If Leah is your romance of choice in Stardew Valley, this is how to woo and marry her!
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Leah is the resident visual artist in Stardew Valley, and she makes sculptures out of wood. Her romance route involves exploring her artistic world and helping her grow her talent. She is a bit harder to romance than some other characters as her loves won't be available straight away, and her schedule is a bit busy.
Luckily, she makes up for this by having mostly foraging items as likes, which can make the process a lot less taxing on you. Those who are hoping to marry Leah should check out the helpful guide for info on her schedule, favorite gifts, and more.
Updated April 28, 2024 by Jacqueline Zalace: Leah is a busy person in Stardew Valley, so romancing her can be a challenge. We've updated the formatting of this guide to help you find Leah and give her the best gifts possible.
Leah's Basic Info
To ensure you can marry Leah quickly, you should make a note of when her birthday is and where she lives. She has her clinic visit early in the year compared to other characters, which may throw some people off.
- Birthday: Winter 23
- Home Location: Cottage in Cindersap Forest
- Clinic Visit: Spring 16
- Night Market Visit: Winter 15
- Occupation: Artist
Leah's Schedule
Leah is an NPC who does tend to move around a lot which can make finding her a bit hard. Below, you can find her schedule for every season.
Spring
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Sunday
When |
Where |
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9:00 am |
In her cottage |
12:00 pm |
Stands by the river outside her cottage |
3:00 pm |
Walks to the pier on the forest pond |
6:30 pm |
Stands on the west side of the forest pond |
7:30 pm |
Returns home |
12:00 am |
Goes to sleep |
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Monday
When |
Where |
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9:00 am |
In her cottage |
11: 00 am |
Goes to Pierre's General Store |
5:00 pm |
Returns home |
12:00 am |
Goes to sleep |
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Friday & Saturday
When |
Where |
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9:00 am |
In her cottage |
4:00 pm |
Goes to the Stardrop Saloon |
11:40 pm |
Returns home |
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Summer
Monday
When |
Where |
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9:00 am |
In her cottage |
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11: 00 am |
Goes to Pierre's General Store |
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5:00 pm |
Returns home |
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12:00 am |
Goes to sleep |
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Friday and Saturday
When |
Where |
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9:00 am |
In her cottage |
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4:00 pm |
Goes to the Stardrop Saloon |
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11:40 pm |
Returns home |
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Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Sunday
If the wooden bridge on the beach has been repaired |
If the wooden bridge on the beach has not been repaired |
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9:00 am |
In her cottage |
9:00 am |
In her cottage |
12:00 pm |
Goes to draw the tidal pools on the beach |
12:00 pm |
Goes to draw on the beach |
7:00 pm |
Returns home |
7:00 pm |
Returns home |
12:00 am |
Goes to sleep |
12:00 am |
Goes to sleep |
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Fall
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Sunday
When |
Where |
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9:00 am |
In her cottage |
12:00 pm |
Stands by the river outside her cottage |
3:00 pm |
Walks to the pier on the forest pond |
6:30 pm |
Stands on the west side of the forest pond |
7:30 pm |
Returns home |
12:00 am |
Goes to sleep |
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Monday
When |
Where |
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9:00 am |
In her cottage |
11: 00 am |
Goes to Pierre's General Store |
5:00 pm |
Returns home |
12:00 am |
Goes to sleep |
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Friday & Saturday
When |
Where |
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9:00 am |
In her cottage |
4:00 pm |
Goes to the Stardrop Saloon |
11:40 pm |
Returns home |
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Winter
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
When |
Where |
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9:00 am |
In her cottage |
4:00 pm |
Goes to the Stardrop Saloon |
11:40 pm |
Returns home |
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Monday
When |
Where |
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9:00 am |
In her cottage |
11:00 am |
Goes to Pierre's General Store |
5:00 pm |
Returns home |
12:00 am |
Goes to sleep |
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Deviations
Winter 15
When |
Where |
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9:00 am |
In her cottage |
4:00 pm |
Goes to the Night Market |
11:40 pm |
Returns home |
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Spring 16
When |
Where |
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9:00 am |
In her cottage |
10:30 am |
Goes to the waiting room of the clinic |
1:30 pm |
In the clinic's exam room |
4:00 pm |
Goes to the Stardrop Saloon |
11:40 pm |
Returns home |
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Rainy Days
When |
Where |
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9:00 am |
In her cottage |
4:00 pm |
Goes to the Stardrop Saloon |
11:40 pm |
Returns home |
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The Best Places To Find Leah
The best place to find Leah is at the saloon. At the start of the game, you won't have access to her cabin; rather than running around looking for her, just head to the saloon.
