wedding

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."

The joining of two or more parts.idiomatic

• 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.

present participle and gerund of wedform-ofgerundparticiple

• Accordingly the Prince, accepting her largesse, sought the King to whom he had pledged his parents (and they were still with him in all weal and welfare) and going in to him made his salam and kissed ground and told him the whole tale of th

To participate in a wedding.humorousintransitive

• "Where you goin' get weddinged?" she inquired one day. / "We shall be married at the Episcopal Church, Yin Yang,"
• Getting married is entirely different than getting weddinged.