Wedding Dream · Meaning
Luke Barber · Updated A wedding in a dream commonly represents a commitment or a union, and not always a romantic one. It can point to bringing two parts of your life, or two parts of yourself, together.
Across mythology and tradition
In Jungian terms, marriage as a symbol often reflects the union of opposites within a person: the coming together of conscious and unconscious, or of traits you've kept separate. A wedding dream doesn't require an actual relationship in your life to make sense this way. It can just as easily reflect committing to a decision, a project, or a new way of seeing yourself. In biblical dream interpretation, a wedding is often tied to covenant and union with the divine rather than a literal marriage, and some traditions read a wedding dream as an omen of loss or death, an inversion worth noting precisely because it contradicts the more common union reading above.
Questions people ask
What does it mean to dream about your own wedding?
Often reflects a commitment you're making, or considering, in waking life, whether or not it has anything to do with marriage.
What does it mean to dream about a wedding going wrong?
Can point to doubts about a commitment, or a sense that two parts of a situation aren't actually fitting together as well as they should.
What does it mean to dream about attending someone else's wedding?
Sometimes reflects your own relationship to commitment in general, seen from a step removed.
What does it mean if a wedding dream feels connected to death?
Some traditions read this pairing directly, treating a wedding dream as an omen of loss rather than union. Whether that fits your dream usually comes down to the feeling in it: dread points one way, celebration points the other.
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