ヘーラーはゼウスとの結婚を拒み、洞窟に隠れてゼウスを避けていたが、アキレスという地上の男に説得され、初めて性交をした、という話がある<ref>Ptolemaeus Chennus, ''New History'' Book 6, as epitomized by Patriarch Photius in his ''Myriobiblon'' [https://topostext.org/work/237#190.47 190.47]</ref>。ヘーラーはエウベア島でマクリスというニンフに育てられたが、ゼウスに連れ去られ、プルタークの言葉によれば、シタエロン山が「二人に日陰を与えてくれた」という説もある。マクリスがヘーラー結界を探しに来たとき、山の神シタエロンが、ゼウスはレートーとそこで喜びを感じていると言ってマクリスを追い払った<ref>Eusebius, ''Praeparatio evangelica'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=yNRKAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA92 3.1.84a-b]; Hard, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA137 137]</ref>。
カリマコスによれば、彼らの婚礼の宴は三千年続いたという<ref>Callimachus, ''Aetia'' fragment [https://dcc.dickinson.edu/callimachus-aetia/untitled-48 48]</ref>。ヘーラークレースがエウリュステウスに命じられて持っていったヘスペリデスのリンゴは、ガイアが二人に贈った結婚式の贈り物であった<ref>Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''Library'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D5%3Asection%3D11 2.5.11]</ref>。
According to [[Callimachus]], their wedding feast lasted three thousand years. The Apples of the [[Hesperides]] that [[Heracles]] was tasked by [[Eurystheus]] to take were a wedding gift by [[Gaia]] to the couple.<ref>[[Pseudo-Apollodorus]], ''Library'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D5%3Asection%3D11 2.5.11]</ref>
After a quarrel with Zeus, Hera left him and retreated to Euboea, and no word from Zeus managed to sway her mind. Cithaeron, the local king, then advised Zeus to take a wooden statue of a woman, wrap it up, and pretend to marry it. Zeus did as told, claiming "she" was Plataea, [[Asopus]]'s daughter. Hera, once she heard the news, disrupted the wedding ceremony and tore away the dress from the figure only to discover it was but a lifeless statue, and not a rival in love. The queen and her king were reconciled, and to commemorate this the people there celebrated a festival called [[Daedala]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+9.3.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 9.3.1]–[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D9%3Achapter%3D3%3Asection%3D2 9.3.2]</ref> During the festival, a re-enactment of the myth was celebrated, where a wooden statue of Hera was chosen, bathed in the river Asopus and then raised on a chariot to lead the procession like a bride, and then ritually burned.{{sfn|Murray|1842|page=[https://books.google.gr/books?id=RNVPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA313 313]}}