Zois Getting Married Autonomously or Running Away From Home

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I don’t know if this has happened to anyone else, or if anyone has already written a post about this, but my zois keep getting married autonomously. I mean, yes, he proposed to her, and now they’re engaged. But they were supposed (according to my story) to be taking some time to decide when the wedding would be. Also, I like to decide when and where my zois will get married in, or what clothes they will wear, but two times now my zois have married on their own.

The first time, they exchanged rings and everything, but they didn’t change into formal clothes or anything, and I received a game notification that they had gotten married. The second time, there wasn’t even a wedding interaction, rings or whatever, my zoi was just coming home from work, when I received the notification that he and his girlfriend had already gotten married.

What’s going on? Is this some kind of story progression, a new feature, or is there simply a possibility that two Zois will decide to get married on their own? Is it something similar to zois suddenly leaving their family home, a.k.a. running away, when I’m not playing that house? That happened to me days ago as well while I was playing another family. As a result, I lost a very dear zoi I was playing with.

I have nothing against story progression, but I would like it to be an option that we can decide whether or not to activate. Is there any way to turn off this “story progression thingy” to avoid unexpected/unwanted results, at least with the families we’re playing with?

Again, I apologize if someone has already written about this, but I thought I’d report this, not sure if it is a bug, maybe it’s just a new feature, but it has happened to me twice in a row in less that 24 hours. I’ve had to quit both times without saving because I didn’t want my zois to get married yet, much less without a proper wedding celebration. Having to quit and lose all my progress is starting to get annoying, tbh. Same with the zoi running away from home. I mean, are they even coming back, or do we lose them forever? I’d like to know :pleading_face:

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Hey there, thanks for reporting this bug. I’m very sorry this has happened to you. All of us storytellers understand the trouble with such an issue. This is the first time someone has reported it though, so we’ll have to be really cautious about it because this could ruin save files, especially if noticed way too late.
Would you kindly fill out all of the report form? I’m gonna post it down here again so you can simply copy it and fill in your setup info:

  • Game Version:

  • Platform: (Steam windows / Steam Mac / Mac)

  • Mods: (Choose one: never used / removed / active)
    :round_pushpin:If you have used mods before, please list them:

  • Hardware Specifications & Operating System (OS version, CPU, GPU, RAM, storage…):

  • Issue Date:

  • Error Message:

  • Details:

P.S. - Please provide the save file in which the bug occured if possible :folded_hands:

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Hello! Thank you for your quick response. Yes, this was indeed going to ruin my save file sooner or later, cause from what I saw, it would keep repeating itself over and over again, so I decided to hurry and marry my zois myself to avoid struggling with that bug. It was frustrating, though, because I really wanted to organize a nice wedding for them. Anyway, if this is a bug and it gets fixed, I can always go back to an earlier save. :blush:

Now, I’ll try to file my report properly below, thank you for providing the form!

  • Game Version: Windows PC Steam : 20260108.9692.W. Don’t know if this is correct. Steam says the latest Hotfix was v0.5.3

  • Platform: (Steam/ Windows)

  • Mods: (Removed the few I had cause they have not been updated yet, apparently)
    If you have used mods before, please list them: I can’t remember all the names but they’re disabled now anyway. Again, they were too few, probably ten of them, only clothes and hair. If necessary I can look for the names in game and post them in an earlier post.

  • Hardware Specifications & Operating System (OS version, CPU, GPU, RAM, storage…): Windows 11, i7 - 11 gen; Nvidia RTX GeForce 3060 Laptop GPU, 16 GB RAM, 32.5 GB storage.

  • Issue Date: January 8, 2026

  • Error Message: No error message, just a pop up notification saying my zoi couple just got married.

  • Details: My zois keep on getting married autonomously. (Also another zoi ran away from home, a premade by the way, very important in my save. That is probably a separate bug/issue, but still it ruined that particular save and I had to go back to a previous save).

  • I hope this is enough. Thank you again! :hugs:

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  • Game Version:

  • Platform: (Steam windows / Steam Mac / Mac)

  • Mods: (Choose one: never used / removed / active)
    :round_pushpin:If you have used mods before, please list them:

  • Hardware Specifications & Operating System (OS version, CPU, GPU, RAM, storage…):

  • Steps to Reproduce:

Game version: Latest

Platform: Mac

Mods: Never Used

Hardware: Apple MacBook Air M4 chip 512GB SSD 28GB unified memory

Steps to reproduce:

  • have 2 Zois in the full level of romantic relationship
  • Select plan wedding interaction
  • Go through all the steps to set up and schedule wedding event
    • Wedding event stays in the schedule but Zois get married there and then
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Hi @ezziebird ! :smiling_face:

