Samantha Ponder

We were wearing jeans and t-shirts, and we just decided to drive to the courthouse and get married. We went to Arby's and had lunch - that's always been like one of my favorite places - so we decided to celebrate our holy matrimony with some roast beef.

American Journalist

Nancy Pearcey

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

American Author

Jane Austen

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

British Writer

Isadora Duncan

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

American Dancer

Helen Rowland

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

American Writer

John J. McLaughlin

I don't miss being a priest. The fulfillment factor in matrimony is far greater.

George Farquhar

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

Irish Dramatist

Anthony Trollope

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

English Author

Peter De Vries

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

American Novelist

A. P. Herbert

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

English Novelist

Often used in religious or formal contexts to refer to the institution or ceremony of marriage.

Ceremonial Use

Carries a connotation of seriousness and commitment within a cultural or religious tradition.

Emotional Weight

More formal than 'wedding' or 'getting married', often used in legal or ceremonial writing.

Formal Context

 who have been sold this lie that family and matrimony is antithetical to who they are -- for those of us who rarely get to see ourselves reflected in love and happiness. And the thing is, absolutely we are marginalized because of our identities,

A queer vision of love...

 From these early experiments, a multibillion dollar rubber glove industry is born. And it turns out the doctor didn't just want to protect the nurse's hands. He also wanted to take them in holy matrimony. Halsted and Caroline were married

How the rubber glove was...

 this is a classic ambush site zebras need to be on their guard selecting census to matrimony being in a herd

Matrimony