bush marriage

bush marriage
   a marriage performed without due ceremony
   In a remote place where the trappings of the traditional ceremony are unavailable:
    ... most of them were bush marriages performed by some joker wearing a coconut mask and a feathered jock-strap. (Sanders, 1977)

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