ˈwediŋ, -dēŋ noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English weddung, from weddian to wed + -ung -ing
1.
a. : the marriage ceremony usually with its accompanying festivities : nuptials, espousal
sending out invitations to the wedding
b. : a wedding anniversary or its celebration — usually used in combination
golden wedding
2. : an act, process, or instance of joining or uniting in close association often of opposed or disparate elements
the result was a wedding of the delicate and the rough — D.S.Stewart
has not yet achieved the wedding of the serious and the popular — Harold Rogers
this production is a happy wedding of taste, talent, and technique — Lila Glaser
3. : a strong fine-textured smooth dull writing paper suitable for engraved wedding invitations