Prism sat and watched in agony as Princess Celestia made her speech. She shifted uncomfortably in her itchy purple dress.
"Dad," she whispered. "When can I take this stupid dress off?"
"Shush!" Gemstone whispered harshly.
Prism scowled as she glanced over at the Tri-Pies who were standing on the side of the aisle, wearing flowery color-coordinated dressed and carrying baskets. Prism was actually glad she wasn't a flower girl, because she would've looked even more ridiculous in one of those outfits.
She looked up at her mother who was lined up with the other bridesmaids. She did not understand how her mother, Co-Captain of the Wonderbolts, could put up with this torture!
"Dad, how much longer is this going to take?"
This time, her father, the twins, as well as her best friend shushed her.
"But it's going on forever!"
"Hush up!" Gemstone hissed. "She's getting to the good part!"
"Do you," Celestia said, turning to the bride, "Princess Twilight Sparkle, take this stallion to be your lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, until death do you part?"
Twilight was dressed in a long, flowing white gown, hemmed with purple rhinestones, courtesy of Rarity, of course. She smiled at the stallion standing across from her and replied:
"I do."
"And do you," Celestia said to the groom, "Flash Sentry, take this mare to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, until death do you part?"
The orange pegasus with the wild blue mane did not even hesitate. "I do."
"May I have the rings, please?"
Applespike giggled as Spike held him and the pillow with the rings up. Celestia used her magic to place one ring on Twilight's horn and the larger one around Flash's hoof. Ponies without horns had the choice of wearing their wedding rings around their necks or hooves and Flash had chosen the latter.
"By the power vested in me," Celestia announced, "I now pronounce you mare and colt. You may now kiss the bride."
Flash raised his hoof to Twilight's face and gently pulled her in for a soft, but passionate kiss on the lips. The ponies stomped and clapped their hooves in applause, while Prism sighed in relief.
"Finally!"
At the reception, ponies gathered in the garden and watched as the bride and groom had their first dance together, the CMC band playing their song. Soarin put his hoof around Rainbow Dash and smiled.
"It's nice to have a wedding without any disasters," he said.
Rainbow frowned and looked at her husband. "What do you mean by that?"
"Well, there was Princess Cadence's wedding twenty years ago. I think a changeling invasion counts as a disaster. Then there was Discord and Fluttershy's wedding. I mean, wasn't she almost forced to marry him or something? Then there was our wedding…"
His wife crossed her hooves. "How was our wedding a disaster?"
"Well, it almost didn't happen."
The Dash children gasped as they stared at their parents.
"What happened?" Lightning asked.
"It was nothing," Rainbow insisted. "I just…got cold hooves for a moment."
"A moment?" Soarin said, putting his hooves on his hips. "The night before our wedding, you went into hysterics!" He rubbed his temple. "I can still feel that ironing board!"
The twins snickered.
"Mom hit you with an ironing board?" Thunder chuckled.
"Yeah, and threatened to draw up divorce papers if we didn't call off the wedding right then! I refused, and then she picked up the cedar chest…"
"Okay, okay, they get it!" Rainbow shouted. "Look, it doesn't matter how worked up I was about our wedding. I went through with it, didn't I?"
"What made you change your mind?" Prism inquired.
Rainbow chuckled as she nuzzled Soarin's neck. "He did his chopstick nose trick to cheer me up. Only he didn't have chopsticks, so he used pencils but got them too far up his nose."
The Dash siblings looked at each other in confusion. "Huh?"
"Well, he needed some pony to get those pencils out of his nose. Then I remembered all those times I had to save his behind and realized that if I didn't marry him, he would hurt himself." She scoffed. "Besides, it was hilarious."
Meanwhile, on the other side of the garden, the Tri-Pies were watching the romantic scene with their parents. The three of them let out a collected sigh.
"Mom, Dad," Raspberry piped, "what was your wedding like?"
"Oh boy, where do we begin?" Cheese Sandwich (who had dyed his hair back to brunette) replied. "Well, it was the biggest bash of the year!"
"Of the century!" Pinkie Pie corrected.
"Of the millennium!"
