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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.
(sometimes specifically) The union of two people of opposite sex, to the exclusion of all others. A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed. [from 14th c.] You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.