premarriage

adj

1. (not-comparable)Before marriage.

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A period of time before marriage.

   “Dating and pre-marriage are times to sort out what kind of person you like or if you like people at all.”

   “If we have to start inspecting premarriages and I have to give birth control advice to every innocent woman those boys decide […]”

   “There I have dumped willy-nilly into a giant coffin-sized plastic bin of photos that dated back to premarriage and children.”