white wedding
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of white wedding
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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Yulia Myroshnychenko had come in a white wedding dress, just like her girlfriend Yevgenia Skobielieva.
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
She was also photographed in a white wedding gown surrounded by film crew for a scene believed to be her marriage to Heathcliff's rival, Edgar Linton.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2025
She and about 20 other women traveled to Sacramento this summer, wearing white wedding dresses outside the state Capitol.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023
The age-old ritual in San Pedro Huamelula, now mixed with Catholic spirituality, involves dressing the alligator or caiman in a white wedding dress plus other colorful garments.
From Reuters • Jul. 1, 2022
On Thursday, November 9, 1939, I slipped into the high-necked white wedding dress with short sleeves that my mother had sewn for me, and Jimmie donned a black suit and bow tie.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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