Types of marriages (https://en.wikipedia.

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1. Arranged marriage A marriage that is at some level arranged by someone other than
those being married.
2. Avunculate marriage Marrying one's own uncle or aunt. Cf. inbreeding and incest.
3. Beena marriage A form of marriage used in pre-Islamic Arabia, in which a wife would own
a tent of her own, within which she retained complete independence from her husband, a
form of matriarchy.
4. Boston marriage A marriage-like relationship between two women, not necessarily
sexual; also historic lesbian relationships.
5. Celestial marriage A marriage performed in a Latter Day Saint temple.
6. Child marriage A practice in which the one or both spouses are prepubescents, while not
necessarily below the legal marriageable age. Cf. teen marriage.
7. 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.
8. Cousin marriage Marriage between first cousins. Cf. inbreeding and incest.
9. Covenant marriage A marriage in which the couple agrees to obtain pre-marital
counseling before marrying, and accept more limited grounds for divorce.
10.Customary marriage Nikah 'urfi a type of informal flash marriage in some Islamic
traditions. Cf. Las Vegas wedding.
11.Endogamy A marriage within the boundaries of the domestic group, between members
of the same group.
12.Exogamy or Intermarriage Marriage between people belonging to different groups or
backgrounds.
13.Inter-caste marriage Marriage between persons from different castes.
14.Interracial marriage Marriage between two people of differing races.
15.Interreligious marriage Marriage (either religious or civil) between partners professing
different religions.
16.Royal intermarriage Marriage between members of different royal families, dynasties, or
houses.
17.Transnational marriage Marriage to persons from different countries.
18.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.
19.Female-led marriage A monogamous, heterosexual marriage in which both partners
agree that the woman will act as the leader, principal partner and ultimate authority of the
relationship, commonly referred to as an FLR.
20.Fleet Marriage The best-known example of an irregular or a clandestine marriage taking
place in England before 1753.
21.Flash marriage A speedy marriage between couples. Cf. Las Vegas wedding and Nikah
'urfi.
22.Forced marriage A marriage in which one or more of the parties is married without
his/her consent or against his/her will.
23.Marriage by abduction A form of forced marriage in which a woman who is kidnapped
and raped by a man is thereafter regarded as his wife.
24.Ghost marriage The marriage of a woman to a man who died before he could marry
using the man's brother as a stand-in.
25.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.

26.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.
27.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.
28.Heqin An arranged marriage for political alliance during Medieval China.
29.Hollywood marriage A marriage between Hollywood celebrities or a marriage that is of
short duration and quickly ends in separation or divorce.
30.Human-animal marriage A marriage between a human and a non-human animal.
31.Hypergamy Marriage for the purpose of upward mobility.
32.Lavender marriage A marriage between a man and a woman in which one, or both,
parties are, or are assumed to be, homosexual.
33.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. Cf.
Sudanese ghost marriage.
34.Love marriage A marriage where the basis for the marriage is love. Cf. sham marriage
and forced marriage.
35.Marriage of convenience A marriage intended to serve some pragmatic purpose, not a
love marriage. Cf. sham marriage.
36.Mixed-orientation marriage A marriage where one spouse has a different sexual
orientation than the other spouse.
37.Monogamy Marriage with one spouse exclusively for life or for a period of time. Cf. serial
monogamy
38.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.
39.Polygamy Plural marriage:
40.Bigamy One person having two spouses.
41.Polyandry The marriage of one wife to several husbands. Fraternal polyandry is a variant
in which the husbands are brothers (see Polyandry in Tibet.)
42.Polygyny The marriage of one husband to several wives.
43.Proxy marriage Marriage ceremony during which the wedding couple is absent.
44.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.
45.Remarriage Entering into a new marriage after having terminating a previous one. Cf.
serial monogamy.
46.Peer Marriage is a type of marriage popular in various countries where the partners each
identify as responsible for both earning and the work of parenting and child care.
47.Plaage 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. Cf. concubinage
48.Posthumous marriage A marriage which occurs after one or both parties is deceased, e.g.
a Chinese ghost marriage.
49.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. Cf. void marriage.
50.Same-sex marriage A marriage between spouses of the same sex.
51.Self-marriage A marriage by a person to himself or herself.
52.Self-uniting marriage A marriage in which two partners are married without the presence
of a third-party officiant.
53.Sexless marriage or mariage blanc A marriage in which there is no sex between the two
partners. Cf. marriage of convenience.

54.Sham marriage Marriage as a pretext to commit fraud. Cf. green card marriage and
voidable marriage.
55.Shared Earning/Shared Parenting Marriage A type of marriage popular in various
countries where the partners choose at the outset of the marriage to share the work of
childraising, earning money, housework and recreation time in nearly equal fashion across
all four domains.
56.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.
57.Sister exchange The husbands trade sisters to be each other's wives in order to keep any
group from losing a woman.
58.Sororate marriage A marriage in which a man marries his wife's sister, usually after the
wife is dead or has proved infertile.
59.Teen marriage A practice in which the one or both spouses are teenagers below age of
majority, while not necessarily below the legal marriageable age. Cf. child marriage.
60.Wedlease/Temporary marriage A contract entailing a brief, fixed-term marital status:
Nikah mutah
Nikah Misyar
61.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.
62.Walking marriage A practice of a matrifocal group in which the husband spends the
nights with his wife, but he departs in the morning to work in his mother's household.
63.Yogic marriage A tradition of Hindu marriage done within Shavite Sadhus and Sadhvis, to
enable them to get positive energy from yajnans and homas.