picture description: This is a picture of a man (who wears a black coat, black trousers, a white shirt, and a bow tie) and a woman (who wears a white gown and a veil covering her head) who have just committed their lives to each other in a union known as marriage.  Marriage is society's way of ordering the joining of men and women into couples for the purposes of mutual support in all the fun, work, and stress of adult life and the procreation of the next generation of humankind.