It turns out the wedding was all serious and was planned accordingly by the xoffice and Guggs.
When lo and behold, Donny Cates said, “wait” why not Gambit and Rogue?
This was apparently at one of the Marvel summits. Where CB then runs it by Guggs and things follow the way they did.
Did it make for a better story? Maybe?
It’s just strange for them to run things like this? I guess that’s the purpose of these summits. Where an outside writer can throw an idea in, and they run with it.
CB discusses this on the official Marvel podcast (agent M hates Gambit!) year end review.