Imperial weddings and marriage

Marriage Banners

When you get married, you have a second-in-command (if you don't have one formally, you pick a friend) walk in front of you with a banner, to represent the alliance of forces that a marriage is in the Empire. If an officer, the banner will have your rank insignia. If Sith, you can have your own design. If you work for a Sphere, you can have the Sphere's symbol. If none of the above, you have a plain grey banner. The Wrath's banner is black with the sigil of the Emperor in gold thread in the very middle; so is the Voice's, theoretically. They are the only two people allowed to bear the Emperor's sigil on their marriage banner.

Vows

Standardised Imperial wedding vow from a non-Sith to a Sith:

To you I pledge my life, my possessions and my chattel, my histories and my legacies. To you I pledge my arms and service in warfare, my counsel and advice in all matters. To you I pledge my strength to partake in your burdens, and my appetites to partake in your table and your delights. To you I surrender all rank, and I am yours. I give myself to no other Lord. For myself I take your enemies to combat, and your every victory to triumph, for they shall all be as my own. Our binding shall be my pride, to which shame shall never be dealt.

Standardised Imperial wedding vow from a Sith to a non-Sith:

To you I pledge my life, my possessions and my chattel, my histories and my legacies, my arms and service in warfare, my counsel and advice in all matters. To you I pledge my strength to partake in your burdens, and my appetites to partake in your table and your delights. To you I surrender my armour to dress me in, my weapons to hold for me. To you I surrender all rank, and I am yours, [Name]. No other will I place beside me in all matters, such as will I you. For myself I take your enemies to combat, and your every victory to triumph, for they shall all be as my own. Our binding shall be my pride, to which shame shall never be dealt.

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