Marriage Dream Interpretation: Insights from 34 Unique Sources

(Cage; Digging a grave; Duel, Golden cage, Pearl, Sanctuary, Silver cage) Marriage in a dream represents the providence of God Almighty and care for His servants. Marriage in a dream also means imprisonment, indebtedness, sorrow, distress, depression, carrying a liability, or endeavoring to achieve a high ranking position.

If one marries a known woman in his dream, it means that he will endeavor to satisfy the normal responsibilities of a husband. Ifone marries an unknown woman, and ifhe could not see her in his dream, it denotes the nearing of his death, or it could mean moving from an old house into a new one.

If a sick woman sees herself getting married to a man she does not recognize or know his name in a dream, it means that she may die from her illness.

If the man who sees himself getting married in the dream qualifies, it means that he will attain a high ranking job or a suitable position.

If one’s wedding ceremony is made with witnesses only in the dream, it means that he has made a covenant with God Almighty.

If he performs a traditional wedding ceremony with its celebrations and festivities in the dream, it means a new job, or it could mean acquiring fame, or becoming renowned for one’s good reputation or character. Marriage in a dream is also interpreted in association with a trade.

If one marries a woman who dies shortly after her wedding in the dream, it means that he will perform a job that earns him nothing but hard labor, toiling and stress.

If one marries an adulteress in a dream, it means that he is an adulterer.

If one marries a vicious, aggressive or a dominating wife in a dream, it means that his movements will be hampered with various restrictions.

If one marries a deceased woman in a dream, it means that he will revive a profitable project he had earlier abandoned.

If a man offers his mother in marriage to one of his friends in a dream, it means that he will sell his house.

If a pregnant woman sees herself getting married in a dream, it means that she will give birth to a girl.

If she sees herself in her wedding night in a dream, it means that she will beget a son.

If a mother who has a son sees herself getting married in a dream, it means that she will marry off her son. In general, the marriage of a married woman, or of an unwed woman in a dream means benefits.

If a woman marries a deceased man in a dream, it means that she will become lost and impoverished.

If a married man sees himself getting married to a second woman in a dream, it means profits.

To marry the daughter of a known man of knowledge in a dream means prosperity. Ifa sick woman marries a man of knowledge in her dream, it means recovering from her illness.

If a man sees himself marrying a living relative who is in a degree of consanguinity that precludes such a marriage in a dream, it means that he will sever his ties with such a relative, or with her family. Otherwise, if that relative is already dead, it means that he will contact her immediate relatives and establish a friendly relationship with them.

(See Cage, Duel, Sanctuary, Wife, Yoke)

For a woman to dream that she marries an old, decrepit man, wrinkled face and gray headed, denotes she will have a vast amount of trouble and sickness to encounter. If, while the ceremony is in progress, her lover passes, wearing black and looking at her in a reproachful way, she will be driven to desperation by the coldness and lack of sympathy of a friend.

To dream of seeing a marriage, denotes high enjoyment, if the wedding guests attend in pleasing colors and are happy; if they are dressed in black or other somber hues, there will be mourning and sorrow in store for the dreamer.

If you dream of contracting a marriage, you will have unpleasant news from the absent.

If you are an attendant at a wedding, you will experience much pleasure from the thoughtfulness of loved ones, and business affairs will be unusually promising.

To dream of any unfortunate occurrence in connection with a marriage, foretells distress, sickness, or death in your family.

For a young woman to dream that she is a bride, and unhappy or indifferent, foretells disappointments in love, and probably her own sickness. She should be careful of her conduct, as enemies are near her.

See Bride.

Disappointments in her love affaire are predicted to the young woman who dreams of being married» particularly if the dream is accompanied by no particular thrill or excitement If she is a happy bride and the dream gives her extreme pleasure, the portent is one which should be comforting to a woman in love.

It is a happy augury to dream of being a bridesmaid, a maid of honor, or a best man at a wedding, for you will have cause to be thankful for the loving attentions of those who are close to you.

To dream of being present at a wedding where ail the circumstances are joyful, means happy years ahead If the guests are dressed in black or dark colors, the dreamer has sorrow to look forward to.

A woman who dreams that she marries a man of advanced years is likely to have much trouble in the near future.

It is a portent of illness, bad news and other kinds of ill luck.

To dream of a marriage represents change, harmony, and obligations. You are facing a significant stage in your life where you will begin a new journey. It may also symbolize the joining of your various attributes and characteristics, especially the male and female attributes.

