"Skyrim" has become the very game in which there is room to roam. You can devote most of your time to completing the main plot or side quests, you can turn into a vampire, become an artisan, and even get married. Today we will share with our readers important secrets on how to find a wife in Skyrim.

To marry or not to marry?

Getting married in Skyrim has become a truly wonderful ritual. It won’t be difficult to perform, so if you want to diversify your usual gameplay, we strongly recommend that you take a closer look at the local beauties.

If the question of how to find a wife in Skyrim haunts you, it’s worth visiting a tavern in Riften. Inside will sit the priest Marmala, who dedicated his entire life to serving the goddess Mara. If you complete his task, you will be rewarded with a love amulet intended for those who are interested in marriage. It is also worth noting that if this is not the first playthrough and it lasts for quite a long time, then it is possible to find the amulet in other locations.

Below is a list of wives in Skyrim. For the convenience of readers, all candidates are divided according to origin and race. If none of the standard heroines catch your fancy, then it is possible to install a mod in Skyrim for your wife. Thanks to him, the list is noticeably expanding, and additional options for interaction with chosen ones appear. Skyrim cheats for your wife can be found on any thematic sites, in relevant discussions.

How does this happen?

In order to propose to your chosen one, you need to put on the very amulet of Mara. So how do you find a wife in Skyrim? Let us remind you that many heroines available for marriage are listed on our list. If you still can’t make an offer to them, then it’s worth checking whether all the quests associated with them have been completed.

If the chosen one has given her consent, the next step will be a 24-hour wait. When the deadline expires, you need to go to the Temple of Mary, where a romantic wedding ceremony will be held. After this, the newlyweds must make a choice in favor of their future place of residence. If Dovahkiin already has housing, then you can immediately move your spouse there (with a few exceptions).

So, you managed to get married in Skyrim (as indicated in the instructions above). After marriage, the other half becomes the head of a small trading store with a fairly modest income. If you go to sleep in the same bed with your new wife, the growth of all existing skills will increase by fifteen percent. Another pleasant bonus will be home-cooked food that the spouse will cook every day.

Wives and husbands in Skyrim are associated with various interesting quests. For example, if you decide to become a vampire, then you can turn your soulmate into a creature of darkness. Also, a wife or husband may be kidnapped by bandits or the same vampires - in such a scenario, you need to immediately go on a search.

By the way, it is very important to really make a choice before finding a wife in Skyrim. The fact is that in the gaming world there is no provision for divorce, which means that even death cannot separate you from your soulmate. If the wife dies, then marrying a new chosen one simply will not work.

How to marry Nords in Skyrim?

• Eila. Her place of residence is Whiterun. To propose to her, you need to complete the Companions' quest chain. Eila can be taken as a companion, as she is an excellent archer.
• Airy. Lives in the village of Anga. May get married immediately after delivering her message. By the way, Airy is much older than Dovahkiin.
• And she. Appears if you achieve the title of Thane of Riften. In the role of a combat partner, she serves as a tank.
• Mjoll Lioness. You should go after her to Riften. For the wedding, it is very important to upgrade the Dovahkiin to the fifteenth level, as well as master the lost fierce blade. In battle, Mjoll shows his best side. You can learn many interesting stories from her, and also meet her brother Eirin, who will follow on your heels. Sometimes he starts fights.
• Nyada. Like Aela, she can be found with Companions. The conditions remain the same - you must complete the entire quest chain. Nyada can be made a companion, but she is very bad in battle.
• Temba. Follow her to the sawmill in Ivestead. To propose, you must complete one quest.

• Utgerd. For this bride, you need to go to Whiterun, to the Prancing Mare. She will agree to marriage if she can defeat her in a fair fight. She can serve as an archer, but during close battles, due to her low level, she should stay out of harm's way.

Beautiful wives in Skyrim: Bretons and Imperials

• Muiri: lives in Markarth, in the "Witch's Tincture". Agrees to marriage after all her quests are completed. Outwardly beautiful, but as a combat companion it is absolutely useless.
• Senna: is a priestess. To marry her, you need to go to the Temple of Dibella, which is located in the city of Markarth. She marries Dovahkiin only after her quest is completed. Senna can be taken into your home, after which she will open a trading post.
• Camille: Lives in the Riverwood Merchant. To win the heart of a girl, you must first complete her task, and then take two suitors away from her, accusing each of them of lying.
• Viola: lives in the city of Windhelm, in her own house. You must complete her personal quest. She is useless as a combat partner.

