Royal Romance

Ten days had passed and it was the day before the wedding and things in Canterlot could not be more frantic. The Apple family was working overtime in the kitchen, Rarity had measured everypony and was rushing to get the dresses done, Fluttershy was making sure her songbird choir sounded perfect, Pinkie was going through everything making sure the reception would be perfect but Rainbow was relaxing so that she would have all her strength for the sonic rainboom. Twilight and Celestia were watching all of this go on with smiles on their faces.

"Do you think everything will go ok tomorrow sweetie?" asked Twilight

Celestia replied, "I'm sure it will. I don't think we have any changelings running around here and all the other villains have either been reformed, destroyed or locked away."

While the two continued to discuss things calmly, things in the kitchen were not so peaceful. "Apple Fritter, we need to step up the pace on those fritters! We need at least 500 of them ready for the reception tomorrow!" Shouted Applejack.

Apple Fritter replied, "Applejack, I'm working on these as quick as I can. After all, you're the one who puts so much emphasis on quality ahead of quantity!" She slammed her hooves on the table and continued, "If you don't think I'm doing a good enough job how about YOU come and help me!"

Applejack rolled her eyes and sighed, "Because Ah have to make sure everything is running smoothly! Now move, move! We need to pick up the pace!"

Despite being elderly, Granny Smith was working on the apple pies. Because of her experience, she was churning out apple pies at the right pace. Applejack said, "Good job Granny, y'all are doing great work there!"

Granny replied, "Well you know I've been doing this for over fifty years so I would think that I'm doing great work!"

In the throne room where Fluttershy had her songbirds practicing things were much quieter, although they were not going quite as well as Fluttershy had hoped. During one of their practices Fluttershy felt a tap on her shoulder. She shrieked causing her birds to go flying all over the room. Luna said, "We are most sorry Fluttershy, we did not mean to frighten your birds."

Fluttershy replied, "Oh it's ok your Majesty! Is something wrong?"

Luna said, "Well your birds sound good for the most part but that red one seems to be quite a bit off key. We are wondering if you could perhaps talk to him and let him know."

Fluttershy replied, "Ok, he was a bit off key." She had a nervous look in her eyes and continued, "I don't mean to be a bother your Majesty, but do you think Twilight and Celestia will be happy together?"

Luna smiled and replied, "Yes Fluttershy, we believe that they will be perfectly happy together. We will admit, we were not sure if this was such a good idea at first but after learning a few things thy Princess of the Night has come to realize that our sister is the only pony who would treat Twilight right."

Fluttershy said, "Well that is good. With the way Velvet was acting there for a while I thought maybe Celestia might be mean to Twilight or use her."

Luna glared at her and growled, "Fluttershy, our sister would NEVER mistreat Twilight. She loves her more than anything in this world. She loves her even more than her royal duties, and that is something she cares greatly about and just so you know, Celestia has no reason to mistreat her or take advantage of her!"

Fluttershy shied back and replied, "Um, ok. I'm sorry your Majesty."

Luna realized how easy Fluttershy was to scare so she calmed down and continued, "We are most sorry dear Fluttershy, we did not mean to scare thou. We just know that our sister would never harm Twilight."

After that clarification the conversation between Luna and Fluttershy became a lot more peaceful. Up in the castle suite Pinkie was planning the reception while Rarity was working on dresses. Pinkie was bombarding Rarity with questions regarding music and other activities and finally Rarity got sick of it. She shouted, "Pinkie, can't you see I'm working on Twilight's dress right now? Her dress has to be beyond perfect!"

Pinkie replied, "I know but I just want your opinion on the music."

Rarity slammed her hooves on the floor and shouted, "Pinkie, YOU are the party planner so you should know what is best! You did perfect with Cadence's reception." She sighed and continued, "Could you go somewhere else to plan this? Celestia and Twilight's dresses are going to be the hardest because they have to be beyond perfect."

Pinkie gave Rarity a puppy dog look and replied, "Oh, ok. I understand."

Down in the courtyard the Cutie Mark Crusaders were practicing walking and throwing flowers out of baskets. Sweetie Belle was a bit nervous because again they had a huge role to play in a royal wedding. She asked, "Do you think we're doing this right?"

Scootaloo replied, "Sweetie Belle, we're just walking around throwing flowers out of baskets. I don't think there is a wrong way to do it."

Apple Bloom added, "Yeah and we did a perfect job last time so why wouldn't we do a great job this time?"

Sweetie Belle replied, "Well I guess this is where I'm a lot like my sister. I want everything to be perfect. I don't want Princess Celestia to get upset with us for not doing it right and maybe banish us to the moon."

Scootaloo laughed, "You're too paranoid Sweetie Belle. You know she ain't going to banish us to the moon and before you bring it up, Luna ain't going to banish us to the sun either."

Sweetie Belle felt a bit embarrassed and replied, "Ok, you're right. I just worry too much."

Finally a couple hours after supper everything was finished. The Apple family had the meal and all the desserts finished, Rarity, after several days of hard work, finished the dresses, Pinkie had everything ready and Fluttershy was finally able to get all her birds to sing in unison. In the kitchen Applejack asked, "Well Granny, do y'all think everything will turn out ok? Do y'all think the guests will like the food?"

Granny replied, "Of course they will. They liked it at the last wedding we did didn't they?"

Applejack said, "They did but y'all know how nervous Ah get, I want things to work out perfectly."

In the castle suite just as she finished Celestia's dress, Rarity collapsed on the floor out of pure exhaustion. She said to herself, "I really hope these fit everypony because if they don't, this will be the worst wedding ever and Twilight will probably not want me as a friend anymore."

After raising the moon all was calm in the castle. Everypony was extremely tired and Celestia and Twilight were observing the tradition of the bride and bride not seeing each other within so long before the wedding so that night Twilight did fall asleep in her old room. She just could not get to sleep that night. While she knew that everything between her and Celestia would be perfect, it was the details of the ceremony itself that was keeping her up. She kept thinking to herself, "What if the dresses don't fit, what if Fluttershy's birds sing off key, what if there isn't enough food, what if the food tastes bad, what if Pinkie ruins the reception, what if Rainbow fails on her attempt to do a sonic rainboom?"

It wasn't until around midnight until she was finally able to calm herself down to where she was able to get some sleep. While she spent a great amount of time worrying, Celestia fell asleep quickly as she knew that regardless whether things ran smoothly or not, that after tomorrow her and Twilight would be joined together in marriage for all eternity, which caused her to fall asleep with a huge smile on her face.