white wedding
noun [C]Definition
› a traditional Christian marriage in a church, at which the woman who is getting married wears a white dress: She wants a proper white wedding.Relating to weddings
(Definition of white wedding noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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