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wedding picture

wedding picture

12 1.0
A photo taken at a wedding showing the bride and groom and guests
  • noun
  • /ˈwɛdɪŋ ˈpɪkʧər/
translation icon : foto de boda
  • Their wedding picture captured the joy of that special day perfectly.
  • look at wedding pictures
  • album of wedding pictures
  • see a wedding picture

And, and your wedding is this year, so you want to have a a good looking nose for the wedding picture.

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Examples

  • I still get compliments on my bridal bouquet from anyone who looks at my wedding pictures.

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  • Hopefully, some of my wedding pictures will be used for your future posts. :D

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  • Hi, do you have our wedding pictures?

  • Do you have our wedding pictures?

  • - Your wedding picture's gonna look great.

  • When we got the wedding pictures back, I burst into tears.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • When you look at my wedding pictures, just remember, it was the seventies.

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  • When the wedding pictures came, everybody was amused to see that Tom had gone off on his honeymoon barefoot.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • We've seen him before—in the wedding picture on the wall of his mansion.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • My mother's favorite wedding picture is a neck-to-knees close-up of her, swathed in taffeta.

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Synonyms

photo
vswedding picture
1.0

A picture made with a camera, printed or digital

is taken at a marriage ceremony and usually shows bride and groom
pic
vswedding picture
  • Texting
90 6.8

A photo made with a camera or phone

is more formal and refers to images taken at a marriage ceremony

How Formal

studio
310 3.0
wedding picture
12 1.0
snapshot
61 3.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

wedding + picture

The meaning 'a photograph taken at a wedding' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'wedding' (the event) with 'picture' (an image), a straightforward noun-noun compound where the first word specifies the type of picture. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English compounding, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

Wedding picture comes from the simple idea of a wedding and a picture together: a photo that shows the bride, groom and guests at the ceremony. Because it keeps that special moment, the phrase means 'a photograph taken at a wedding'.