Etymology From Middle English wedding, weddynge, from Old English weddung (“betrothal, espousal”), equivalent to wed + -ing. Cognate with Middle Dutch weddinghe.
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A marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.
Her announcement was quite a surprise, coming a month after she published the words "I hate weddings with a passion and a fury I can only partially explain rationally."
Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz.1858, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Wedding-Day”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish:
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Rumor has it that there will be a wedding in our village ere the daisies are in bloom.1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter XXIV, in Anne of Avonlea:
After the wedding there was singing and concertina-playing in the laundry till late evening.1922, Anton Chekhov, “The Cook's Wedding”, in Constance Garnett, transl., The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories:
The wedding of our three companies took place last week.
1900, Eve Emery Dye, McLoughlin and Old Oregon, 2005 facsimile edition, page 56, That wedding of the fur companies is historic.
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Significantly, Grand Metropolitan elaborates upon the wedding of tradition and consumer narcissim that is the distinctively British version of private-sector collective representations;[…].1991, Richard M. Merelman, Partial Visions: Culture and Politics in Britain, Canada, and the United States, page 162:
The wedding of commercial with universal banking would result in more careful project evaluation and selection and a closer monitoring of existing loans.2000, Benton E. Gup, New Financial Architecture: Banking Regulation in the 21st Century, page 221:
The wedding of black brass bands and orchestras to jubilee concert companies was a consolidation that favored both promoters and musicians.2002, Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff, Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895, page 176:
"Snowball" was the name of this good steed, and great care had evidently been taken in her grooming to make her worthy of her name, her bridle being also gaily decked with coloured ribbons, for, as John said, when attending to these duties, "You don't go out a weddinging every day, do you, old gal?"1905, Hubert Garle with George Morland and Percy Fairclough, A driving tour in the Isle of Wight, page 116:
"Where you goin' get weddinged?" she inquired one day. / "We shall be married at the Episcopal Church, Yin Yang,"1909, Daisy E. M. F. Campbell, “Miss Yin Yang, of Shanghai”, in The New England magazine, volume 40:
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Getting married is entirely different than getting weddinged.1998 July 3, “NET-HAPPENINGS Digest”, in schl.news.nethappen (Usenet):
(In her private life this year, three of her children have been married, in quick succession, leaving her "weddinged out.")2002, Whitney Balliett, Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz 1954-2001, page 78:
It was the most opportune time; I had my agenda and she had hers, and I suspected that she and Susan would be “weddinged” out by the time they got home2010, Edward Anchel, Lost in Vegas:
Wasn't he the dude she weddinged with in her "Love All Over Me" vid? Sure was. . .2010 October 20, “Sideshow: Stop the press:...”, in Philadelphia Inquirer, The: