Abstract. This article examines lexical units that verbalize wedding rituals in Uzbek and German cultural contexts. The study focuses on the names of ritual objects, ceremonial actions, symbolic colours, verbal formulas and pre-wedding practices such as Verlobung, Verlobungsring, Polterabend, Gästebuch and Junggesellenabschied. The analysis demonstrates that wedding vocabulary is not a simple set of nominative units, but a complex linguocultural system in which collective memory, religious values, social roles and symbolic meanings are encoded. Uzbek wedding terminology reflects the importance of modesty, family blessing, communal participation and religious consent, whereas German wedding vocabulary more strongly emphasizes individual choice, public promise, legal recognition and ritualized symbolic acts. At the same time, both cultures share universal ideas of loyalty, purity, continuity and social recognition. The article also discusses borrowed and globalized ritual elements, such as the white wedding dress, the wedding cake and the throwing of the bouquet, showing how intercultural contact influences the semantic structure of wedding vocabulary.