wedding

(noun)

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

Related Terms

Examples of wedding in the following topics:

  • Marriage and Responsibility

    • The ceremony in which a marriage is enacted and announced to the community is called a wedding.
    • A marriage can be declared by a wedding ceremony, which may be performed either by a religious officiator or through a similar government-sanctioned secular process.
    • In many countries, heterosexual weddings have the women dress in traditional white with a veil and the men in a tuxedo.

  • Mate Selection

    • In a shotgun wedding, a marriage between two people is forced because of an unplanned pregnancy.
    • As the stigma associated with out-of-wedlock births has faded over the years, and the number of such births has increased, shotgun weddings have become less common.
    • Fewer people perceive shotgun weddings to be necessary in order to support the woman and the child.

  • The Elements of Religion

  • Racial Stratification

    • When they moved to Virginia shortly after their wedding, law enforcement decided to prosecute them, breaking into their home in the middle of the night and carrying them off to jail.

  • The Nature of Marriage

    • A marriage can be declared by a wedding ceremony, which may be performed either by a religious officiator or through a similar government-sanctioned secular process.

  • Statistical Trends in Divorce

    • Success in marriage has been associated with higher education and higher age. 81% of college graduates, over 26 years of age, who wed in the 1980's, were still married 20 years later. 65% of college graduates under 26, who married in the 1980's, were still married 20 years later. 49% of high school graduates under 26 years old, who married in the 1980's, were still married 20 years later.

  • Mass Media and Technology

    • This means stories that affect a large number of people on a global scale often receive less coverage in some markets than local stories, such as a public school shooting, a celebrity wedding, a plane crash, or similarly glamorous or shocking stories.

  • Religion

    • They are also likely to raise their own children with religion and to participate in religious ceremonies, such as baptisms and weddings.

  • Homophobia

    • Most evidently, same-sex couples are not allowed to wed in most states.

  • Nonverbal Communication

    • You would dress differently to go to a wedding than a job interview than camping .