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Tina Onassis Niarchos
Tina Onassis Niarchos, born Athina Livanos, was a Greek shipping heiress who married Aristotle Onassis in 1946, divorced him in 1960 amid his affair with Maria Callas, then married his rival Stavros Niarchos; she died by suicide in 1974.
Tinder (app)
Tinder is a smartphone dating application, owned by Match Group. It launched in the United States in August 2012 and is available in over 190 countries.
Tom Green (polygamist)
Thomas Arthur Green (1948-2021), Utah independent Mormon fundamentalist polygamist, not an LDS Church member, lived with five wives and about 30 children at Greenhaven; convicted of bigamy in 2001 and child rape in 2002.
Tongyangxi (童养媳)
Tongyangxi (童养媳, shim-pua, minor marriage) is the traditional Chinese practice of adopting a young girl to raise as a future wife for a son, widespread until the 1950 Marriage Law ban and still persisting in some rural areas.
Trophy wife
Trophy wife: informal derogatory term for a young attractive wife seen as a status symbol for an older, affluent husband; popularized by a 1989 Fortune cover story; McClintock's ASR research found the beauty-for-status exchange behind the stereotype largely a myth.
Types of marriages
Types of marriages: anthropologists classify marriage as monogamy (including serial and same-sex marriage) or polygamy, with polygyny the common form, polyandry rare, and group marriage rare; legal regimes vary across 189 countries.
Under the Banner of Heaven
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, Jon Krakauer's 2003 true-crime book on the 1984 Lafferty murders, LDS Church response, 2022 FX/Hulu series.
Vanessa Bryant
Vanessa Marie Bryant, born Vanessa Urbieta Cornejo and previously known as Vanessa Laine, is an American philanthropist and widow of basketball star Kobe Bryant, whom she married in 2001.
Veronica Bingham, Countess of Lucan
Veronica Bingham, Countess of Lucan (Veronica Mary Duncan, 1937-2017), known as Lady Lucan, wife of the missing 7th Earl of Lucan; only witness of the 1974 Sandra Rivett murder, survived the attack, insisted her husband was dead, died by suicide in 2017.
Vicki Morgan
Vicki Morgan, American model and longtime mistress of Diners Club founder Alfred Bloomingdale; filed a 1982 palimony suit, was murdered in Los Angeles in July 1983; roommate Marvin Pancoast confessed then recanted.
Vivian Cash
Vivian Cash (Vivian Liberto, 1934-2005), Johnny Cash's first wife from 1954 to 1966 and mother of his four daughters; memoirist of I Walked the Line, target of a 1965 white supremacist campaign, and subject of My Darling Vivian.
WAGs
WAGs, short for "wives and girlfriends", is a term for the partners of high-profile footballers and athletes in other sports, made famous by tabloid coverage of England's 2006 World Cup squad.
Walima (وليمة)
Walima (وليمة, walimat al-'urs) is the Islamic wedding banquet, a sunnah feast hosted after marriage to announce it publicly. Root walam means to gather; best held after consummation, kept simple, with rich and poor invited.
War bride
War bride: foreign women who married deployed or occupying soldiers and migrated to their husbands' countries, chiefly after WWI and WWII. Regulated from 1919 (Pershing Bulletin No. 26); the US War Brides Act of 1945 admitted nearly 300,000 spouses and dependents; a 1947 amendment lifted racial bars.
Warren Jeffs
Warren Jeffs, born Warren Steed Jeffs in 1955, is the imprisoned leader of the FLDS, a polygamous sect in Utah and Arizona, serving a life sentence for sexual assault.
Wedding anniversary
Wedding anniversary: the annual celebration of a wedding, with traditional gift materials such as paper (1st), silver (25th), gold (50th), and diamond (60th/75th); custom traces to 18th-century Germany and was standardized commercially in the US from 1922.
Wedding customs by country
Wedding customs by country: cross-cultural marriage practices including bride wealth and dowry, Chinese Six Rites, Punjabi-Chinese ritual homologies, Greek diaspora weddings, same-sex marriage legalization, and the destination wedding industry.
Wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant
The 2024 wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant: Hindu-Gujarati ceremonies at Mumbai's Jio World Convention Centre, July 12–14, after a Jamnagar pre-wedding; cost estimates disputed from $132 million to over $600 million.
Wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, and Lauren Sánchez, a former television journalist, married on June 27, 2025, in a Venice ceremony that drew roughly 200 guests and protests.
Wedding of Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Jetsun Pema
The 13 October 2011 Buddhist royal wedding of Bhutan's Fifth King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Jetsun Pema at Punakha Dzong, with Je Khenpo-led rites, the Dar Na Nga, Golden Bumpa offering, and her crowning as Druk Gyal-tsuen (Queen).
Wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles
The wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles took place at Windsor Guildhall on 9 April 2005, followed by a blessing at St George's Chapel.
Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
The 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, held 29 July at St Paul's Cathedral, drew 750 million TV viewers, the Emanuel 25-foot-train gown, and the 'wedding of the century' label.
Wedding of Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson
Wedding of Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson: the private civil marriage on 3 June 1937 at Château de Candé, France, between the abdicated Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, and Wallis Warfield, held with about 16 guests and no royals present.
Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, also the marriage creating the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, was held 19 May 2018 at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, drawing nearly 18 million UK and over 29 million US viewers.
Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
Marriage of Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton, 29 April 2011, 11 a.m., Westminster Abbey, London. About 1,900 guests, Sarah Burton dress, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, up to 2 billion viewers.
Wedding reception
Wedding reception: the party held after a marriage ceremony, also called a wedding party or walima in Islamic tradition. Typically the largest wedding expense, averaging 116 US guests, now often part of multiday celebrations.
Wedding ring
Wedding ring: a metal band exchanged to mark marriage, rooted in Roman custom. Key facts: Roman silver/gold gendered rings, Byzantine OMONOIA rings, 1940s double-ring marketing, USD 106.6 billion 2026 market.
Weddings in India
Weddings in India, also called shaadi or vivah, are multi-day religious and regional marriage ceremonies governed by separate personal-law acts, with about 90% arranged, a ₹6.5 lakh crore wedding economy, and strong caste and religious endogamy.
Widow
A widow is a woman whose spouse has died and not remarried; widower is the male term. Covers the widowhood effect on health and mortality, dower and inheritance law, cultural practices, and social protection gaps.
Wife
Wife: a woman who is a party to a marriage. Covers the common-law doctrine of coverture, married women's property acts, CEDAW equality standards, and survey data on wives' household roles and obligations.