Marriage

This is probably the longest overdue section in the guide. Unfortunately, it has take quite a while to put this together from scratch. Between my brother's and myself, we have been chasing down and courting all of the main women in the game. We have found all the primary heart events for the main women that we can marry. However, we can only each marry one girl, so I cannot comment on the married life with each of the different women beyond the ones we marry. What I can add here is an outline of the marriage system and the heart events to each of the other girls. I haven't actually chosen my bride yet, but I will update this section as more information becomes available. If anyone would like to help it would be appreciated.

Getting married in harvest moon is on of the oldest side objectives in the game. The process has evolved a bit, but not all that much has changed. You choose the girl that you want to marry and give her gifts to build up her affection rating towards you. Then once her happiness level is high enough, you give her the blue feather and purpose. If she accepts your proposal then you are married and you can begin a new life with her on your farm. Harvest Moon DS haze a wide variety of women to choose from. There are five primary girls you can marry from the valley and four special brides that you can also marry. Additionally, if you link the game with Friends of Mineral Town or More Friends of Mineral Town, (see linking section) you can date and marry one of the girls from mineral town. Be aware, that doing so will cause you to move to mineral town and end your game. You can only give gifts to the mineral town girls on the days they visit the valley on their days off. This brings the game up to 14 potential brides to marry, which is quite a few heart events to track down.

The marriage system is pretty simple to understand. Each of the girls begins the game with an affection rating of zero for you. You can raise their affection ratings by giving them gifts. If they like the item, their affection rating will grow between 100 and 800 points a day based on their liking of the item you give them. If you give them something they don't like, litter anywhere but your farm, let one of your animals die or propose too soon it will cause their affection rating to go down some. Only the first item you give them each day will increase their affection rating, so choose wisely. Negative items and actions will still cause their rating to drop. Also, all the points you get from giving them the gift won't come when you first give it. If you give them something good, you will have to wait until the next day before the last 100 to 300 points will be added to their affection rating. You may want to buy the friendship bracelet from Roller for 5000 medals. It will allow you to see the girls affection rating when you talked to them with it equipped. It can be helpful in tracking your progress.

You can keep track of the girls affection level with the bracelet above or by watching their heart change color. The color of their heart is based on the number of love points they have.

Affection Levels and Hearts
Affection	Heart Level
0-10000	black
10000-19999	purple
20000-29999	blue
30000-39999	green
40000-49999	yellow
50000-59999	orange
60000 and up	red

You can propose to a girl when you have their heart at the red level or higher. So, it can take quite a while to build up the 60000 affection points. You need the blue feather to propose. It will become available for 1000g at Karen's Store when you reach the 50000 affection point level.

In addition to getting the points up there are some additional requirements you need to meet before you can get married. First, you need to have the big bed from the home shopping network. It will become available in the rotation of the items after you buy your second house upgrade for 10000g. Secondly, you need to have returned the harvest goddess from the other world where the witch princess banished her. In order to do this, you need to have unlocked 60 of the harvest sprites. See the harvest sprite section for the details of how to unlock them. Finally, you also need to purchase the blue feather from the store and get the girl's affection rating up to 60000 points by giving her gifts. It is also helpful if you view each of the girl's heart events.

Strategies:

Getting married is quite an ordeal in Harvest Moon DS. But it is a bench mark and adds a great deal of fun to the game. Unlocking the girls heart events and giving them gifts to increase their affection requires you to know their schedule and likes and dislikes. But, I am going to take all of the guess work out of it for you. Well, at least as much as I can. While I have most of this information, it is a lot to keep track of and annoying to keep looking up. So, let me suggest something simpler. Each girl's favorite item will give them 800 love points a day. However, all of the valley girls and the mineral town girls also like diamonds, which can be found on the floors divisible by 10 greater than 200 in the 2nd mine. Two out of every three rocks on those floors will have a normal diamond in them. So, if you are using the mining trick to make money anyway, strip-mining those five floors entirely will usually yield about 100 diamonds. Giving a girl a diamond will increase her affection by 700 points. This is another good reason to use the mining trick, because it gives you a cheap and abundant source of gifts to give to the girls in the valley.

