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Marriage ceremony   /mˈɛrɪdʒ sˈɛrəmˌoʊni/   Listen
Marriage ceremony

noun
1.
The act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony.  Synonyms: marriage, wedding.






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"Marriage ceremony" Quotes from Famous Books



... most beautiful thing in the world, like a garden of lilies or—or something, a marriage ceremony is! You got the ring safe, honey-bee, and ...
— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various

... school-room should train the wife and the mother. Fidelity to home, to parents, brothers, sisters, and all the inmates of the paternal roof, is among the best qualifications for married life. If these duties have been hitherto neglected, be assured that the marriage ceremony will do little to supply ...
— The Young Maiden • A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

... the least interesting room in the cave if it were not the Bride's Chamber, on account of having once been the scene of a marriage ceremony. But no others are in need of assistance of such romantic nature, as all are curiously and handsomely decorated, with such a charming variety of deposits, artistically massed, combined or contrasted, that every step brings fresh ...
— Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills • Luella Agnes Owen

... also was pleased with his new son-in-law, especially as he had courted Miss Betsey out of pure love, and had said nothing at all about her portion. So, when the marriage ceremony was over, Captain Hull whispered a word to two of his men-servants, who immediately went out, and soon returned lugging in a large pair of scales. They were such a pair as wholesale merchants use for weighing bulky commodities, and quite a bulky commodity was now to ...
— Journeys Through Bookland - Volume Four • Charles H. Sylvester

... His inexhaustible conversational art and humour gave it such vitality as it had. Ladies of any age might apply for admission when well seconded: gentlemen under forty-five years were rigidly excluded, and the seniors must also have passed through the marriage ceremony. ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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