Brides and grooms answer the question “what is marriage?”

Our company No Myth Marriages was at a Bridal Expo during the weekend, and we asked hundreds of brides and grooms to answer one of two questions: “what is marriage”? or “what does an ideal marriage look like”?

The answers are very interesting and cool… though I really hope some of these brides and grooms manage to get to some kind of pre-marriage course 🙂 I thought I would post them up because it’s interesting.

They are loosely grouped into similar ideas. About a third mentioned commitment, by far the most common response.

Here are the answers to: What is Marriage?

Brides

• Love & Commitment
• Love, commitment, trust and communication
• Life together, a commitment between two people to share life together
• Two soulmates commiting their lives to one another
• Marriage is when 2 people are in love and want a life together forever
• Love & commitment
• A lifetime!
• Promise to love and commitment
• A promise
• A lifetime commitment to one another “always and forever”
• Lifelong commitment to love one another
• A commitment to each other forever
• A promise and commitment
• Commitment
• Love, commitment & compromising
• A commitment to each other
• Love, commitment & togetherness
• A lifetime of love and commitment
• A life time commitment
• A lifetime shared
• Lifelong commitment & love
• A life shared, companionship
• Lifelong journey of communication and trust
• A relationship designed to nurture and encourage, built on trust. A promise to care for one another
• Trust and mutual attraction
• Relationship between 2 people with mutual interests based on trust and respect
• Sex every night
• Unconditional love and understanding (& caring & honesty)
• Unconditional giving / love from both sides
• Real love (not what’s in the movies – real life!)
• Spending the rest of my life with my soul mate, growing, learning, loving
• Love, happiness, being together as one, a new life
• Love
• Being with each other. Showing love
• Total complimentary completion
• Marriage is something both of you do
• Marriage is win win
• Tolerance
• Tolerance
• Companionship
• Compromise, listening, caring, loving
• Happy wife, happy life
• Being in love and wanting to share our lives together… truth, honesty, loyalty, being faithful etc
• Long term fun
• Marriage is commitment to each other and loving each other forever
• Love, happiness & respect. Friendship
• Trust, friendship, love
• Hard work
• 2 becoming one!
• Lots of laughs. Lots of love… and a few good “discussions” along the way!
• Getting to spend the rest of your life with the most amazing person you know

Grooms

• A covenant made between two people, God and their families. Life long!
• Love, trust, commitment, honesty
• A life commitment
• Commitment
• Sharing
• Unity
• Love
• Honesty
• Respect
• The beginning of the best days of your life
• A friend for life
• Spending rest of life with best friend
• Between two people who want to spend a lifetime together
• A public display of your complete love for your partner
• Being able to spend time with your best friend and be completely yourself

I’ll put up the responses to the second question in another post.

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