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Weddings

Moles take all of their relationships very seriously. Because strong bonds with their loved ones are important to them they are known for not only marrying their romantic partners, but also their best friends. This means they know two types of weddings: romantic wedding and BFF wedding.

Romantic wedding

Romantic wedding is a wedding between two romantic partners. It is usually a wedding between a man and a woman, two men or two women. On more rare occasions it can also be with oneself, or an object.

Proposal

It is a custom that one of the partners in love proposes to the other. This could be either of them, at any time they deem appropriate. While there aren’t any particular rules or traditions related to proposal, in T@Ö#Å3, they still have a tradition that the person proposing has to haggle with the other person's parents and “buy” them. This originates from the ancient traditions that were only read about in old writings, but was brought back in T@Ö#Å3. But as modern parents don’t really want to butt in to their children's lives and just want them to be happy with the person they love, they usually settle for a symbolic amount of money. Commonly, this can also be given in the form of an engagement ring, given to the partner, but this tradition is now only rarely practiced. However, all across the world it’s not only up to the person who was proposed to, to agree to the marriage. This is something the whole families of both parties must agree on. A wedding isn’t only a union between the two people, but also their entire families. Before the wedding, all the members of both families must sign a document agreeing to the wedding.

Wedding Traditions

At the wedding it is tradition that the person who proposed, chooses between 4 different brides/grooms. These are the one they proposed to, and the 3 most likely alternative partners. This is to ensure that the person who proposed is sure about their choice, and still has a chance to pick someone else. A lot of times other brides/grooms are BFFs of both bride(s) and groom(s), and are only fullfiling this role simbolically since in most cases there is very little chance of the person changing their mind.

Another common tradition is for both partners to write their wedding vows. These are a list of things the partners promise ot each other, which mainly include tollerating each others annoying habbits, promissing to do certain things together, or promissing to abstain from some habits the other partner finds annoying. They usually also include some general things both partners promise to do to keep their relationship happy and healthy for years to come.

Traditional Dress Colors

Another important aspect of the weddings are traditional colors of the dresses:

  • White - White dress is worn by brides who only ever had sex with their groom (or other bride), or may have even saved themselves for marriage. Same is true for grooms who wear a white suit on their wedding day.
  • Ivory - Ivory is a color traditionally worn why genderless women. It’s a very popular wedding dress color, due to the high % of women in the world being really men. Ivory suit is also a popular choice for grooms in gay weddings.
  • Pink - Pink is reserved for true women. Pink is the color that expresses femininity of a true woman.
  • Red - Red is a color of a red flag: the bride is really a dude and the groom doesn’t know it yet. Tho at the sight of the bride's dress, he’ll quickly figure it out.
  • Black - Black holds a dark secret: the bride is “up the butt girl”. It’s a rare dress color, as many brides are not ready to reveal such a private thing on an occasion as public as a wedding. Black suits for men mean that they are a satanic priest.
  • Gold - Gold color is reserved for fairies. This is Glitter God’s color, and only fairies are worthy of wearing it on such an important day. However, these suits aren’t all gold, they are usually beige with gold embellishments - only God can wear an all gold suit.
  • Dark Red - Not to be confused with the lighter red, this rare wedding dress color is reserved for Satan’s priestesses.
  • Silver - Silver is a very special color that is worn by people who marry themselves
  • Blue - Blue is also becoming more and more popular dress color. This is the neutral color for the brides and grooms who would prefer to keep their status private.

BFF wedding

BFF weddings are weddings between two best friends, who want to make their friendship official. These are usually formed between two people, but on rare occasions they can also be formed between a person and object. These aren’t as elaborate as romantic weddings, but no less important.

Proposal

There are no special traditions related to proposals, the friends usually decide together that they want to marry each other. But same as with romantic weddings, they need to get the approval of their entire families before they get married.

Wedding traditions

Wedding traditions for BFF weddings aren’t as elaborate as they are for romantic weddings. Here, there is no choosing between the 4 different brides/grooms. However there has to be the leader of the family, or both leaders if the BFF wedding is between members of separate families, to vouch for the friendship, and present the documents signed by the entire family, or families. There also aren't traditional colors for wedding clothes, but instead, the two friends choose the wedding outfits for each other. In the ceremony, they also give each other friendship bracelets that they made for each other. Same as in romantic wedding, the BFFs also write wedding vows with a list of things they promise to do for each other and their friendship.

Divorce?

After the marriage, there is no chance for divorce unless under very special circumstances. Because of that moles don’t rush into these things, and this is also the reason for all the safety precautions, such as agreement of all the family members, and choosing of the 4 grooms in romantic weddings. One instace of a marriage being dissolved was Scarlett's previous marriage. She married a woman as a Mr. Mole, and with changing her gender the circumstances under which the marriage was formed were significantly changed - Scarlett's ex specifically married a man, and as there was no man anymore, the marriage became void. Of ocurse, every case is looked at individually, and if it is determined that keeping a certain person is detrimental to the whole family, they will get cut off. But as already said, moles take their relationships seriously and don't tend to rush into things, so these occurences are very rare.

Info

Types of Weddings:
  • Romantic wedding: Male/Male, Male/Female, Female/Female, rarely with oneself or an object
  • BFF wedding: 2 BFFs, sometimes with an object
Special:
  • Wedding dress colors are important for romantic weddings, in BFF weddings the friends choose each other's outfits
  • 4 grooms/brides are present at romantic wedding
  • Friendship bracelets are exchnged in BFF weddings
  • For both weddings, the entire family must sign an agreement to the wedding.
  • divorce is only allowed in very specific circumstances

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