"The biggest, greatest, most super-duper awesome epic party Equestria had ever seen!"
Cheese put his hoof around his wife. "And we planned it together!"
Pinkie did the same to her husband. "The Super-Duper Party Ponies!"
"But you were still pretending to be Red Shoes, weren't you?" Blueberry inquired. "So on the marriage contract did you sign that name or your real name? Because wouldn't it be invalid or something if you used a fake name?"
Their father laughed. "Don't worry. We thought about that. When we were signing the thing, we shouted, 'Hey, look! A moose!' I signed my real name while every pony was looking away."
"Well, that's good!" Cherry chimed. "Imagine what would've happened if you weren't legally married! Why, we might not have been born!"
Blueberry nudged her sister in the side. "Don't you remember? Mom was pregnant with us before they got married."
"I still don't know how that happened," Raspberry said, scratching her head.
Their parents looked at each other nervously.
"Um…" they uttered.
"When a mare and stallion fall in love…" Cheese Sandwich began.
"And they get…really, really, really close…" Pinkie continued.
"The stork comes and…"
"Gives them a magic bean…"
"And the girl swallows it and…"
"It turns into a baby!"
"Yeah! And, uh…the stork gave us three beans!"
"And that's how you girls were born!"
The Tri-Pies grinned in satisfaction.
"Oh," Raspberry piped. "Well that makes sense."
The song ended and ponies stomped their hooves. Applebloom then stepped up to the microphone.
"Mares and gentlecolts, the bride will now be dancing with her father. Dads and fillies, you're welcome to join them!"
The Tri-Pies brightened up and each grabbed one of Cheese Sandwich's hooves. "Come on, Dad! Come on, Dad! Come on, Dad!"
"Okay, okay!" their father exclaimed. "Let's just get a little organized. Raspberry, climb on my back. Cherry, get on my head. Blueberry, you take my hooves. When I say the word, you switch."
The triplets cheered at the idea and got into their positions. All around them, fathers were taking their daughters onto the dance floor. Soarin danced in a circle with Prism and Lightning, Discord twirled Screwball around, Spike lifted Cinnamon Roll into the air and Fancy Pants and Gemstone slowly swayed together, as Gemstone wasn't much for dancing.
"I like weddings, Daddy," the unicorn filly said with a smile. "They're so romantic."
"Indeed," Fancy Pants replied, running his hoof through his little girl's mane.
"Was yours and Mum's wedding just as magical?"
He blushed. "Well…let's just say that the minute after I proposed, your mother showed me that she had everything planned from the guest list to the bridesmaids' gowns. We didn't have to hire a wedding planner with your mother in charge. In fact, it only took about two weeks to get it together."
"Did you have it here in Canterlot?"
"Yes, but not inside. We were married right in this garden. We thought it appropriate, since this was where I met her friends and discovered that she was more interesting than I had thought."
"How did you and Mummy meet anyway?"
"We sort of…bumped into each other." He chuckled. "On the streets of Canterlot. She had so many shopping bags, she didn't see me."
"Was it love at first sight?"
"Not exactly. See, I was with another mare then, but I was intrigued by your mother. She's quite the mare, you know. Strong, independent, generous, and, of course, very pretty." He lifted her chin. "Like you."
Gemstone beamed and nuzzled her father's chest.
When the dance ended, it was the groom's turn to dance with his mother and all the mothers and sons were invited to join them. Fluttershy picked up Zany from his carriage and nuzzled him affectionately before flying him out. Rainbow ruffled Thunder's mane as she took his hoof. Applejack carried Applespike in the crook of her foreleg as her adopted son Cinnamon Stick led them both onto the dance floor.
The triplets walked up to Spike and Cinnamon Roll.
"Hey, Uncle Spike!" Raspberry exclaimed. "We were wondering: what was your marriage to Auntie Applejack like?"
The dragon's face turned red. "Um…well…"
"I'd like to hear that story too," his adopted daughter said. "I don't think ya ever told me about yerr wedding."
"Uh…well…we had it at Sweet Apple Acres and…nothing really interesting happened…"
"Aw, he's leavin' out all the good stuff!"
