penny wedding

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penny weddings 复数

别名

penny-wedding

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A wedding at which the guests contribute payments in order to fund the event and to benefit the newly-married couple.

    苏格兰 习语 废旧

    Penny weddings, or weddings where volunteer guests brought each his or her contribution to the entertainment, instead of its expense being defrayed jointly by the bridegroom and the bride, were still in vogue and still reckoned respectable.