matrimania

matrimania

English

Etymology

matri(mony) + -mania

Noun

matrimania (uncountable)

1. Excessive enthusiasm for a wedding or weddings in general.
   • 2000, Ellen Tien, "Bridal Pulse", The New York Times, 4 June 2000:

     Another bride, another June . . . another season for matrimania.

   • 2007, Erin Torneo & Valerie Cabrera Krause, The Bridal Wave: A Survival Guide to the Everyone-I-Know-Is-Getting-Married Years, Villard Books (2007), →ISBN, page 10:

     If it hadn't been for Bonnie's matrimania, in which I was completely complicit, I'm not sure my panic would have been so intense.

   • 2013, Carlin Flora, Friendfluence: The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We Are, Doubleday (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     The “matrimania” in our culture that has bred over-the-top weddings, renewals of wedding vows, Valentine's Day splurges, and so forth, […]