Marrying Dunmers

• she can be found in Winterhold, next to the college. We complete her quest and boldly marry her. Thanks to his abilities, he helps well in battle.
• Jenassa: lives in the Drunken Hunter, which is located in Whiterun. Before you propose to her, you need to buy her warrior services for five hundred gold coins.
• Avruza: you should follow her to the Sareti farm. Agrees to marry after completing her quests. As a companion she is quite weak.

Taking an orc as a wife

• Borgak: Lives in Mor Khazgur. She will agree to marry only if Dovahkiin convinces her to leave her native place for his sake. Shows itself perfectly during close combat.
• Gorza: Lives near the smelter in the city of Markarth. Complete her quest and get an orc bride.

Tying the knot with an Argonian and an Altmer

Shavi: All lizard lovers should head to Windhelm. There, somewhere on the territory of the Argonian block, a rather exotic bride is waiting for her chosen one, for whose sake you will have to go through a small quest.

Tari: lives in the city of Solitude, in the Shining Clothes shop. For her, like most heroines in Skyrim, you need to complete a personal quest. As a combat partner, she is nothing special.

In Skyrim, you have the opportunity to marry NPCs, regardless of your race or gender. In order to start a family, you must complete the quest "The Bonds of Matrimony", which involves talking with Maramal about marriage. Wear the Amulet of Mara, which will let other NPCs know that you are free, find another An NPC who is also not averse to marrying you, whose disposition towards you is extremely high, having given his consent, you will have to appear at your own wedding. After the ceremony, if you talk to your new partner, you can figure out where you will live. If you own a property, your significant other can move there with you. Also, if your spouse owns the property, you can move in with her/him. Your significant other will also slightly delight you with new benefits after marriage, such as preparing home-cooked meals.

Development progress

There are several ways to obtain the Amulet of Mara. The first is to find it by chance, or buy it from one of the merchants. There is reason to believe that one of Mara's amulets is located in Windy Peak, and another is in a tent near the so-called shipwreck: Hel's Caprice. You can also visit the Temple of Mara in Riften and for only 200 gold, you can buy it from Maramal (most often found in the Bee and Sting tavern). Additionally, by talking to the priest at the Temple of Mara, you can complete a romance quest. Upon completion of all tasks, you will finally be rewarded with the Amulet of Mara.
However, it is important to note that you will not be able to marry anyone or anyone until you talk to Maramal about marriage. Even if you received the amulet, after completing the quest, you will still have to talk to him. For example, you will not be able to marry Isolde of Vaitarn until you speak with Maramal. It should be noted that Maramal is most often found in the Bee and Sting tavern than in the temple.
After you equip the amulet, NPCs may notice it. In order for the marriage option to become available, you must fulfill their requests, if, of course, there are any. Please note that even if a character behaves predisposed to marriage, the Radiant AI system may not allow you to have a wedding even if all objectives are completed. In this case, it is best to have a couple of spare candidates.
Ask them if they like you. They will probably give a positive answer, in which case they will ask what you think about them. If you say yes, you can have a wedding. In order to complete the task, you need to go to the Temple of Mara in Riften and organize an event. It's worth noting here that if you decide you may have chosen the wrong person, say so at the ceremony. Afterwards, you need to talk to your soulmate (who will be waiting for you at the entrance to the Temple of Mara). Immediately after you say “Yes, I agree,” be sure to talk to your significant other before he or she leaves the temple to choose a place where you will live together. There is a possibility of losing your partner or life partner if you do not stop him or her during this time. Since we have time (have you already managed to catch up with him/her?), talk about moving to a new house, it could be either your house or the house of your significant other.
After your significant other has arrived at YOUR home, you can ask her about income that will constantly replenish your budget. After each day, collect daily savings equal to 100 gold from your spouse (regardless of the house in which he or she lives). After moving into your house (you can't move into your partner's house), your partner has the opportunity to buy and sell things. However, the income your spouse receives from trading does not in any way affect the 100 gold.

