Til aspektlari amaliyoti

To leave someone at the altar
means to decide not to get married at the last minute, usually on 
the same day as the wedding. 
―I don‘t see how you could ever possible forgive someone for leaving you at the altar. Nothing 
could possibly be more humiliating than that.‖ 
―Before I got married, I kept having this recurring dream that I was standing at the front of the 
church alone, slowly realizing that I had been left at the altar.‖ 
A shotgun wedding
is a marriage that is arranged very quickly and suddenly because the woman 
is pregnant. (
Cambridge Dictionary
) 
―Just because my wife was pregnant when we said our vows doesn‘t mean that it was a shotgun 
wedding. We had planned on tying the knot anyway.‖ 
―Shotgun weddings were more common many years ago when having children out of wedlock 
was more scandalous.‖ 
A marriage of convenience
is when people marry for reasons other than love (e.g. to gain a 
financial or political benefit). 
―Marriage for love is a relatively new concept in human history. A few hundred years ago, most 
unions were marriages of convenience.‖ 
―Not everyone is looking for love. Some people want a marriage of convenience that brings them 
money and an improved social standing.‖ 
One‟s better half
is a pretty self-explanatory term for someone‘s spouse. 

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―Will your better half be joining us for dinner, or should I just set on extra place at the table?‖ 
―My better half makes the financial decisions. She‘ll have to look at this later.‖ 
Mrs./Mr. Right means the ideal husband or wife for someone. 
―If you spend your entire life looking for Mrs. Right, you‘ll probably never get married. The 
perfect partner doesn‘t exist.‖ 
―Sometimes you find love when you aren‘t looking for it. I was focusing on my career and 
taking a break from dating when Mr. Right came along.‖ 
The one
means someone‘s soulmate (the person someone is destined to be with). 
―I was sure you were the one from the first day we met.‖