white wedding

American

[wahyt wed-ing, hwahyt] / ˈwaɪt ˈwɛd ɪŋ, ˈʰwaɪt /

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.

Etymology

Origin of white wedding

First recorded in 1830–40

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white wedding

At the ceremony, Roh wore a simple white wedding dress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

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 ladies had cleaned the house, aired everything out, notified everybody, and stitched together what looked like a white wedding dress for Aunt Jimmy, a maiden lady, to wear when she met Jesus.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

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