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love-cum-arranged marriage

love-cum-arranged marriage
 n.— «“I came home one day from shooting and my mother said it’s high time I got married. Sunita and I were married the next morning at 4.30 a.m.” Govinda describes it as a “love cum arranged marriage.”» —“Govinda: The Lovable Hero” by Anupama Chopra India Today July 28, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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