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What it means to dream about a wedding
A wedding in a dream is the image of union and crossing over - two parts of your life meeting, or a new stage opening. It need not mean marriage, and an anxious one is the fear of a promise you cannot yet vouch for. No dream carries tomorrow written down, it hands back the day you just lived - so start here: which two parts of your life are trying to meet?
First layer · what tradition says
What the traditional dream book says
A wedding in the old dream books cuts both ways: a celebration, or the reverse of one, a funeral and illness, by an old belief. Your own wedding promised change coming. Somebody else's carried news that would reach you soon.
Second layer · the honest read
What the dream really reflects
A wedding is about union and crossing over: something in you coming together, or a new stage opening up. It does not always mean marriage. It is about two parts of your life meeting in one place. An anxious wedding means you fear a promise you cannot yet vouch for.
What changes the reading
Change the detail and you change the reading: “your own wedding” and “marrying a stranger” sit further apart than they look.
- Your own wedding
- Something in you is joining into one piece, or a new stage is starting. It speaks of union more than of any actual marriage.
- Someone else's wedding
- News of change among the people close to you, or a hint that you have something of your own left to join together sooner or later.
- Marrying a stranger
- Two parts of your life come together all at once. You are binding yourself to something you have not yet seen clearly in daylight.
FAQ
Good omen or bad omen for dreaming about a wedding, and does the meaning shift if the wedding is your own?
Hunting for a fixed sign will get you nowhere: your own wedding speaks of something in you joining into one piece, and a stranger's speaks of news arriving from the people around you. A mirror, and no crystal ball.
Tradition reads dreaming about a wedding as a celebration, and by an old belief its reverse, and what actually holds up in practice?
Folk tradition stamped this image as a celebration, and by an old belief its reverse, and the lists themselves were compiled in different centuries, each one arguing with its neighbor. The mirror is more honest than the list, and whether you are single or married the reading starts from where you are now, with this question in the middle of it: which two parts of your life are trying to meet?
The dream reflected you for one night. The chart of the sky holds your whole reflection.
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