A Royal Wedding in Numenor

Meneldur was the son of Tar-Elendil, the fourth King of Númenor. He was the King's third child, for he had two sisters, named Silmarien and Isilmë. The elder of these was wedded to Elatan of Andúnië, and their son was Valandil, Lord of Andúnië, from whom came long after the lines of the Kings of Gondor and Arnor in Middle-earth.
Meneldur was a man of gentle mood, without pride, whose exercise was rather in thought than in deeds of the body. He loved dearly the land of Númenor and all things in it, but he gave no heed to the Sea that lay all about it; for his mind looked further than Middle-earth: he was enamoured of the stars and the heavens. (...) When Meneldur received the Sceptre he removed, as he must, from the Forostar, and dwelt in the great house of the Kings in Armenelos. He proved a good and wise king, though he never ceased to yearn for days in which he might enrich his knowledge of the heavens.
His wife was a woman of great beauty, named Almarian. She was the daughter of Vëantur, Captain of the King's Ships under Tar-Elendil; and though she herself loved ships and the sea no more than most women of the land her son followed after Vëantur her father, rather than after Meneldur.
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Unfinished Tales, Part Two: II ALDARION AND ERENDIS

The wedding of Meneldur and Almarian in the city of Armenelos, in the happy early days of Númenor. The characters on the picture are (front row, left to right) captain Vëantur, Almarian, prince Meneldur, king Tar-Elendil, (and back row) Almarian's unnamed mother and Meneldur's sisters Silmarien and Isilmë.

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