Spike winced as old Granny Smith came up and playfully slapped him on the back. "Lil' Spike here had feet as cold as the first Hearth's Warming, but we gave him a strong talkin'."
"You gave me more than just a 'strong talking,'" Spike murmured.
He could still see it all: Big Macintosh and Applebloom pulling on his legs, his claws gripping to the doorway of Big Mac's bedroom which he had been using as his dressing room.
"Come on, Spike!" Applebloom had cried. "You're not leavin' my sister at the altar!"
"Eeyup!" Big Mac had grunted.
"I can't do it!" Spike had screamed. "I'm too young!"
"You're eighteen! You're old enough!"
"Eeyup!"
"Don't ya love my sister?!"
"I do!" the dragon had argued. "But I can't marry her! Not now! I'm not ready!"
"But the whole family's out there waitin'!"
"I can't do it! And you can't make me!"
"Wanna bet?"
Spike still shivered at the memory of Applejack's beautiful but stunned face, and everyone else's faces, as she stared at him and what Big Mac had pointed at his back.
"Um…" Twilight, who was performing the ceremony, had uttered. "Mares and gentlecolts, we are gathered here…"
"I do, I do, okay?!" Spike had shouted frantically. "I do!"
"Big Mac!" Applejack had exclaimed. "Put that pitchfork away!"
"What they do?"
Spike shook out of his flashback to answer Cinnamon Roll's question.
"Let's just say they gave me a really strong talking."
Half an hour later, ponies had free reign of the dance floor and the young Cutie Mark Crusaders met up to relate the stories they had heard from their parents.
"Your Mom and Dad have a weird relationship," Cherry told Prism.
The pegasus filly shrugged. "Grown-ups do the strangest things."
"Uncle Spike and Auntie Applejack's wedding sounded strange," said Raspberry. "He wouldn't really tell us what happened."
"What do you suppose our weddings will be like when we get married?" Gemstone questioned.
"We've got it all planned out," Cherry said, putting her hooves around her sisters. "The three of us are going to get married together!"
"Triple wedding!" Blueberry exclaimed.
"We are?" Raspberry asked nervously.
"Preferably with boy triplets!"
Cherry frowned. "Who said they had to be boys?"
They all stared at her.
"What? I'm just saying we should keep our options open. Besides, who knows who we'll like in ten years?"
"I'm going to have my wedding out here in the garden," Gemstone declared, "just like my parents did. What do you think, Prism? Prism?"
The pegasus was too lost in a fantasy to hear her. She imagined herself standing on a cloud with Kicks, Princess Twilight standing in front of them.
"Do you, Prism, take Kicks to be your husband?"
"As long as he can keep up."
She strapped on a helmet and hopped onto a rocket-powered skateboard. Kicks leapt into her hooves and they zoomed off into the sunset.
"Prism?" Gemstone called, waving her hoof over her friend's eyes. "Prism!"
"Huh?" the pegasus said, snapping out of her trance.
"What do you think your wedding will be like?" Raspberry repeated.
Prism blushed. "I think…I think we should wait until we're older."
The wait before Weekend at Uncle Discord's was longish. I can wait some more.
I think I loved the Fancy Pants and Rarity story the best. I'm surprised as soon as he proposed Rarity didn't just pull a rope and have a curtain swing back with the wedding already set up.
4718041 That sounds more like Pinkie.
Darn it! Why didn't I think of that?!
We'll so long as the others are in there I don,t think we'll have a problem. BTW has anybody else done a AJ/ Spike or are you the first one?
4719011 I'm not the first.
4718914 Pinkie COULD have done that, but she would never deny Cheesie the right to plan his own wedding party!
4717706 well he didn't KILL Anypony so I don't think so
I wonder what twilight's children will be like.....(imagines myself exept pony like and with a book insted of an iPad)
4719080 Any names? cause this pairing interests me as much as when I was searching for non 2nd person Human/AJ romance stories (girl doesn't get enough human love IMO)
Bullets are canon, so shot guns must be! I mean Rainbow Dash sings, "Something real fast like a bullet to keep up with me!"
