wedding-day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedding-days
Senses: examples: text: On the morning of the wedding-day, the image of Corinna was present to Oswald with more vivid semblance than ever; […]
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book XIX. Oswald’s return to Italy.] Chapter I.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume V, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 146:
text: Perhaps he wants to know if us have got any ready money to give away with Mag. Shouldn’t wonder, for it’s often axed for on wedding-days by gentlefolks; though it seems queer enough to me that a man should expect to be paid for marrying a good wife.
ref: 1870, Old Boomerang [pseudonym; John Richard Houlding], Rural and City Life; or, The Fortunes of the Stubble Family, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, page 47:
text: To-morrow was Edmund’s wedding-day. I thought how lovely Bella woud look as a bride, and then reflected on my own sad fate.
ref: 1876, S. L. Brand, Dora: A Life Story, London: Charing Cross Publishing Company, Limited, […], page 85:
text: “My wedding-day!” she thought to herself. “What would my father think if he knew this was my wedding-day?”
ref: 1900 April 12, Bertha M. Clay, “Repented at Leisure”, in Wood County Reporter, Grand Rapids, Wis.: A. L. Fontaine:
text: Even the wedding-day’s “traditional white” is subjected to changes in fashion.
ref: 1971 July 2, Winn Walsh, “In my fashion: Fairytale brides”, in Manchester Evening News, number 31,804, Manchester, page 6:
text: [W]e have to see happy marriage not as a gift handed to us on our wedding-day, but as something we have to create together by long years of toil and effort.
ref: 1973 November 28, Louise White, “Mental health: Couples advised to shoot for ‘attainables’ in marriage”, in Chippewa Herald-Telegram, volume 103, number 276, Chippewa Falls, Wis., page 8, column 1:
text: “When we lived in Fawley Avenue, Hyde, we used to overlook St George’s Church and every April 23 when St George’s flag was flying, we used to tell the neighbours that it was to mark our wedding-day,” said Mrs [Doris] Garside at her cottage.
ref: 1974 April 23, “Dave wasn’t eager, but . . .”, in Manchester Evening News, number 32,670, Manchester, page 3:
text: Many, as they approached their own wedding-day, had never, or hardly ever, changed a nappy or bottled or potted a baby or de-winded it or coped with a squalling red-faced infant or into-everything toddler.
ref: 1977 August 2, Jane Humber, “Women”, in The Daily Mail, number 28,527, Kingston upon Hull, page 10, column 5:
text: OUR lives are ruled by time. Clocks and calendars are our masters. How often we would love to hold on to that happy moment of joy and happiness on our wedding-day or anniversary etc.
ref: 1980 January 18, Michael Lacey, article, in Atherstone Herald, number 1091, Atherstone, page 33, column 7:
text: “[…] [W]e said we wouldn’t live together because it would lessen our wedding-day. It’s just too easy to move in together. / “I want the start of a new life when I walk down the aisle, not just an extension of how I’ve been living before.[…]”
ref: 1993 June 29, Tracey Alwell, quotee, “Love and commitment”, in Evening Mail, Birmingham, page 19:
glosses: Dated form of wedding day.