I found an Amulet of Mara and decided to explore the marrying side of Skyrim. I put it on and started dialog with both Lydia and Aela - who I understand are marriageable. I didn't get the added marriage dialog. My char is a female. Is that the issue?

I think you've got to talk to a priest of Mara in Riften before you get dialog with potential spouses.

Nope. First you need to

Then you should be good to go.

edit: ninja'd

Yeah gay marriage is illegal in Skyrim, the true reason the Stormcloaks fight. Screw Talos, Ulfric's men just want to cop a feel...

Thanks, people.I'm off to do just that.

You also generally need to complete certain things before a given person becomes available for marriage, e.g. some of the lumber mill owners will become marriageable if you chop wood for them, some characters involved in certain questlines become available when those are complete, etc. I think you can marry Angrenor Once-Honoured after giving him a septim, if filthy beggars float your boat.

You can do same six marriage, but it only works for certain NPC's. I'm sure there's a list somewhere.

He's perfect for people who like casual racism and fake war heroes

Nope, far as I know all the vanilla marriage candidates are bisixual (several of the Interesting NPCs candidates are monosixual one way or the other, don't know about other mods).

I'll soon find out about gay marriage in Skyrim. Maybe Ulfric will be my best man. As far as the tasks, I'm completed for both Lydia and Aela (thane and finished Companions).

If you're interested in Aela you need to

If you're interested in Lydia you need to

Theres no such thing as illegal gay marraiges in Skyrim. I make female characters all the time that marry women. As long as the NPC you're interested in is a marraige option, you're good to go.

Well Lydia should be easy since she doesn't appear until you are Thane of Whiterun.

whooo...

Yeah I think she's the easiest one to marry.

Technically, you can marry Camilla Valerius sooner than Lydia (although then you have to be married to Camilla Valerius, and she's kinda dull as wives go.) Or you could buy/steal/kill bandits to get a mammoth tusk and marry Ysolda, or chop six pieces of firewood for Gilfre. I'd probably go for Lydia out of any of them, though. Oh, if you've got 500 gold then you can hire Jenassa, who then becomes eligible for marriage (although as you'll find out if you ask her to sleep on an owned bed, she 'doesn't do that kind of work...')

True, but I think it's less time consuming becoming Thane of Whiterun compared to all that.

Assuming you're going to do the MQ anyway, yeah, it's certainly most efficient (although as I say, Camilla is super-grateful to you for shutting her brother up about his stupid claw, and that comes before Thaneship, assuming you nip back to Riverwood rather than going straight to Whiterun).

I've only done it once so far. Married the orc woman. I think you just pay her dowry.

Yes, thx. Per my post, both are done. I haven't decided on who to marry. I only wanted to see if the dialog box was there when I put the amulet on. Not sure at this point who I'd go for.

Yeah but doesn't she always thank you for getting the claw back if you marry her? That would be annoying.

No problem. In case it wasn't mentioned before, the dialogue box will never appear until you do whatever favor is required for the potential marraige candidate.

How romantic.

Are there any marriage candidates in Solstheim?

She does. She's easily the most fawning, obsequious wife I've had, although to be fair I've only married her, Lydia (who also goes a bit soft and gooey, for my tastes), Anwen (excellently snarky), Jenassa (softens a little but not too much) and Balimund (don't think I ever even bothered meeting him after the ceremony, I was just doing a non-adventurer playthrough with the goal to make enough for Breezehome and marry someone). I don't really go for people who spend all their time telling me how super-duper I am, I like someone with a bit of spirit. Still, she seemed to be a decent mother to my character's children, and that was the main reason she married her, so...

I did watch a fairly entertaining youtube series about a character who Didn't Do Adventures where the aim was to make enough to buy the house in Solitude without quests (apart from hiring a merc to do the heavy lifting on the quest that you *have* to do to buy the house) and he married her, complete with lots of loving slow-focus shots of Gilfre loading lumber onto the saw thingy while the PC gazed on, adoringly (or as adoringly as the PC can stare when standing stock still and expressionless. Maybe I mean 'creepily').

Apparently there are a whole three http://www.gamefront.com/skyrim-dragonborn-new-marriage-options-guide/

I think for the most part all marraige candidates become softies to an extent when you marry them. I mean Aela's dimeanor changes totally after you marry her. I like the ones with spunk. Senna is my absolute favorite.

Aww, no Dunmer? Oh well, the Skaal are hardly boring.