How Leia and Han Got Married in Current Star Wars Canon…

By and large, the events of Han and Leia’s matrimony have largely been left untouched in the post-reboot Star Wars continuity—hence why we’re now getting a book about it. Before The Princess and the Scoundrel was announced, all we knew was that Han and Leia married on Endor, shortly after the destruction of the second Death Star in 4 ABY (that’s the old Star Wars chronological shorthand for “After the Battle of Yavin” in A New Hope, for those unfamiliar).

In the 2016 novelAftermath: Life Debt, Leia describes the ceremony in the Ewok village as a small affair—not exactly private, but not exactly public either, with only a few close friends attending. From there, we’ll learn more details in The Princess and the Scoundrel, which apparently includes the detail that the newlyweds will flee the hectic fallout of the Rebel Alliance’s dissolution and transformation into the New Republic by taking their honeymoon on the Halcyon—the starship cruiser hotel that has been showing up all over Star Wars fiction recently because, well, it’s the setting of Walt Disney World’s upcoming and incredibly pricey Star Wars LARP-meets-hotel, Galactic Starcruiser.

Little else is really known about the immediate moments of Han and Leia’s married life though, except one minor detail: as a wedding gift for Leia, Han reconfigured the Millennium Falcon’s crew quarters to include a small galley that the couple could actually cook meals in, rather than be left to eat rations. The kitchen was added to diagrams of the ship in the then-updated The Force Awakens: Incredible Cross-Sections tie-in book in 2015, in part to explain changes to the layout of the Falcon set as it appeared in the movie.