Meaning of wedding-day | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of wedding day.

alt-of, dated

Examples

“On the morning of the wedding-day, the image of Corinna was present⟳ to Oswald with more vivid semblance than ever; […]”

“Perhaps he wants to know⟳ if us have⟳ got any ready money to give⟳ away with Mag. Shouldn’t wonder⟳, for it’s often axed for on wedding-days by gentlefolks; though it seems queer enough to me that a man should expect⟳ to be paid for marrying a good wife.”

“To-morrow was Edmund’s wedding-day. I thought how lovely Bella woud look⟳ as a bride, and then reflected on my own⟳ sad fate.”

““My wedding-day!” she thought to herself. “What would my father think⟳ if he knew this was my wedding-day?””

“Even the wedding-day’s “traditional white” is subjected to changes in fashion.”

“[W]e have⟳ to see⟳ happy marriage not as a gift handed to us on our wedding-day, but as something we have⟳ to create⟳ together by long years of toil and effort.”

““When we lived in Fawley Avenue, Hyde, we used to overlook St George’s Church and every April 23 when St George’s flag was flying, we used to tell⟳ the neighbours that it was to mark⟳ our wedding-day,” said Mrs [Doris] Garside at her cottage.”

“Many, as they approached their own⟳ wedding-day, had never, or hardly ever, changed a nappy or bottled or potted a baby or de-winded it or coped with a squalling red-faced infant or into-everything toddler.”

“OUR lives are ruled by time. Clocks and calendars are our masters. How often we would love⟳ to hold⟳ on to that happy moment of joy and happiness on our wedding-day or anniversary etc.”

““[…] [W]e said we wouldn’t live⟳ together because it would lessen⟳ our wedding-day. It’s just too easy to move⟳ in together. / “I want⟳ the start⟳ of a new life when I walk⟳ down the aisle, not just an extension of how I’ve been living before.[…]””

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