noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a birthday/Christmas/wedding cake (= a special cake for a birthday etc )
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Lucy had twelve candles on her birthday cake.
a church wedding (= in a church )
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She wants to have a church wedding.
a party/wedding invitation
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He had a wedding invitation from Rob and Jen.
a wedding dress
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Have you chosen your wedding dress yet?
a wedding gift
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Some people prefer to give cash as a wedding gift.
a wedding photo
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Shall I show you our wedding photos?
a wedding photograph
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Your wedding photographs will keep the memories of the big day alive for you.
a wedding present
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His wedding present to her had been a diamond necklace.
a wedding reception
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There were over 200 guests at our wedding reception.
a wedding ring
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He gave her a diamond wedding ring on their wedding day.
a wedding/marriage ceremony
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It was a beautiful wedding ceremony.
a wedding/marriage feast
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This dish is traditionally served at wedding feasts.
diamond wedding
funeral/wedding/carnival etc procession
golden wedding
marriage/wedding vows
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She wrote her own marriage vows.
sb’s wedding day (= the day when someone gets married )
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She wanted everything to be perfect for her wedding day.
shotgun wedding
silver wedding anniversary
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a party to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary
wedding anniversary
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Jack and Kim celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary in January.
wedding bells (= rung when people marry in a church )
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Mark and Bridget seem very happy and we expect to hear wedding bells soon.
wedding celebrations
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The wedding celebrations can last for a week or more.
wedding chapel
wedding dress
wedding guests
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We need to send out invitations to all the wedding guests.
wedding ring
wedding vows
wedding/evening/ball gown
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a white silk wedding gown
white wedding
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
golden
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Her golden wedding band gleamed on the shelf.
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Another successful choice would be a golden wedding anniversary.
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The pair, both 73, decided to quit on the same day they celebrated their golden wedding .
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The golden weddings and stories of handbell ringers and emergent skiffle groups were getting a bit tame, by comparison.
royal
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The royal wedding is creating little media frenzy around the world.
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It's the odd details that get to you, the picture of the royal wedding on the mantelpiece.
white
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And we did not want to miss the opportunity of having such a wonderful day, complete with the white wedding car.
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Who will dream my face as white as wedding sheets, my lips vague as laundered bloodstains?
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Yesterday he donned white suit and cowboy boots for the service while Lynn sported a white silk wedding gown.
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Sally Watkin talked to three adventurous couples who defied the tradition of the white wedding and opted for something completely different.
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In theory you can use the usual wedding speeches, simply omitting any references to white weddings.
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I've got this smart suit on and Marie's wearing this white wedding dress with all these frilly bits.
■ NOUN
anniversary
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The couple plan to celebrate the victory and their seventh wedding anniversary by taking their children to Disneyworld in Florida.
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At the moment, I do quite a few barn dances, mainly for wedding anniversaries .
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What would the photos of my twenty-fifth wedding anniversary have revealed?
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No concessions are made to their infant's chicken pox or wedding anniversaries .
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Back home it was 6.30 am and ironically the morning of his wedding anniversary .
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The idea of making a special flower picture to commemorate a particular wedding anniversary works very well.
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Another successful choice would be a golden wedding anniversary .
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Finally the couple may be celebrating a birthday, a wedding anniversary or some other red-letter day.
bell
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Talking about wedding bells , she was.
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By then I was hearing wedding bells , and not only for Old Red and Margaret.
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Myra has wedding bells ringing in her ears all day.
breakfast
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Before me were the remains of an impromptu wedding breakfast .
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It was almost certainly the first wedding breakfast that particular Lyons' teashop had provided.
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Gradually the wedding breakfast was breaking up.
cake
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The final chapter - on whither the wedding cake - had this reviewer in helpless stitches.
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Encrusted with statues, pillars, and reliefs, it looks like a huge wedding cake in stone.
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Everybody saved all their food coupons for the wedding cake .
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We all eat wedding cakes from Gisella Tect.
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The white pony comes complete with veil, wedding cake , wedding ring, comb and ribbon, for perfect grooming!
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But this is no ordinary wedding cake - it's a knitted one!
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Three sides of the Piazza were bordered by arched colonnades, tiers upon tiers of them, like a massive wedding cake .
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And to round it off their was a tiered wedding cake - all provided by Mrs White.
ceremony
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At the wedding ceremony Sir George's cousin Edward received the suit as a memento.
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Saturday's 35-minute wedding ceremony was as simple as Anne and Tim had wanted.
