This is Wedding Bells Are Ringin', a month-long examination of notable comic book weddings, since this is June, after all, and that's a time for weddings. I let you all vote and you voted for this feature to spotlight real AND fake weddings. I've decided, then, to only go with weddings that actually ended with marriages, whether dreams or not (in other words, everything but called off weddings).

Today, we look at how Crystal and Ronan came together to form a political union between the Inhumans and the Kree through a different kind of union.

The Kree and the Inhumans had been connected to each other since the late 1960s (I did a When We First Met on it last year). The Kree had tried to be more connected to the Inhumans at various points over the years, but the Inhumans always turned them down. However, during Secret Invasion, the Inhumans discovered that their king, Black Bolt, had been replaced by a Skrull! In Secret Invasion: Inhumans #3 (by Joe Pakowski, Tom Raney and Scott Hanna), Medusa, acting in place of her missing husband, forges an alliance with the Kree and to get Ronan to do so, she has to agree to a marriage between Ronan and Medua's sister, Crystal (who had previously been married to the former Avenger, Quicksilver).

The wedding occurred in War of the Kings #1 (by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, Paul Pelletier and Rick Magyar), where Crystal fills in a visiting Polaris (who was Crystal's former sister-in-law at the time, before Quicksilver discovered that Magneto was not actually his father) on the situation...

The wedding ceremony begins...

But it is interrupted by an attack by the Shi'ar!

Ronan survives the attack, but the Kree people are in disarray, leading to Crystal embracing her new role as the princess of the Kree by becoming a true people's princess...

In the next issue, Crystal and Ronan confirm that their marriage was official...

The Crystal/Ronan marriage became an important part in the comics over the next couple of years. Perhaps I'll cover the dissolution of the marriage in the future.

If any one has suggestions for a future wedding spotlight, drop me a line at brianc@cbr.com