white marriage—a marriage union without sexual relations:
- Maybe I should have written that the union of Bill Paxon and Susan Molinari was rumored to be a “white marriage.”
white wedding—
1. used with reference to the white color of the wedding dress symbolizing purity and innocence:
- Mine was a white wedding too. In fact, my dress was very similar to the one Erica wears on screen.
2. a marriage ceremony in which the bride is still a virgin:
- I was 26 and my wife was 21 when we got married (and it was a “white wedding” in the traditional meaning of the term.)