Hindu Law marriage means religious and sacramental union.

Punjab and Hariyana High Court (Ref legalsafe.in/2012/P&HHC/A005) says as the meaning of marriage, Sri Guru Amar Das ji, in Sri Guru Granth Sahib, at page 788 said as under:
"They are not said to be husband and wife, who merely sit together. They alone are called husband and wife, who have one light in two bodies."

In Islam, marriage is a legal contract "matrimony contract"; ALA-LC: Nik??-n?mah) between two people. The bride is to consent to the marriage of her own free will. A formal, binding contract is considered integral to a religiously valid Islamic marriage, and outlines the rights and responsibilities of the groom and bride. There must be two Muslim witnesses of the marriage contract.
An intimate and complementing union between a man and a woman in which the two become one physically, in the whole of life. The purpose of marriage is to reflect the relationship of the Godhead and to serve him. Although the fall has marred the divine purpose and function of marriage, this definition reflects the God-ordained ideal for marriage from the beginning.

In Christian authorities and bodies view marriage (also called Holy Matrimony) as a state instituted and ordained by God for the lifelong relationship between one man as husband and one woman as wife. They consider it the most intimate of human relationships, a gift from God, and a sacred institution.

The Hindu personal law has been codified in the form of Hindu Marriage Act (for short “the Act”), 1955 and is applicable to Hindus, Buddhists, Jains or Sikhs, any person who is born to Hindu parents and any person who is not a Muslim Christian, Parsi or Jew, and who is not governed by any other law. For the first time the concept of divorce was introduced in the Hindu Marriage Act by way of amendment. Hindus can seek to put an end to their marriage by either obtaining a declaration that the marriage between them was a nullity on grounds specified in Section 11 or to dissolve the marriage between them on any ground mentioned in Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act. Section 29 of the Act saves the rights recognized by customs or conferred by special enactment to obtain the dissolution of marriage before or after commencement of the Act..

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