weddingnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈwed.ɪŋ/us/ˈwed.ɪŋ/B1 a marriage ceremony and any celebrations such as a meal or a party that follow it:
a wedding cake/dress/invitation/present/reception
Do you know the date of Caroline and Matthew's wedding?
It was their 25th wedding anniversary last week.
More examples
- Are your family coming over from Greece for the wedding?
- I got completely drunk at my sister's wedding.
- They haven't yet settled when the wedding is going to be.
- The wedding's off - she's decided she's too young to settle down.
- We always celebrate our wedding anniversary with a bottle of champagne.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Weddings
- aisle
- always a bridesmaid, never the bride idiom
- arranged marriage
- bachelor party
- bachelorette party
- banns
- get spliced idiom
- give sb away
- go/walk down the aisle idiom
- golden anniversary
- golden wedding anniversary
- groom
- guard of honour
- honeymoon
- pageboy
- prenuptial
- register office
- registry office
- ruby anniversary
- shotgun wedding
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