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Wedding ceremony   /wˈɛdɪŋ sˈɛrəmˌoʊni/   Listen
Wedding ceremony

noun
1.
The social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed.  Synonyms: hymeneals, nuptials, wedding.






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"Wedding ceremony" Quotes from Famous Books



... love with her at once, and the wedding ceremony was celebrated with great splendor. Every living thing in the sea, from the great whales down to the little shrimps, came in shoals to offer their congratulations to the bride and bridegroom and to wish them a long and prosperous life. Never had there been such ...
— Japanese Fairy Tales • Yei Theodora Ozaki

... escorted her into the presence of Sachem Nicola, Lida entertained the confidence of one who was among friends. The chief—or rather, the elected governor of the tribe—dwelt in a modest cottage, and with him was the priest who had come for the wedding ceremony. It was the priest who displayed the liveliest interest in the girl and he promptly began to seek the reason that had brought her north with that emblem of authority. He questioned her with ...
— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day

... to marry the daughter of a Chinese Christian brought up in native customs, he was compelled to wait several hours, as the bride refused to get up and dress until long after the time appointed for the wedding ceremony, and then only by force. "Extreme reluctance and dislike and fear are the true marks of a happy and lively wedding." (A.E. Moule, New China and Old, ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... The wedding ceremony had somehow upset her opinion of him, but Honora regarded this change as temporary. Julius Caesar or George Washington himself must have been somewhat ridiculous as bridegrooms: and she had the sense to perceive that her own ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill



Words linked to "Wedding ceremony" :   ceremony, nuptials, wedding, hymeneals, ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance



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