Leah will be here nearly every Friday and Saturday, along with a group of additional NPCs. You can talk with Leah, as well as other villagers to build up more friendships at the same time.
Gifting to Leah
Leah has a bit of an expensive taste when it comes to love, and chances are most farmers will struggle with getting her favorite items early in the game. Thankfully, many of her liked gifts come from foraging.
To romance any NPC in Stardew Valley, you need to increase your friendship level with them. It's represented by little hearts next to their name in the Social menu. To make sure you can romance Leah as soon as possible, talk to her every day and give her gifts twice a week!
Loves & Likes
Loves (+80 points) |
Likes (+45 points) |
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Goat Cheese Poppyseed Muffins Salad Stir Fry Truffles Vegetable Medley Wine Universal Loves |
Blackberry Salmonberry Snow Yam Spring Onion Chanterelle Common Mushroom Daffodil Dandelion Ginger Hazelnut Holly Leek Magma Cap Morel Purple Mushroom Wild Horseradish Winter Root Driftwood Earth Crystals Diamonds Life Elixir Maple Syrup Any type of Milk All Fruit All Eggs (Except Void Eggs ) Most cooked dishes (Except Carp Surprise , Cookie , Ice Cream , Pink Cake , Rice Pudding , Survival Burger , Tortilla , Hashbrowns , Pancakes , Pizza , Bread , Fried Eggs , Strange Buns , Seafoam Pudding , Vegetable Medley, Stir Fry, Salad, and Poppyseed Muffins) All Flowers (Except Poppies ) Almost all Artisan Goods (Except Oil , Void Mayonnaise , Goat Cheese and Wine) Most Vegetables (Except Hops , Tea Leaves , Wheat , Unmilled Rice ) |
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Neutrals, Dislikes, & Hates
Neutrals (+20 points) |
Dislikes (-20 points) |
Hates (-40 points) |
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Universal Neutrals (Except Bread, Fried Eggs, Clams , and Truffles) |
Quartz Fire Quartz Frozen Tears Clams Carp Surprise Cookie Fried Egg Ice Cream Pink Cake Rice Pudding Survival Burger Tortilla Seaweed Most Gems (Except Prismatic Shards and Diamonds) Universal Dislikes (Except Driftwood, Spring Onions, and Void Eggs) |
Bread Hashbrowns Pancakes Pizza Void Eggs Universal Hates (Except Seaweed ) |
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The Best Gifts To Give
If you are looking for efficient gifts to give Leah, try to focus on foraged items. These can easily be found around the valley, making them free.
If you want to stock up on a gift and don't mind spending money, you can also buy several salads from the saloon. Salad is one of Leah's loved gifts and will cost you just 220g.
Dating Leah
Leah may spend a lot of time wandering around outdoors for inspiration, but most of her events will trigger when entering her home. Her events revolve around her art and you helping her to make her next masterpiece. Below, you can check out how to trigger Leah's cutscenes.
There are a lot of dialogue options in her events that can help you gain or lose friendship points.
