Wedding vs. Marriage

                                                                 Wedding vs. Marriage

A wedding is a marriage ceremony which is held in church or a registry office and also includes the party or special meal which follows the ceremony. All of this usually happens on your wedding day. There are a number of other wedding compounds that are associated with wedding day:

E.g. The newlyweds had told everybody that they wanted no wedding presents as they were
emigrating to Australia.

E.g. The predominant colour at Sonali's wedding was creamy white. Her wedding dress was this colour and the icing on the three-tier wedding cake was this colour too.

E.g. Is it true that in Britain you wear your wedding ring on the third finger of your left hand?

E.g. A silver wedding is celebrated after 25 years of marriage and a golden wedding after 50 years.

If you wed someone, you marry them, but wed is not used very much nowadays as a verb as it is rather old-fashioned. It can sound quite effective however, because it is unusual.Sometimes it has a poetic ring to it:

E.g. We got wed soon after the baby was born.

E.g. I shall never wed as I like to be independent.

*marriage / marry / get married

Marriage describes the relationship between husband and wife or the state of being married:

E.g. They enjoyed a long and happy marriage.

E.g. Most marriages these days do not last.

E.g. The bride's parents did not approve of Mona's marriage to Sohan.