Word Finder - wedding

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To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.

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The priest wed the couple.

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To take as one's spouse.

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She wed her first love.

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To take a spouse.

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To join or commit to, more or less permanently, as if in marriage.

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I'm not wedded to this proposal; suggest an alternative.

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To take to oneself and support; to espouse.

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To wager, stake, bet, place a bet, make a wager.

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I'd wed my head on that.

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Marriage ceremony; ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.

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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."

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Joining of two or more parts.

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The wedding of our three companies took place last week.

It was his wedding, not his funeral.

There were some wedding pictures of the Thompsons.

We don't want a big wedding, and we've already made the arrangements.

The only thing we don't know is the wedding date.

My only hint occurred during a dance with Martha at our wedding reception.

The conversation drifted to clothing—Cynthia's search for an appropriate wedding dress for the mother of the groom, and Jennifer's west coast dress shop.

Her first thought went to Evelyn's wedding, and another thrill went through her as she realized she could actually afford something nice for her friend.

And didn't wedding vows say something about forsaking all others?

We'll leave after the wedding, so you have a couple of days.

They had not seen her since their wedding but Cynthia spoke to her by telephone frequently and the two were as close as the distance allowed.

To invite you guys to the wedding, all of you, even Martha!

Cynthia accepted the news well, first on the phone amid post wedding hubbub, and the next day when he met her stepping off the plane.

Cynthia was on the office phone to New Jersey, doing "wedding things," as she described them.

Wedding plans were progressing nicely, now totally out of male hands, and Randy's baseball activities were in high gear.

The wedding took place the Sunday before the election for Ouray County Sheriff.

It's only two weeks until your wedding.

Our wedding definitely took priority.

Whether it was wedding plans, baby names, or ways to kill her son, Dean didn't know.

Evelyn's wedding was for a hundred invitees in a small chapel by the ocean followed by a reception for over twice that many guests.

I hope you'll play both Wedding Planner and Matron of honor.

A note for a wedding ring baked into the clay of Babylon has been preserved, while the history of the greatest events has perished.

Personalized wedding favors, elegant bridal shower party favors create unforgettable memories for the bride and groom and their wedding reception guests.

Pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for some time to get the wedding ring off his fat finger.

When the phone rang for the fourth time, Dean assumed it was either a call for reservations or more discussion on the upcoming New Jersey wedding plans, but Cynthia held the phone against herself and called to her husband.

The telephone lines between New Jersey and Colorado continued to burn about the confirmed August wedding date.

Evelyn might love her but would probably not welcome a call on her wedding night.

The second earliest dated letter expressed sorrow that the wedding could not take place in Boston and a gift was being shipped separately.

So absorbed was Katie in her wedding, that she didn't notice Alex was always at Carmen's elbow.

Apparently it is Turkish tradition for the wedding party to tear around the village, at high speed, in a motor cavalcade.

During the wedding reception Cleopatra drinks far too much and openly cavorts with Hercules.

The General Registrar has allowed humanist celebrants to sanction a wedding ceremony, after a long campaign by the Humanist Organization.

You are welcome to hold a wedding ceremony conducted by a minister at the hotel.

Our organic wedding cakes are made to order, with cream colored icing, decorated with fresh flowers and tiny gold cherubs.

I love the fight between Tanya and Amber in the player's lounge and I do still chuckle at Kyle and Chardonnay's wedding.

Equally perfect as a scrumptious dessert after your Wedding Breakfast or as a Buffet for your Guests in the afternoon or evening.

He was just showing me a house he said he was giving as a wedding gift.

The room was otherwise arranged as if for a wedding with two sets of neatly lined chairs on either side of a long aisle.

There's decisions to be made, wedding details to discuss, and I'm sure Rose Calvia feels the same as I about the children staying in school.

A Chicago update—nothing new—followed a New Jersey wedding plans update.

I'd kill the pair of them, if I hadn't already bought my wedding gown.

During dinner, they talked mostly about the wedding and tomorrow's party.

Because if you don't, you will ruin your wedding present.

She hurried back yelling, "Connor, we have a wedding gift!"

Once they had settled on October 12th for the wedding, and decided to use the same caterer they used for the Halloween gala, Elisabeth suggested they give it a rest until after Christmas.

Maybe she didn't want her wedding day overshadowed by theirs.

They were so busy with wedding arrangements that Carmen couldn't afford time to miss him - but somehow she managed to do it anyway.

The excavations have provided examples of houses of every description, from the humble dwelling-place of the artisan or proletarian, with only three or four small rooms, to the stately mansions of Sallust, of the Faun, of the Golden Cupids, of the Silver Wedding, of the Vettii, of Pansa, 1 &c. - the last of which is among the most regular in plan, and may be taken as an almost 1 It may be observed that the names given in most cases to the houses are either arbitrary or founded in the first instance upon erroneous inferences.

In the Eumenides of Aeschylus" the Erinyes are reproached in that by aiding Clytemnestra, who slew her husband, " they are dishonouring and bringing to naught the pledges of Zeus and Hera, the marriage-goddess "; and these were the divinities to whom sacrifice was offered before the wedding," and it may be that some kind of mimetic representation of the " Holy Marriage," the IEpos ydpos, of Zeus and Hera formed a part of the Attic nuptial ceremonies.'

At the violent removal by the British government of a colony of French settlers from Acadie (Nova Scotia) in 1755, a young couple, on the very day of their wedding, were separated and carried in different directions, so that they lost all trace of each other.

The ceremonies which accompany a wedding preserve the tradition of marriage by capture; a peasant bride must enter her new home carrying bread and salt, and in parts of Walachia a flower is painted on the outer wall of cottages in which there is a girl old enough to marry.