Royal Romance

The night seemed to fly by for everypony, especially Luna who had to not only stay up all night to make sure that no problems arose but also had to stay up for the whole day because of the wedding. That morning Celestia was early to rise as she was excited. She needed to talk and knew she would find her sister out on the balcony. She headed out to the balcony and tapped Luna on the shoulder to get her attention. Luna turned around and asked, "Big sister, shouldn't thou be in bed? Thou hast a most important day today. We would think thou would want to be most alert."

Celestia replied, "I know big sister but still, this is a huge day in my life. I can't help but be excited. I have experienced love before but not love that has led to marriage. I'll be honest, I honestly don't know how to act once I am married."

Luna said, "Well thou are asking the wrong pony about married life! We would suggest that thou talk to thy Mare of Honor since she is married. She should be able to give you some good advice."

Celestia replied, "I know little sister. I just don't want to disappoint Twilight. I don't want her to think I'm an unloving wife."

This brought a smile to Luna's face. She laughed, "Come on now big sister, thou knows that thou doesn't have to worry about Twilight thinking that."

Celestia was really having her concerns over the way Luna was talking. It was not so much the advice she was giving but it is the manner in which she speaks and she decided to address it. She asked, "Luna, I know it is how you speak but during the ceremony could you please not speak in the old Canterlot language and PLEASE do not speak in the third pony. Could you please just speak normally?"

Luna replied, "We didn't plan on speaking the way we normally do while we preside over thy ceremony. We know that would make everypony feel most uncomfortable and would most likely anger thyself and Twilight."

Celestia continued, "And could you please not use the word most in front of half of everything you say? We get what you are saying little sister, we don't need you to pound the point home the way you do when you speak."

Luna sighed, "Fine. We will speaketh as thou speaketh but once thy wedding is over we shall return to speaking in our normal manner of speaking."

Celestia sighed, "Thanks little sister. I really appreciate that."

Soon it was time for Luna to lower the moon and Celestia to raise the sun. The morning light shone in through everypony's windows. The light woke Twilight up and she was the most excited she had ever been in her life. She jumped out of bed, started jumping around her room shouting, "Today is the day! Finally, my dreams will come true today!"

Shining Armor heard this and rushed to her room. She was jumping around so jubilantly that she nearly crashed into a mirror. Shining used his magic to stop her. He said, "Twily, I know you're excited but you have to be careful. You could have seriously hurt yourself."

Twilight replied, "I'm sorry Shining, I'm just so excited I can't contain myself."

Shining and Twilight decided to head down into town to grab a bite to eat before everypony had to get ready since it is bad luck for the brides to see one another before their wedding on their wedding day. At the cafe they ran into Twilight's friends. Rarity was the first to say something, "Twilight darling, are you ready for your big day?"

Twilight replied, "You bet I am and girls, I'm so happy you're going to be such an important part of such an important day in my life."

Applejack said, "Well Twilight, we're awful honored that you want us to be your bridesmaids, aren't we ladies?"

Everypony enthusiastically agreed and sat down to have their breakfast. Rainbow realized that nopony had seen the Cutie Mark Crusaders yet that morning. She asked, "Has anypony seen the girls? They are an important part of this too."

Rarity replied, "Oh I'm betting they just overslept. I don't think we have anything to worry about."

Twilight added, "Well I hope they show up. I will not be happy if the flower girls don't show up."

Just as she was saying this the girls were running to the cafe out of breath. When they got there Scootaloo said, "We're sorry everypony, we overslept."

Twilight asked, "Girls, the sun seemed to be brighter than normal this morning. How could you possibly sleep in?"

Apple Bloom replied, "Well you know our window faces the west and it does have a very thick curtain hanging in front of it, so we thought it was still night until just a while ago."

Applejack said, "Well alright everypony, let's get some food in our guts and then get ready for this. After all, everything runs more smoothly when y'all have a full stomach."

After eating they all headed to the castle to get ready for the wedding. Twilight and her friends headed into her old room to get dressed for the ceremony. Rarity showed Twilight her dress and she thought it was wonderful. "Rarity, this dress you made me is perfect! The accents even bring out my eyes more!"