To dream of a marriage proposal indicates that some issue will influence you negatively.

To dream that you are getting married to your ex implies that you have come to terms with lessons and errors that you made in that relationship. You have been able to grow and discover new truths about yourself. It may also suggest that if you are in a relationship now, there are similar aspects as your previous relationship. You will not commit similar errors though. You have learned how to make changes. *See Wedding.

It is a symbol of commitment and, depending on the details of your dream, you may be currently dealing with this issue.

The commitment could be to your work, to yourself or to your partner. Mostly, a marriage in your dream represents the coming together all various parts of yourself (feminine and masculine, or spiritual and rational). It could represent a greater level of awareness where by the dreamer’s conscious and unconscious elements are becoming more familiar and are embracing one another.

The marriage dream is affirmation and encouragement to grow in self-awareness and to transform yourself. On a more practical level, if you are not married but would like to be, this dream could also be a form of wish-fulfillment.

This not only symbolizes the emotional union of the protagonist with another person, but also internal balance between the masculine and feminine polarity. Additionally, the dream could represent the relationship you maintain between your brain hemispheres (that is, that which governs intuition and that which governs analytical reason). Despite all this, this type of image reveals inner conflicts that affect the personality. “Literal” dreams about conjugal life tend to evolve throughout your life: first they tend to reflect the desire to find a soulmate; then, when the wedding is approaching, elements linked to compromise appear; later, dreams refer to a common project based on mutual love and respect. (See WEDDING) 

Marriage dreams for the young are numerous. They are naturally significant of a human desire for mating, but do not necessarily foretell that a marriage will be contacted. Traditional interpretations vary. Some are as follows: To dream of your own marriage, if you are not actually married, means that you will hear something that displeases you.

To see a marriage, happiness for the dreamer.

If everybody is mournful at the wedding, sadness awaits the dreamer.

For a married person, a dream of another marriage signifies distrust or deep-seated jealousy toward the present mate.

A dream of bigamy indicates uncontrollable emotions or suspicion of some other person related to the dreamer.

Material aspects: On a more mundane level, as these processes of integration are taking place we will often dream of marriage. In previous times, the sexual act was seen as symbolizing the union of the sacred and the secular.

The concept of the sacred marriage or sacred love ceremony originated with the ancients, who enacted annual ceremonies to bring fertility and prosperity, signifying commitment. Today dreams of marriage have that symbolism of dedication to someone else.

If the dreamer is getting married, and is happy about it, either a wedding or another type of much-desired contract or agreement is indicated.

If the dreamer is marrying someone whom she does NOT want to marry, then she may be headed for a task that she’d rather not perform.

If the dreamer is a guest at someone else’s wedding, the success of a long-term goal may depend on others. Astrological parallels: Venus, Jupiter, Libra, Sagittarius Tarot parallels: The Empress, Justice

A dream about marriage means you are feeling balanced and in control of your emotions.

The exception is if you dream of being forced into marriage, which means you are having strong doubts about a situation or relationship everyone else thinks is perfect for you.

If you dream your friend is getting married, you may be worried she is leaving you behind.

If you have a dream that your friend marries your boyfriend, you may have noticed some flirting between them in real life.

You need to integrate some aspects of your character. Marriage is a joining of two energies into a third entity of cooperation and harmony. Symbolically, it relates to habits, patterns, thought processes, or belief systems that at one time were experienced as separate but now are either integrating or need to.

If you are one of the marriage partners, consider the spouse in the dream as representing the quality of personality that is being called forth at this time.

Dreams of marriage represent integration and the embrace of opposites.

If you are married, then dreaming of marriage may be a processing dream about the current circumstances you and your spouse are grappling with.

If you are not married, then this dream may represent your desires and hopes for what your idealized marriage would look/feel like.

See Wedding, Wish Fulfillment Dreams, Commitment, Vows.

A uniting or bringing together of ideas, people, parts or aspects of self. To dream of marriage often represents a blending of the intellectual and intuitive or masculine and feminine parts of self. To dream of marrying a former lover or friend suggests integrating the positive qualities of the person into one’s own consciousness, rather than projecting them on to the other.

See Yin-Yang.

Getting married in a cream may represent the sacred marriage between the male, the logical and expressive aspect, and female, the intuitive aspect of your soul.

The state of being married may comment on a creative project that fulfilled some longtime wish or desire. Dreaming about mamage may also symbolize your readiness for matrimony.