As for finding the girls, it can take a few days of following them around to get their schedule down pat. However, there is an easier way to find them to give them gifts. Go to the casino and buy the teleport stone from Roller for 1000 medals. It will allow you to go anywhere in the valley for two stamina by touching the stylis on the map for two points of fatigue. It really is a useful item for saving on travel time. You can get the necessary medals for 10000g or by getting them from playing the minigames and gambling the up. Once you have the teleport stone, giving gifts to the girls is an easy task. Just teleport to their residence before 7:00 am and give them the gifts. Then you can teleport back to the farm and get on with your work for the day. This will cost you 4 fatigue points, but it makes tracking the girls down easily.

Heart Events:

Each girl also has 4 heart event that you can view while you are courting them. I am not sure if it is necessary to see all of their events in order to get married. However, it makes it easier to marry them. During each event, you will be give a couple of choices in the dialogue. Use common sense and choose the option that best suits the girl you are trying to marry. Each heart event you choose the correct path for will add between 1400 and 4000 points to the girl's affection rating. Choosing a path against their wishes can cost you points so be careful. Listed below are each of the girls and the heart events that I have found so far. The color of the heart is the minimum heart color you need to trigger the event. You can trigger past events and the events need to be triggered in order. I have all the events for the valley girls, but I don't have all the heart events for the special girls or the mineral town girls. They only visit the valley once a week, which makes it difficult to build up their affection quickly. So, I only have the first two events for each of them. If anyone has more information than what I have here please send it me and I post it here with credit of course.

Valley Girls

There are five normal girls that you can marry from the valley. I have all of their heart events listed here. I only have the time and days that I triggered them. You can probably assume that the events can be triggered under similar conditions within one to two hours of their listed times. I am trying to nail them down a little tighter, but it will take some time. If the day is not specified, it means that we have triggered it on different day and that the days seems to be unimportant.

Nami

Nami is the first of the valley girls that you can marry in the game. She has a well traveled and diverse personality. She lives at on the second floor of inner inn. She spends her early days and evenings at the inn and travels around the valley the rest of the day. Nami doesn't like diamonds like the rest of the girls. Stick with flowers or items from the dig site with her.

Nami Heart Events
Color	Event
Black	Go to inner inn on a rainy day and ring the bell in the front lobby. Nami will come out and talk with you.
Purple	Go to the inn around 10:30 am and Nami will trigger an event where she discusses your farm and her views on farming with you.
Blue	After Nami's heart turns blue, she will visit your farm and trigger another scene. This happened for me on a Monday, buy my associates each had it happen on a different day of the week.
Yellow	Exit your house on a clear day Nami will ask you on a short date.

Muffy

Muffy lives and works at the blue bar in town located just down the road from inner inn. She can be found there in the early evening to giver her presents. She also likes to hike down to the beach in the morning. She loves apple pie, but you can give her diamonds from the mind as well. She is one of the easier girls to marry.

Muffy's Heart Events
Color	Event
Black	Go to the blue bar around 4:00 in the afternoon and Muffy will ask you what type of girls you like. Choose her type to increase her affection.
Purple	I triggered this event on a rainy Tuesday around 10:20 in the morning. Muffy talks to you and asks your advice.
Blue	Go to the blue bar around 6:00 pm. Muffy will be there with a new drink that she wants you to try.
Yellow	Exit your house on a clear day in the morning and Muffy will be there to ask you on a short date.

Celia

Celia is another of the easiest girls to marry in the game. She lives on Vesta's farm and can be found there during most of the day. She wanders up to the goddess spring from time to time, but for the most part she sticks to the farm. Her favorite gift is any type of cake, but diamonds or flowers will also work well with her.

Celia's Heart Events
Color	Event
Black	Visit Celia at her house around 6:20 pm and you will trigger this event. She is helping Vesta with the dishes and shatters a plate. Just be honest.
Purple	Go to the Harvest Goddess's pond behind the harvest sprite tree around 5:00 pm. She will talk to you and asks you to walk home with her.
Blue	You can trigger this event by visiting Dr. Hardy's house at 9:00 in the morning on a rainy day. It triggers a short scene discussing health.
Yellow	Go to the blue bar in the evening when Celia is there having a drink. It triggers a rather interesting little cut scene.