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The priest was shot dead as he drove back to his parish after conducting a wedding ceremony , but nothing was stolen.
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The wedding ceremony publicly marks the beginning of commitment to another through marriage.
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They forbade lavish wedding ceremonies , bringing to an end the glitzy Punjabi wedding.
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We managed to persuade him not to perform the whole work during the wedding ceremony .
church
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Last night, Horsewell's distraught girlfriend cancelled their church wedding .
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Like the ceremonies at City Hall, church weddings for lesbians and gays give no legal standing.
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You see, I wanted a church wedding .
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I said I wanted to be best man, I said I wanted a church wedding .
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If we'd had a church wedding , she'd have done the white-lace-and-trimmings bit, the full veil-and-trail number.
day
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This day , long before you were born, was my wedding day.
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Award winning Gary Hooker of Saks specialises in beautiful wedding day transformations.
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Margarita Georgiou brought her wedding day forward after cancer victim Nick was told by doctors he didn't have long to live.
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The sick smile that Odilo sported throughout his wedding day seems, in retrospect, all too appropriate.
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Thus ended Mary's wedding day .
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I was dancing much of the time on the wedding day .
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However, she took Tom's advice and busied herself preparing for Anna's wedding day .
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We intend tomorrow for our wedding day , and Mr. Williams shall officiate.
dress
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Brides-to-be can also catch a glimpse of a specially commissioned wedding dress .
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He saw the wedding dress , across the chair.
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She had always loved to sew, and when she had started to design in earnest wedding dresses had proved irresistible.
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Eventually, much later, a wedding dress was found inside.
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That night I was again subjected to the ordeal by wedding dress .
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They ran after me but I could run much faster without the wedding dress .
feast
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My words have been grubby confetti, faded, tacky, blown far from the wedding feast .
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Village wedding feasts may soon forsake smoked salmon canapés in favour of such things as Lincolnshire chine and Wiltshire porkies once again.
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Here was the connubial complement to Miss Havisham's wedding feast but without the cobwebs.
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So they lived happily in his fortress for a month and a day, celebrating their wedding feast .
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The priest made a short speech praising the families and the outstanding simplicity of the wedding feast .
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Witness their behaviour at the Lapithae wedding feast when the centaur Eurythion tried to rape the bride.
gift
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The small heated swimming pool hidden from view near the rose walk was a wedding gift from the Army.
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Yes, he would give Ebert the lookalike as an early wedding gift .
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This was Nahum's wedding gift to his bride.
gown
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Yesterday he donned white suit and cowboy boots for the service while Lynn sported a white silk wedding gown .
guest
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A great drive of deer had been organised for the wedding guests .
invitation
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A sign warning trespassers printed in the copper-plate script normally reserved for wedding invitations would inhibit nobody.
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However the first indication your guests will receive as to your plans, is when their wedding invitation arrives.
night
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This was her wedding night and she was going to be sleeping alone.
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The monster had promised to be with me on my wedding night , but he had not planned to kill me.
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She entered a cocoon from which a butterfly would emerge on the wedding night .
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He would not see his bride before the wedding night so all sorts of pictures could float in the mind.
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He went back to his parents' council house on the wedding night .
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He made a sour kind of joke out of it, that they must wait until their wedding night .
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But I knew that the monster would not visit us until our wedding night .
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He taunted me, asking me if I knew what was going to happen to me on my wedding night .
party
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You don't want all the wedding party to have heard the speech in advance of the wedding.
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If you want a beastly dull wedding party , don't bring Lulu.
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On 16 August 1987 he was called to an incident following a wedding party in West London.
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The wedding party was in full swing when she arrived back at the château.
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It had been a marvellous wedding party and it was followed by a wedding night that she knew she would never forget.
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Cathy is the daughter of local Magistrate Harry Hall and the wedding party all saw the funny side of it.
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Walter sees a friend among them and asks if this is a private wedding party .
photograph
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Her wedding photograph showed her with a prettily plump figure.
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The tragedy comes a month after these wedding photographs were taken.
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He removed the vase and put it on the occasional table next to the wedding photograph .
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Not exactly a wedding photograph , but close.
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The woman in the wedding photograph .
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I recognized him from the wedding photograph old Ma Scamp had flashed in front of me.
present
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Sarella concentrated on choosing a wedding present they would both like and an outfit she could wear again later.
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Hatton said something about buying him a record player for a wedding present .
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She took a painting some one gave us as a wedding present .
