Wedding vs. Marriage

Weddingverb

present participle of wed

Weddingverb

To participate in a wedding.

Weddingnoun

Marriage ceremony; ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.

Weddingnoun

Joining of two or more parts.

Weddingnoun

Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.

Weddingnoun

the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed

Weddingnoun

the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony;

Weddingnoun

a party of people at a wedding

Weddingnoun

a marriage ceremony, especially considered as including the associated celebrations.

Wedding

A wedding is a ceremony where two people are united in marriage. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes.

Marriagenoun

The state of being married.

Marriagenoun

A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights and responsibilities.

Marriagenoun

(often specifically) The union of only two people, to the exclusion of all others.

Marriagenoun

The union of two people of opposite sex, to the exclusion of all others.

Marriagenoun

A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.

Marriagenoun

(figuratively) A close union.

Marriagenoun

A joining of two parts.

Marriagenoun

(card games) A king and a queen, when held as a hand in Texas hold 'em or melded in pinochle.

Marriagenoun

(card games) In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.

Marriagenoun

The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony.

Marriagenoun

The marriage vow or contract.

Marriagenoun

A feast made on the occasion of a marriage.

Marriagenoun

Any intimate or close union.

Marriagenoun

In pinochle, bézique, and similar games at cards, the combination of a king and queen of the same suit. If of the trump suit, it is called a royal marriage.

Marriagenoun

the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce);

Marriagenoun

two people who are married to each other;

Marriagenoun

the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony;

Marriagenoun

a close and intimate union;

Marriagenoun

the legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship (historically and in some jurisdictions specifically a union between a man and a woman)

Marriagenoun

the state of being married

Marriagenoun

a combination or mixture of elements

Marriagenoun

(in bezique and other card games) a combination of a king and queen of the same suit.

Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock is a culturally recognized union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children, and between them and their in-laws.