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It's not an obligation in the sense that it's not strictly mandatory.

But it is beyond encouraged. Any faithful Muslim believe that marriage is half of faith.

“When a person gets married he has completed half of his religion, so let him fear Allah with regard to the other half.”

It's strongly encouraged, yes. But not mandatory and not obligatory, which was the erroneous claim to which I was responding.

Are you Muslim? You realize people don't take "half of faith" literally, right?

Yes I'm Muslim. They do where I am. Calling marriage "completing half my faith" is a very common expression. Why wouldn't they take it literally?

I used that at my speech in my brother’s wedding, and the aunties loved it.