Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Wedding \Wed"ding\, n. [AS. wedding.]
   Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.

         Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and
         of Boaz.                                 --Longfellow.

   Note: Certain anniversaries of an unbroken marriage have
         received fanciful, and more or less appropriate, names.
         Thus, the fifth anniversary is called the wooden
         wedding; the tenth, the tin wedding; the fifteenth, the
         crystal wedding; the twentieth, the china wedding; the
         twenty-fifth, the silver wedding; the fiftieth, the
         golden wedding; the sixtieth, the diamond wedding.
         These anniversaries are often celebrated by appropriate
         presents of wood, tin, china, silver, gold, etc., given
         by friends.

   Note: Wedding is often used adjectively; as, wedding cake,
         wedding cards, wedding clothes, wedding day, wedding
         feast, wedding guest, wedding ring, etc.

               Let her beauty be her wedding dower. --Shak.

   {Wedding favor}, a marriage favor. See under {Marriage}.

Wed \Wed\, v. t. [imp. {Wedded}; p. p. {Wedded} or {Wed}; p. pr.
   & vb. n. {Wedding}.] [OE. wedden, AS. weddian to covenant,
   promise, to wed, marry; akin to OFries. weddia to promise, D.
   wedden to wager, to bet, G. wetten, Icel. ve[eth]ja, Dan.
   vedde, Sw. v["a]dja to appeal, Goth. gawadj[=o]n to betroth.
   See {Wed}, n.]
   1. To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to
      marry; to espouse.

            With this ring I thee wed.            --Bk. of Com.
                                                  Prayer.

            I saw thee first, and wedded thee.    --Milton.

   2. To join in marriage; to give in wedlock.

            And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with
            her.                                  --Milton.

   3. Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of
      marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.

            Thou art wedded to calamity.          --Shak.

            Men are wedded to their lusts.        --Tillotson.

            [Flowers] are wedded thus, like beauty to old age.
                                                  --Cowper.

   4. To take to one's self and support; to espouse. [Obs.]

            They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.
                                                  --Clarendon.

Source : WordNet®

wedding
     See {wed}

wed
     adj : having been taken in marriage [syn: {wedded}]
     [also: {wedding}, {wedded}]

wedding
     n 1: the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is
          performed [syn: {wedding ceremony}, {nuptials}, {hymeneals}]
     2: the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; "their marriage
        was conducted in the chapel" [syn: {marriage}, {marriage
        ceremony}]
     3: a party of people at a wedding [syn: {wedding party}]

wed
     v 1: take in marriage [syn: {marry}, {get married}, {conjoin}, {hook
          up with}, {get hitched with}, {espouse}]
     2: perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on
        Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple
        got spliced on Hawaii" [syn: {marry}, {tie}, {splice}]
     [also: {wedding}, {wedded}]