dial. [f. WEDDING + -ER1.] A wedding-guest; pl. the whole wedding-party, including bride and bridegroom.

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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.

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1811.  Ora & Juliet, IV. 185. But wont you have some cake, ladies, before the weddingers come to church?

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1887.  Hall Caine, Son of Hagar, II. xv. ‘Good luck to the weddiners!’ they said.

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1891.  Atkinson, Moorland Par. (ed. 2), 205. The weddingers passed down the little slope leading to the churchyard gate.

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