Dreaming of getting married
Getting married in a dream is usually not about a real wedding. It is about commitment: a choice for someone, for something, or for a new phase in your own life. Whom you married and how it felt say the most.
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Dreams about getting married come to people about to marry, but just as much to people who have been married for years, are single or have no plans to marry at all. Sometimes the dream is festive. Often something goes wrong: you are late, your dress or suit does not fit, you do not know whom you are marrying, or the other person does not turn up.
For people who really are getting married, such dreams are very normal. It is a big step with many expectations, and the brain rehearses the possible disasters in advance. That says nothing about whether the choice is right.
Outside that situation, getting married in dreams stands for commitment in a wider sense. A new job, a move, a decision you are binding yourself to. Or a commitment to yourself: two sides of you coming together. Marrying a stranger is therefore often read as connecting with something new you do not yet know.
Each tradition gives marriage its own depth. In Islam marriage is a covenant of affection and mercy, and a dream about getting married is often read as a new responsibility. Christianity knows marriage as a covenant and as an image of Christ and the church. Wicca has handfasting, and sees in marriage the union of opposites.
So ask yourself what you are binding yourself to right now.
What it means in each tradition
The same dream. 7 traditions. 7 different ways of seeing it.
Islamic
In Islam marriage is a covenant described in the Quran as a source of tranquillity, affection and mercy. In classical interpretation a dream about getting married is therefore often read as a new commitment or responsibility.
Read the full Islamic interpretation →Christian
In the Bible marriage is a covenant, and one of the strongest images for the bond between God and people. The Bible begins with a marriage and ends with a wedding. A dream about getting married is therefore often read in the Christian tradition as a question about faithfulness and connection.
Read the full Christian interpretation →Wicca
In wicca the marriage ceremony is called a handfasting, and marriage is seen as the union of opposites, like the Goddess and the God. A dream about getting married is therefore often read as two things coming together, in your life or in yourself.
Read the full Wicca interpretation →Akan
Among the Akan a marriage is a union between two families, not only between two people. It begins with the kɔkɔɔkɔ, the knocking on the door, and is sealed with the tiri nsa, the head drink. A wedding dream is therefore often read in an Akan reading as connection and responsibility.
Read the full Akan interpretation →Santería
In Santería Ochún is the orisha of love, seduction and marriage, and her love story with Changó is one of the best-known patakí. A dream about a wedding is therefore often connected with Ochún, love and union in Santería readings.
Read the full Santería interpretation →Hindu
In Hinduism marriage, vivaha, is one of the great life-cycle rites, sealed with seven steps before the sacred fire. A wedding in a dream is therefore often read as a bond, a promise or a new stage of life, and only rarely as being about an actual wedding.
Read the full Hindu interpretation →Winti
In the Winti tradition a wedding is never only about two people. It joins two bere, two family lines, with the ancestors who belong to them. A wedding dream is therefore read through the family line: who is joining, who approves, and who is missing.
Read the full Winti interpretation →These differences are not opinions about one another. Each tradition reads a dream from within its own worldview, and that worldview decides what an image carries.
Common dreams about getting married
Marrying a stranger
Often read as connecting with something new: a job, a plan, a side of yourself you do not yet know.
Marrying your ex
Rarely a sign to go back. More an old pattern or something unfinished. See also: dreaming about your ex.
A wedding that goes wrong
Very common before a real wedding: tension about expectations. Outside that situation, doubt about a commitment.
Being late for your own wedding
The feeling that you are not ready for a step, or that it is going too fast. See also: dreaming of being late.
Being a guest at a wedding
Involvement in someone else's commitment or happiness, or a question about your own desires.
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Does dreaming of getting married mean I will get married?
No. None of the traditions reads it that literally. It is usually about a commitment or a new phase in your life.
Why do I dream that my wedding goes wrong?
If you really are getting married, that is very normal: the brain is processing tension and expectations. It says nothing about whether your choice is right.
What does marrying a stranger mean?
Often a commitment to something new you do not yet know well, or a side of yourself you are getting to know.