The other thing that sounds horrible about "Eternal Bonding" is having to go on lodestone, set up a time from a list of available slots (which will probably fill quickly) so that the GM's can perform your ceremony... why is this so convoluted?? Why not just have an npc in the game that handles ALL of this? Why did we need to have schedules and times and busy-GM's to perform a ceremny. Especially if its not "marriage" as SE keeps implying but rather "eternal bonding."

Couldn't we just "apply" through an NPC and make the rings and trade everything to the NPC to initiate the ceremony?