"Yes, that excuse would work.. Wait! What??????"
Evan bit her lips as she did not know how to explain it. She would have kept it secret if she had not come to know about the open wedding.
An open wedding is the one where the empire is invited. No matter whether you are a commoner or a noble, a rich or a poor person, you will get an invitation and a place in the wedding.
Since the empire is so big and there is no way a church can serve so many guests, open weddings are mostly planned in the open area. Like the estate of the Thawynes.
It would be big enough to handle so much crowd but it was very risky since any mercenary or the one filled with malice can enter.
Knights could not handle keeping an eye on so many guests not to forget that keeping a guard on them would be disrespectful and many would not accept it.