Wĕd'ding, n.

n. Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.

Let her beauty be her wedding dower. Shak.

Wedding is often joined to other words, forming compounds denoting that which pertains to, or is used at, a wedding or weddings; as, wedding-cake, wedding-cards, wedding-clothes, wedding-day, wedding-feast, wedding-guest, wedding-ring, and the like.

Wedding favor, a bunch or knot of white ribbon, &c., worn at weddings.