A Joyous trip to the Crystal Empire

A couple hours after departing from Canterlot, Celestia, Twilight and her parents arrived in the Crystal Empire. Once they arrived they rushed to the castle and were met by a couple of guards. The guards knew exactly who they were and led them up to the throne room. Cadence saw them being led in and the first thing she did was rush up to Twilight where they did their dance and sang,

"Sunshine, sunshine
Lady bugs awake!
Clap your hooves
and do a little shake!"

Shortly after that Cadence looked at Twilight and was shocked when she saw the ring on her horn. She gasped, "Oh my goodness Twilight, your ring is beautiful!"

Twilight replied, "I know. Celestia knows a beautiful ring when she sees one."

Celestia added, "Well the most beautiful pony in the world deserves the most beautiful ring in the world."

It wasn't too long until Shining Armor came into the throne room and the first ponies he saw were Velvet and Crescent. He ran up to his parents, hugged them and said, "Mom, dad! It's so good to see you two!"

Velvet excitedly replied, "It's good to see you too!" She pointed her hoof over in the direction of Twilight, Celestia and Cadence and asked, "Shining, have you seen Twily's horn ring! It is HUGE!"

Shining looked over and was shocked by it. He replied, "Wow mom, it is amazing." He smiled and continued, "I take it you aren't so upset about Twilight and Celestia being engaged anymore?"

Velvet replied, "I'm not upset at all now that I know Celestia truly loves her. I also did some deep thinking and realized that you were right when you said that a royal guardspony would simply use her. I really feel bad about everything that I did now."

Crescent knew that Twilight had grown very close with her friends and wondered if she would be taken away from her friends upon marrying Celestia. He asked, "Shining, do you know what their plans are regarding Twilight and her friends? I know she will really miss them once she moves back to Canterlot after the wedding."

Celestia heard this and walked over to Twilight's family. She said, "I heard what you said about Twilight and her friends. I too have had these concerns and I have decided that before the wedding that Luna, Twilight and myself will discuss this."

Velvet asked, "Why would Luna have to be involved?"

While Twilight and Cadence continued a very happy discussion about her future, Celestia replied, "Luna has to be involved because I am considering having a castle built for the two of us in Ponyville and giving Luna control over just about everything regarding affairs in Canterlot, even full control of raising and lowering both the moon and sun. That way Twilight won't have to be parted from her friends."

While Velvet knew that Celestia did truly love Twilight, this caused her to realize that Twilight must be the most important thing in the world to Celestia. She asked, "Really? Twilight really means so much to you?"

Celestia replied, "Yes, she means that much to me. I would even sacrifice my immortality for her. That is how much she means to me."

Crescent asked, "With her being an Alicorn now, isn't she immortal too?"

Celestia replied, "Yes, she is so chances are as long as our love endures, which I know it will, we will always be happily married."

Cadence could hear a bit of what they were talking about and motioned for Twilight to follow her to go talk to them. While she was not going to bring it up she did think that they need to get things moving along. She asked, "Everypony, do you think maybe we should get heading to Canterlot? There is a lot of stuff that goes into planning a wedding." She started to get more panicky as she continued, "Twilight, Celestia, you two will need to be measured. Velvet, you will have to be measured. Twilight, your friends will have to be measured. We need to find somepony to cater the reception, we need somepony to provide music."

By this time Cadence was in a full blown panic. Twilight tried to calm her down. She replied, "Cadence, don't worry. I have it covered. I know my friends will be more than happy to help out with everything."

This did calm Cadence down some. She looked towards the door and said, "Come on everypony, let's get going. After all, I know you two want to have this wedding sooner rather than later!"

Everypony enthusiastically headed towards the train station for the return trip to Canterlot. What initially looked like what was going to be a wedding that would not be approved by all now looked like what would be the most joyous event in the lives of just about everypony.