Possible Clues:

• Cary Grant played a male one in 1949
• *Many a military spouse
• One becoming union member during dispute
• A new wife in a state that doesn't bespeak peace?
• Result of engagement in battle?
• How crude is that? In retrospect, someone gave her away, as her new husband is away fighting!
• Winning her, one had "trouble and strife"?
• Her partner served for the match
• A trip round Britain with wife one married after some hostility
• One getting married after action-packed engagement?