Jessi Klein

I see an insidious problem in the marketing of weddings as 'the happiest day of your life.' The pressure that is placed upon this event to be the alpha and omega of your entire existence makes it, I think, into a kind of nuptial New Year's Eve, and we all know how that usually turns out.

American Writer

Amanda Foreman

With a good education and a solid childhood, Marie-Antoinette might have become one of the most admired women in Europe. As it was, the empress paid no attention to her youngest daughter until an accident of nuptial politics made the girl a candidate to marry the French dauphin.

British Historian

Use 'nuptial' to describe things specifically tied to the rituals and events of a wedding.

Ceremonial Context

'Nuptial' highlights the marriage-related aspect during the planning process of a wedding.

Planning Stage

Often used in legal or formal contexts, especially when discussing contracts or agreements related to marriage.

Legal Aspect

Understand that using 'nuptial' as a noun to mean a wedding ceremony is old-fashioned.

Archaic Usage

As a noun, 'nuptial' is more common in historical or literary works than in everyday conversation.

Literary Context

Recognize that 'nuptial' can refer to a variety of cultural marriage ceremonies, not just Western weddings.

Cultural Variance

 the balance and circled life and just for that example I've got what I found in the front of the car here which is a marvelous dung beetle ball and those of you have probably seen us before in the past it is a very very nice example of what a dung beetle will do what's called a nuptial ball not always the nuptial

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 there's no nuptial flight instead the queen's new consort is guided directly to the royal chamber he's not the first consort to the queen and he probably won't be the last driver and queens are for ants unusually promiscuous he'll be one of many suitors she'll entertain during her lifetime

Best Of Ants PIPE BBC Earth

 in an attempt to get as many of these nutritious nuptial gifts as they can. So, it's not exactly a stereotypical set of rules. Even more generally though, males are actually not all that important in the lives of a lot of insects.

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 otherwise known as fire ants, it’s a day of romance. This is the nuptial flight, when thousands of reproduction-capable male and female ants, called alates, take wing for the first and last time.