Category:Wedding

Wed"ding, n. Etym: [as. wedding.]

Defn: 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.