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. &fist; 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.
&fist; 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.
Hear it pronounced