One of the things that disappoints me about the Star Wars universe is the subject of marriage. I haven’t really thought about it or looked into that much, my memory may be a bit fuzzy in a few places, but why is that “a long time ago in a galaxy far far away” so much of the Earthly, western ideal of marriage exists? I was digging around looking for Mara pics, and I came across a pic of her in a big, floofy, typical white wedding dress. I never read the book where that events happens, I don’t remember any of The Courtship of Princess Leia (I’ve erased it from my memory)… but why is this? It seems like it would have been a fun chance to come up with different sorts of relationships, different cultural ideas of marriage, different traditional garb at least?