The word 'wed' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb that means to marry or to join in marriage. Example: "The couple will wed each other in a beautiful outdoor ceremony."
It's certainly not true that it found "only a quarter [of LGBT people] would wed", as the Mail said in its headline – and Catholic Voices said in their press release.
The pair are set to wed in a low-key ceremony in Venice on 20 September, although sources also suggest he has "secured an entire island" for the ceremony.
The majority of Americans, 58%, support the right of gays and lesbians to wed in a recent opinion survey jointly conducted by ABC News and the Washington Post.
Bahrain stands out as the first example of an Arab country where popular protests were crushed – with the assistance of neighbouring Saudi Arabia and the acquiescence of the US and Britain, whose military, strategic and business interests wed them to a status quo in which the Sunni Al Khalifa dynasty rules over a disenfranchised Shia majority.
McIlroy and Wozniacki are not the first high-profile golf and tennis couple to wed: Greg Norman and Chris Evert married in 2008, although that match ended in divorce 13 months later.
Mary was previously married to King Francis II of France, though historians aren't sure if the marriage was consummated: he was a sickly youngster of just 15 when they wed, and soon perished of a brain abscess.
Despite an increase after rules on where you could get wed were liberalised, fewer people are getting married than at any time in more than 100 years.
Its coverage of the Benazir Bhutto assassination wed strong headlines to striking photography, giving the event a dramatic but respectful visual structure.
Kate Middleton will be the first commoner to marry a prince in close proximity to the throne in more than 350 years, since Anne Hyde wed the Duke of York, later James II, in 1660.
Gay couples in Mobile were not allowed to wed on February 9th, but many gathered to celebrate anyway before one of the city's Mardi Gras parades.