Depth Psychology: If you are single, dreaming about marriage often means you secretly wish to be married. It might also be a reference to marital problems, either in the present or from a former marriage.

The best of all possibilities would be that the dream reflects harmony between your conscious and unconscious.

Marriage may symbolize the union of opposite forces in your psyche, and the consequent achievement of wholeness. (For the male / femalc symbolism of opposing forces, see Couple, Hermaphrodite, Man, Woman.) The most obvious example is the bringing together of the masculine and feminine sides of your personality. 

Spiritually there is a process of integration that needs to come about. This is usually known as a mystic union or mystic marriage. Here the physical and spiritual sides need to harmonize and when they do we are suffused by a sense of bliss.

The sense of rightness is sometimes felt first in dreams.

Gives gender-specific: As an actual wedding ceremony tends to become less important but commitment is, both men and women may dream of an act of commitment, a proposal or making a vow when they feel secure within a relationship.

Dreaming of monogamy highlights this commitment.

Marriage is the union of a male and female or two people deeply in love. In the universal language of mind, marriage represents the commitment between the conscious and subconscious minds. Dreams of marriage indicate the initiation of a new awareness for the dreamer.

Psychological / emotional perspective: Firstly the masculine and feminine sides (drive and receptivity) of our personality need to unite, then emotions are allowed to settle. In dreams this can manifest as a sense of peace.

Union of contrasting parts of yourself (often your feminine and masculine sides). Longing for a permanent bond.

Folklore: Unfavorable omen, because after the so- called “happy ending,” “things” are just getting started.

Dreaming of a marriage, or a wedding, is the sign of a death in the family.

If the marriage was between strangers, then the death pertains to a not too close acquaintance or friend.

See Wedding for more information.

For single people to dream they are married indicates that they are involved in an affair of diminishing returns and would do well to seek a new alliance.

Otherwise, see Wedding.

Marriage in a dream symbolizes commitment of oneself to another. It can also represent the inner marriage of formerly disjunctive aspects of oneself. (See Bride/ Bridegroom.)

1. Covenant or partnership;

2. The joining of Jesus and the Bride of Christ;

3. The church;

4. Contract; Matt. 19:4-6; Eph. 5:31-32.

1. A journey, romantic or otherwise.

2. Death, either of close relation or friend.

3. Commitment, either need for or fear of.

A dream invariably auguring sickness, death, etc.

See Interracial Marriage, Wedding.

cure from all diseased and ailments.

To dream you are married, is ominous of death, and verv unfavorable to the dreamer; it denotes poverty, a prison, and misfortunes. To dream yon assist at a wedding, is the forerunner of some pleasing news and great success. To dream of being with your newly-married husband or wife, threatens danger and sudden misfortunes, and also that you will lose a part of your property; to the sailor, it augurs storms and shipwrecks, with a narrow escape from death.

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announcing one’s own: friction from resentment of enemies wil last over time.

annulled, becoming a bachelor after an: have a strong, outstanding personality.

assisting at a: wil have pleasing news of little importance.

bridesmaid at a, ceremony, being a: wil marry soon if sincerely happy for the bride.

bride or groom: major financial loss affecting living standards and health.

children: have a naïve enthusiasm toward a new project.

daughter away in, giving a: good times are ahead; freedom from responsibility.

sister: unexpected big peril of serious incestuous entanglements.

flower girl: wil have a happy future from the care and consideration of family.

maid of honor: wil accept nothing less than the truth.

getting married: melancholy for the guests with unrequited loves.

honeymoon, a: looking forward to future activities.

infidelity: accusing yourself of being unfaithful to an idea.

money, for: your nervousness and irritability are not ways to avert your financial loss.

others announcing their: disagreeable news from those absent.

partner being suddenly grotesque: question if this is the right choice for you.

priest in a, of the: sit back; you’re into obsessing over other’s lives rather than living own.

relatives, announcing to: immediate recovery from being overly committed.

second, a: inner marriage of formerly disjointed aspects of one’s self.

to a younger man: facing a delicate mental outlook that needs restructuring.

secret, a: a disappointing love affair leaves you uncertain and confused.

virgin, to a: frigidness and lack of sympathy from mate.

widower dreaming of: some things cannot be replaced.

wife and husband restating their vows: happiness is ensured until death.

will, against your: a lively and eventful period of excessive responsibilities.

woman dreaming of, to an old man: are tired, sick and stressed from trouble ahead.

young, being an unhappy bride at a: enemies seek her downfal , adding burdens.