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// Your Love Is True 
// Story: Forging Romance 
// by Diamond Sparkle 
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Diamond Tiara slowly felt safe again once she was in her marefriend's arms. "Even if I was single, there is no way that I would ever agree to marry that oaf Prince Blueblood, given how he treats mares and the way he thinks about them. I am a lot more then a container for his heirs to be. I do still love my parents though, and we need to talk to them as soon as possible to let them know that. Hopefully they will see reason in time and understand why I galloped away from them. If we have to, we can try and appeal to Princess Celestia. I feel pretty sure she would not force me to marry her nephew against my will."

Silver nodded. "I'll send a servant to your parent's mansion with a message saying that you want to meet them here. I won't let them drag you away, I promise you that."

Soon enough the Riches and the Spoons had met in the Great Hall of the Spoon family mansion, which was decorated with portraits from long ago of fierce looking Spoons going back into the distant past. Unlike the Nouveau riche Rich family that had only been rich for a couple of generations, the Spoons were an Old Money family and proud of their ancestry that stretched all the way back to Princess Platinum. 

Diamond said, "Mother, Father, I do love you, but I really don't think you know just how much I both love Silver Spoon and detest Prince Blueblood. Silver is my own age, truly loves me for who I am, and I know that I can have a happy future with her. Blueblood is thrice my age, grossly sexist with no respect for mares and you yourselves saw how he used Rarity as an equine shield against a flying cake." 

Silver spoke next, rather sharply. "Don't you care about the happiness of your own daughter? I love her mind and her personality, and she and I are of the same social class. If anything, my family is of a higher social class then yours, not that such a thing matters much to me. Blueblood would use your daughter as a sex object and not much else. With me, she'll be happy for the rest of her life."

Filthy Rich asked Diamond "Are you certain that you love Silver Spoon as much as she loves you? If your love is true, and I can see no doubt in that, then I have no objection to you and Silver staying together as a loving couple."

Diamond's mother, Screwball Rich, said "We should never have tried to break you two apart in the first place. You two are as much in love as I love your father. We do have one major worry, and that is that no heirs will come from a coupling of two mares, so you will have to make sure that you write a will so that your fortune can pass down to the ponies who you want it to, rather then being seized by the state or  falling into the wrong hands. And of course, once you have been together for a few years we will need to think about a proper wedding for the two of you."

Diamond hugged and kissed her parents and accepted their forehead kisses in return, happy to have made up with them, and the Spoons looked on and smiled.

It was three years later when during the Grand Galloping Gala at Canterlot Castle,  Diamond Tiara, who was dressed in her best dress for the occasion, knelt in front of Silver Spoon and offered her a velvet box. Silver opened it to reveal a silver bracelet studded with diamonds. Ponies did not wear wedding rings or any sort of rings, as they lacked fingers to put them on. Rings were a griffin thing.

"Silver Spoon, will you marry me?" she asked Silver hopefully. Silver placed the bracelet on her wrist where it fitted perfectly and kissed Diamond and replied "I would love to marry you and spend the rest of my life with you." The nearby nobles clopped-their hooves together to show that they approved, not the other  form of clop that was done in private. Over the next few weeks, a lot of bits were spent and a lot of time was taken to make sure that the Rich-Spoon wedding would be truly one to behold.

Both wedding dresses were personally sewed by Rarity herself. Diamond's made her look rather like a pony crossed with a meringue, and was studded with diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and other such gems. Spike had to be banned from the sewing room after he ate one of the rubies. Silver's was form-fitting with silver thread holding it together and the Spoon crest in gold leaf. Both dresses were made of fine white silk.  

The wedding cake was made by Mr and Mrs Cake, was twice the size of the Marvellous Meringue Madness, was decorated with pink and grey marzipan icing and had little marzipan models of Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon at the top of it. And there was plenty of other food to go with it of every kind except meat. Everypony who was anypony was invited and Princess Celestia herself said  the vows.

"Do you, Diamond Tiara Rich, swear to Silver Spoon Lode that you will love, honour, protect and stay faithful to her for as long as you both shall live?"

"I do."

"And do you, Silver Spoon Lode, swear to  Diamond Tiara Rich that you will love, honour, protect and stay faithful to her for as long as you both shall live?"

"I do."

As the two ponies kissed and gazed into each other's eyes, they knew that their happy ever after had only just begun.

The End.