Talk:wedding day

RFD discussion: May–September 2024

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wedding day

Sum of parts. JimiY☽ru 06:31, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

• I would keep this as a set phrase. We don't say "my marriage day", we say "my wedding day". I think we should keep strong set phrases even if technically explicable as SoP. Mihia (talk) 22:26, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
• Is this useful as a translation hub? Of the languages I speak, the translations all look like transparent "wedding + day" compounds, but I can imagine some language might have a unique word for this. Smurrayinchester (talk) 13:35, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Passes WT:FRIED. It is restricted in meaning in that it is a day where a past wedding is commemorated according to analogous calendary date, if the marriage is intact. judgement day, day of the rope, German Tag X etc. conversely refers to an occurrence and single day expected in the future, rest day an activity in the same day. Keep. Fay Freak (talk) 17:32, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't think that's right. "Wedding day" can be a past, present, future or entirely hypothetical event (you'll find lots of people fantasising about their future wedding day).

• 2018 November 6, Diana Taylor, Life Unarmed: My Story, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

  He said that he was looking forward to my wedding day and walking me down the aisle, and our father-daughter dance at the reception.

• 2009 11, Rogers E. a. Rogers, Someday (a Love Story) Andstories about Life and Death Love Liberrty Cats and Dogs Cakes and Other Stuff, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 62:

  Today is my wedding day! Is this another of my dreams? Today is my wedding day. Did I really write that? Did I, Anna Augusta Verona Parker really write that? Yes! Yes! Yes! It is true. Today is my wedding day!

• 2021 February 24, Sue Taylor, Everything You Need for Your Wedding Day, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

  The heavier makeup used on a wedding day will really emphasize any facial hair even if it's fine and blonde.

Using "wedding day" as a synonym for "anniversary" sounds very wrong to me - if someone said "We're celebrating our wedding day next week" I'd think they were telling me they were getting married, not commemorating a wedding years ago. Interestingly the hits on Google Books for "celebrating our wedding day" (in the anniversary sense) are almost all a hundred years old, so I wonder if that would work as an obsolete sense. Smurrayinchester (talk) 09:35, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

@Smurrayinchester: Yeah, but don’t they plan it for the future for memory afterwards? Like graduation balls, which deffo should be an entry imho. (Also, people might do both for networking, but I am unsure about the extent of this motivation.) The idiomatic part is the social significance, the constructing social status and personal identity within it, which though lifechanging is imperfectly verbalized until a bunch of loners attempt to define it for their dictionary. Fay Freak (talk) 16:54, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

• Leaning keep per Mihia. bd2412 T 03:55, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
• Keep per Mihia. Inqilābī 14:57, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
• Keep. DonnanZ (talk) 18:45, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

• Kept Denazz (talk) 07:21, 4 September 2024 (UTC)