love match

American  

noun

1. a marriage entered into for love alone.

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love match British  

noun

1. a betrothal or marriage based on mutual love rather than any other considerations

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Etymology

Origin of love match

First recorded in 1740–50

Example Sentences

He’ll even dig up the grave of a suitable love match.

From The Wall Street Journal

Initially awkward together, they gradually form an attachment informed by the trauma of the job, and their arranged union becomes a love match — albeit an unusually complicated one.

From Los Angeles Times

Kounalakis said she once set Harris up on a date, but “it was not a love match.”

From Los Angeles Times

Whether Turner and Nist’s love match turns out to be the Real Deal doesn't concern most of us in the long run.

From Salon

A paunchy, bespectacled, depressed widower with back pain, Farrell oozes melancholy as he checks into a hotel where he hopes to make a love match in 45 days or be turned into the titular animal.

From Salon