The marriage of Han Solo and Leia Organa, alternatively referred to as the marriage of Han Solo and Princess Leia, occurred on Endor in 4 ABY, subsequent to the Rebel Alliance's triumph over the Galactic Empire during the Battle of Endor.
As a nuptial present for Organa, Solo revamped the living quarters of his spaceship, the Millennium Falcon, to incorporate a kitchen area. Following the ceremony, the newlyweds embarked on their honeymoon aboard the Halcyon luxurious Star Cruiser.
Eventually, they had a son, whom they named Ben Solo. After the loss of their son to the dark side of the Force, the couple separated. Despite their enduring love and marital status as husband and wife, Organa and Solo remained apart for numerous years, until the Cold War briefly brought them back together on D'Qar.
Han Solo and Leia Organa's paths crossed in 0 BBY on the Death Star, an Imperial military installation. Han participated in the rescue mission of the princess, who had been captured by the Empire, alongside his co-pilot Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker. Leia was also a clandestine member of the Alliance to Restore the Republic. Shortly after the Battle of Yavin, Leia journeyed to Naboo with Evaan Verlaine to find any remaining Alderaanians. During this time she used the alias First Minister "Solo".
Han remained with the rebellion, engaging in various missions alongside Leia. In one such mission, which occurred shortly after the Battle of Yavin, Leia encountered Sana Starros, who introduced herself as "Sana Solo" and claimed to be Han's wife, much to his disagreement. Han later admitted that his 'marriage' to Starros was part of a scam. On another mission, between 1 ABY and 3 ABY, Leia and Han met with Leia's former boyfriend Dar Champion, who mistakenly believed they were a couple and offered them the honeymoon suite of the Grand Regent. Han and Leia used the suite to change their clothes and voiced their objections when a droid attempted to activate the room's pheromone enhancers.
Eventually, Han decided to abandon the rebellion to settle his debt with Jabba the Hutt, following a confrontation with a bounty hunter on Ord Mantell, which greatly displeased Leia. However, Han was compelled to postpone his departure and ended up running through Echo Base during the Battle of Hoth to rescue Leia from the command center. The pair, along with Chewbacca and the droid C-3PO, were eventually forced to escape the Imperials on Han's ship, the Millennium Falcon. While the Falcon was undergoing repairs, unknowingly inside an exogorth, Han and Leia shared their first kiss before being interrupted by C3-PO, causing Leia to leave. The group attempted to seek refuge with Han's friend Lando Calrissian, the Baron Administrator of Cloud City, on Bespin, but the Empire had already reached Cloud City and coerced Lando into a deal to protect his people. During their imprisonment, Darth Vader personally tortured Han, as he had previously done to Leia during her imprisonment on the Death Star.
To test the equipment on Cloud City, Vader instructed for Han to be frozen in carbonite and then handed over to the bounty hunter Boba Fett for delivery to Jabba. Before being frozen, Han and Leia shared another kiss, and Leia confessed her love to Han, to which he responded that he knew. As Leia was forced to watch Han being frozen, she felt as though her insides were being torn apart by Alderaaian wolf-cats.
When Lando discovered that Vader had no intention of honoring his promise to allow Leia and Chewbacca to remain at Cloud City under his protection, Lando betrayed the Sith Lord, with the assistance of his aide and chef, Lobot, and helped free the others. The group rushed to the landing pad, where Fett was loading Han onto his ship, Slave I, but Fett managed to escape in time, forcing the group to retreat to the Falcon. They were also compelled to turn back to rescue Luke, who was hanging from the city's weather vane following a lightsaber duel with Vader. Once Luke and Leia were back with the rebellion, Lando and Chewbacca departed in the Falcon to locate Han, with Lando assuring Leia that they would find him.
After the emerging Crimson Dawn syndicate, under Solo's former flame Qi'ra, stole his entrapped body away from Fett, Organa caught a glimpse of Solo's frozen form during the attack on the Executor, but Fett reclaimed his carbonite trophy shortly after and delivered him to Jabba.
Following the events on the Executor, Leia presumed Han was dead and was angered when Qi'ra boarded the Falcon to speak with her. Leia was furious that Qi'ra could have sold Han to his enemies, given their shared history, but Qi'ra revealed that she had attempted to return Han to Leia by ensuring word reached Leia's friend and ally Amilyn Holdo and attempting to distract Vader so that he wouldn't get Han. Qi'ra also recounted a story to Leia about when she and Han were younger, when they were Scrumrats under the White Worms, and Han nearly sacrificed himself trying to defend a young boy he barely knew. However, Leia was uninterested in the story, as she already knew there was good in Han, claiming she had witnessed it countless times, and it didn't surprise her that he would do something like that. Qi'ra then revealed to Leia that Han was alive and had been taken by Fett to Jabba.
A year after his capture, Leia managed to free Han from carbonite in Jabba's palace, greeting him with a kiss. The pair returned to the rebellion shortly after, just in time for the briefing for the rebels' attack on the second Death Star. Han was promoted to general and led the strike against the shield generator on Endor.
After the Battle of Endor, which saw the destruction of the second Death Star and the deaths of Darth Vader and Galactic Emperor Palpatine, Han offered to step aside for Leia, mistakenly believing that she was in love with Luke Skywalker. However, Leia informed him that Luke was her twin brother, and the two shared a kiss before joining the others in celebration. Shortly after, the two spent the night together.
