Second Weddings

Wedding Words and their definitions - unabridged

Fiancé - Male Groom-to-be
Fiancée - Female Bride-to-be
Affianced - An engaged couple
Aisle - The walkway between benches or chairs that brides walk down
Isle - An Island
Easel - A stand to display art
Wedding - A ceremony legally binding two persons in life to one another who were legally single prior - Can be performed by a JoP, on the beach, at a church, home, garden. patio - can be just the couple or guests included.  If the couple ends up married at the end of the day it was real and a wedding regardless of where it occurred.
Second Wedding - Occurs after either the passing of a spouse or a divorce and when both parties are ready (we hope) and is not a vow renewal (see below).
Vow Renewal - A ceremony where a couple pledges to continue to love one another usually done after a significant amount of time has passed (10 or more years) or the couple has survived a major martial blow.
Reception - A party usually hosted by the new wed couple or their parents for their guests after the wedding ceremony.
Role -  Mother-of-the Bride, Mother-of-the-Groom. Bridesmaids, Groomsmen - etc
Roll - A small bread like pastry.

Retread I am sure that there are more than these few I have put here that are misused . 

Please ladies feel free to add more to the list.  :-) 

Re: Wedding Words and their definitions - unabridged

  • edited December 2011
    Finance - having to do with money (has nothing to do with the person you are engaged to marry)
    Finace - not a word
  • awayagainawayagain member
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    edited December 2011
    poll - an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people


    pole - a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal that some women use for dancing

  • Lisa50Lisa50 member
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    edited December 2011
    Keep going!  You ladies are making me smile.  Actually, one of you made me snort.  Bahahahaha ... Laughing
  • edited December 2011

    LOVE THIS!  This could go on forever.  It should be posted on each and every board - a group or associations of persons, bored - to weary with tedious dullness.  (I couldn't resist.)

    Wedding Countdown Ticker
    130image Invited to dance the night away!
    92image Want to show their best moves!
    38image Have two left feet and won't be dancing!
    0image Are too embarrased to say they don't dance!

  • mybooboosmybooboos member
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    edited December 2011
    Too funny...but oh so necessary!
    Presentation is everything!! Wedding Countdown Ticker
  • edited December 2011
    BM - Best man
    BM - Bridesmaid
    BM - bowel movement (typically not associated with weddings)

    STD - save the dates
    STD - what handfast used to chase people for ( typically not associated with weddings)

    ur - not a word
  • handfast4mehandfast4me member
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    edited December 2011
    Can you add in the definition of DIVORCE?  When a legal marriage is dissolved legally? 

    ARGH.  And you guys beat me to the punch about the Pole/Poll one.  Dang. 

    And specifically for the "Ceremony Ideas" board:  Unity ceremony:  is the wedding itself.  No need for a Unity Candle, a wine ceremony, a sand ceremony, a planting ceremony.  You'll still be married if you have none of those things.

    And for the Customs and Traditions board:  Jumping the Broom: the ancient ceremony (pre-Christian) when the couple steps or hops over a broom.  Although this has been adopted in the African American culture, it dates from before that. 

    Handfasting: One of the original wedding ceremonies, pre-christian.  Short for Handfastening, in which the couples hands are tied together.  Traditionally done by Pagan couples, but incorporated into other faiths, most often when the couple has Celtic ancestry.   
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  • Lisa50Lisa50 member
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    edited December 2011
    Stop!!  I am now laughing and snorting, interchangeably!  No ... keep going, keep going!  So far, almost every one of my pet peeves has been listed.  I have faith, you will list them all. 

    Go.  Go.  Go.  *\o/*
  • edited December 2011
    There - a place
    Their - shows possession
    They're - a contraction for they are
    Anniversary
  • MikesAngieMikesAngie member
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    edited December 2011
    boutonniere - floral or other decoration worn in or near the buttonhole of the lapel of a jacket typically by a man
    bouquet - a gathering of flowers , or items to represent flowers commonly carried by brides, bridesmaids, maids and matrons of honor also a group of flowers or floral representation in a vase.
    nosegay - a small group of flowers smaller than a bouquet larger than a posy or corsage.
    corsage - a small group of or single flower worn either on the wrist, or at the waist, or near the shoulder typically by a woman.
  • MikesAngieMikesAngie member
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    edited December 2011
    definitely -  in a definite manner, unambiguously, to express complete agreement, positively

    definately or definatly neither are words
  • edited December 2011
    You wear a veil not a vale on your head.
    You have a train on your dress, not a trane.

    Edited for screwup/clarity
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  • Marrin713Marrin713 member
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    edited December 2011
    Laughing  I think you girls may have gotten almost all of them
  • edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_second-weddings_wedding-words-their-definitions-unabridged?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:35Discussion:d7e2cbac-d6bf-402e-97c3-3d7c9424a3a4Post:3754115a-4c89-4d84-ab10-4b70289fc460">Re: Wedding Words and their definitions - unabridged</a>:
    [QUOTE] your dress may have a train but a train runs on tracks and is loud and disruptive.
    Posted by Hays2be[/QUOTE]

    ?? I don't get this?? 
  • handfast4mehandfast4me member
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    edited December 2011
    were:  past tense of was. We WERE walking until the taxi picked us up. 

    We're:  the contraction of we are.    We're headed down to city hall to get married, then complain later that we didn't get our pretty pretty princess day.  Then we're going get aggravated at the ladies on the SW  board when they call our "real wedding" a vow renewal, even though it's 7 months after the legal weddding, and the only reason why we ran off to city hall was because we're impatient children. 

    Also, see run on sentence.  :-) 
    image Don't mess with the old dogs; age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill! BS and brilliance only come with age and experience.
  • MikesAngieMikesAngie member
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    edited December 2011
    Vail - A city in Colorado

    vale - A wide river valley

    veil - an article of clothing worm almost exclusively by women to cover part of their head - is wedding veil.

    vial - small stoppered bottle or tube

    vile - extremely unpleasant, morally bad, wicked
  • leahkateleahkate member
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    edited December 2011
    Just lurking here, but I'll add one:

    It's tulle, not tool or toole.
  • edited December 2011
    Thank you ... This is the best laugh I have had all week!
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  • AbbeyS2011AbbeyS2011 member
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    edited December 2011
    LMAO!  Lovin' this thread ladies.

    To elaborate on the jumping of the broom a bit(I love the highlighted part):

    Jumping over the broom symbolized various things depending on the culture. In the American south, the custom determined who ran the household. Whoever jumped highest over the broom was the decision maker of the household. The jumping of the broom does not constitute taking a "leap of faith" because the practice of jumping the broom pre-dates the phrase coined by Søren Aabye Kierkegaard by one hundred years, if not more. Among southern Africans, who were largely not a part of the Atlantic slave trade, it represented the wife's commitment or willingness to clean the courtyard of the new home she had joined.[11] In England, jumping over the broom (or sometimes walking over a broom), became nominally synonymous (i.e. "Married over the besom") with irregular or non-church unions.[16]

    Anniversary
  • Lisa50Lisa50 member
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    edited December 2011
    Someone just posted this link on the July 2011 board ... http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

    Enjoy!
  • MikesAngieMikesAngie member
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    edited December 2011
    Lisa thank you for sharing the link!!  TheOatmeal has a lot of interesting points!
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