Types of marriages  

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Types of marriages

• Arranged marriage - A marriage that is at some level arranged by someone other than those being married.
• Beena marriage - A marriage where the husband and wife are completely independent of one another, whenever the wife enters a special tent.
• Boston marriage - A marriage-like relationship between two women, not necessarily sexual; also historic lesbian relationships.
• Celestial marriage - A marriage performed in a Latter Day Saint temple.
• Child marriage - A practice in which the parents of two small children (even infants) arrange a future marriage.
• Chinese ghost marriage/Spirit marriage - A marriage where one or both parties are deceased.
• Common-law marriage - A form of interpersonal status that is legally recognized in some jurisdictions as a marriage even though no legally recognized marriage ceremony is performed or civil marriage contract is entered into or the marriage registered in a civil registry.
• Covenant marriage - A marriage in which the couple agrees to obtain pre-marital counseling before marrying, and accept more limited grounds for divorce.
• Endogamous - A marriage within the boundaries of the domestic group, between members of the same group.
• Exogamous - A marriage outside of the domestic group, between members of different groups.
• Female husband marriage - A marriage in which a female who has been raised as male takes a wife in order to ensure the continuity of the family.
• Fleet Marriage - The best-known example of an irregular or a clandestine marriage taking place in England before 1753.
• Flash marriage - A speedy marriage between couples.
• Forced marriage - A marriage in which one or more of the parties is married without his/her consent or against his/her will.
  • Marriage by abduction - A form of forced marriage in which a woman who is kidnapped and raped by a man is regarded as his wife.
• Ghost marriage - The marriage of a woman to a man who died before he could marry.
• Group marriage - A form of polygamous marriage in which more than one man and more than one woman form a family unit, and all members of the marriage share parental responsibility for any children arising from the marriage.
  • Line marriage - A form of group marriage in which the family unit continues to add new spouses of both sexes over time so that the marriage does not end.
• Handfasting - A traditional European ceremony of marriage or betrothal, commonly practiced by Neopagans today, which may or may not result in a legally recognized marriage.
• Heqin - An arranged marriage for political alliance during Medieval China.
• Hollywood marriage - A marriage between Hollywood celebrities or a marriage that is of short duration and quickly ends in separation or divorce.
• Human-animal marriage - A marriage between a human and a non-human animal.
• Intermarriage or Mixed marriage - Marriage between people belonging to different religions, tribes, nationalities or ethnic backgrounds.
  • Interracial marriage - Marriage between two people of differing races.
  • Interreligious marriage - Marriage (either religious or civil) between partners professing different religions.
• Lavender marriage - A marriage between a man and a woman in which one, or both, parties are, or are assumed to be, homosexual.
• Levirate marriage - A marriage in which a woman marries one of her husband's brothers after her husband's death, if there were no children, in order to continue his line.
• Love marriage - A marriage where the basis for the marriage is love.
• Mixed-orientation marriage - A heterosexual marriage where one spouse is gay, lesbian or bisexual.
• Monogamy - Marriage with one spouse exclusively for life or for a period of time.
• Mop marriage - An archaic common-law practice in which a couple could be joined by a local magistrate at the annual Mop Fair.
• Morganatic marriage - A marriage which can be contracted in certain countries, usually between persons of unequal social rank, which prevents the passage of the husband's titles and privileges to the wife and any children born of the marriage.
• Multiple marriages
  • Polyandry - The marriage of one wife to several husbands. Fraternal polyandry is a variant in which the husbands are brothers (see Polyandry in Tibet.)
  • Polygamy - Plural marriage.
  • Polygyny - The marriage of one husband to several wives.
• Nikah mut‘ah - A fixed-term marriage in Shi'a Islam.
• Open marriage - A marriage in which the partners agree that each is free to engage in extramarital sexual relationships, without regarding this as sexual infidelity.
• Plaçage - A recognized extralegal system in which white French and Spanish and later Creole men entered into the equivalent of common-law marriages with women of African, Indian and white (European) Creole descent.
• Posthumous marriage - A marriage which occurs after one of the individuals is deceased.
• Putative marriage - An apparently valid marriage, entered into in good faith on part of at least one of the partners, which is invalid because of an impediment.
• Same-sex marriage - A marriage between two people who are of the same sex.
• Serial monogamy - Marriage to one spouse at a time.
• Sexless marriage - A marriage in which there is no sex between the two partners.
• Shim-pua marriage - A Taiwanese tradition of arranged marriage, in which a poor family (burdened by too many children) would sell a young daughter to a richer family for labour, and in exchange, the poorer family would be married into the richer family, through the daughter.
• Sister exchange - The husbands trade sisters to be each other's wives in order to keep any group from losing a woman.
• Sororate marriage - A marriage in which a man marries his wife's sister, usually after the wife is dead or has proved infertile.
• Traditional marriage - A term used by social conservatives to describe only monogamous opposite sex marriages.
• Trial marriage - A situation were the couples agree to stay together without formalising or legalising the relationship as they wait to see whether it is going to work out.
• Walking marriage - A practice of a matrifocal group in which the woman accepts her lover each evening, but he departs in the morning to work in his mother's household.
• Widow inheritance - The widow may have the right to require her late husband's extended family to provide her with a new man; more commonly, she is obliged to marry the one they choose.
• Yogic marriage - A tradition of Hindu marriage done within Shavite Sadhaks and Sadhvis, to enable them to get positive energy from yajnans and homas.
• Transgender marriage - A marriage in which at least one individual is transgendered.