I was originally using the Marriage Expanded Mod, was able to marry Lydia without issue. I've married multiple times (different characters) in the past, so I'm pretty familiar with the proceedure.
After updating to 1.8 via Steam, I can begin the marriage sequence, but there seems to be an issue right before receiving the actual rings. At this point, she begins talking as if nothing happened, commenting about my being the Thane and whatnot. Everyone walks away as if the marriage has completed, the quest does not complete. There isn't any dialogue suggesting canceling the wedding or failing to participate.
I turned off all marriage mods, verified the local game cache twice, and am still having this issue. I tried turning each mod on to see if i could trigger it somehow, without success.
I pulled up an old save that was long before beginning the marriage process to see if it was just something experienced with a single save game. This made no difference.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks,
** Tried a few things and found the following.
Prior to receiving the rings, the RelationshipRank goes back to 0. There are three dialogue options to choose from when speaking.
Setting this to 4 results in getting everything back, but doesn't bring about any changes to the misc quest or resolve the issue.