Marriage (Guide)
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Early PoSI Content |
'On the occasion of your marriage the Empress offers her sincere congratulations, and the following advice: Be sensible. Except when sense would admit defeat. Be kind. Except when kindness would come between you. Be faithful. Always. May your marriage bring you the happiness mine brought me. Eternally, Victoria R.'
Marrying Another Player[edit]
Getting Started[edit]
To marry another player, you must first be 
Acquainted With them. Then you may admit your affection for them (at a cost of a 
Free Evening, 
10 x Romantic Notion and 
1 x Touching Love Story) in Attend to Matters of the Heart!; if they accept your affections, you will be 
Seen with each other.
Next, you can propose to them, either simply (at a cost of 
100 x Piece of Rostygold, 
1 x Moon-Pearl, 10 x Romantic Notion and a Free Evening) or grandly (at a cost of 100 x Romantic Notion, 
1 x Magnificent Diamond, 
1 x Personal Recommendation, 1 x Night on the Town and a Free Evening). Simple proposals can only be made to non-
PoSIs. If they accept, you'll be 
Engaged to each other, and you will gain 
x 1 Organising a Wedding.
Organisation[edit]
Your first task is to secure the relevant paperwork, either through dubious means costing 
x 10 Stolen Correspondence and giving x 5 Organising a Wedding, or from the Bazaar costing a Bazaar Permit and giving x 13 Organising a Wedding - or, if you're looking to squeeze as much OaW out of this stage as possible, you can do both in that order.
To increase OaW further, the following options become available in Plan a Wedding as your levels of OaW increase - with the notable exceptions of Procure a handful of more costly bottles and Seek advice from those who have gone through this before, they don't become unavailable again once unlocked.
If you wish to share the burden of organising with your soon-to-be spouse, then Foist the Organisation of your Wedding onto your partner will transfer over all your OaW and allow them to build it up further with the options in Plan a Wedding.
Analysis[edit]
Which options are best for grinding OaW will obviously depend on how easily you can obtain the items they require, or whether you have significant stockpiles you're willing to use up for this. That said, there are a few standout options worth considering: most options cost about 1
per point of OaW, but Locate a reliable vicar and Source food from local street-vendors are substantially cheaper (about 0.48 and 0.5 per point, respectively. As 
Rats on Strings are much easier to obtain than 
Favours: The Church, Source food from local street-vendors will often be a good option, especially in the beginning.
Ratness Grinding (Guide) lists a number of grinds for Rats on Strings; if you use the Unfinished Business option of Keep your hands quick, you'll average about 1.81 OaW per action.
For rather exquisite weddings, an alternative is sourcing Legal Documents from Hunting Bees in Old Newgate (Guide). If this is done at 1 document over 6 actions, this reaches 9 OaW per action. If you're really going all-out, it may be worth grinding them via Barristering at Evenlode (Guide); assuming you win every case at maximum prestige and cover the 16-
Dubious Testimony deficit per case with Enter the house (White), this can reach 11.25 OaW per action - although for smaller weddings the time investment of completing a Parabolan campaign may make this less worthwhile than hunting bees.
The Venue[edit]
Once you feel you have enough OaW, you can move onto the ceremony itself. Depending on your levels of OaW, you can choose from a variety of different venues. Note that each venue will set your (and your spouse's) OaW to a particular value, which will determine what you can do after the ceremony.
| Venue | Requires | Sets to | Other |
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| Elope | 5 | 0 | Costs
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| A hurried riverside ceremony | 5 | 10 | Costs
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| A tiny, shadowed room | 5 | 10 | Costs
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| A crooked church and the Medusa's Head | 100 | 10 | |
| The Flit | 200 | 100 | |
| A marquee in Winewound Heath | 300 | 150 | |
| The stage of Mahogany Hall | 400 | 200 | |
| On a ship at zee | 500 | 250 | Gives  x 1 Notability
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| The streets of Veilgarden | 750 | 375 | Gives x 1 Notability
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| St Dunstan's | 1000 | 500 | Gives x 1 Notability
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| St Fiacre's | 10000 | 1000 | Gives x 2 Notability
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| The Bazaar | 10000 | 1000 | Gives x 2 Notability
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After choosing the venue, you are immediately redirected to The Ceremony, where you Don the Ring. Congratulations! Now all that's left is the reception.
The Guests[edit]
At this point, you may spend your OaW to encounter various guests for various benefits.
- ↑ Requires no Your very own Infernal Contract
- ↑ Requires
An Admirer of Beauty - Beautiful Company and no 
A Bitter Parting: the Artist's Model
- ↑ Requires An Admirer of Beauty - Beautiful Company and A Bitter Parting: the Artist's Model
- ↑ Requires no
A Bitter Parting: the Master Jewel Thief
- ↑ Requires A Bitter Parting: the Master Jewel Thief
- ↑ Requires
Acquaintance: the Repentant Forger
- ↑ Requires
Acquaintance: the Sardonic Music-Hall Singer
- ↑ Requires a venue that requires less organising than Winewound Heath
- ↑ Requires a venue that requires at least as much organising as Winewound Heath
An Invitation to a Humble Wedding lets the recipient gain 
50 x Bottle of Greyfields 1879; no reward; or a Free Evening. An Invitation to an Extravagant Wedding lets the recipient gain 
1 x Bottle of Greyfields 1868 First Sporing; 
1 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip; or a Free Evening.
Once you have 5 or less OaW left, an option to bring the celebration to a close (and thus leave the storylet) will appear.
Seeking Divorce[edit]
If you no longer wish to be married to your player spouse, you have two options; either a Seek a mutually-agreed divorce, in which case your spouse's consent will begin the divorce process, or hiring a lawyer - the Ambitious Barrister if you aren't yet a Tier 2 PoSI, or Baseborn & Fowlingpiece if you are.
Although the latter route will immediately dissolve your marriage, the former will instead give both players 
Pursuing a divorce 5. This unlocks a storylet (Pursuing a Mutually-Agreed Divorce) in 
Your Lodgings, which has various options to increase Pursuing a divorce. Once both parties have Pursuing a divorce 100, you may both play End your marriage to end the marriage. Alternatively, at any point before one party leaves the marriage, either may reconsider the divorce, removing their Pursuing a divorce.
Note that ending the marriage, by either route, will result in both players losing their 
A Letter from the Empress, if they have one.
Marrying an NPC[edit]
Marrying an NPC is a great deal simpler. To marry an NPC, you need to have the relevant companion, and play the option in the relevant storylet in Your Social Engagements - for instance, to marry a Platonic Partner in Crime, you must have a 
Fabulous Accomplice and play Make your commitment to each other permanent in Cement your Relationship.
Several NPCs require a storyline before you can marry them.
- For the Celebrated Artist's Model you must first complete the Courting the Celebrated Artist's Model storyline.
- For the
Master Jewel Thief you must first complete the Courting the Master Jewel Thief storyline. - For the
Philosophically Perfect Partnership you must first complete the A Philosophical Courtship storyline.
If you are a PoSI, you may also marry A Bewildering Procession of Companions, Lovers, Suitors, and Paramours with Formalise your Relationship; this costs 
x 1 Cellar of Wine.
Divorcing an NPC is also much simpler, merely requiring that you play the relevant storylet in your lodgings - for instance, Separate from your Platonic Partner in Crime to divorce a 
Platonic Partner in Crime.
