wedding ceremony

1. 1.

   the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed

   Synonymsweddingnuptialshymeneals

   Broaderceremony

Questions about wedding ceremony

What does wedding ceremony mean?

wedding ceremony means "the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed".

What is another word for wedding ceremony?

Close synonyms include wedding, nuptials, hymeneals. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wedding ceremony a common word?

wedding ceremony is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.