After reading several posts on who got married to who, and so and so got lost after the wedding, etc. I had to share the wedding experience. Hopefully some may find the answers they seek....

Ysolda is cute enough, but something was missing. I then went to see Sylgja, ran a quick errand for her. When I returned, I bumped into a bucket, and she yelled at me to watch it...sheesh, not even married, and getting yelled at by a woman with a big pickaxe--back to Whiterun.

I asked Ysolda to marry me (with Lydia standing there), and it was set. I had already bought the house in Whiterun, so was set as far at a home went. I got to the Temple of Mara, and Ysolda was waitng at the altar.

The ceremony went as planned, then Ysolda left, and I turned around. Lydia was sitting there looking totally pissed. I tried to talk to her, and all she said was "congratulations"--didn't sound like she meant it either. She wouldn't even talk to me after that, so I left the temple, then came back in--she was ready to follow me again.

Got back home to Whiterun. Ysolda was at home hanging out, and gave me an endearing comment when I came in. The girls got along fine together. There's a single bed(room) at the top of the stairs that says "owned"...that's Lydia's room. Yet, something was just plain missing. So, I got the marriage annulled. (reset a full save before I had asked anyone to marry me).

I've met a lot of women in the game, and most are pretty fine--probably make great wives too. But Lydia is the one I wanted to share life with as it is, in Skyrim. Deciding to chance it, I clicked on Lydia (pc) ran the console command "addtofaction 19809 1", and nothing else. Then I approached her, and was quite happy to see the dialogue I had hoped for--she was very interested in me, and me in her--the wedding was set, so off to the temple we go. We both said our "I do's"--unlike when she said "congratulations", she actually sounded like she meant it. Ceremony ends, and she's gone.

Ysolda made it home in no time, but when I got there this time, no Lydia, at home or the great dining hall. OK, I figured I'd sleep the night, and look again in the morning--still no Lydia.

Getting a bit concerned about my wifes welfare, I used console command "player.moveto a2c94". Lo and behold, she was just barely half way back from Riften!! She was walking the whole way. She didn't really seem to pay much attention to me, but was more concerned with going home. I did talk to her, and she sound excited about being married, and where to live, which I replied my place, then she continued on ahead of me.

I was walking slow, letting her keep well ahead, just to see how she fared--then she got attacked by 4 wolves. I ran up to her, but it was all over--for the wolves that is. She was still carrying a flame spitting sword I found on a quest--she flamed their butts to a crackly crisp in seconds. She clearly did not need my help. There were 4 more wolf attacks on the way home--they all died the same violent death.

Well, she went through the city gates, and it was breath holding time--would she go home to our place? Yes. I went in behind her, and she was gone. I went upstairs, and she was already passed out from the long journey--on my side of the bed I might add. I figured it took over two days for her to walk home. Being late, I got in bed too.

Next morn, she was downstairs hanging out, spending some time in the kitchen. All good. I talked to her to see what changes in dialogue there may be. The option to open her inventory was gone, and replaced by a sales list--so she does sell goodies, but no dialogue about any money coming in like it did with Ysolda. I asked her to follow me--once again, her inventory dialogue appeared for my perusal. I love Lydia. Having a loving wife who will cook for me, then enjoy going on a killing spree in some dungeon, is where it's at for this old mage.

Update--hope this is easier to read now. also...after a few day cycles passed, and when we got home, all the dialogues appeared, and she had even made money while out ransacking old tombs with me.

Wall of text. Learn to use paragraphs. A different font wouldn't hurt with so many words. Ignored for now.

Long text is looooong.

But I read it. Lydia just seems a little too "O HAI THAR, MAH THANE" for me.

What was missing with Ysolda, by the way? I'm thinking about marrying her...seems like a good housewife.

I read it all haha, just a person marrying the woman of his dreams ingame after making a mistake marrying someone else getting that divorce and getting with his lydia.