I loved this chapter! I liked how you had all the couples recollect back to their weddings
That was one of the funniest things in any story I've read
I don't mind the Flashlight pairing, either. Good chapter!
4721173 Yeah, I had that in mind.
Great Job, Can´t await another chapter. Your Alternative Universe is the best one. I like it how you brought and bring together pairs and maybe we see in future chapters/stories Twilights and Flashs children. I also loved the pairs you chose. Well done and MORE^^
I wish FIMfiction had the CMC with evil little grins as a sticker, then I could use it for this.
I want more Prism X Kicks. I want to see where this goes........... Then have Gem, the Tri-Pies, and everypony find out.
very good chapter I enjoyed it very much
4754714 Spongbob? Everyone says that.
No crusading in this chapter. Just some silly world building (and Cherry announcing her preferences).
Ps: Every time I imagine the scene from Spike's wedding I chuckle.
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i agree i kind of like this ship prisom+kicks
This fic is amazing. I enjoy every aspect of it and I absolutely love Prisim to death along with kicks. Can't wait till the next chapter.
Are the original CMC going to marry?
4779924 They're not even in their 30's yet, so no rush.
4780823 yes but I'm wondering if there will be button x sweetiebelle in later chapters
I declare the thumbnail to this story to be the best and most adorable.
Most romantic chapter ever. I was hoping you'd do a chapter on Twilight and Flash's wedding
Chopsticks... wait a minute, I smell a Mulan reference
For spike
That three-quell might change your idea just a little bit, Rasp.
Like mother, like daughters.
I have only been to one wedding in my life(well at least what I remember) and it was the most boring thing ever!!! Even the party was bad cause I was the only kid there. I was like Prism during the ceremony only through the whole thing!!!!!!!
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At least you've been to a wedding before. I've never been invited to one, and I can't ask my parents about there's because they had a small Chinese style wedding that's totally different from the kind we're talking about.
As for the chapter: brilliant! Although it would have been great if you'd added some more detail concerning the weddings.
5183473 YAY! I got it too! I don´t feel old anymore!
Oooooohhhh snap
The pegasus was too lost in a fantasy to hear her. She imagined herself standing on a cloud with Kicks, Princess Twilight standing in front of them.
"Do you, Prism, take Kicks to be your husband?"
"As long as he can keep up."
She strapped on a helmet and hopped onto a rocket-powered skateboard. Kicks leapt into her hooves and they zoomed off into the sunset.
"Prism?" Gemstone called, waving her hoof over her friend's eyes. "Prism!"
"Huh?" the pegasus said, snapping out of her trance.
"What do you think your wedding will be like?" Raspberry repeated.
Prism blushed. "I think…I think we should wait until we're older."
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lesbo Cherry confirmed. No,Don't touch that upside down thumby thumb. Don't.
5714836 yeah, In my headcanon, they DO marry together but not with triplets and Cherry´s mate is a girl................thought I can´t think of who
4781080 with Spike out of the way, is either Button or Pipsqueak so yeah, maybe
Ain't love grand?
And then, all the downvotes on this story were from this one chapter. Not really, but it's great you love the FlashLight. It's one of my favorite ships besides TwiDash.
That's the lie I'm going to feed my children
Me and my family scared the crap out of my cousins husband to be. All 20 of the guys and me rented shotguns and stood on the front porch.
It was so worth it...
Spikes pitch fork wedding
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Hey, is there a family tree for the Bride of Discord series lying around somewhere? I sometimes get list on who is who's child, and it would be nice time have something to refer back to.
Why am I still laughing at this?
So much for "I-have-no-crush-on-kicks".
Ha. That reminds me of my uncle's wedding, except my brother and my other uncle rented shotguns and he was 38, not 18.
Thank you for telling me what I am going to tell my kids. As long as they aren't lie detectors like Screwy. That reminds me. OneFluzzyPuppy (aka Party Meteor Diane PieSandwich) out.
P.S. When does Hearth's Warming Chaos take place?
This actually needs a y, not an i in this context.
6540894 I'm usually good at avoiding common misspellings, but that one ALWAYS gets me!
6421178 probably before Until We Meet Again
6315434 check her deviant art
I believe it's there