Old dudes

[Fierro]

First of all - male characters can produce children until they are dead, whereas the females can only do so until 49 years old. Personally, I don't have a moral problem with an old man marrying a young woman in my game, but in practical terms I prefer a male who is under 35. For that matter, if he is between 25-35 he should have some positive traits (sharp, vigorous, a couple of command stars) or he won't meet my standards. 16 year olds are allowable since I know that I'll get an extra decade of work from them regardless of their inherent flaws. One note - the older the marriage age daughter becomes, the older her suitors also become. It is good to know how young the daughter in question is, since a thirty year old female will almost never be offered a marriageable male under 45 or 50 years old. At that point, it's probably better to marry her off to some old guy (55 +) and try to get a couple of kids out of her before he dies. The game will not move on to the next daughter until the first one is married, so if you are overly choosy with one who is aging, her little sisters and nieces will end up as spinsters as well.

Great to know! Explains why I had so many unmarried daughters

[Atraphoenix]

Great to know! Explains why I had so many unmarried daughters

I think you made a collection of them
I mostly ignore vigorous because I roleplay with 2 or 3 FM the others just sit and womanize.
so long as they are sharp and charismatic even just sharp is enough.

[Watchman]

I dunno, I've often enough gotten princesses in their thirties (thus far unmarried due to for example slow expansion and the limits that places on the number of FMs the game gives you, and/or the crop of suitors thus far having been something quite abysmal) married off to some strapping young buck from the provincial garrisons.

In at least one case both parties were within two years or so cheerfully having extramaritial affairs too (and this on top of "Wise, influential wife"...); I found this rather amusing for some reason.