What does it mean to dream about wedding?
A wedding pictures commitment and union, outwardly or as the joining of two sides of yourself.
Four ways to read it
Each reading below comes from a named tradition and a cited source, so you can see where it came from and decide what fits your dream.
Freud
A Freudian reading takes the wedding as the union of desire and the binding of a relationship, sometimes carrying ambivalence beneath the celebration. Anxiety at the altar can picture conflict about a commitment or its loss of freedom.
Freudian reading (our summary).Jung
For Jung the wedding is a powerful image of inner union, the joining of opposites within the psyche, masculine and feminine, conscious and unconscious, into a greater whole. It often marks a stage of integration on the way to wholeness.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Cognitively a wedding pictures commitment, union, and major life transition. Joyful weddings track readiness and hope; anxious or disrupted ones track fear about a commitment, a relationship, or a binding decision in waking life.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The sacred marriage is an ancient motif: the union of sky and earth, god and goddess, that renews the world, and the royal wedding that joins a ruler to the sovereignty of the land. The wedding images the joining of powers that makes life fruitful.
Frazer; Bulfinch.