wedding

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wedding/ˈwedɪŋ/

▶noun a marriage ceremony, especially one including the associated celebrations.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wed/wed/

▶verb (weds, wedding; past and past part. wedded or wed)

• 1 formal or literary marry.

  ■ give or join in marriage.

  ■ (as adj. wedded) of or concerning marriage: wedded bliss.

• 2 combine (two desirable factors or qualities).

• 3 (be wedded to) be entirely devoted to (an activity, belief, etc.).

– origin OE weddian, from the Gmc base of Scots wed ‘a pledge’; rel. to gage1.