Who's paying the dowry?

[Burned Coffee]

I suddenly wondered about the dowry of my daughters, see, while the word dowry per se, does not seem to appear in the wedding event, I did notice that the parent of the groom (or liege sometimes) gets the chance to claim royal aid duty for the weeding, one option is a small amount of gold. Did a quick test with an independent duke by sending my daughter to marry and I did no see any gold subtracted from my gold pool.

I was thinking about this while reading a pop book about economy, and thought about the implications of this gold being created out of nowhere, maybe it is just very small quantities, but on the long run, it probably affects the ingame economy with gold bloating, but I could be wrong.

In any case, my main question is: Where is that money coming from?

 

[Silversweeeper]

Presumably it is an extra tax on the peasantry.

 

[Kardo]

It's mentioned in the event that it's from a special wedding tax on the serfs.

 

[Rubidium]

Yep. Your council approves a temporary extra tax on the peasantry, so you/your family member can have an appropriately fancy wedding. You overtax them/skimp on the preparations and keep the excess.

Because you are a monster.

Especially since we both know that that new bride you just married is inevitably going to end up divorced at some point...if she's lucky (otherwise the exploding manure), so all those festivities are just leading to a grim future.

But hey, they're peasants. They exist solely to man your armies and die of attrition by the thousands during the siege of a miscellaneous castle, as part of a war fought solely to make your borders slightly prettier. So the least they could do is pay for your fancy wedding.

 

[StarSword]

But hey, they're peasants. They exist solely to man your armies and die of attrition by the thousands during the siege of a miscellaneous castle, as part of a war fought solely to make your borders slightly prettier. So the least they could do is pay for your fancy wedding.

Tell that to Finn Ua Murchada, the peasant who seized one of my counties. His descendants are still the Earls of Deasmhumhain (and goddammit those southern Irish counties are hard to spell).

I got a policy that you keep what you kill. Because obviously the former earl (who was Duke of Deheubarth at the time, I'd used his claim to conquer it) was incompetent if he managed to lose to a bunch of BLOODY PEASANTS and I'd rather have the guy who beat him. By the time the dust settled on that one, the duke had lost his duchy to a faction demand and was left as Earl of Ergyng, and I had used de jure to vassalize the new owner.

 

[Azarias59]

The whole wedding-money event is unrealistic. It should be "lose money + gain prestige" or "no effect".

 

[DPS]

Yep. Your council approves a temporary extra tax on the peasantry, so you/your family member can have an appropriately fancy wedding. You overtax them/skimp on the preparations and keep the excess.

Yeah, and that's why you get prestige if you don't take the money--in effect, you're telling everyone that you're doing so well, you don't need any extra tax to put on a really fancy wedding.