But for the sake of your eternity alongside her, you must take this step. You can only hope that in the time between you securing the elixir of life and returning, those pangs of hurt will have healed and you both can continue onwards. A few years is but a blink of an eye to an immortal goddess, after all—surely she would understand sacrificing a small time for the sake of eternity. Ceremonies are… transient, fickle things anyway—just a small formality in the grand scheme of things. Your love is more than just a simple ceremony, and soon it will blossom unto the endless march, hand-in-hoof.