How to Get Married in Harvest Moon: Echoes of Teradea

Marrying someone in Harvest Moon: Echoes of Teradea takes four things: a candidate you've built a close friendship with, all six of their romance events, a Level 3 farmhouse, and the Blue Feather of Happiness. You can pursue nine candidates in one save, and the Blue Feather comes from Happy, the Blue Bird of Happiness, near the end of Harvest Goddess Chapter 2. Once you have all four, hand the feather to your chosen candidate, and the wedding is scheduled about a week later.

Which Candidates You Can Marry in Echoes of Teradea

The base game has ten marriage candidates, five bachelors and five bachelorettes. Your own character can't be a target, which is why you get nine choices in any one save. Candidates aren't tied to your character's gender, so you can pursue anyone on the list no matter which protagonist you play.

Carol and Robert are the exception because they share a single slot. At the start, you pick one of them as your protagonist. The other grows up beside you in Bloomfield as your childhood best friend, and that person becomes the candidate. It's a friends-to-lovers route, and it's the candidate you'll know the longest, since they appear in the opening scenes.

Two more candidates are on the way in paid DLC. Zog is a bachelor, Emmy is a bachelorette, and both packs are set for December 2026. Once they're added, one save will have eleven eligible candidates.

Build Friendship With Daily Talks and Gifts

Friendship comes first, because everything else depends on it. Like other Harvest Moon games, Teradea builds relationships through daily conversation and gifts. Talk to your chosen candidate every day and give them something they like. Heart events, the romance scenes that move the relationship forward, unlock as friendship rises. Keep an eye on your candidate's letters and the musical-note markers on the map, since they point you to the next one.

Open the Friends tab in the menu and pick your candidate. Each profile has a Likes row and a Dislikes row, but those slots show question marks until your friendship grows enough to fill them. A few preferences are already known:

• Carol: likes Cherry, dislikes Coffee Fruit
• Jane: likes White Tulip, dislikes Surf Clam
• Mara: likes Milk, dislikes Carrot
• Aaron: likes Matsutake Mushroom, dislikes Stone
• Sergei: likes Mountain Lotus, dislikes Crucian Carp

A few tips make this easier. You can pick White Tulips in Bloomfield from your first days there, and you start the game with a cow, so Milk is an easy gift for Mara. Crucian Carp is a river fish you'll catch often early on, so sell those instead of giving them to Sergei.

Aaron is often inside the fenced fishing area in Tidewind, which costs 300G to enter. You can wait for his schedule to take him out, or pay to talk to him there. Teradea is also big, and each village has its own farm, so unlock the warp statues early. That way a daily visit doesn't eat your whole day.

Craft the Token of Love to Open the Remaining Romance Events

Once you've seen a candidate's first four romance events and Harvest Goddess Chapter 1 has ended, Tiny explains that a special gift can take a relationship further. The Token of Love is the gift for romance. It's crafted at the Harvest Goddess Shrine altar from 10 Red Rose and 10 Diamond. Giving it tells your candidate you have romantic feelings, and it unlocks romance events 5 and 6, which you need before you can propose.

Red Rose Seeds are sold at Jerry's Maple Mart, so buy them and grow your own roses. Diamond takes more effort, and there are three cave options:

• Quicksand Labyrinth, Great Sand Sea: the easiest to reach. You'll need a camel to cross the shifting sand to the cave in the desert's southwest corner.
• Concealed Cave, Fall Crossing Valley: only open on full-moon nights. Walk the Full Moon Pathway from beneath the Maplehill university bridge to get there.
• Sand-Covered Cave: climb up from the Maplehill South Exit.

Raw Diamond Gemstone must be processed before you can use it. Either Jerry at Maple Mart or Glenn in Quarrytop can turn it into Diamond. Don't mix up the Token of Love with the Token of Friendship, which is a platonic pledge for a best friend and doesn't lead to marriage.

