weddingern.
/ˈwɛdɪŋə/ dialect.
A wedding-guest; plural the whole wedding-party, including bride and bridegroom.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > people connected with wedding > [noun] > wedding group or party
weddinger1802
bride-people1816
wedding group1861
wedding party1873
1802 G. V. Sampson Statist. Surv. Londonderry 458 After a few days' carousal among the groom's friends, the weddingers move towards the bride's country.
1811 A. de Beauclerc Ora & Juliet IV. 185 But wont you have some cake, ladies, before the weddingers come to church?
1887 H. Caine Son of Hagar ii. xv ‘Good luck to the weddiners!’ they said.
1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish (ed. 2) 205 The weddingers passed down the little slope leading to the churchyard gate.
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