It may not be your thing, but there are many people who would enjoy those features and there's nothing wrong with that.
For me, I love the marriage option! It greatly deepens my RP experience. :celebration:
I think the problem people like myself have with marriage is that they could have spent that time working on making rain not go through roofs, improving various graphical aspects and textures and making more quests rather than something stupid like getting married in the game.
They should have a "relationship" status and perk tree. You have to have good communication with your wife and keep a happy marriage. And the skill perks are things like, "Wife will keep the house 25% cleaner when you are gone."
That is complete sarcasm of course. I feel that marriage has no place in a TES game. Of course, that's just my personal opinion and I realize others will disagree.
It really seems bizarre to me to have your character get married in a game. It's almost like some people are living vicariously through their character in order to flirt with a girl and get married. :yuck: