Wedding and marriage - not one and the same
The other day, a film review in the Times of India said that a character in a Hindi movie, Well done, Abba went to 'marry his daughter' when what the intention was 'to marry off his daughter'. Marrying a daughter amounts to incest. Marrying off is to give away the girl in marriage.
I'd like to use this bloomer to point out the common error of misunderstanding that wedding and marriage are one and the same. Far from it. A wedding is a ceremony where two persons marry each other and the couple enter a state of marriage. People can attend, if invited, a wedding. The couple would attend to their marriage thereafter.
A marriage is a relationship between a husband and a wife, while the wedding is a event involving the bride and the groom after which they are in a state of marriage - wedlock is the old-fashioned word for that. Marriage is also a state of being married.
One comes across invitations for marriages which is incorrect. Sometimes, this creeps into a newspaper. The purpose of inviting should be limited to the ceremonies where the marriage can be blessed.
-Mahesh Vijapurkar
I'd like to use this bloomer to point out the common error of misunderstanding that wedding and marriage are one and the same. Far from it. A wedding is a ceremony where two persons marry each other and the couple enter a state of marriage. People can attend, if invited, a wedding. The couple would attend to their marriage thereafter.
A marriage is a relationship between a husband and a wife, while the wedding is a event involving the bride and the groom after which they are in a state of marriage - wedlock is the old-fashioned word for that. Marriage is also a state of being married.
One comes across invitations for marriages which is incorrect. Sometimes, this creeps into a newspaper. The purpose of inviting should be limited to the ceremonies where the marriage can be blessed.
-Mahesh Vijapurkar
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