Han proposed to Leia Organa soon after discovering an Imperial base on Endor. While Leia was overjoyed, she used the moment to tell Han about Luke's recent revelation that she was the biological daughter of Darth Vader. Leia was relieved by Han's composed reaction, and the two separated, with Han going to inform Chewbacca and Leia staying to tell Luke who had approached her. Luke was happy for the couple, claiming that Chewbacca was already threatening to kidnap them and abandon them on a deserted planet until they realized how perfect they were for each other.
Han and Leia both participated in a meeting concerning the future of the Alliance, now that Palpatine was dead, exchanging glances during the discussion. After Leia shared the news of her engagement with Mon Mothma, her former mentor, as well as a friend and ally of her late adoptive father Bail Organa, who was happy for Leia although she regretted that Bail and Leia's adoptive mother Breha weren't there. This saddened Leia as she thought of the loss of her homeworld of Alderaan and how Breha would never attach the Rhindon Sword to her waist and Bail would never meet Han causing Mothma to reassure her that her parents would be proud of Leia.
The night before the wedding, Han hosted a party attended by both Luke and Lando. The party was briefly interrupted by the arrival of a condor dragon at the village, but it quickly departed. The Ewoks' discovery of the party led to many of the single males joining in, as well as the droids R2-D2 and C3-PO, which annoyed Han but amused Luke, who found the Ewoks somewhat adorable. Simultaneously, Leia stumbled upon Vader's funeral pyre and vented her anger at it.
The wedding ceremony was held at the Bright Tree Village, within the village temple, and was attended only by those trusted by Han and Leia, including Mon Mothma, R2-D2, Chewbacca, and C-3PO, who also served as a translator. Luke Skywalker officiated the wedding. C1-10P, Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka, Thane Kyrell, and Hera Syndulla were also in attendance.
For the wedding, Han wore a jacket given to him by Lando, who claimed it was Alderaanian in origin to persuade Han to wear it. Han arrived at the temple with Lando and Chewbacca. Initially, Han was taken aback by the large number of people present for the ceremony, wishing they had instead gotten married where no one could see them in the woods, in the morning, but calmed down when he saw Leia walking towards him, wearing a green dress with her hair mostly down, who Han felt looked more like a nymph than a princess.
The two then joined hands, and the ceremony commenced with a speech from Chief Chirpa, translated by C-3PO. Luke attempted to begin the service but was interrupted by the Ewok elder, Logray, who began banging his staff and shouting "Yub nub!", along with the other Ewoks. Logray then tried to have C-3PO lead the service, as the Ewoks regarded him as a deity, but C-3PO, at Luke's suggestion, informed the Ewoks that he had appointed a human to perform the ceremony and that the Great Tree willed it. Luke then used the Force to make the amber orb in the center of the temple glow, so that the Ewoks would allow him to perform the ceremony.
Luke began by reminiscing about the first time he saw Leia, saying that she spoke of hope, then spoke the words that Obi-Wan Kenobi had once spoken to him, "that those we love are never truly gone". He then asked for a moment of silence for the people who weren't alive to join in the wedding. Leia thought of her parents and then felt as though her mother was attaching the Rhindon Sword to her waist and her father was pressing a kiss to the right of her forehead.
The ceremony was then interrupted, once again, by Logray, who desired for the couple to participate in an Ewok tradition that he was unwilling to omit from the ceremony. Logray, with Chirpa's assistance, grasped the couple's hands and intertwined a piece of frosted pale-green vine between their fingers. Then, after more chanting, Logray pulled Han and Leia's wrists apart, causing the vine to snap and release a golden nectar, which then solidified around their fingers, creating an amber-like ring for each of them.
The Ewoks then engaged in more chanting, and the couple kissed. As the chanting ceased, and the couple separated, the yellow flowers surrounding the temple, and that the Ewoks had decorated themselves with, turned out to be flower-fliers, insects that were a part of a traditional Ewok wedding ceremony that fed off the sap from the Great Tree, which were awakened by the vibrations of the chant and began floating around the temple.
Rumor has it that Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi was originally supposed to conclude with the wedding. It's even been suggested that these scenes were filmed but never used. Within Star Wars Legends, Han and Leia's wedding was depicted in the novel The Courtship of Princess Leia by David Farland, although a previous version of their wedding was shown in the Jedi Prince novel Prophets of the Dark Side by Paul Davids and his wife Hollace Davids.
Jason Fry, the author of The Force Awakens: Incredible Cross-Sections, explained that the idea of Han Solo building a galley as a wedding gift was intended to provide an in-universe explanation for the Millennium Falcon's new layout in the film, and to canonize the ship's galley. "Floor plans of the Falcon from the early days of Star Wars publishing included a galley, but there isn't one in recent original-trilogy diagrams of the ship," he said. Fry's explanation was given in response to criticism that Han's present for his wife would be a kitchen, reinforcing gender stereotypes. Apologizing, he said he imagined "it was a gift from Han meant as a humorous make-do for months of terrible food, and an awkward attempt at making his rusty, decrepit home a bit more welcoming."