Cymmhorth

British Goblins places wedding bidding within a wider feature of Welsh life called Cymmhorth. The author identifies the Bidding as a Priodas Cymmhorth and compares it with the Cyfarfod Cymmhorth, translated as an Assistance Meeting. The distinction is explicit: the latter is similar but lacks the wedding feature. In the surrounding invitation, gifts are described in terms of future repayment on a similar occasion.

The passage links celebration to an organized relationship of help, contribution and reciprocity. This entry keeps the source’s spelling and distinguishes the general assistance category from one particular wedding occasion. It does not supply a complete history of Welsh mutual aid or assume that Sikes’s description applies without variation to every district, period or modern institution.

Reading Cymmhorth separately from Wedding Bidding preserves the author’s general category and its specific wedding application without making them interchangeable.