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| anniversary |
the date each year that is the same date on which a wedding or other important event happened. [1/2 definitions] |
| arrangement |
When you make arrangements for something, you make plans and get things ready for it. When you make arrangements for a wedding, you decide the place for it, invite people, choose the cake, and many other things. [1/4 definitions] |
| attendance |
Your attendance at something, like a party or a wedding or a day of school, is the act of being there. |
| bouquet |
A bouquet is a bunch of cut flowers that have been chosen to go together. A bouquet is often given as a gift. You can hold a bouquet in your hand and carry it, or you can put the flowers in water in a vase. A bride often carries a beautiful bouquet at her wedding. |
| bride1 |
A bride is a woman on her wedding day. A bride often wears a long white dress. |
| bridesmaid |
A bridesmaid is a woman who helps out the bride before her wedding ceremony and typically follows the bride as she walks down the wedding aisle. Bridesmaids are often friends of the bride. Some brides may choose not to have bridesmaids, but others choose to have several. |
| casual |
When you dress in a casual way, you dress in a way that feels relaxed and comfortable. You wear clothes that are OK to wear at home or with friends but maybe not right to wear to a wedding, an important meeting, or an expensive restaurant. [1/2 definitions] |
| confetti |
Confetti is many small pieces of colored paper that people throw into the air to celebrate something. It's often thrown during parades and just after wedding ceremonies. |
| informal |
When something is informal, it is relaxed in style and feeling. A T-shirt is an informal type of clothing, but a suit that someone wears to work is not. If you go to a very informal wedding, it might be OK to wear a T-shirt, but most weddings require more formal clothes. [1/2 definitions] |
| maid of honor |
an unmarried woman who is the most important attendant of a bride at her wedding. |
| marriage |
the legal ceremony in which two people are joined; wedding. [1/2 definitions] |
| ring finger |
the third finger of the hand, especially the left hand, on which an engagement, wedding, or similar ring is traditionally worn. |
| run away |
If someone runs away with another person, they leave secretly to get married or to be together as a couple. Couples sometimes run away if their parents or other people don't want them to get married, or if the couple wants to get married but they don't want to have the fancy wedding that other people want them to have. [1/3 definitions] |
| tuxedo |
A tuxedo is a special suit that men sometimes wear when they go to a wedding or other very fancy party or dance. A tuxedo has a jacket that is usually black. It is worn with matching black pants, a special white shirt, and a bow tie. The pants usually have one long, shiny black stripe going up the outside of each leg. |
| wedding |
A wedding is a ceremony in which two people become married. When two people get married, they join their lives together under the law. |
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