Flora

Flora lives in the dig site with Carter. She spends most of her time at the dig site. In fact I don't think I have ever seen her cross the river. Flora likes diamonds and flowers.

Flora's Heart Events
Color	Event
Black	Enter the dig site at about 11:30 at night. Flora will come in and think you are a strange looking person. Just let her get closer and see you aren't a threat. Otherwise you get to see how a strong a working girls is.
Purple	Go to the inner in around noon. Flora will be there wanting Ruby to give her favorite drink. She is unhappy to hear they are out of it and goes to blue bar to get some.
Blue	Enter the right side of the river below the dig site around 11:20 pm on a clear day. Flora will take you on a treasure hunt that will end in unlocking the first of the hot springs by the circus.
Yellow	Yellow: Go to the dig site on a clear day in the late evening. Flora will give you a good look at her deepest insights into life.

Lumina

Lumina is a sweet and spoiled girl as well as Romanna's daughter. She lives in the vista and will take a walk up to the harvest goddess's pond during the afternoon. She likes relaxation tea and diamonds

Lumina's Heart Events
Color	Event
Black	Enter the villa around 6:00 pm and you will find Lumina and Romanna arguing over the old lady's health.
Purple	After you get the DVD player, Lumina will show up at your farm and ask you how it works.
Blue	Go to the harvest goddess pond during the afternoon around 5:00 on a clear day. Lumina has lost her necklace and wants to enlist your help in locating it.
Yellow	Go to Lumina's room around 9:30 pm. You will find her waiting for van to arrive with her own DVD player. But when he arrives, he will be sold out. Support you girl friend's wishes.

Mineral Town Girls

I have linked the games together and the girls have come over on their days off. However, I can only give them each one gift a week, so they haven't been keeping up with the other girls thus I have only found the first two heart events for each of them. However, if you continue to increase their affection rating I am sure the remaining events will be easy to find. Just follow them around the valley for a day and you should have it. Keep in mind if you marry one of these girls, your game will end because you move to mineral town.

Ann

Ann is the daughter of Doug who owns the inn in mineral town. She will visit the valley on Fridays once you connect a friends of mineral town cartridge into your other slot. She visits inner inn and hangs out with Ruby when she visits. She likes anything with cheese in it and diamonds.

Ann's Heart Events
Color	Event
Black	Head to the inner inn on a Friday around 2:00 pm. You will trigger a cut scene where Ann is helping Ruby cook.
Purple	Head to the inn around 3:00 pm. on a Friday It was raining when I triggered this event. Ann is in town and she has bought a few things and discusses her business with you.
Blue	f you leave your house on a Friday afternoon, she will show up and ask you on a walk. You will go to the pyrotechnics house.
Yellow	Go to the blue bar in the early evening on a Friday. You will get to watch Muffy and Ann duke it out over a stupid topic.

Ellie

Ellie is the nurse from mineral town. She tends to hang out at the villa helping Romanna on her days off. She visits the valley on Wednesdays. She likes diamonds and flowers.

Ellie's Heart Events
Color	Event
Black	Pass out on a Wednesday and Ellie will come by and help you recover your strength.
Purple	Head over to the villa around 5:00 on a rainy Wednesday and you will find Ellie there helping Romanna.
Blue	Go to Romanna's room at the villa during a Wednesday afternoon. You can trigger an event where Ellie helps to nurse Romanna's ailing health.
Yellow	Exit your house early in the morning and you will find Ellie there to give you Elli leaves as a gift. She also teaches you the recipe for them.

Mary

Mary is the daughter of the herbal gist in mineral town. She works in the mineral town library and will visit the valley on Mondays. She usually hangs out at the villa with Lumina. Like Lumina she likes relaxation tea and diamonds.

Mary's Heart Events
Color	Event
Black	Enter the villa around 10:00 am on a clear Monday and Mary will say hi to you and tell you a little about herself.
Purple	This one is a little tough to trigger. You need to have the mushroom house and have mushrooms growing on a Monday. Enter the hut around 10:00 in the morning and Mary will come in and ask you about how the mushrooms are growing.
Blue	Grow a giant crop of some kind in your field and she will come by and view it during the morning.
Yellow	ou will find Mary at the dig site investigating the myth of the legendary sword. She read about it somewhere in a book and is nagging Carter about it.