Finish Harvest Goddess Chapter 2 to Earn the Blue Feather of Happiness

The Blue Feather is a story reward, not something you can craft. Marriage is an endgame feature, so Harvest Goddess Chapter 2 stays locked until you clear the Chapter 2 stories in Bloomfield, Tidewind, Quarrytop and Maplehill. You also need to have seen one candidate's first four friendship events and reached the top friendship level, four notes.

The morning after those conditions are met, Tiny starts missing an old friend who used to join her for tea. You find the tea spot in the HG Glade, near the Harvest Goddess Shrine, in ruins. Tiny asks you to fix it up and gather snacks, and both tasks must be finished before the story moves on. You can do them in either order.

1. Restore the tea party site. Bring Tiny one Sturdy Square Lumber, one White Rose and one Diamond. Chop pine trees in the Quarrytop region for Sturdy Lumber, then process it into Square Lumber. For the White Rose, buy Red Rose Seeds from Jerry's Maple Mart for 100 G each and plant them on the Quarrytop farm space. Red Roses don't do well in that biome, so fertilize and water them daily. Blizzards can hurt their quality, so you may need a few tries before a Red Rose mutates into a White Rose.

2. Prepare the tea snacks. Gather 3 Black Tea, 3 Maple Syrup and 1 Strawberry Pie. You should already have the Maple Syrup from Bloomfield Chapter 2. Black Tea is made in your kitchen by putting 1 Tea Leaf in the Sauce Pan, so you'll need 3 Tea Leaf. Tea Leaf seeds cost 20 G each at Richard's store in Bloomfield, and Qingxin Oolong and Yabukita leaves won't work for this recipe. For the Strawberry Pie, combine 1 Strawberry (or any Strawberry crop mutation), 1 Butter (made from Milk in a Blender) and 1 Wheat in the Oven.

3. Fill the Forest Happilia bottle. You need enough Forest Happilia to fill and cap the bottle. Unlocking Power Wisps and shipping items from the Harvest Goddess Garden farm space are among the ways to gather it. Once the bottle is capped, walk up to the trunk of the Harvest Goddess Tree and use it. If it won't fill, a Level 3 farmhouse makes the job easier.

4. Hold the tea party. The extra Happilia brings Tiny back to full size, and the Harvest Goddess Tree's glow in Hyperbloom Mode draws in Happy. At the wedding pavilion, Happy and Tiny catch up and gossip about old times and romance. As a thank-you for the snacks, Happy gives you the Blue Feather of Happiness.

Tiny asks you to look after the feather because giving a blue feather is a custom for someone special. Keep it safe, since the proposal depends on it.

Upgrade Your Farmhouse to Level 3 Before Proposing

Proposing requires a Level 3 farmhouse, and the upgrade happens in two steps. Level 2 comes first. It becomes available when you reach Maplehill Town and start Maplehill Chapter 1, and it costs:

• 12,000 G
• 20 Material Stone
• 20 Palm Square Lumber
• 15 Glass

After you clear all four Chapter 1 town stories, Otto sends a letter suggesting you expand the house to fit a larger family. That unlocks Level 3 at Maple Mart, which costs:

• 40,000 G
• 20 Hard Material Stone
• 20 Sturdy Square Lumber
• 30 Glass

The gold is the biggest cost, so start saving well before you reach the proposal.

Check the Proposal Requirements and Propose With the Blue Feather

Before you propose, make sure four things are true:

• You've completed all six romance events with the candidate you want to marry, including the last two the Token of Love opened.
• You're holding the Blue Feather of Happiness.
• Your farmhouse is Level 3.
• You don't have an earlier proposal still active.

Once everything is set, give the Blue Feather to your candidate. The Token of Love doesn't count at this step, so make sure you're handing over the feather. The wedding is scheduled about one week after the proposal.

What Happens After the Wedding in Echoes of Teradea

After the ceremony, the couple lives together. Marriage also makes a child possible, and your child grows up and eventually writes you a letter.