Welcome to Elderfield Marriage Candidates & Romance Guide

All 9 Welcome to Elderfield marriage candidates, where to find them, how hearts and gifts work, and how to craft the Ring of Binding to propose.

Nine townsfolk in Welcome to Elderfield can be married: Alice, Blorph, Celeste, Edwin, Ellie, Josh, Molly, Sam and Tanner. Romance runs on the same heart meter as every friendship — raise a candidate to 10 hearts, craft a Ring of Binding, and give it to them to start the wedding. This guide covers who they are, where to find them, and the numbers behind the heart meter.

All 9 marriage candidates

Candidate	Who they are	Where you usually find them
Alice	Former classmate who collects VHS tapes	School, Town, your Farmhouse
Blorph	Lives in the sewers and wants to see life above ground	Sewers, your Farmhouse
Celeste	A ghost who haunts the Library and Greystone Estates	Library, Greystone Estates, School, your Farmhouse
Edwin	Devoutly religious former classmate	Town, School, your Farmhouse
Ellie	Cheerful former classmate drawn to creepy mysteries	Town, School, your Farmhouse
Josh	Wary former classmate worried about the town's disappearances	Town, School, your Farmhouse
Molly	Blacksmith who runs the Workshop on the Farm Path	Workshop, School, your Farmhouse
Sam	Former classmate obsessed with the night sky	Greystone Estates, Town, School
Tanner	Former classmate living in a cabin by the Old Woods	Town, Farm Path, your Farmhouse

Most candidates are old schoolmates of your character, which is why the School shows up in so many schedules. Each one keeps a daily routine that changes by time of day and day of the week. Alice, for example, spends Sundays at the Church, evenings at the Elderfield Saloon, and goes home when it rains or snows — so if someone is missing from their usual spot, check the time, the day and the weather.

How hearts work

Every character has a ten-heart meter. You fill it by talking to them and, above all, by giving gifts.

Gift limit: one gift per character per day, and at most two per week.
Personal taste comes first: a character's own loved and hated items override the universal gift lists.
First-time bonus: a gift type they have not received before is worth more than a repeat.

Gift type	First time	Repeat
Loved	11 points	8 points
Liked	8 points	6 points
Universal liked	7 points	5 points
Neutral	5 points	4 points
Hated	−11 points	−11 points
Love Potion (works on anyone)	12 points	—

With only two gifts a week, what you give matters far more than how often. Hand over loved items you have not given that person yet, and never waste a slot on something they hate — one hated gift erases a loved one.

Heart milestones

Hearts	What unlocks
3	Low-tier friendship letter
5	Mid-tier friendship letter
8	High-tier friendship letter
10	The character can be proposed to

What arrives with each letter depends on the character. Alice's letters, for example, include one random item: a Lesser Holy Water, Experience Potion or Iron Bar at 3 hearts, and a Soulfruit Seed, Greater Dream Crystal or Duskberry Cake at 8 hearts.

How to propose: the Ring of Binding

You propose by giving a candidate at 10 hearts a Ring of Binding. You cannot buy it — you craft it at a Jeweller's Desk. The recipe is known from the start, but you can only craft the ring once, so choose your partner carefully.

Material	Amount
Crafting Pattern	5
Platinum Bar	5
Void Crystal Bar	5
Beating Heart	1
Viscera	10

The ring cannot be sold. Once a 10-heart candidate accepts it, the marriage sequence starts and the wedding takes place at the Church. After the wedding your spouse has their own home conversations and gifts.

Frequently asked questions

How many marriage candidates are there in Welcome to Elderfield?

Nine: Alice, Blorph, Celeste, Edwin, Ellie, Josh, Molly, Sam and Tanner. Other townsfolk can become friends but cannot be married.

How many hearts do you need to marry someone?

Ten hearts, the maximum on the meter. At that point you can give them the Ring of Binding.

Where do you get the Ring of Binding?

You craft it at a Jeweller's Desk from 5 Crafting Patterns, 5 Platinum Bars, 5 Void Crystal Bars, 1 Beating Heart and 10 Viscera. It can only be crafted once and cannot be bought or sold.

Can you marry any gender?

The community wiki lists the nine candidates without any gender restriction. We will update this answer if the game or the developer states otherwise.

What is the fastest way to raise hearts?

Use both weekly gift slots on loved items the character has not received before (11 points each), keep talking to them, and consider a Love Potion (12 points) for anyone whose loved items you do not have yet.

Sources

Welcome to Elderfield on Steam
Welcome to Elderfield community wiki: Relationships, Ring of Binding, Characters, Alice — checked September 30, 2026; licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Facts are summarized in our own words.

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