Potpourri:

The girl named after the wild herb who lives on the chicken farm. Sorry, but she really needs to get a new life. Potpourri will visit the valley on Sundays and you can find her hanging out on your farm. How convenient. She usually talks to Tanka about farming during the day in his house. She likes flowers, Omelets, and diamonds.

Potpourri's Heart Events
Color	Event
Black	Step outside your house on a Sunday morning and she will appear and thank you for all your business from her store. After all your her only customer.
Purple	Go to Tanka's house around noon on a Sunday and you will find Potpourri there studying about farming with him. She really needs to get a life.
Blue	During the late afternoon and a Sunday when she visits, go to inner in. It was raining when I triggered this. Rick and her are having an argument about chickens. He thinks she studies them too much.
Yellow	Head into the back kitchen in inner inn during a Sunday afternoon and you will find her there. She and Ruby are cooking up some weird dish that Potpourri's mother gave them the recipe for.

Karen

One of my favorite girls from mineral town. She runs the general store and is also the heavies drinker in town. Karen visits the valley on Tuesday and hangs out at ... you guessed it blue bar and on Vesta's farm. She also wanders around the valley a little bit. Karen likes Pizza and Diamonds.

Karen's Heart Events
Color	Event
Black	Go to Vesta's farm on a Tuesday around 4:00 pm and you will meet Karen. She will introduce herself and explain her friendship with Vesta.
Purple	Go to the blue bar during the evening on a Tuesday. You get to attempt to drink Karen under the Table. She has had plenty of practice though.
Blue	Go to the second floor of the in on a Tuesday night and she will invite you to go on a short date with her. The two of you will walk around the valley and talk about your lives.
Yellow	Visit the blue bar again on a Tuesday evening and Karen will talk about her real feelings with you.

The Special* Girls

The other girls that you can marry in the game take a good deal of work to get. These are more for the true fans of the game who like a little extra challenge in their lives. These 4 women require years of work and commitment to tie the knot with. I don't have all that much on them, but I will share what I have. As usual if anyone has the information and would like to submit it I will add it and give credit. Thanks to hmgardian for the information here.

Harvest Goddess

The Harvest Goddess is probably one of the hardest to Marry in the game. Before you can even get started you need to unlock her by bringing back 60 of the harvest sprites. Then you can give her gifts at her spring by throwing in items to up her affection rating. She likes strawberries the best and doesn't care for diamonds like the rest of the girls. The manual includes that you must also ship one of each sellable items and rescue all the harvest sprites before she will marry you. If you have the patience, dedication, and determination required to marry her I wish you the best of luck. To date I have only unlocked her black heart event.

Harvest Goddess' Heart Events
Color	Event
Black	Unlock 60 harvest sprites and the goddess will say tadaa and introduce herself.
Purple	You need to walk 10000 steps with the pedometer, ship 10000 items, and catch 10000 fish. You also need to reach the bottom of the first mine. Once this is done throw an item into her spring to trigger the event.
Blue	Blue: You need to unlock all 9 harvest sprite channels and throw an item into her pond to begin the event.
Yellow	You need to be in your fifth year or later and you need to have given her more than 500 gifts to trigger the event. To trigger it, throw an item into her pond.

Note: Once she reaches the red heart level, throw the feather in to propose marriage to her.

Witch Princess

The Witch Princess lives in the small shack next to the Villa and is the one responsible for sending the harvest goddess and the sprites away in the first place. She is supposedly easier to marry than the goddess, but she is still pretty tough. Her favorite gift is red grass. The manual adds that you need to pass out 100 times and neglect several of your sick animals before she will even consider marrying you. Again good luck to those of you who want to marry the games first real villain. I have only found her black heart event.

Witch Princess' Heart Events
Color	Event
Black	Enter the witch princess's home early in the morning. You will find her casting a spell and she will ask you whether or not you like the harvest goddess. Answer no and her affection will increase slightly.
Purple	You need to have been very mischievous to open this event. You need to have let 50 of your sick animals die, offered poison at the harvest festival at least 5 times, littered 100 times, tried to leave the valley at least 10 times and passed out 5 times. If you have done so, you need to go the harvest goddess spring after you free the goddess to trigger the event.
Blue	Go the witches house during the day.
Yellow	ou need to completely empty your ruck sack and head over to her house to trigger the final event.