Event |
How To Trigger |
Choices |
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Two Hearts |
Enter Leah's home while she's there |
"It's the same with people." (No effect on friendship) "I actually prefer the look of raw, unadulterated wood." (No effect on friendship) "(creepy) May I have a kiss?" (-100 friendship points and if you choose this option, you aren't able to advance to the next dialogue prompt, and you'll never be able to see her eight-heart event) |
If you chose a non-creepy response, you will then have to choose one of the following: "Why don't you have an art show in town?" (Her art show during her eight-heart event will be held in town) "Why don't you sell your art on the internet?" (Her eight-heart event won't feature an art show) Both of these options have no effect on friendship. |
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Four Hearts |
Enter Leah's home while she's there |
"No, it had to be done." (No effect on friendship) "No, and your ex sounds like an idiot." (No effect on friendship) "No, but you would've been better off staying in the city." (-20 friendship points) "Yeah, a little." (-20 friendship points) "Yeah, but it's natural to care about yourself first." (-20 friendship points) |
Six Hearts |
This is made up of two separate cutscenes, triggered in the following ways. Leave your house on a non-rainy day between 6 am and 11:30 am Enter the Cindersap Forest anytime Leah is scheduled to be there (any season but Winter) |
There are no important choices to be made here. |
Eight Hearts |
If you suggest she host an art show, go to town between 3 pm and 5 pm If you told Leah she should sell her art online, enter her home whenever she is there. |
There are no important choices to be made here. |
Ten Hearts |
Enter Cindersap Forest between 11 am and 4 pm (any season but Winter) |
There are no important choices to be made here. |
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Once you reach eight hearts with an NPC, you can start dating them! It will prompt Pierre to send you a letter to inform you that he's started selling a new item: Bouquets, for 200g each. If you give one to an NPC, it means you're asking to become their partner.
All you need to do is buy one of these bad boys and gift it to Leah. As long as her friendship level hasn't dropped for some reason, she'll happily accept! You'll unlock the ability to reach 10 hearts of friendship with her and her status in the Social menu will change to "Girlfriend."
Marrying Leah
You can propose marriage to a romanceable NPC once you've reached ten hearts of friendship with them. Mayor Lewis will send you a note to tip you off, saying that people in Stardew Valley propose by giving one another something called a Mermaid's Pendant. Annoyingly, he doesn't tell you how to get it.
That's what we're here for! You can buy a Mermaid's Pendant from a special NPC called the Old Mariner, who only appears on the beach on rainy days. You'll need to have that little wooden bridge on the beach repaired because he's next to the tide pools. When you find him, he'll sell you the Mermaid's Pendant for 5,000g if the following qualifications are met:
- You still have 10 hearts with a romanceable NPC
- You've upgraded your farmhouse at least once
The only way to trigger the Old Mariner's appearance during the Winter is to use a rain totem.
Then, if Leah still has ten hearts of friendship with you, you can give the Mermaid's Pendant to her and she'll agree to marry you! Your wedding is set for three days later (or four, if something happens to be going on in town on the day you're supposed to get married).
Afterward, you and Leah will be transported back to the farm. Leah, like all marriage candidates, adds a unique room to the right-hand side of the farmhouse and a couple of decorations outside (in her case, a place for her to carve). You'll also be able to go up to 14 hearts in your relationship with her.
Marriage Schedule
When Leah moves in, she will spend her day doing the following tasks.
- Watering crops
- Feeding animals
- Watering the animal bowl
- Repairing broken fences
- Giving you gifts
- Decorating the house
- In her unique outside area
- In her unique indoor room
However, all spouses occasionally leave the farm (some more than others). Leah doesn't leave very often, because she doesn't have a formal job. She only goes away on Mondays; you can check out this day's schedule below.
When |
Where |
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8:30 am |
Goes to the bridge southwest of her cottage in Cindersap Forest |
3:00 pm |
Stands outside her cottage |
5:30 pm |
Returns home |
Leah's Fourteen Hearts Cutscene
Every marriage candidate has a 14-heart event that you can experience once you're married to them. For Leah, you activate it by reaching 14 hearts with her and then leaving the farmhouse between 5 am and 8:20 am. It cannot be Winter or a Sunday.
For the next part, go to Cindersap Forest on a sunny day anytime between 11:30 am and 2:00 pm.
Once you reach 14 hearts, you will be able to buy a portrait of Leah from the Traveling Cart. This will cost you 30,000g.
Maintaining Marriage Or Choosing Divorce
To maintain a happy married life, all you need to do is talk to Leah every day. You won't need to give her daily gifts, but she will still accept them. Additionally, if you interact with Leah enough in a short period of time, the two of you will kiss!
If the marriage takes a turn for the worse, and you want to divorce, the process is quite simple. Head to the Mayor's house and interact with the books on the left side of his kitchen. Here, you can pay a fee to get divorced. After divorcing Leah, she will be a bit mad at you, and interactions will be strained.
Thankfully, you can wipe her memory with a unique shrine that unlocks after completing some tasks for the Wizard.