Benefits of a wedding

Half of the hero will cook homemade food for you once a day, which increases health, stamina and mana regeneration for X amount of time.
Note that this is a unique line of dialogue for each couple when it comes to food, but the product itself will always be the same.
If you sell cooked food to your significant other, don't expect him or her to cook for you again!
Your spouse can also accompany you, and you can exchange items of equipment and various things.
You can make a companion out of any NPC just by entering the command “addtofaction 5C84D 0” in the console, after first selecting the target. This will give your significant other PotentialFollowerFaction and add the corresponding line of dialogue to her or him as a companion. (Note: This does not work with Shavi. Possibly due to the fact that the required voice acting is not assigned to Argonians.) If you decide to use the command above, remember that your soulmate does not have the much-needed immortality tag, and will almost always die when inflicting fatal damage.
Sometimes, your significant other will delight you with gifts.
Your soulmate “somewhere” will open a store and bring in an income of 100 gold per day.
If your significant other accompanies you, he or she will buy and sell goods from you.
If your significant other was originally a merchant, then he or she will sell the same goods; if not, he or she will trade different goods.
The half's inventory is varied in items and is updated once a day (along with the amount of money that is given to you)
Your soul mate still doesn’t give you discounts, because when married to you, prices depend on eloquence and perks.
Sleeping next to your significant other gives you the "Lover's Comfort" bonus for 8 hours.
Does not stack with a similar effect provided by the Lover's Stone.
This effect does not stack with the Mage, Warrior and Thief stones.

Own

If your significant other has property, you can move in with them. The things you leave inside the house will not disappear. If you buy a house, your spouse may move in with you instead. Your significant other cannot live in the house that you received during the quest or upon completion of the faction; the house must be purchased in one of the cities. The property of your spouses can be either a shop, a residential building, or a combination of both. That is, it can be either a whole house, a small shop, or a room in the house. If you got married and you don’t have a place to live, you and your significant other will find yourself homeless, and you will be able to see your spouse in the same place where you usually met them.
Please note that if you live in your significant other's shop, he or she will no longer be able to sell items. If your spouse lives in their own home, they will live the same way as before, visiting different places and doing the same things as before. If your significant other lives in your house, she will never leave it again, unless, of course, you ask her to accompany you.
If you do a favor for someone, you can usually use that person's bed, or take the cheapest items. However, if you take their more expensive items, it will be considered theft, and the items placed in their chests will become the property of the owner. Once you've gotten married, no matter where you decide to live, things you take from your spouse's home and entryway bins will no longer be considered theft.
If you have just started the game and do not have enough money to buy a house, you can marry a person who has property at his disposal and use it accordingly. The table below shows the property that they own. At least the bed definitely belongs to your significant other.

NPC for marriage.

Please note: all information provided here corresponds to the Official Skyrim Game Guide.
The gaps have yet to be filled in, but most of them mean no or no.
At your disposal are 2 tables that display all possible life partners, their races, where they can be found, what house they have at their disposal, whether they can be your companion, what they can teach you and what they trade.

Women

Men

Notes

• At the time of the game's release, there were no Khajiit or Basmer characters (aka Wood Elves) that the player could marry. (without using the console command on PC versions of the game).
• If your significant other dies, you cannot get married again. However, using the console you can restart the quest and bypass this limitation:

• Remove the Amulet of Mara from inventory.
• Enter the following code into the console: setstatge RelationshipMarriage 10
• Buy the Amulet of Mary from Maramal and complete the quest - put on the amulet, find your love, agree to the marriage, and have a wedding.

• Maramal will tell you that “you need to come tomorrow, any time from dawn to dusk.” Technically this is not true; if you ask him to officiate a wedding at 1 am, he will officiate it at 11 am on the same day. Just wait a couple of hours (T) until Maramal begins his ceremonial speech.
• On PC, many characters cannot be married, and you have to resort to the console command addtofaction 19809 1. To increase their predisposition towards you, use setrelationshiprank player 4. Your future spouse will now have a corresponding line in the dialog box.
• Applying what is described above could potentially lead to an error if you use it on quest characters, Khajiit/Bosmer races. The reason for this is that the scripts are not designed for characters like Esbern to create a marriage with them, and some characters simply die during the course of completing tasks.
• If you're not sure what property your potential partner owns, you can track where he or she sleeps. If they always sleep in the same bed, then it belongs to them. Next, check whether the chests and objects around are glowing red (that is, whether they can be taken without stealing) Next, earn trust, or complete the quest of your soul mate. After that, check the drawers and things next to the bed again. If they no longer glow red, then these things belong to your soul mate. If things still remain red, check their indicator after the wedding. If nothing has changed, then only the bed (if your significant other actually sleeps in it) is the character’s property. If only within one room, things stop glowing red - that means only the room. Also, it is worth paying attention to the fact that if your other half divided property with someone, then perhaps it did not belong to her.

Bugs

• Well-Knows -Bolota has a bad habit of not giving out assignments. He can also simply disappear, often not appearing until you marry someone else. A possible way to prevent this is to get to Windhelm immediately after finishing the introductory part.
• Sometimes, NPCs will disappear after leaving the Temple of Mara. In this case, you can find your soul mate in the same place where you met her for the first time, you can talk to her in order to decide where to live. But it also happens that it seems that your soulmate has completely disappeared from the game, in such cases you need to load an earlier save and decide where you will live until he or she leaves the temple.
• If your significant other lives with you, Lover's Calm may not be activated after sleep. To fix this, ask your partner to return to his house, rest there to restore the effect, then return back. Everything is working! So-called candidates who stay in taverns before marriage actually cannot spend the night in them, but if you pay for the room rental, the Lover's Peace effect will still be obtained.
• If you kill a business partner, then in the future your other half, having become a merchant himself, will not be able to have dialogue lines regarding marriage. In particular, this is characteristic of Camila Valeria.

Skyrim is a harsh place, but even there they hold wedding ceremonies. Where to find a wife in Skyrim, why should a character marry, because the Dovahkiin has no time to look after his wife, right? However, in Skyrim everything is not the same as everywhere else. Life is very short, therefore, according to the priest of Mara (goddess of love), there is no time to look after a girl, therefore you can simply buy an amulet of Mary and get married with someone who also wears the same amulet and who likes the character.

People in Skyrim usually like good heroes, like our Dovahkiin, therefore, the character’s choice of bride/groom is quite large. However, the developers did not take one thing into account. A male character can propose and marry other men, and the same bug affects girls.

How and where to find a wife in Skyrim - how to get married, how to choose a wife / husband

The amulet can be purchased at Temple of Mara (located in Riften), as well as buy from random merchants or find in chests during adventures. After the character puts on the amulet, some people whom the main character helped will have a new dialogue window appear. Having selected the desired dialogue, you can make a proposal and begin wedding ceremony. If both parties agree, then you need to go to the temple of the goddess of love Mara and talk to the priest and start the wedding.

However, during the wedding, you can abandon your partner, after which the wedding guests, the bride and the priests will begin to despise the main character and insult him/her in every possible way. And if everything goes smoothly, then you can already discuss with your lover where you will live. It can be done in any of the main character's houses, and if not, then you can live with your husband/wife. However, you can move at any time, just by talking about it with “your soulmate.”

How to get married in Skyrim - pros and cons

After the wedding, when they already have a place to live, the husband/wife opens a shop that brings benefits, and the spouses will share the benefits among themselves. You can also pick up home-cooked food from your spouse every day, which is a great help during adventures. Some companions the character married can still follow and help in battle. After all, what could be better than being together all the time and covering each other’s backs.

pros

1. Everyday home-cooked food that's not bad heals and will be very useful when traveling through harsh regions.
2. Spouses share a share of the store between themselves, and sometimes this is a lot of money if the character has not visited his half for a long time.
3. If you have Dlc Hearthfire, then after the wedding the player will have a full-fledged family. New dialogues will appear.
4. If you sleep next to your spouse at night, the character will receive an effect that lasts 8 hours. All skills grow 15% faster and stack with any guardian stone.

Minuses

1. If cancel wedding and then not taking a second chance and not marrying the same person, then this person will begin to despise the player, just like the priests.

Video walkthrough - Where to find a wife in Skyrim

After a while you can use your share from the store save up for a whole house, buy or build this very house and move there. Also, if the character is a vampire, then through the task you can turn your spouse into a vampire and live together forever and even death will not separate you.

Sometimes bandits kidnap a spouse, vampires too, and the main character has to save him/her. Therefore, marriage is not only an interesting experience in Skyrim, but also interesting quests and huge benefits. With representatives of some races, marriage is impossible at all, even using the console. Namely with the Khajiit and the Bosmer. If your spouse dies, then, unfortunately, you won’t be able to get married again. Unless using console commands. If you turn your spouse into a blade, then the opportunity to move will still remain. Now you know how and where you can find a husband/wife in the amazing game Skyrim!