wedding bells

noun wedding bells

• consortia — a combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc., for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital.
• consortium — A consortium is a group of people or firms who have agreed to co-operate with each other.
• marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
• matrimony — the state of being married; marriage: He was married in 1870 and lived in matrimony 12 years.
• monogamy — marriage with only one person at a time. Compare bigamy, polygamy.