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In many traditions and statutes of civil or religious law, the consummation of a marriage, often called simply consummation, is the first (or first officially credited) act of sexual intercourse between two people, either following their marriage to each other or after a prolonged sexual attraction.
Other Definitions. 1  The state, condition or relationship of being married; wedlock. 2  The legal or religious ceremony that formalizes the decision of two people to live as a married couple, including the accompanying social festivities.