wedding journey

English

Noun

wedding journey (plural wedding journeys)

1. (dated) A trip taken by a newly married couple after their wedding.
   • 1822, review of Memoirs and Select Remains of an Only Son by Thomas Durant in The Investigator, July 1822, p. 135,^[1]

     […] what with the increase of business upon the circuits and sessions, and sittings before, as well as after term, in town, this holiday is long but in name, as it would scarcely afford time for a wedding journey, or the most rapid continental tour.

   • 1898, Henry James, The Turn of the Screw in The Turn of the Screw — The Lesson of the Master, New York: The Modern Library, 1930, Chapter 22, p. 123,^[2]

     We continued silent while the maid was with us—as silent, it whimsically occurred to me, as some young couple who, on their wedding-journey, at the inn, feel shy in the presence of the waiter.

   • 1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 28, in Bertram Cope’s Year‎^[3], Chicago: R.F. Seymour, pages 266–267:

     […] there would be a rapid ten-day wedding-journey, followed by a prompt, business-like occupancy of the new apartment on the first of May exactly.

   • 1961, William Maxwell, The Chateau, in Time Will Darken It — The Chateau — So Long, See You Tomorrow, New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1992, Chapter 9, p. 164,^[4]

     “Eugène was so excited to learn that you have been married three years. We thought you were on your wedding journey.”

   Synonym: honeymoon