Keria

Keria is not all that hard to make happy. However, marrying her is still a very big commitment for two reasons. First, her favorite gift is gold lumber, which can get very expensive. The second reason is that she lives on the 255 floor the 3rd mine. Keria is a version of a maiden supposedly sleeping bueaty. You need her first heart event before you can unlock the fourth mine. She is a big commitment, but she is worth it.

Keria's Heart Events
Color	Event
Black	Dig down to the 255 floor of the mine and make sure you have ultimate curry with you. She will talk to you a little and introduce herself. You cannot give her any gifts until you complete this event.
Purple	Dig your way down again. This time she wants relaxation tea leaves for the present.
Blue	Say hello again and this time you need to give her a specific gem from the second mine. It will vary so make sure to bring several different types.
Yellow	Dig all the way down again and offer her favorite gift, Gold lumber. She is difficult to Marry.

Note, to make ultimate curry takes a little bit of work. You need the pot and several in ingredients. You need to make each of the eight basic curries, which are rice balls + curry powder + each of the types of colored grass individually. Rainbow curry uses the pot and all the other types of curry except black curry. Ultimate Curry requires the pot, black curry + rainbow curry + all six types of burnt food. Again good luck.

Leia

The Mermaid. If I get one more email about the mermaid. Okay seriously, the issue on everybody's mind is how to marry the mermaid. I have received quite a few questions about how to do it so here it is. Leia, did I mention she is a mermaid, is recovering from an injury and is currently living in Daryl's basement. In order to meet her you need to get Daryl up to 100 friendship points by giving him gifts. It takes about a week and a half to meet her. Daryl likes fish and colored grass the best. After you cross the friend ship threshold, head over to the trap door on the right side of his house and press the a button next to it. It will open and allow you to enter his basement to meet Leia. She is probably the easiest of the special girls to marry in the valley and takes the least work. You can just go to Daryl's basement in the morning to give her gifts like the rest of the girls. She likes the white flowers that grow in the summer and large fish the best. You need to have the pond on your farm before you can marry her because she needs a place to live. She cannot stay in your house without legs.

Leia's Heart Events
Color	Event
Black	Get Daryl to 100 friendship points and head down the basement. Leia will introduce herself.
Purple	Enter the basement again and you will hear the two of them talking. The conversation implies something that isn't necessarily true.
Blue	Head down the basement again and this time you can help Leia with an experimental cooking dish. It turns out quite interesting.
Yellow	Give her the message in a bottle that you will find at night on the beach after her heart turns yellow. Note, you may want to hold off on this event until her affection is higher. After this event triggers, she will return to the sea. You can still find her on the beach after midnight on Wednesdays, but this will limit you to one gift a week and slow the love process way down. You need to mythic fishing pole to find the bottle. You find it by charging up the fishing pole in the spring and reeling it in.

Well, there you have it. All the girls neatly layer out for your marital bliss. I know I have more events to find and that I also want to comment on what happens after you get married. But that will have to wait until the future after I get married. I am going to marry Lumina if anyone cares. If anyone has anything for this section please pass it along. I will try to get more in the future.

As for Leia's section of the guide, I apologize for the sarcasm. But, I have really gotten quite a few emails requesting how to marry the mermaid. So, in the spirit of good fun I would like to add a new section to this guide. If you have a good reason to marry or not to marry the mermaid send it along in an email. For example, fish make poor children. I will put the best 10 or so for both sides in the guide if I get enough responses. Send it to darkrangeresp@yahoo.com and mark the subject of the email "Marry the Mermaid Reason". Make sure you include your reason and a alias to identify yourself with if your reason is chosen. Let's keep them clean I want to keep this guide G rated. This isn't really a contest for anything. I am just curious why everyone wants to marry the mermaid.

Well, there we have it all the heart events for each of the girls. Each of them also has a red heart event, but they are easy to trigger. They are all done the same way. Once you have the girl up to 60000 affection points, give her the blue feather. She will take you to someplace special to her and accept the proposal. She will also drag you along to tell her friends and family about the coming engagement. If you propose too early, she will decline your offer and lose several thousand love points.