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# wedding

«wedding» in Mova's school dictionary: **a ceremony and celebration where two people get married** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a wedding, weddings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wedding is a ceremony and celebration where two people get married. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedding/#m1)

2) «Wedding anniversary» is the same date every year after a couple married. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedding/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and lessons about families and religions, weddings take place in churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, gurdwaras, register offices or outdoors, with different customs: a bride and groom, rings, vows, a cake, speeches, dancing. Children may be bridesmaids, flower girls or page boys. In maths, wedding planning gives problems about seats, tables and costs. Phrases: «go to a wedding», «wedding dress», «wedding ring», «wedding cake», «wedding day».

### examples

- My aunt's wedding is next month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedding/#x1)
- I was a flower girl at the wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedding/#x2)
- The wedding cake had four layers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedding/#x3)
- They exchanged rings at the wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedding/#x4)
- We danced all night at the wedding party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedding/#x5)
- A Sikh wedding takes place in a gurdwara. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedding/#x6)
- If each table seats 8 guests, how many tables for 96 guests? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedding/#x7)

### note

Plural: weddings. Double d. Related: marry, marriage, bride, groom. «Wedding» is the event; «marriage» is the relationship that follows. Maths: 96 guests ÷ 8 per table = 12 tables.

### In the corpora

- [A honeymoon is a holiday a couple takes just after the wedding, to rest and celebrate, just the two of them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/15/)
- [Being asked to be part of a parent's wedding shows that you are an important part of the new family.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/16/)
- [Cousins are the children of your aunts and uncles, and families spread out, so some cousins only meet at weddings and funerals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/12/)
- [A golden wedding anniversary means a couple has been married for fifty years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/15/)
- [The wedding is a fact the whole world watched.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wedding» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedding/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.