Word for Secretive Marriage that is not Elope
Solution 1:
You might call it a clandestine marriage
adjective
kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit.
"she deserved better than these clandestine meetings"
(oxforddictionaries.com)
The wikipedia article on a Fleet Marriage, for example, refers to clandestine marriages as a type of fleet marriage:
..."Clandestine" marriages were those that had an element of secrecy to them: perhaps they took place away from a home parish, and without either banns or marriage licence
For another example (that this is not just [synonym for secret] stuck in front of 'marriage'), the subject and title of this book:
(Google Books)
Solution 2:
These two people have a private marriage.
1.1 (Of a conversation, activity, or gathering) involving only a particular person or group, and often dealing with matters that are not to be disclosed to others:
this is a private conversation a small
private service in the chapel
Oxford Dictionaries Online
Solution 3:
Such a marriage could be considered, in modern parlance, to be on the “down-low.”
down-low: (also "on the down low" or "on the DL") may refer to any activity or relationship kept discreet. Specifically, it may refer to:
• Keeping an act, action or some other piece of information a secret.
• Down-low (sexual slang): Men who identify as heterosexual, but have sex with men secretly.
(Wikipedia)
down-low noun (uncountable):
1. secrecy I'll tell you, but keep it on the down low.
2. (sexuality) the state of being a man who secretly sleeps with people other than his partner
3. (sexuality) the state of being a man who secretly sleeps with other me.
(wiktionary)
Solution 4:
Since most members here are middle-aged, I presume, I suggest an old slang term:"on the QT"
The slang term 'qt' is a shortened form of 'quiet'. There's no definitive source for the phrase 'on the q.t.', although it appears to be of 19th century British origin - not, as is often supposed, American. The longer phrase 'on the quiet' is also not especially old, but is first recorded somewhat before 'on the qt', in Otago: Goldfields & Resources, 1862
"on the Q.T. (alternative forms: on the qt, on the QT, on the q.t.) (idiomatic) Quietly; in a secretive manner; clandestinely. Wiktionary
e.g.
- They told her on the Q.T. that she was being promoted.
- They got married on the Q.T.