LAST EDITED ON Oct-20-20 AT 02:34 PM (EDT) by Gryphon (admin)
 
>So even though I haven't seen the movie referenced above (I've only
>seen the first Pirates film and about half of the second), I
>still get a nice visual out of this, and it's of the three of them
>trying to get the damn ceremony done and fight off the bad guys
>at the same time.

Yep. You clearly have the idea down :-)

>
>It takes a special kind of officiant to deliver the entire "to have
>and to hold, etc." riff—twice—while simultaneously swashing
>bucklers, and never mind expecting the bride and groom to remember all
>of their lines.

True, but these -are- exceptional people.

>** they're going to run out of fingers at this rate; a consequence of
>plural marriage nobody ever thinks about

Lot of options - you can stack 'em, or have a secondary ring added, or skip the rings altogether and do the necklace thing or - this being a nice high magic setting - use any of the -other- magically significant items they've collected. Or swords. Or, hell, given Corwin, have him build a mecha for Anthy. XD