Definition of "marriage ceremony" [marriage ceremony]

• The act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "They had only to wait until the end of the period of mourning to go through the marriage ceremony at town hall and church, and after that they would be able to live together in the Rue Saint-Dominique or the Rue de Varenne."
• "Candy, cheeks pink with steam, was pouring tea; the soft murmur of talk formed a muted background as some of the girls worked at their mending and others crowded around Dulcie Wainright, planning yet another simple marriage ceremony in the white pine-box chapel on the edge of the woods."
• "The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. John F. Thomas, by whom I was afterwards licensed to preach."