"Living together before marriage is not a crime, " Deepika Padukone, a famous actress, recently declared.
In traditional Indian society, virginity before marriage is cherished and rape carries great stigma.
But even love matches can't be openly consummated before marriage, thanks to the taboo against premarital sex.
Before marriage, parents stress the importance of settling down and urge them to focus on finding suitable mates.
Some Muslim women insist that their partners of other faiths convert before marriage.
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These laws treat property acquired before marriage and via inheritance as separate and any other property acquired during a marriage as jointly owned.
If Obama gets his way and DOMA is overturned, it's only a matter of time before marriage is redefined for the entire country.
Many young Chinese, she notes, are giving up on the ideal of owning a house before marriage and starting their lives together as renters.
Sometimes babies come before marriage.
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The better-known pre-nup defines, before the marriage, how finances are to be divided if the couple splits.
All the more so because neither woman defined herself as a gay rights activist before the marriage fight.
Yasmin McLaughlin, 46, whose maiden name was Khan before her marriage in September, was last seen at about 19:30 on Friday.
The football player was known as Chad Ochocinco -- a Spanish take on his jersey number, 85 -- before his marriage last month.
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All the more so, her critics say, because she is a qualified doctor who before her marriage worked for some years in Pakistan.
Princess Masako was a beautiful diplomat who spoke several languages and travelled the world before her marriage to Japan's Crown Prince in 1993.
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No one, needless to say, has a clue what anyone else is up to, let alone what happened before the marriage craze set in.
In a perfect world (I guess I should say in my perfect world), couples would be required to have a financial plan before any marriage ceremonies are performed.
That came just a month before his marriage to Sally Illman - a Labour sympathiser to whom he became engaged earlier in the year - and two months before his 40th birthday.
So a rich man may have to cough up lots of money (including from assets acquired before the marriage, or inherited) to house and support a wife, especially if she is looking after the children.
The decision, or a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, will likely bring the issue of same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court.
Rep. Frank Ferri, D-Warwick, who also is gay and lobbied for gay marriage before becoming a lawmaker himself, said it will be a vote to savor.
President Barack Obama, who said during his 2008 campaign that marriage was "between a man and a woman, " in May declared his support for same-sex marriage, and the administration has now put its weight behind supporters of gay marriage before the Supreme Court.
As I have argued before, same sex marriage may in fact be the next big item on the civil rights agenda.
Five days later in Las Vegas, the couple renewed their marriage vows before family and friends in an over-the-top Arabian-inspired ceremony.
Mr. Cumming said he might have felt differently about Ms. Quinn's candidacy before same-sex marriage was legalized in New York in July 2011.
In the United States, the question of same-sex marriage went before the Supreme Court last week, and justices are now deliberating over the matter.
Critics can question the timing of his remarks but the reality is, he didn't have to state his support for marriage equality before the election.
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