Get married When people fall in love and stay in love, they eventually decide that it's a good idea to get married. This couple is going to get married bride

flower girl

 noun
a young girl who carries flowers in a wedding ceremony

future

 adjective
used about a family relationship after you get married

give away

if a man gives a woman away on her wedding day, he leads her towards the man she is going tomarry

Gretna Green

a village in Scotland near the English border where people went in the past to get married when they were not allowed to marry in England

groom

 noun
a bridegroom

hen night

 noun
british
a celebration for a woman who is about to get married, in which only her women friends take part

honeymoon

 noun
a holiday that two people take after they get married

honeymoon

 verb
to go on a honeymoon

lobola

south african
among some South African peoples, a payment given to a woman’s father in return forpermission to marry her

maid of honour

 noun
a woman who is not married and is the main bridesmaid at a wedding, helping the woman getting married

mail-order bride

 noun
informal
showing disapproval
a woman brought from another country to be married, usually in return for apayment to a company that makes such arrangements

marriage

 noun
a wedding 1

marriage certificate

 noun
an official document stating that two people are married

marriage licence

 noun
an official document that two people need in order to marry

marriage vows

 noun
the promises that two people make to each other during their wedding ceremony

marry

 verb
to perform the ceremony in which two people are formally joined in marriage

marry

 verb
to persuade or force someone to be formally joined in marriage to someone else