Posted on July 31, 2014
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0 Bridaller means “a guest at a wedding.” The root word bridal originally meant “a wedding” or “a wedding feast”. You may consider calling your distinguished wedding guests bridallers from now on.
Epithalamion [pronounced as ep-uh-thuh-ley-mee-on]
Paranymph [pronounced as par-uh-nimf]
Paranymph means bestman or bridesmaid and has unisex application. It translates from Greek paránymphos as “the person beside the bride.”
Agamy [pronounced as ag-uh-mee]
Agamy means status of unmarried or aversion to the instituition of marriage.
Shotgun Wedding is a wedding precipitated by pregnancy. The expression originated from the US and paints an image of a father forcing the young man to marry his daughter by firearms.
Affiance [pronounced as uh-fahy-uhns]
Affiance means to pledge by promise of marriage.
Foy [pronouned as foi]
Bachelorette party by Americans is similar to Scottish term Foy, which means a farewell gift, feast or drink
Trousseau [pronounced as troo-soh]
Trousseau is an outfit of clothing or household linen for a bride. In the past, it refers to the items a bride collects to furnish the newlywed house. But nowadays, it refers to the robes a bride wears on her wedding night.
Dot means a woman’s dowry.
Deuterogamy [pronounced as doo-tuh-rog-uh-mee]
Deuterogamy means the second marriage. Another word for this is isdigamy
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