Rarity replied, "Well Twilight, I wanted something that would look great on you and after all, you deserve nothing short of the best."

Before anypony could say anything else Velvet came barging in through the door. She gasped, "I'm so sorry I'm late everypony. Crescent and I were up late last night and we overslept. I hope you're not mad at me."

Twilight replied, "Why would we be mad at you mom? What matters is that you're here."

While Twilight and her group were getting dressed and talking about the future over in her room Celestia and Cadence were getting ready. Celestia seemed to be more nervous this morning than she did the night before. She asked, "Cadence, do you think everything will be ok?"

Cadence laughed, "Oh Aunt Celestia, everything will be fine! I don't think we have any changelings, dark unicorns, rowdy draconeqqueses or mares of nightmares to worry about! Why are you so worried anyway?"

Celestia replied, "I honestly don't know. Maybe it is just because the ceremony is just a few hours away and I want things to go without a hitch." Celestia remembered about what her sister had said to her earlier that morning and continued, "Cadence, what is married life like anyway? What sorts of roles do married ponies have?"

Cadence replied, "Well with Shining Armor and myself it is an equal give and take. Of course we have chefs to do our cooking and maids to do the cleaning so that stuff we don't have to worry about. I am assuming that you and Twilight will have the same?"

Celestia replied, "Well I'm not really sure about that. At first we will be living in the library until we can get a castle built down there and then we will move into there. So initially we may have to take on traditional roles."

Cadence asked, "Celestia, why don't you just use your magic to build a castle down there. I know Twilight loves the library but I don't think there is room for more than one pony to live in there."

Celestia replied, "That is true. I'm sure she will probably agree with you and after all, I don't think Twilight likes cramped conditions, even if it is with a pony that she loves."

Cadence asked, "What about Spike? What is going to happen to him?"

Celestia replied, "Well I know he will still live with us. After all, Twilight has had him since the moment she hatched him. She basically thinks of him as a son and I do know that if I wanted her to send him away, she would probably send me away and besides, he has pulled her flank out of the fire too many times to count."

Cadence laughed, "Yeah, like when he stopped Sombra from eating the crystal heart!"

Once Cadence had Celestia calmed down entirely and into a more cheerful mood, she asked, "Celestia, how do I look in my dress? Does it look ok?"

Celestia replied, "Cadence, it looks great. How does mine look?"

Cadence replied, "It looks great on you. The way Rarity made it the accents on it really bring out your eyes, which is something that I know Twilight will notice."

Celestia asked, "Do you think she will like that?"

Cadence replied, "Oh if I know her as well as I think I do, it will make her want to start the honeymoon early and if your honeymoon winds up being anything like the dreams she has, you are going to have the time of your life."

Celestia asked, "Oh, and how do you know this?"

Cadence replied, "Well she told me. Trust me Celestia, I think you two are going to have plenty of wonderful nights in bed. Now with that, Spike may need to sleep in the other end of your castle if you don't want him hearing you two."

Celestia and Cadence both began to laugh imagining how Spike would react if he heard them in the act. While they were enjoying one another's company, Luna was in her room preparing for her role. While it may not seem like it, overseeing a wedding ceremony is much tougher than it looks. Luna was becoming worried that she may mess things up and cause everypony to think badly of her.

She grabbed another cup of coffee and sighed, "Come on Luna, we can do this. We have stayed awake for a whole night and a whole day before so this should be nothing." Soon the excessive amount of caffeine she had consumed was beginning to make her a bit jittery. She found herself tapping her hoof on her dresser at a very fast pace. It wasn't until about fifteen minutes after she started it that she noticed herself doing it. She shouted, "Damn it Luna! Focus! We can't be like this on the most important day in thy sister's life! We need to be completely focused!"

Luna soon realized that it was all the coffee that she had been drinking. She grabbed some water and began to guzzle it. After a while it did begin to calm her down. She sighed, "Well I'm starting to calm down and now all I need is a good hearty meal before all of this gets started." She was deep in thought when suddenly she began to lick her chops and salivate. She continued to herself, "Bacon, pork chops, oats, hay and lots of cider! That's what I will have for lunch!"