wedding song

English

Noun

wedding song (plural wedding songs)

1. Originally, a song composed for and/or sung at a wedding, an epithalamium; now a song, typically a popular love song, chosen by the bride and groom to be played at their wedding.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     And up the cave there came one clad in purple, and before him and behind him came minstrels and fair maidens, chanting a wedding song.