He assumes she means be married, which he did plan to do, rather than have a silly wedding ceremony, which he really never did, unless the shadowy and indistinct future spouse wanted one. "I always figured I would? Never really, well, got that close..." He'd thought he saw potential a few times, but had been informed he was wrong, and he hadn't been old enough to really begin worrying about it before the point obviously became a moot one.

"This isn't the part I, well, I thought about. I mean, a relationship's for the people in it, right? But a marriage is so everyone else knows about it and the paperwork is easier." Which is why the marriages here mystify him so much.