plans to go ahead with his wedding, which was postponed last Wednesday, on his return to Sarajevo.
▪ Roy had been working for him since three weeks after his wedding, and he hated it.
▪ The couple also got £2,000 cash that helped to make their wedding reception a feast to remember.
▪ The couple plan to celebrate the victory and their seventh wedding anniversary by taking their children to Disneyworld in Florida.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wedding

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.
--Longfellow.

Note: 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.

Note: 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.
--Shak.

Wedding favor, a marriage favor. See under Marriage.

Wedding

Wed \Wed\, v. t. [imp. Wedded; p. p. Wedded or Wed; p. pr. & vb. n. Wedding.] [OE. wedden, AS. weddian to covenant, promise, to wed, marry; akin to OFries. weddia to promise, D. wedden to wager, to bet, G. wetten, Icel. ve[eth]ja, Dan. vedde, Sw. v["a]dja to appeal, Goth. gawadj[=o]n to betroth. See Wed, n.]

  1. To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse.

    With this ring I thee wed.
    --Bk. of Com. Prayer.

    I saw thee first, and wedded thee.
    --Milton.

  2. To join in marriage; to give in wedlock.

    And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her.
    --Milton.

  3. Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.

    Thou art wedded to calamity.
    --Shak.

    Men are wedded to their lusts.
    --Tillotson.

    [Flowers] are wedded thus, like beauty to old age.
    --Cowper.

  4. To take to one's self and support; to espouse. [Obs.]

    They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.
    --Clarendon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wedding

Old English weddung "state of being wed; pledge, betrothal; action of marrying," verbal noun from wed (v.). Meaning "nuptials, ceremony of marriage" is recorded from early 13c.; the usual Old English word for the ceremony was bridelope, literally "bridal run," in reference to conducting the bride to her new home. Wedding ring is from late 14c.; wedding cake is recorded from 1640s, as a style of architecture from 1879. Wedding-dress attested from 1779; wedding-reception from 1856.

Wiktionary
wedding

Etymology 1 n. 1 marriage ceremony; ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage. 2 Joining of two or more parts. vb. (present participle of wed English) Etymology 2

vb. To participate in a wedding.

WordNet
wedding

See wed

wed
  1. adj. having been taken in marriage [syn: wedded]

  2. [also: wedding, wedded]

wedding
  1. n. the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed [syn: wedding ceremony, nuptials, hymeneals]

  2. the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; "their marriage was conducted in the chapel" [syn: marriage, marriage ceremony]

  3. a party of people at a wedding [syn: wedding party]

wed
  1. v. take in marriage [syn: marry, get married, conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with, espouse]

  2. perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got spliced on Hawaii" [syn: marry, tie, splice]

  3. [also: wedding, wedded]

Wikipedia
Wedding
"Wedding party" redirects here. For the party held after a wedding, see wedding reception. "Man of honor" redirects here. For the term used to refer to initiated members of the Italian-American or Sicilian Mafia, see Made man.

A wedding is a ceremony where two people are united in marriage. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes. Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of marriage vows by the couple, presentation of a gift (offering, ring(s), symbolic item, flowers, money), and a public proclamation of marriage by an authority figure. Special wedding garments are often worn, and the ceremony is sometimes followed by a wedding reception. Music, poetry, prayers or readings from religious texts or literature are also commonly incorporated into the ceremony.

Wedding (Berlin)

Wedding (; ) is a locality in the borough of Mitte, Berlin, Germany and was a separate borough in the north-western inner city until it was fused with Tiergarten and Mitte in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform. At the same time the eastern half of the former borough of Wedding—on the other side of Reinickendorfer Straße—was separated as the new locality of Gesundbrunnen.

Wedding (disambiguation)

A wedding is a formal ceremony which unites people in marriage.

Wedding may also refer to:

Wedding (TV series)

Wedding is an 18-episode South Korean television drama that aired on KBS2 in 2005. The series explores the relationship of a newly wed couple, showing how two people, who met and married through an arranged matchmaking, slowly develop a relationship and learn what it means to be married. Some of the issues explored include what is the most important thing in a marriage, trust and honesty between a couple, how past relationships affect present, and the role of family in a relationship. Unlike other dramas written by Oh Soo-yeon, which focused on people falling in love by fate or destiny, this one is about two people with very different personalities, values, and backgrounds, and seeing how they learn to love one another despite all of their differences.

Usage examples of "wedding".

The ex-Royal Family waved, each remembering happier occasions, wedding dresses, kisses, the cheers of the adoring crowds.

There Amir waited with the Aman and four Arabic speaking men, selected from the crew to witness the wedding.

Cervantes, Don Quixote By the time of their tenth wedding anniversary in January 1982, Frederick and Rosemary West were consumed by an evil, all-pervading lust.

On one occasion, probably around the time of their tenth wedding anniversary, West even confirmed this power over his wife in writing.

This little yacht excursion in the Bahamas was a gift from the children to celebrate the twentieth wedding anniversary of Andrew and Billie.

I never thought I would be standing here beside Regis Aurum on the day before our wedding, wondering what you all must think of this woman from the unpredictable west about to be called queen.

He even avouched that he had never been more pleased about a wedding than the day his sister married Sedgwick.

She were lying under a down quiltme wedding gift to the bride, Hindoo lady up in Ponda sewed it for mebut just as we came in she shrugged it off, and you could see her bare as a babby to the waist.

The day after the wedding I began to make preparations for my departure.

She presented her husband, and begged Count Algarotti to atone for her error towards her god-mother by inviting her to join the wedding repast, an invitation which the countess accepted with great pleasure.

My great-aunt asked me to dinner, and when I went I found the foolish young man and his father present, together with my grandfather, who formally introduced him to me as my future husband, and begged me to fix the wedding day.

Her beplumed hat floated in a pool of disfiguring water, her long suede gloves lay in a ditch and her white satin wedding slippers, alas, hung by their tiny heels at the top of a tree in a neighboring township, the only tree in the entire surrounding county, put there, in all probability, to catch and hold them for her.

Then they had a wedding and after the wedding they went home and then they had some lunch and a drink and then they set off for Bethlem on their honeymoon and they went on a donkey.

He had given them a sterling service for twelve as a wedding present, which Boa had insisted on cooing over privately, as they were driving to the airport.

And Iagoo, the great boaster, He the marvellous story-teller, He the friend of old Nokomis, Jealous of the sweet musician, Jealous of the applause they gave him, Saw in all the eyes around him, Saw in all their looks and gestures, That the wedding guests assembled Longed to hear his pleasant stories, His immeasurable falsehoods.