wedding-day

plural wedding-days

1. datedDated form of wedding day.

   Even the wedding-day’s “traditional white” is subjected to changes in fashion.

   1971 July 2, Winn Walsh, “In my fashion: Fairytale brides”, in Manchester Evening News, number 31,804, Manchester, page 6

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   On the morning of the wedding-day, the image of Corinna was present to Oswald with more vivid semblance than ever; […]

   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

   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.

   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

   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.

   1876, S. L. Brand, Dora: A Life Story, London: Charing Cross Publishing Company, Limited, […], page 85

   “My wedding-day!” she thought to herself. “What would my father think if he knew this was my wedding-day?”

   1900 April 12, Bertha M. Clay, “Repented at Leisure”, in Wood County Reporter, Grand Rapids, Wis.: A. L. Fontaine

   [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.

   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