â§ď˝Ľďž: *â§ď˝Ľďž* ARRANGED MARRIAGE SENTENCE STARTERS
A small collection of starters connected to arranged marriages. Feel free to adapt them as needed! (edit: I made an updated version that can be found here!)
âYou are⌠very different of what I had expected.â
âI will run away before I ever marry the likes of you.â
âI know you hold no love for me, that we donât even know each other in truth, and perhaps we will never come to love each other, but we can at least be friends.â
âLove can be built, too. And if youâre willing, I would like to try and learn to love you.â
âYou are lovely. Even more beautiful than I was told.â
âWhat I heard of you before makes you no justice.â
âI must say I never expected to be wed to someone as stunning as you.â
âIt is an odd thing, to be wed to someone you never met, to have a complete stranger suddenly become such a great part of your life.â
âI canât marry him/her/them. Iâm in love with another.â
âPlease do not make me wed him/her/them!â
âI do not care what you want, we did not marry for love.â
âYouâre mine now, and you will act suitably.â
âWho you loved before does not matter any longer. You are mine now, only mine.â
âPerhaps we should try to know each other better? We can start simple⌠do you like music?â
âWe are only marrying because I need an heir.â
âYou love someone else, so do I. Why donât we make an agreement?â
âI will never love you.â
âAm I not what you expected?â
âI may not be as good looking as you hoped, but I shall never treat you unkindly.â
âYou are to be my wife/husband, I want to help you feel more at home here. It shall be your home soon, after all.â
âThere are talks of betrothal, even if they havenât yet told me. I know they plan to wed me off to someone soon.â
âThey want to marry me to him/her/them, but I donât want that. I want you.â
âNo need for this pretense. I know all your interest is my claim, not I.â
âI am to leave home and everything I have ever known to wed someone I have never met. It isnât fair.â
âI marry you because I must. It is my duty to seal this alliance.â
âI will fulfill my duty, but I hold no love for you or your family.â
âWe were wed as strangers, itâs true, but we neednât continue being so.â
âOur marriage doesnât have to be loveless just because it began as duty.â
âDo you believe in love at first sight? I feel like I have known and loved you for thousands of lives, even if we only met.â
âYou will do as you are told and marry who we have picked for you.â
âYouâve been raised your entire life knowing this day would come. Do not begin to entertain illusions of marrying for love now.â
âI will never let them ship you off to a stranger as I was.â
âYou are my child, and you will not be sold off to anyone like that. I wonât let them trade you for their alliance.â
âI wish I could undo it, child, but I cannot. This arrangement was made years ago.â
âWe have been promised to each other for years, yet I could never meet him/her/them.â
âHow odd that we were promised to each other for so long and only met on our wedding day.â
âWhat of it? It isnât like I havenât known for years that my fate would be to wed some stranger my family deemed suitable.â
âHow can you be so calm about this? They are deciding who you spend your life with, and you wonât have any say on it!â
âThrough them, we will finally join our bloodlines.â
âHe/She is marrying my claim, not me.â
âOnly princes/princesses and kings/queens are worthy of you. You will not be wed to someone lesser.â