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A woman on her wedding day is usually described as a ''[[bride]]'', even after the ''[[wedding]] ceremony'', while being described as a wife is also appropriate after the wedding or after the honeymoon. If she is marrying a man, her partner is known as the ''[[groom|bridegroom]]'' during the wedding, and within the marriage is called her ''[[husband]]''. |
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A woman on her wedding day is usually described as a ''[[bride]]'', even after the ''[[wedding]] ceremony'', while being described as a wife is also appropriate after the wedding or after the honeymoon. If she is marrying a man, her partner is known as the ''[[groom|bridegroom]]'' during the wedding, and within the marriage is called her ''[[husband]]''. |
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In the older custom, still followed, e. g., by Roman Catholic ritual<!-- and elsewhere !-->, the word ''bride'' actually means [[fiancée]] and applies up to the exchange of matrimonial consent (the actual marriage act); from then on, even while the rest of the very ceremony is ongoing, the woman is a wife, and no longer a bride, and the bridal couple is no longer referred to as such but as the newlywed couple or "newlyweds". |
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In the older custom, still followed, e. g., by Roman Catholic ritual IM MARRIED TO KENNA<!-- and elsewhere !-->, the word ''bride'' actually means [[fiancée]] and applies up to the exchange of matrimonial consent (the actual marriage act); from then on, even while the rest of the very ceremony is ongoing, the woman is a wife, and no longer a bride, and the bridal couple is no longer referred to as such but as the newlywed couple or "newlyweds". |
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"Wife" refers to the institutionalized relation ''to the other spouse'', unlike [[mother]], a term that puts a woman into the context of her children. In some societies, especially historically, a ''[[concubine]]'' was a woman who was in an ongoing, usually matrimonially oriented relationship with a man who could not be married to her, often because of a difference in social status. |
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"Wife" refers to the institutionalized relation ''to the other spouse'', unlike [[mother]], a term that puts a woman into the context of her children. In some societies, especially historically, a ''[[concubine]]'' was a woman who was in an ongoing, usually matrimonially oriented relationship with a man who could not be married to her, often because of a difference in social status. |
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