Dream meaning: Wedding

When the wedding is yours, the first question is: how do you feel about it? Joy and certainty point to a genuine readiness for commitment — to a relationship, a path, or a version of yourself. Dread, ambivalence, or a sense of doing it for the wrong reasons maps directly onto waking-life ambivalence about some commitment you're facing or have recently made.

The identity of the person you're marrying is significant. Marrying your actual partner usually has more to do with the state of that relationship in your psyche than with prediction. Marrying a stranger is a classic Jungian symbol: you are integrating an aspect of your opposite — Anima or Animus, the inner feminine or masculine principle that your one-sided ego needs for wholeness.

A wedding going wrong — the venue falling apart, the dress not fitting, no one showing up — reflects the anxiety of exposure that accompanies major transitions and public commitment. Something you've worked toward is finally being seen, and the dreaming mind stages all the ways it could go wrong.

In many traditions, dream weddings are considered potent threshold symbols — sacred passages between states of being. To dream of a wedding is to dream of a crossing, and what waits on the other side of that commitment is what the dream may be asking you to consider.