Nearly get wed without ring and symbolic meal (5)
I believe the answer is:
maror
'symbolic meal' is the definition.
(herbs eaten at Jewish seder)
'nearly get wed without ring' is the wordplay.
'nearly' means to remove the last letter.
'get wed' becomes 'marry'.
'without' means one lot of letters goes inside another ('without' can be similar in meaning to 'outside').
'ring' becomes 'o'.
'marry' with its final letter removed is 'marr'.
'marr' placed around 'o' is 'MAROR'.
'and' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for maror that I've seen before include "dish with bitter herbs" , "Passover dish" , "deep loch" .)