Across
- 2. A marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony.
- 4. Marriage between people from different sociological or educational backgrounds
- 6. The practice or state of being married to one person at a time.
- 8. A period during which a couple develop a romantic relationship, esp. with a view to marriage.
- 9. Marriage between people of different races, castes, or religions
- 11. Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married. person and a person who is not his or her spouse.
- 12. The enduring relationship between a man and woman, thought to be essential to human survival and the trademark of humans.
- 13. The act of committing or the state of being committed
- 15. The payment by a groom or his family to the bride's family.
- 17. Property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage.
- 19. Marriage between people from similar sociological or educational backgrounds.
Down
- 1. A legal decree dissolving a marriage.
- 2. An intimate relationship in which a male and female live together as husband and wife without legally marrying. Also called Common-law marriage
- 3. The blissful emotional state felt when loves fall "head over heels" in love
- 5. A formal agreement to get married.
- 7. A marriage arranged by someone other than the couple getting wedded.
- 10. Marriage in which the couple are equal partners in decision making
- 14. A mutual promise to marry.
- 16. Young men ask a young woma out on their own for a recreational activity for courtship
- 18. A husband or wife, considered in relation to their partner.