white wedding

[ wahyt wed-ing, hwahyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a traditional wedding, usually in a church, where the bride wears a formal white gown:
They had a storybook white wedding in her childhood church.

First recorded in 1830–40

McCarthy wore a virginal white wedding dress for the occasion.

“I wanted to explore the white wedding dress and show how it went into color,” Ehrman says.

“Sherri Rasmussen wore the white wedding dress [Lazarus] believed was hers,” said Presby.

A wedding guest said there was a 20-some piece orchestra band and they had a gigantic white wedding cake.

Realistically I can't promise that someday we'll have a big, white wedding, but I can promise that I love you and I respect you.

He ran into the hall, into Mescal's room, and returned trailing the white wedding-dress.

Any light, delicate colour may be worn; but a woman has only one white wedding and one bridal veil in her life.

But towards morning he saw Mentine as he had seen her last in her white wedding gown and veil.

A white wedding cake means a white thing and so no more left in the bottle, no more water grows.

She had put on her white wedding gown and her lace veil and one of her satin slippers—the other lay on the dressing-table.

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