Weddings in RPGs

[Olgar Shiverstone]

A dragonborn wedding? Think of the menu! Live mice for appetizers, aboleth soup, raw apatosaurus steaks as a main course, humanoid liver pate as a palette cleanser, and for desert a nice black illithid kidney pudding ...

 

[Storminator]

I ran a hobgoblin wedding in my Goblins of Eberron campaign. It's 4e, so naturally it was The Wedding Planning Skill Challenge!

There were invitations to deliver and prophecies related to potential guests, so that was important.

There were gifts for the wedding party.

The bride had been kidnapped (hey! It's goblins!), so the ceremony had to be defended.

The bride didn't want to be married and she was an expert at wedding traditions and decor so she kept adding in more and more outrageous demands.

The bardic ceremonies had to be defined, vows written, oaths performed, a choir lined up, etc.

The bride's family attacked and kidnapped her back during the ceremony.

At one point during the skill challenge the groom's player outlined how he was helping on every single aspect of the wedding to make it go smoother . . . and rolled a 1. Hilarity ensued . . .

Oh yeah, the session before the wedding was the bachelor party where the elf assassins attacked the groom.

Since 2 of our players have been married since that session we've gotten a lot of chuckles from "Wedding Planning Skill Challenge! Go!"

PS

 

[Shemeska]

We had a PC/NPC wedding in one of my campaigns between an aasimar wizard from Halruaa (in FR) and a tiefling rogue/wizard from Sigil. No violence occurred, but the bride stole some of the silverware, the groom's mother was all frosty and didn't care for her son marrying a tiefling, A'kin the friendly fiend showed up and some of the wedding guest's tried to banish him before the PCs intervened. And the Marauder crashed the party without an invitation, got drunk (real or an act it wasn't obvious which one) and starting shamelessly hitting on one of the PCs (the half-celestial fighter, and she might have also hit on the lupinal as well IIRC) - was mostly a case of 'how dare you leave me out and not let me hog the attention' mixed with 'I'll make you feel awkward as much as possible just to make you miserable without going overboard and having steel drawn and spells fly' but otherwise she was on her best behavior (for a 'loth).

Not a single die was rolled. Entire session of RP and character development. Was a ton of fun.

And there was a wedding present from someone the PCs didn't know, but the name on the card was an anagram for Taba the yugoloth lord, and it gave a location in the Dire Wood (the corpse of Karsus) that they could find him/her/it at after the wedding was over for a meeting.

 

[Crothian]

I've had probably an unusually large amounts of weddings in our campaigns. The best though was the gnome strippers for the bachelor party for a human groom. If you let the gnome plan the party he is going to get gnome strippers.

 

[Samloyal23]

Remember the Betazed wedding ceremony from Star Trek? All of the participants and guests had to be nude. Awkwardness ensued. There are a lot of strange traditions for marriages around the world. What will the groom do if the local lord requires that he take the bride's virginity? Or the grooms? Hmm...

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

If you let the gnome plan the party he is going to get gnome strippers.

;D

That's hysterical.

 

[Raith5]

What ever you do avoid minstrels that want to sing "The Rains of Castamere"

 

[RichGreen]

Thanks for all the suggestions - much appreciated!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

What ever you do avoid minstrels that want to sing "The Rains of Castamere"

The Brains of Castamere are OK though; we hired a zombie minstrel.

 

[RichGreen]

Hi all,

Ran the wedding last night - lots of fun. Write up here.

Cheers


Rich