Thanks for sharing! Since this is the same issue with Married Bug, I’ve merged your post into the existing known-issue thread to keep everything together. :heart:

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  • Game Version:

  • Platform: (Steam windows)

  • Mods: (Choose one: never used / removed / active)
    :round_pushpin:If you have used mods before, please list them:

  • Hardware Specifications & Operating System (OS 11, rayzen 5, rtx 3060 12gb, RAM, 16…):

  • Steps to Reproduce:

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Hi @jessicacarr117 :blush:

I’ve merged your post into the main thread about Zois getting married autonomously so all related information stays together. Thank you for your understanding! :heart:

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thank you i was able to set a wedding date for them :slight_smile:

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I had a similar issue. 2 engaged zois were living together. I delayed their wedding until the weekend, and then again (due to floods). A notification popped up saying that the zois were now married, they then exchanged vows and rings (the notification appeared before the autonomous behaviour).

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I had this issue again with another couple, they were engaged, so they planned their wedding (as a scheduled event). Before the even started I got the notification that they were already married! However, the event happened anyway, at the wedding venue they walked down the aisle, exchanged rings, etc. But the thing is they were already married when all this happened. So, is this just the mechanics of the game? You get married before the actual ceremony? Is it a way to make sure they get married even if the event fails? Does this happen just when you set an event, or does it happen just because the zois got engaged? I just wonder… :thinking:

P.S. Sorry for the late reply, I haven’t been much on the forums lately.

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Well my Zois got married before I had time to plan the wedding. So they didn’t have the event. They just exchanged rings in their living room

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i thought they removed autonomous marriage .. i can tell i never had it i had to pull down a mod for it because i got so fed up being the one who was pulling all the strings..

maybe they could create a check box

just like the one we are having when it comes down to conversations

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Hi, I started experiencing this issue today, one of my zois had proposed to the other zoi, then they were married, but this also unfortunately prevented them from walking down the aisle at the wedding event, at first I thought I had done something wrong after making a new save in Dowon and also one in Bliss Bay, both times neither couples could go down the wedding aisle, which of course prevented the wedding event from continuing and everyone just standing around waiting for something to happen. I had even tried to do manually by clicking on the other zoi and sadly it still didn’t work, when I realised that they were already married to each other, it made me really sad because I really enjoy the wedding event. I hope that they put it back to the way it was before and not just automatically married them to each other.

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I have had this same issue with the marriage bug.

I tried several times. At first, I thought my inzoi had autonomously married their fiance. But after backing out of the save and starting over - it didn’t matter how I tried to make a wedding happen it just wouldn’t work. I had them plan it for a future date; it ended with them automatically becoming married. I tried waiting until the day of - had them even go to the outdoor wedding venue. And still - they automatically married. It seems as if the entire function is broken

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This has just happened to me. I wanted my Zois to be engaged for a little while and then my Zois got married out of the blue. Just a random game notification and bam they’re married. However, they’re no longer able to do romantic interactions with each other at all now that they’re married. If I load a save just a few in-game hours before it still happens around the same time.

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I also encountered this error. At an open wedding venue, we couldn’t walk to the altar and so on—we just got married automatically and ran off.

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Tho just happened to me. My 2 zois are living together and one of them proposed to the other to fulfill the last stage of the Partners in Love aspiration and then my game notified me that they were now married. No option to plan the wedding or anything. They were just married right then and there and the ambition goal was not even completed smh

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I’ve just had this happen as well. My zois went on a date and got engaged on the date. When the date ended, I clicked the button to fast travel home, but they went separately. The first one went and it was fine, but when the second zoi fast travelled home, upon arrival I got the notification that they were married, and then the second zoi went to stand in the living room to complete the actual ceremony. I cancelled the ceremony action, hoping I could keep them from getting married yet, but their relationship shows them as married now.

Game Version: 20260527.12759.W

Platform: Steam, windows

Mods: Never used

Hardware Specs and OS: Intel(R) Core™ i7-14700F (2.10 GHz), 32 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (8 GB), Windows 11

Steps to reproduce: send two zois on date, get engaged, fast travel home separately.

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Is there any news on this getting fixed soon? I can’t complete the love aspiration until it’s fixed because I don’t want them to just get married autonomously after getting engaged. I want to be able to plan and have a wedding.

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Last time I checked, engaged zois still got married autonomously before their wedding ceremony. But you can still hold the wedding as usual at the wedding venue and use all the event interactions, if you don’t mind that they’ll already appear as married on the Zoi card and relationship panel.