Seeing a Wedding in a Dream: Crowds, Endings, and Decisions

Why Do Weddings Sometimes Turn into Nightmares?

Old (traditional) dream interpreters often negatively interpreted seeing a crowded wedding with drums and zurnas in a dream as "a funeral, illness, or great chaos" (lament). However, in modern symbolism, weddings are a great "Ceremony of Transformation" where opposites (masculine and feminine, good and evil, old and new) blend together.

Seeing Your Own Wedding

If a single person sees their own wedding, it means they are experiencing the stress of a very big, binding, and "irreversible" decision (contract) they are going to make in their life. If the wedding dress gets dirty, the groom doesn't show up, or things go wrong during the wedding, this symbolizes the person's perfectionism in waking life and their fear of "Will things go wrong?" (control anxiety).

Attending Others' Weddings

Being at the wedding of people you don't know usually indicates that you feel left out or that you are merely an "observer" in the flow of life. Seeing your ex's wedding confirms that your subconscious has finally completely ended (buried) that relationship and detached from it (acceptance phase).

Crowds and Social Pressure

Weddings are moments when the eyes of society (relatives, people) are on you. Being at a crowded wedding dinner in a dream is a cry for help showing that you feel crushed under society's expectations of you (get married, find a job, have children) and that you are giving up your own desires just to please them.