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His main task was tastefully to accommodate as many wedding presents into their new homes as was practicable.
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At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present .
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I was hoping to surprise you - a sort of unexpected wedding present , but it was no good.
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Gunnell gave herself the perfect wedding present when she unwrapped an Olympic gold medal in the 400metres hurdles.
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Drink on Sunday at - where wedding present ?
procession
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At 2.50, the first of the royals will travel the half mile from the castle gates in the wedding procession .
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Now the wedding procession started homeward.
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All the wedding procession goes to church.
reception
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Meetings, rallies, dances and wedding receptions all brought the small communities together.
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The couple also got £2,000 cash that helped to make their wedding reception a feast to remember.
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The castle's impressive great hall is a popular venue with local couples for wedding receptions .
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This is the ideal hotel if you are planning a small wedding reception .
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Food for more than 100 guests at two wedding receptions was alleged to have been prepared at the kitchen.
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It is an ideal location for wedding receptions , having large attractive grounds.
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In addition to meeting rooms and lounges, a large function room is used for conferences and is hired for celebrations such as wedding receptions .
ring
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If you buy your engagement ring from them you will get a 10 percent discount on your wedding ring or rings.
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Beaverbrooks recommend you choose your wedding ring about three months before the big day so that you have no last minute worries.
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She recognized her wedding ring but nothing else.
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Yet a far stronger and more symbolic object remains - the wedding ring .
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Custodians keep an alert lookout for any female without a wedding ring , as lipstick is not good for marble.
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She had, after all, a wedding ring on her finger, so there must have been a Mr Salt.
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And don't forget the 10 percent discount you will receive on further purchases when you choose your wedding ring at Beaverbrooks.
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Aunt Margaret had one single piece of jewellery, besides her fat gold wedding ring .
■ VERB
attend
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The answer was that he had flown out quite coincidentally to attend a wedding .
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The Orthodox, in particular, barred marriage with Hicksites or even attending their weddings .
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On Sunday all of them had attended a cousin's wedding .
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Most of his colleagues in the Computer Department attended the wedding .
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He was allowed to postpone serving the sentence in order to attend his daughter's wedding .
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If attending a wedding or party of close friends, you should have the time of your life.
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Minnie did not attend the wedding but everyone else thought that Helen was a beautiful bride.
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Today Leeson had a free hour before attending a wedding .
celebrate
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Top wedding: Two pensioners celebrate their wedding on Saturday at a top nightclub.
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They were married at Chiseldon, Wiltshire, and recently celebrated their diamond wedding .
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So they lived happily in his fortress for a month and a day, celebrating their wedding feast.
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The pair, both 73, decided to quit on the same day they celebrated their golden wedding .
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He leaves a wife, Kerry, with whom he would have celebrated his second wedding anniversary this month.
hold
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Wellesley and Dartmouth functions, mostly, but we also held four weddings there, including our daughters'.
invite
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A politician invited to make the wedding speech can be relied upon to dish up some predictions along with the eternal verities.
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Sarah was invited to Diana's wedding and entertained her royal friend in her apartment near Clapham Junction in south London.
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Auntie Nellie only came to visit on special occasions so I expect Dad must have written to invite her to the wedding .
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Could Mr Moon, then, be invited to the wedding without his wife, Amabel had wondered?
plan
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This is the ideal hotel if you are planning a small wedding reception.
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But a family planning a wedding reception would be able to claim exemption from import duty.
wear
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When and I got married I had to wear a size 16 wedding dress.
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She would not wear a wedding ring.
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But you dressed differently, I remember that and you also wore a wedding ring.
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She was wearing a wedding dress made of rich material.
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She wore a wedding ring, but she could surely never have had any children of her own.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After the wedding the bride and groom went straight to the airport for their flight to Fiji.
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Are you going to have a traditional white wedding ?
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Have you sent out the wedding invitations yet?
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Mom always cries at weddings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Jacques Lipchitz, who had recently married, decided to commission Modigliani to paint a wedding portrait.
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He had wanted her himself so badly, and when he'd heard of her wedding he had been insanely jealous.
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He plans to go ahead with his wedding , which was postponed last Wednesday, on his return to Sarajevo.
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Roy had been working for him since three weeks after his wedding , and he hated it.
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The couple also got £2,000 cash that helped to make their wedding reception a feast to remember.
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The couple plan to celebrate the victory and their seventh wedding anniversary by taking their children to Disneyworld in Florida.