wedding-song

In a Mongolian wedding-song there is an invocation of "Mother Ut, Queen of Fire," who is said to have come forth "when heaven and earth divided," and to have issued "from the footsteps of Mother-Earth."

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

And the women inside at once divested him of his cloak and put on him a bridal robe; and the servants ran about the town and put olive wreaths and laurel garlands at the doors of Baccho's house as well as Ismenodora's, and a flute-girl went up and down the street playing and singing the wedding-song.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

But the prettiest moment was when the two brides rose and touched glasses, mutually and to the health of the company, apropos of a little wedding-song which Fortnoye had composed and was trolling at the head our willing chorus.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

The hour that should have been so sweet and quiet in the "fragrant chamber adorned for love" of the wedding-song, is turned to strain and dreadfulness.

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

It sang in her ears persistently, joyously, ironically -- a wedding-song, a battle-song, a song of victory.

Superseded May Sinclair 1904

"Hey for the wedding-song and one night more!" he cried.

The King's Mirror Anthony Hope 1898

When the bride and groom and the bridesmaids came in, all the girls were standing in rows on either side of the walk, making an aisle in between, and they sang a wedding-song I had invented from my heart.

Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" Kate Langley Bosher 1898

This had been going on for a few minutes, when I became aware suddenly that Struboff had ceased playing my wedding-song.

The King's Mirror Anthony Hope 1898

Why, we are all here, all except Hammerfeldt, who looks down from heaven, and Coralie who is coming presently to sing us the wedding-song.

The King's Mirror Anthony Hope 1898

The wailing minor of the beginning broke into a joyous chorus at the end, and Gideon wept and laughed in turn, for it was his wedding-song.

The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889