penny-wedding

Noun

penny wedding (plural penny weddings)

1. (Scotland, idiomatic, obsolete) A wedding at which the guests contribute payments in order to fund the event and to benefit the newly-married couple.
   • "Vera true, vera true—we'll have a' to pay, I doubt, less or mair—a sort of penny-wedding it will prove, where all men contribute to the young folk's maintenance, that they may not have just four bare legs in a bed together."1822, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 37, in The Fortunes of Nigel