love match

a marriage entered into for love alone.

Origin of love match

First recorded in 1740–50

That it was a love-match on one side, the words of Vane Charteris have assured us.

Guy Kenmore's Wife and The Rose and the Lily |Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
It was a love-match, and, therefore, a popular event all over the land.

The Portland Peerage Romance |Charles J. Archard
The Randolphs' love-match had been regarded as establishing a sort of standard of excellence.

The Real Adventure |Henry Kitchell Webster
Never leaves her; theirs was a love-match; you must have seen them.

Chicot the Jester |Alexandre Dumas, Pere

It was a love-match of stolen wooing and secret wedding,—but, ha!

In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II |Various

love match

a betrothal or marriage based on mutual love rather than any other considerations