Wedding Terms: Test Your Knowledge Of Wedding World Terminology

Planning a wedding can be tricky, especially when you and your spouse have to navigate what seems to be an entirely new language that comes with the territory.

Sure, we all know what a reception or a maid of honor is, but how many of us (aside from wedding planners, who seem to speak the language from birth) know what a "white bar" is or whether a couple should choose "Russian service" for their big day?

For those who are new to the wedding world, we've put together a list of some unfamiliar terms associated with tying the knot and decoded them for you.

Click through the slideshow below to challenge your knowledge of wedding terms.

Comments

[gfgarv]

02:07 PM on 03/22/2012

I was going to propose but I don't know any of this stuff. What a stupid article.

[BamaRainbow]

01:43 PM on 03/22/2012

I got all of them right. (It was actually very easy to do. If you look below the slideshow, you see all the pictures in the slideshow. Every other picture showed the right answer.)

So, what was the prize again?

[gardenmom]

12:28 PM on 03/22/2012

i got all of them right except for the silk-ish fabric. need harder questions

[victorzeller]

11:55 AM on 03/22/2012

No one will remember this article tomorrow.

[jcjksimba]

11:55 AM on 03/22/2012

Another reason I'm glad we had a simple wedding. (We could barely afford one either.) We only invited our relatives and a few close friends; about 35 invitations. Bought a used dress. Borrowed everything else from my relatives who felt honored that I wore them, (I spent more to be in my brother's wedding and they are divorced.) The church had an afternoon service, so I asked them if they could buy pink flowers since they were already putting flowers by the alter. My husband and best man wore their suits and I had my maid of honor pick out a dress that she could later wear. Made our own flowers and invitations. Never seen an invitation so left out the rsvp's, (oops), nor knew about a separate gathering to open gifts the next day. (We opened them at the reception.) Had normal food, not fancy food you barely recognize. As a wedding gift, couple relatives paid for the reception which was 18.00 a plate. So early 80's wedding + reception + 2 tier cake, (had left over cake), = under $300.00 for us. Only a couple things would have done different, like learn how to make better looking bouquets and invitations and had some dancing, but that's ok. My husband and I don't dance much anyway. We took our honeymoon 7 years later because he earned it through his work from their incentive program. Been together for almost 30 years.

[magus47]

11:10 AM on 03/22/2012

They never told us whether you can eat the Pastillage or not.

[JoltBillRandal]

11:47 AM on 03/22/2012

Look at the ingredients... All are edable, and so the Pastillage MUST be. Most are works of art, and so are better preserved, but if the kid gets ahold of it and eats it, no harm will come to him (her).

[Jonina Marie]

12:10 PM on 03/22/2012

Most Pastillage is used to decorate cakes or used to create chocolate or sugar show pieces.. It is made from the ingredients listed above but it doesn't tell you the liquid used to make it. Mainly pastry chefs such as my self and others use vinegar to make the paste. And when I went to school, the chefs told us that it doesn't taste very good and shouldn't be eaten. Most use fondant or gumpaste. Pastillage is very fragile and will break if not handled with care. Best suggestion is to use fondant, gumpaste or even dark, milk or white modeling chocolate.

[palmejn]

01:11 PM on 03/22/2012

It really tasrtes yucky. That's why my business uses edible icing to make beautiful flowers.

[dickn2000b]

10:35 AM on 03/22/2012

"Can You Eat the Pastillage?" Is that the French word for "Placenta?"

[emmyjwalker]

10:37 AM on 03/22/2012

lol either way you can eat it!

[rkemner]

10:15 AM on 03/22/2012

I own the largest wedding planning business in the USA. WE plan and perform 100 weddings a month (including renewal ceremonies) in season. While I got most of the questions right, I had to guess at all of them. SmokeyMountainWedding dot org

[hman570]

10:02 AM on 03/22/2012

Is this a joke or something? Must really be a very slow news day for crap like this

[Sheila DeCair Borzomati]

08:53 AM on 03/22/2012

Pastillage and gum paste are not the same thing - who checks facts in these features?

[Jonina Marie]

12:11 PM on 03/22/2012

Exactly. Being a pastry chef that is kind of an insult. They should actually talk to the people who specialize in stuff like that.

[squeeks910]

08:30 AM on 03/22/2012

Not if you and your sweetheart feel the same .way about tradition. I have been married 31 years, we had a formal wedding of 350 people, paid for it ourselves, took years to pay it off and we don't regret one minute of our decision. Its all in the couples decision.

[jherbord]

08:21 AM on 03/22/2012

The absolute main word EVERY groom should know is PRE-NUP...

[ennui the third]

07:44 AM on 03/22/2012

Weddings are a colossal waste of money....better to use what you would have thrown away in investments or just save it.

[Doris Hochman]

08:17 AM on 03/22/2012

NOT IF YOU ARE HAVING A 50TH ANNIVERSARY RENEWAL OF VOWS WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHOM YOU MAY BE SEEING FOR THE LAST TIME!

[ennui the third]

02:00 PM on 03/22/2012

Hey pal...I am not talking about your kind of ATYPICAL wedding.., what I am talking about are the colossal wastes of time, energy, and most of all money that 99.9 percent of weddings are...we understand each other now?

[xenia1631]

09:59 AM on 03/22/2012

i agree. my wedding cost 50 for the preacher 50 for my dress. the reception was a little more considering in food and drinks for people but some people spend upwards of 30000 or greater on it. to me its just silly

[JoltBillRandal]

11:51 AM on 03/22/2012

Seems like it costs about as much to get married 'Formally' as it does to get buried.

[Dorene121]

01:27 PM on 03/22/2012

Sounds like our wedding. I managed to keep ALL costs under $800. My parents paid for the cake and my husband and I paid for everything else. Today's wedding a FAR too expensive. A waste of money. Make your wedding small and save the money to put on a house.