"acknowledge marriage" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe an instance of a person or group of people showing appreciation or recognition of a marriage or marriage event. For example, "The proud parents were beaming when their daughter and son-in-law wed, and everyone at the ceremony acknowledged marriage."
Weddings are the ceremony to acknowledge marriage; divorce is the ceremony that defines the end of a marriage.
The Pope ignored the texts of St . Paulthat seemed to acknowledge marriage as a normal state, and justified his position on the basis of another Pauline text, which says, "The unmarried man worries only about the Lord's affairs," but "the married man worries about worldly affairs, how he may please his wife".
Basically, as those vows acknowledge, marriage is tough and it takes two to make a partnership work.
#history Russell Simmons @UncleRUSH I hope that the Supreme Court stands on the right-side of history today by acknowledging marriage equality for all.
New York acknowledges marriages from those states and from other countries, despite the federal Defense of Marriage Act of 1996, which was meant to allow other states not to recognize gay marriages performed elsewhere.
Supporters of same-sex marriage ought to acknowledge that marriage is not just a natural expression of human intimacy or a declaration of personal commitment; it is a form of governance.
As a religiously affiliated educational institution, Eastside "is not required to acknowledge his marriage", they wrote.
But I'd also like to acknowledge that marriage isn't always what every person desires or achieves.
Obviously we are very hurt that they did not acknowledge our marriage with a gift and I would like to let them know how I feel.
Religious leaders implored slaveholders to acknowledge that marriage and the family were divinely ordained and that, as a result, they must not separate husbands from wives or parents from children, even when it was financially advantageous to do so.
In order to kick the issue into touch, some Democrats – including, to his shame, President Obama – have refused to acknowledge gay marriage as a universal matter of equality; instead, saying it is an issue for each individual state.
