marriage
wedding
marriage ceremony | the act of marrying, the nuptial ceremony, their marriage was conducted in the chapel |
| civil marriage | a marriage performed by a government official rather than by a clergyman |
| dissolution of marriage | an annulment of a marriage |
| marriage bed | the bed shared by a newly wed couple |
marriage contract
marriage settlement | a prenuptial agreement or contract |
marriage license
marriage licence
wedding license
wedding licence | a license authorizing two people to marry |
| marriage counseling | counseling on marital problems and disagreements |
| sermon preaching | a moralistic rebuke, your preaching is wasted on him |
marriage proposal
proposal of marriage
marriage offer
proposal | an offer of marriage |
sermon
discourse preaching | an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) |
| Sermon on the Mount | the first major discourse delivered by Jesus (Matthew - and Luke :-) |
marriage
married couple
man and wife | two people who are married to each other, his second marriage was happier than the first, a married couple without love |
| same-sex marriage | two people of the same sex who live together as a family, the legal status of same-sex marriages has been hotly debated |
| mixed marriage | marriage of two people from different races or different religions or different cultures, the families of both partners in a mixed marriage often disapprove |
marriage brokerage
marriage mart | a business that arranges marriage contracts |
matchmaker
matcher marriage broker | someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others |
marriage
matrimony
union spousal relationship
wedlock | the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce), a long and happy marriage, God bless this union |
| common-law marriage | a marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony |
| marriage of convenience | a marriage for expediency rather than love |
| open marriage | a marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other |
| marriage | a close and intimate union, the marriage of music and dance, a marriage of ideas |
| out of wedlock outside marriage | of unwed parents, he was born out of wedlock |