Mawwiage, that bwessed awwangement

[melannen]

Poll #23823

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 100

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Which is best?

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Accidental marriage - "we didn't know it was legally valid!" subtype
34 (34.0%)

Accidental marriage - "one night in Vegas" subtype
17 (17.0%)

Arranged marriage
46 (46.0%)

Aliens make them get married
19 (19.0%)

Boston marriage
29 (29.0%)

Confirmed bachelorhood
19 (19.0%)

Confirmed spinsterhood
28 (28.0%)

Elopement
17 (17.0%)

Fake marriage
44 (44.0%)

Forgot they were married
22 (22.0%)

Group marriage
38 (38.0%)

Long, happy marriage
55 (55.0%)

Ludicrously long engagement
21 (21.0%)

Ludicrously short engagement
14 (14.0%)

Marriage of convenience
47 (47.0%)

Marriage of inconvenience
31 (31.0%)

Married in all but name
46 (46.0%)

Platonic marriage
37 (37.0%)

Secret marriage
26 (26.0%)

Shotgun marriage
4 (4.0%)

You left off the most important one!
3 (3.0%)

Comments

[pedanther]

This poll appears to be missing the option for crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentation of their women.

Also, I'd like clarification on the "confirmed bachelorhood" option: does it mean actual confirmed bachelorhood, or 'he thinks he's a confirmed bachelor at the beginning but he'll be hitched by the end'? I'm good with either, but I like it to be clear which I'm getting -- I read a series once where one of the supporting characters was written as solid asexual representation for about three-quarters of the running time, and then the author was suddenly "aha actually he's really gay and very deeply repressed but now he's going to fall in love and admit his true nature and live happily ever after" and I was very annoyed.

[lannamichaels]

I deeply appreciate that you ask which is the best and then give checkboxes :D

Anyway, I voted for a lot of them, but I have much love in my heart for actually accidental marriage where it's your own custom/tradition/culture. Like, it's one thing for us to go off to a different galaxy and then accidentally get married in that tradition, that's a cool thing! But I would not then return to Earth and consider myself actually married, unless we did that accident on purpose because for reasons we couldn't get married on Earth. But otherwise, it's a cool thing to have happened, but I would not consider it binding.

But for it to accidentally happen in your own way of getting married? Perfection.


And to Group Marriage, I submit the Line Marriage that I read in Heinlein, where a group marriage keeps adding members to it so it keeps going for ages, even after the original members of the marriage are dead.

[polarissruler]

I think I voted for every option, but hey - each one has so many pluses and each one has so great fics that I can't decide. If I had to choose only one, I'd probably take the long, happy marriage. After all, who does not want to see their OTPs living happily ever after? (Although in my case that also includes lots of group marriages.)

[lea_hazel]

So many possibilities!

When left to my own devices, I avoid marriage for my characters because it's just not something that I feel a strong pull towards. Imagine my surprise when I fell headlong into a fandom that positively revolves around marriage. Now I have a selection of OCs covering maybe every third option on the poll.

I can't say that I ever tried "forgot they were married", but I'm tempted to.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Several of these can be in the same story for the same marriage. So, ticky boxes.

You however didn't include the Ticky Boxes!!! option, which, I think a quack fic needs to be written.

[annathecrow]

Niiiiice. I appreciate the multi-choice, I wouldn't be able to choose one. :D

Is there a difference between "confirmed bachelorhood" and "confirmed spinsterhood", and what would it be?