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Yes. There is a marriage of love and wisdom in God.

This marriage finds itself in all things of earth, in every animal and plant, in every law of science and physics, in every shape and form on the earth. Love and wisdom are the essence and form of life. The marriage of a man and woman is an important image of the marriage of wisdom and love. Both men and women have the capability of becoming loving and wise, but through joining together in a life of love and commitment to one another, they become whole. All people who approach God with a desire for a truly loving relationship, and who turn away from selfish or carnal lusts and toward tenderness and giving, will find an eternal partner. Some find that partner here on earth, and others find that eternal partner after death. But all are united in love, friendship, tenderness, and the physical expression and delights of marriage after death in heaven. Real love can never die, but grows to eternity. The image of love and wisdom continues to grow in a married couple who reflect that love.

“Two partners in heaven are not two but one angel. Therefore, by conjugial unition they fill themselves with the human, which consists in willing to become wise, and in loving that which pertains to wisdom.” Conjugial Love 52

“Since heaven is from the human race, and is an abiding with the Lord to eternity, it follows that this was the Lord's goal in creation; and because it was the goal of creation it is the goal of His Divine Providence. The Lord did not create the universe for His own sake, but for the sake of those with whom He will dwell in Heaven; for spiritual love is of such a nature that it wills to give its own to another, and in so far as it can do this it is in its being, in its peace, and in its happiness. The nature of this spiritual love comes from the Lord's Divine Love, which is infinitely such. It follows that the Divine Love, and so the Divine Providence, has for it's goal a heaven; which will be made up of people who have become and are becoming angels, to whom He can give all kinds of blessings and happiness from love and wisdom, and give them from Himself.” Divine Providence 27

“Those who are in love truly conjugial, after death, when they become angels, return into their youth and adolescence. The males, however worn out with age, become young men; and the wives, however worn out with age, become young women. Each conjugial partner returns into the prime of life and into the joys of the age in which conjugial love begins to intensify life with new delights, and to inspire with joyous activity for the sake of prolification ... Because they are always growing more interiorly young, it follows that love truly conjugial increases and enters into the delights and joys provided for it from the creation of the world. These are the delights and joys of the inmost heaven, arising from the love of the Lord towards heaven and the Church, and thence from the mutual love of good and truth; from this love every joy in the heavens is derived. The reason why a man thus grows young in heaven is, that he then enters into the marriage of good and truth. And there is in good an effort of continually loving truth, and in truth there is an effort of continually loving good; and then the wife is good in form, and the man is truth in form. It is from that effort that a man puts off all severity, senile harshness, mournfulness, and want of vitality, and puts on the activity, gladness, and freshness of youth, from which the effort receives life and becomes joy ... From marriages in the heavens, although married partners are there united as on earth, children are not born, but instead of children, goods and truths, and thence wisdom.” Apocalypse Explained 1000.4