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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Wedding \Wed"ding\, n. [AS. wedding.] Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials. [1913 Webster] Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Note: Wedding is often used adjectively; as, wedding cake, wedding cards, wedding clothes, wedding day, wedding feast, wedding guest, wedding ring, etc. [1913 Webster] Let her beauty be her wedding dower. --Shak. [1913 Webster] {Wedding favor}, a marriage favor. See under {Marriage}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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[aum]dja to appeal, Goth. gawadj[=o]n to betroth. See {Wed}, n.] [1913 Webster] 1. To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse. [1913 Webster] With this ring I thee wed. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. [1913 Webster] I saw thee first, and wedded thee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To join in marriage; to give in wedlock. [1913 Webster] And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly. [1913 Webster] Thou art wedded to calamity. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Men are wedded to their lusts. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster] [Flowers] are wedded thus, like beauty to old age. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 4. To take to one's self and support; to espouse. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] They positively and concernedly wedded his cause. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: wedding n 1: the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed [syn: {wedding}, {wedding ceremony}, {nuptials}, {hymeneals}] 2: the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; "their marriage was conducted in the chapel" [syn: {marriage}, {wedding}, {marriage ceremony}] 3: a party of people at a wedding [syn: {wedding}, {wedding party}]