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→Marriage: Added clarification role family vs bride and groom; spelling
The marriage event is a bounding ceremony between two people before an official body. In other words, it is the state of being united to another person in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized (normally) by law.
You should hence use this event typically as the 'official' starting event of the family unit in Gramps, that is, use it as a family event, with event role ''family''. Note that the family could be missing a ''father'', ''mother'' or both. Sharing an event with roles ''bride'' and ''groom'' is not the recommended approach in Gramps.
Note further that this means the marriage event is wider than what is used in day-to-day language. It indicates civil marriage, church marriage, and all other types of union between adults that is official.
To indicate an offical official end of a ''marriage event'', one should use the '''Divorce''' event.
===Marriage Settlement===
