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[attheclocktower]

[Well lately has been an utter roller coaster of feelings. To say the least. It'd taken a few days musing (some of those days being distracted by a certain book of notes she'd recieved) to realize that maybe she needed a little help with this.]

So... can anybody tell me about weddings and getting married? Just... different things about it. A friend explained some of it to me but... [A lot of it seemed way over her head.] It was really confusing.

[Maybe hearing a few different thoughts about it would help.]

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Not here (yet) 1/4

[justabignobody]

[Excuse him while he makes this face at first, because really, where did that come from!? o.O;]

[text | private] 2/4

[justabignobody]

[Okay, hmm. Give him a moment to find a way to best explain this. One that preferable doesn't go into the religious aspects because well... keep it short and simple, right?]

You could say, a marriage is like a contract. Two people decide and agree to spend the rest of their together, to help and love each other no matter what happens.

There are several aspects to it though. Some people marry for security and things like that. Most ideally they marry for love.

Weddings... are kind of complicated, I guess. They usually involve lots of people... tough, I guess all you really need is some kind of priest or official to make it legal.

[That the kind of thing you were looking for?]

Not here (again) 3/4

[justabignobody]

[...Alright wait. Where had this come from? >.>;;

/most suspicious and overprotective not!bro is just that. :|]

[voice | private] done

[justabignobody]

Xion... why are you asking?

[text | private] (1/3)

[attheclocktower]

That sounds a little like what they said... That helps some though, I think... thanks.

[It gives her a little bit more detail...]

[not here] (2/3)

[attheclocktower]

[And then the voice segment pops up and she realizes who this is and oh god it's Riku and Riku doesn't like Reno and this just seems like the worst idea to talk about this.

Um. Um. Um.]

[voice | private] (3/3)

[attheclocktower]

N-no reason. Nothing bad, I promise.

[Xion those are two different answers entirely]

[text]

[justiceinheaven]

um... getting married is when two people who really really love each other decide to move in together

[text]

[attheclocktower]

[Hmm...]

But... why would you try to do something like that here? You can't sleep in a room that isn't your own for too long, so you can't move into the same place...

[text]

[justiceinheaven]

[Two bitties talking about this sort of thing... this is going to end well.]

that's true i guess thats why brother and rise-chan arent together yet

[...welp.]

but the important thing is they love each other a lot

[private text, fifteen minutes after Nanako's...]

[pitiedthefool]

...There's a bit more to it than what Nanako said.

But why are you asking in the first place?

[private text]

[attheclocktower]

Well... that does make sense. What else is there to it though?

[She actually checks to see who it is and... oh, it's Yu. Yu is safer than Riku when it comes to discussing Reno-related things]

Um... Two people I know... said they're going to. So I wanted to learn more about it.

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[tohko_amano]

Well, there are a lot of different wedding customs and stories about why weddings should happen, and I bet they all change depending on where you live and go. However, a wedding is a celebration when two people who love each other enough to spent their who lives together actually do it. Usually the two involved have to be of proper age, depending where you live, but that's how it worked back home!

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[attheclocktower]

Yeah... another friend of mine said the same thing about the customs. Do you know any special ones from your world?

Back home they didn't really care about love and stuff like that. At least the people I was with didn't.

[They didn't think they could love. Xion isn't entirely convinced, but then again she's a replica, not a Nobody]

voice

[midgarhorizon]

[heavy sigh]

Xion... if ya needed a better answer, you could have asked us.

voice

[attheclocktower]

[... guh now she feels really bad for not doing that]

Sorry...

voice

[atouchofstrife]

...Who's getting married?

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[attheclocktower]

[This is public it isn't private like Yu's and Riku's and augh]

I didn't say anybody was.

[Even across text you are not good at dodging the question.]

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[thousandcurses]

[Well, isn't this ironic, with what she now has in her trunk. She's smiling warmly as she responds!]

Marriage is a promise between two people. A promise to live together and love one another for the rest of their lives or longer. They exchange vows in a ceremony--a wedding--and become as one. They are meant to be faithful to one another.

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[attheclocktower]

That's a really special promise...

[She thinks of how uncertain things are in the Tower... and even back home. Axel had told them they might not always be together, (though as long as they didn't forget)...

Still, to make a promise like that would be pretty big]

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[flared]

Found the answers you're looking for?

voice;

[attheclocktower]

[haglksdjf hi Axel]

Sort of. There are so many different ones.

[All the different customs and ideas about marriage she's heard. Including certain less-than-accurate ones.]

text; you can always count on kidou to be a walking wikipedia

[pengeen]

Marriage is a ceremony that ties two people together. Usually you would get married to the one you love, but there are some cases where your parents set you up with someone. That's called an arranged marriage, and it usually takes place with parents more involved with businesses, or religious purposes. Such as my father was the owner of a top class financial business, so he was most likely going to set up an arranged marriage with me and the daughter of another top class business owner to ensure a tighter bond between the two companies and earn more money that way. With religions, parents want to make sure their child marries someone with the same religion as them, so they usually look for a suitable spouse for their child.

On the subject of how marriages work, as I said earlier, it involves a ceremony. In most traditional weddings, in involves a man and a woman. They're called the Bride and the Groom. The woman is the Bride, the man is the Groom. The two getting married would walk down an aisle, usually at different times, and stand before their marriage officiant, who is the person that runs the ceremony and validates the wedding. The two getting married would each have a list of vows, that can vary from person to person, and then they are given rings to wear on their ring finger, the third finger on your left hand. The rings show that they are married, and they usually don't remove the rings unless they get a divorce.

The ceremony also involves other people such as the Maid of Honor and the Best Man. The Maid of Honor and the Best Man are usually people of great importance to the two spouses. They stand by them during the wedding, and in some cases, the Best Man would hold the rings until the end of the wedding. There are bridesmaids and groomsmen as well, who also stand at the alter with the couple. Sometimes, there is a little girl who is called the Flower Girl, and she usually has a basket of flowers that she sprinkles on the aisle in front of the bride when its her turn to walk down the aisle.

The point of a marriage is two bind two together, usually for the rest of their lives. There are things that are beneficial to being married, too. Such as health insurance benefits and the like... but seeing how we're stuck in this Tower, insurance isn't really much of an issue anymore.

If I wasn't clear on anything, please let me know and I'll try to explain it better.

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[provenworth]

That is the most textbook definition of marriage that I've ever heard somebody give. But I think you missed something...

[keybearer]

[Okay, so, he hasn't read or listened to every conversation, but one thing sticks out like a sore thumb to him:]

Is somebody actually getting married here?

[He knows the answer's yes, but... dang. Marriage and the tower seem like oxymorons.]