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penny wedding

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  1. A wedding at which the guests contribute payments in order to fund the event and to…

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

    • "Vera true, vera true—we'll have a' to pay, I doubt, less or mair—a sort of penny-wedding it will prove, where all men contribute to the young folk's maintenance, that they may not have just four bare legs in a bed together."

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