For future though make some paragraphs, I like reading on the forums be it complaint or stories like this but ahh I had to re-skim lines to make it to the next line haha.

No problem--I'll keep them shorter, just got wound up. BTW, all the dialogue showed up after some time, including $400 stashed away. Ysolda was nice enough, but just didn't light my fire....and yes, I actually do have bad eyesight--in GL, and RL........

I stopped to catch my breath half-way through. Yikes.

I'm still looking for that "special someone".

Fixed. Sort of. You ramble a lot, I can see why you didn't use paragraphs.

Cute story.

Well, out of 15 posts when I started looking at this thread, 10 of them went away.

If you aren't going to read the opening post, don't spam by posting that you aren't going to read it.

If you aren't going to read a post because of the lack of paragraphs or line breaks or punctuation or any other reason, don't spam by posting to say you aren't going to read it.

I read it.... My eyes are bleeding...

I was quite like you but with Olfina Gray-Mane.. then i discovered she is in love with Jon Battle-Born... That B i t c h. lol.. :S

I haven't even started the MQ yet, so I wouldn't know how you get to marry anyone atm, haven't run into it on my side quests anyhow! 60 hours in and not starting the MQ.... gotta love TES games and Skyrim Lydia does follow me around well though, and whenever so go's and gets herself killed I ALWAYS reload and try again, somehow adventuring alone doesn't feel the same! I am used to hearing her footsteps behind me I have however probably cleared 70 percent of the total land mass, its been one great big camping trip then runs back to whiterun to drop gear off in my house and sell the rest!

Do you have to do the MQ to marry? Thanks!

If only you could get divorces without reverting to old saves, haha. I was in the same situation as you, OP, but it had been a few days and I had done other quests and didn't want to lose them.

damn it i thought u might of found a glitch so i can become bigamist made me read entire thing i just married ysolda to get trophy and money but more concerned 4 lydia if she dies i reload everytime

Mjoll the Lioness stole my heart from the get go. Hot blonde with a big ass 2hander and nice sounding voice. I did her quest and retrieved her sword then promptly married her and we explore Skyrim together slaying anyone in the way.

If you play a female character, is it possible to marry a female NPC (like Lydia) ?

Nice is there a console command for divorcing your wife? I'd quite like to do that because I want to use console commands to marry Hroki from Markarth instead...

EDIT: @Dutchie07, I married Mjoll too. I'm quite fond of her, but I have to admit, my Nord has a bit of a wandering eye... in all honesty I'd have married Hroki instead of Mjoll if she'd been available, but she wasn't, and at the time I didn't know about the console command so I went with Mjoll.

Also @Dutchie07 - out of interest what did you do with that Aerin guy that follows Mjoll around? Because I was pretty appalled to find that when I went back to my Whiterun house with Mjoll, Aerin had assumed he'd be living with us too. Luckily when I left the house his AI told him to walk all the way back to Riften though... so I followed him until we were alone, chopped his head off and dumped his corpse in the river

Couldn't find his head though, I hope no-one stumbles across it...

YES!!!

In a normal use of the game or with console commands ?

Marriage with Ysolde has been a bit less satisfying for me. I was a werewolf when we got married, and had owned the house for a while.. Since moving in I've never seem her sleep in the bed. Now that I'm no longer a werewolf I still don't get the "rest of the loved" or whatever it's called.

She cooks for me and earns me money but she never "sleeps"..

I think your getting a little TOO into the game.....

This feels like fanfiction created from a heavy ingame roleplay experience.....how do you even have an imagination big enough for this? My imagination svcks....

Both..

You can marry Lydia even if you are female, for example.

Also, you can marry Aela, Ysolda, etc, etc...

I married the girl from Riverwodd Trader just to see if I could piss off the two guys who were chasing her, expected some type of dual with them, that would have been cool! Can't remember her name at the moment, as you can see we haven't really bonded yet. Might try and affair with Lydia, I have a bit of a thing for her