wedding day meaning: definition, quotations

wedding day

nounalso spelled wedding-day

The day or date when a couple weds each other, initiating marriage.

John discovered himself to his parents, and Elizabeth to hers, and the wedding-day was soon fixed, and such a wedding was never seen; before or since in the island of Rügen[.]1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 312:

Dated A wedding anniversary.

... both Mr. and Mrs. Giblett returned it , and came to a party which we had at our house , according to annual custom , for the purpose of celebrating our Wedding day[…]1816, George HARROWER, The Refuter Refuted: Or, a Reply to Mr. Giblett's Pamphlet; Entitled, A Refutation of the Calumnies of G. Harrower, Etc, page 40:
... celebrating our wedding-day on the 23rd, I spent it very pleasantly. It was the thirty-fifth anniversary, and, although my life is hard at times, I thank God for it for we have stayed blameless towards each other[…]1897, Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡, The Countess Tolstoy's Later Diary, 1891-1897, London : V. Gollancz:

noun

Dated Dated form of wedding day.

On the morning of the wedding-day, the image of Corinna was present to Oswald with more vivid semblance than ever; […]1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book XIX. Oswald’s return to Italy.] Chapter I.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume V, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 146:
Perhaps he wants to know if us have got any ready money to give away with Mag. Shouldn’t wonder, for it’s often axed for on wedding-days by gentlefolks; though it seems queer enough to me that a man should expect to be paid for marrying a good wife.1870, Old Boomerang [pseudonym; John Richard Houlding], Rural and City Life; or, The Fortunes of the Stubble Family, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, page 47:

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To-morrow was Edmund’s wedding-day. I thought how lovely Bella woud look as a bride, and then reflected on my own sad fate.1876, S. L. Brand, Dora: A Life Story, London: Charing Cross Publishing Company, Limited, […], page 85:
“My wedding-day!” she thought to herself. “What would my father think if he knew this was my wedding-day?”1900 April 12, Bertha M. Clay, “Repented at Leisure”, in Wood County Reporter, Grand Rapids, Wis.: A. L. Fontaine:
Even the wedding-day’s “traditional white” is subjected to changes in fashion.1971 July 2, Winn Walsh, “In my fashion: Fairytale brides”, in Manchester Evening News, number 31,804, Manchester, page 6:
[W]e have to see happy marriage not as a gift handed to us on our wedding-day, but as something we have to create together by long years of toil and effort.1973 November 28, Louise White, “Mental health: Couples advised to shoot for ‘attainables’ in marriage”, in Chippewa Herald-Telegram, volume 103, number 276, Chippewa Falls, Wis., page 8, column 1: