We Should Have More Eternal Bond Sanctums

So, I've been watching people get married in the Sanctum of the Twelve in East Shroud for over half a decade now.

It's very nice, and I appreciate the ability to essentially marry one of your close friends or lovers in game, but it sure would be nice if there was more than one church where you could get married.

In such a vast and deep world, it's unbelievable to me that this is the only place that adventurers or anyone can tie the knot!

Couldn't we get an Ishgardian one, and a Far Eastern one, at the very least?

Since people can renew their vows/redo the ceremony, it'd be available for everyone! Would drive up wedding purchases too, I think. Would be good for the game, and they don't even have to alter the ceremony itself. Just add new locations.

What do you think?

And different locales could allow you different wedding theme options.
This is a cool idea.

Unfortunately Eorzea has a polythestic religion with each citystate taking one of the Twelve as their guardian, so unless you worshiped that particular deity you would be out of luck (so Ishgard would forbid anyone getting married there who wasn't already a confirmed member of the Church of Halone for instance). This is why the Sanctum exists, it's for the entire pantheon, not just a single member, which works well for marriages between adventurers who take their own guardians irrespective of citystate. And lore wise it's pretty much unique, being an Amdaporian Fifth Astral Era structure that had been long abandoned only to be revealed in the Seventh Calamity, and restored to it's former glory expressly for the purpose of weddings.

Unfortunately as much as I would like to see weddings in other places like what FFXI had, I think SE are pretty commited to having it just at the Sanctum alas (as it would require entirelly new cutscenes with new building interiors to have to be added first, given weddings are instanced content and all).

I still want the outdoors area they had for that match-up instance to be a bonding venue. It makes so much sense for it to be one.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Unfortunately Eorzea has a polythestic religion with each citystate taking one of the Twelve as their guardian, so unless you worshiped that particular deity you would be out of luck (so Ishgard would forbid anyone getting married there who wasn't already a confirmed member of the Church of Halone for instance). This is why the Sanctum exists, it's for the entire pantheon, not just a single member, which works well for marriages between adventurers who take their own guardians irrespective of citystate. And lore wise it's pretty much unique, being an Amdaporian Fifth Astral Era structure that had been long abandoned only to be revealed in the Seventh Calamity, and restored to it's former glory expressly for the purpose of weddings.

Unfortunately as much as I would like to see weddings in other places like what FFXI had, I think SE are pretty commited to having it just at the Sanctum alas (as it would require entirelly new cutscenes with new building interiors to have to be added first, given weddings are instanced content and all).

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That doesn't mean it can't change though. Over the years they have added things that they deemed against lore (or simply thought it to be impossible), but will enough voices added for change it can be done.

I'll add my vote to this. Although I'm not bonded, more options would be great.

I should be able to get married to my minion.

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Originally Posted by Provoke

I should be able to get married to my minion.

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Which do you have the hots for?

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Originally Posted by ItMe

Which do you have the hots for?

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Wind-Up Kain

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Unfortunately Eorzea has a polythestic religion with each citystate taking one of the Twelve as their guardian, so unless you worshiped that particular deity you would be out of luck (so Ishgard would forbid anyone getting married there who wasn't already a confirmed member of the Church of Halone for instance). This is why the Sanctum exists, it's for the entire pantheon, not just a single member, which works well for marriages between adventurers who take their own guardians irrespective of citystate. And lore wise it's pretty much unique, being an Amdaporian Fifth Astral Era structure that had been long abandoned only to be revealed in the Seventh Calamity, and restored to it's former glory expressly for the purpose of weddings.

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As well thought-out, well-explained and nuanced as this is, it doesn't explain the egregious oversight of not allowing the Gold Saucer to host wholly non-religious, bawdy, Vegas-style weddings! :D

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Unfortunately Eorzea has a polythestic religion with each citystate taking one of the Twelve as their guardian, so unless you worshiped that particular deity you would be out of luck (so Ishgard would forbid anyone getting married there who wasn't already a confirmed member of the Church of Halone for instance). This is why the Sanctum exists, it's for the entire pantheon, not just a single member, which works well for marriages between adventurers who take their own guardians irrespective of citystate. And lore wise it's pretty much unique, being an Amdaporian Fifth Astral Era structure that had been long abandoned only to be revealed in the Seventh Calamity, and restored to it's former glory expressly for the purpose of weddings.

Unfortunately as much as I would like to see weddings in other places like what FFXI had, I think SE are pretty commited to having it just at the Sanctum alas (as it would require entirelly new cutscenes with new building interiors to have to be added first, given weddings are instanced content and all).

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While true, it doesn't mean that the architecture of each sanctum couldn't be different per city state. For instance in Ul'dah instead of having a grandiose Cathedral perhaps there would be something more akin to that of a Mosque or like the Taj Mahal that would fit more with the areas esthetic. Limsa could have...

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Yup.. something like that. Couldn't think of anything.

They would still be built and dedicated to the Twelve, just different building design.

It's funny you mention this, as this was mine and my partners thought. i too would love a variety of places to choose from besides the one.

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Originally Posted by Kyuuen

Limsa could have...

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Wedding at sea, obviously.

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Originally Posted by Ilenya

Wedding at sea, obviously.

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Hmm, I suppose there could be some form of decorative ship large enough to be utilized as a place for means of prayer and Eternal Bond ceremonies.

Wouldn’t be against it but it also doesn’t seem like the most pressing of issues. Think resources would be better off used elsewhere.

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Originally Posted by MrPresident

Wouldn’t be against it but it also doesn’t seem like the most pressing of issues. Think resources would be better off used elsewhere.

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So let's start requesting it now so it has time to make it to them for when they have time for non-essential updates~

Themed weddings ...

Nah. The entire route to actually getting hitched involves each of the 12. To some, it's a sacred set of quests. To others -- just sign the wedding certificate already.

Having it in one place means it can be (a) scheduled properly (b) invitations are unambiguous (c) no further intervention of the art/story/quest/instance development staff has to occur.

Now, if you want to propose increasing the price when using a new venue, they might consider it. Say, something like $50 US for the costs, rather than than the $0 - $20 it is now. Mogstation would be delighted to take your money. Not so sure about the devs ...

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Originally Posted by Ilenya

Wedding at sea, obviously.

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Mmm, that'd be really cool. Also makes me think of the fake wedding in Wild Arms 1.

Ideally, not in a church would be nice...

Definitely Ishgard wedding would be my favorite.
There could also be Kugane Japanese themed wedding as well.
Eulmore could have one on the rooftop.

All for this. We already have the gardens in Ala Mhigo, or the huge chapel in the Vault of Ishgard built.

There could easily be dozen other themed places like the candy-land fairy place or Coata Del Sol as well...

Also, I would say allow for booking of a variety of places for ANY OCCASION. Like, if I want to throw an in game birthday party on a big boat I can kinda do that via fishing...but would be cool to have an instanced Costa Del Sol... or maybe an entire dungeon I could host an event with a large number of friends.

...the Beehive for a bachelor party could be fun too...

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Originally Posted by Hysterior

Ideally, not in a church would be nice...

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This. Tbh I've been loving the style of the sanctum ever since the game came out, and when they added weddings and made the intetior into a cheap white church I was so disappointed.

Something different would be nice indeed.

And as someone who's invited to at least 1 wedding a month I'd be happy if it wasn't all always the same.

I love the wedding at sea option, and maybe others may be similar, like wedding on the beach, in the woods etc, or the casino one at saucer too.

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Originally Posted by Vyrerus

So, I've been watching people get married in the Sanctum of the Twelve in East Shroud for over half a decade now.

It's very nice, and I appreciate the ability to essentially marry one of your close friends or lovers in game, but it sure would be nice if there was more than one church where you could get married.

In such a vast and deep world, it's unbelievable to me that this is the only place that adventurers or anyone can tie the knot!

Couldn't we get an Ishgardian one, and a Far Eastern one, at the very least?

Since people can renew their vows/redo the ceremony, it'd be available for everyone! Would drive up wedding purchases too, I think. Would be good for the game, and they don't even have to alter the ceremony itself. Just add new locations.

What do you think?

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I think that maybe they could add a sanctum or some sort of location (perhaps even an eternal bonding that isnt religious or related to the twelve) in all of the major cities from base and heavensward (Limsa, Ul Dah and Ishagrd), also I think a Kugane one could prove popular.
That being said, the devs do have a massive workload and limited resources so I would say it best for the mto focus on other things that may have a bigger impact on the game, as much as this would be cool if they can add it.

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Originally Posted by zeylos

Dev resources

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While I can't control Square's corporate branch from taking the FFXIV's hard earned coin and staff, I can start the ball rolling on letting them know that players are interested in this. Perhaps if we get enough voices, we'll get something by 7.x :)