MLP: The Wedding Chronicles
Chapter 5: Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich's Wedding
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Butter Ball was helping bake cookies for a party his parents were hosting. He went to the shelf to find another cookie recipe; instead, he picked out a scrapbook of his folks' wedding. Curious of this, he opened it to find his parents having a blast and found their wedding picture. Like his mother, he had that same poofy hair, only it was brown like his dad's. In fact, he looked like his father the most except he did have his mom's blue eyes.
"Whatcha doing?" his mother peeked over his shoulder.
Startled, Butter Ball nearly dropped the book, only for his father to swoop in to catch it.
"Thanks, Dad." he took the book back.
"Hey-hey! Our wedding book!" Cheese pointed out.
"So that's where I put it!" Pinkie said.
"I've been wondering: was your wedding like any of the parties you two have thrown?"
"You bet!" both said.
"Really? How so?"
"Well, actually, we were planning on a bigger party at first." said Cheese.
"But realized that a party is only good when everyone can enjoy it…" Pinkie began to retell the tale, "And it all started when your dad made his yummy proposal…"
Cheese walked Pinkie to Sugar Cube Corner with a blindfold over her eyes.
"Where are we going, Cheesy?"
"Oh, you'll see in three, two, one!" he opened the door and their friends shouted out.
"Surprise!"
Cheese removed the blindfold and Pinkie jumped up in excitement, "Wow! Is it my birthday?! Did I forget it again?"
The girls gave her confused looks and Rainbow flew down, "Um, hello! It's your engagement party!"
Pinkie giggled, "Oh, Dashie, of course it wouldn't be an engagement party. Cheesy and I aren't engaged."
Twilight turned her head, "But Cheese, you said…"
But he rushed over and put his hoof to her mouth, then took out a pink cupcake and went over to his Pinkie.
"Cupcake?" he offered.
"Don't mind if I do!" she took it and took a bite. She chewed on it, but heard a crunching sound, "That's strange…" she spit it out and saw a diamond ring! She stared at it with wide eyes.
Cheese came to her side, "Well, Pinkie, I guess that means… will you marry me?"
But she was still in a daze and the girls whispered out, "Just say yes!"
Pinkie started shaking like a rocket to blast off. A dopey grin spread across her face and she shot straight into the air, shouting out, "YES!" Landing on her hooves, she snatched up her fiancée into a huge smooch while the group cheered them on. Then, baby giggles filled the air and the engaged couple turned towards the playpen with three babies in it.
A baby Screw Ball, Fire Spark, and Apple Jewel was motioning toward the couple. Pinkie held out the ring while it gleamed and the kids followed its gaze.
"Isn't it shiny?" Pinkie moved the ring back and forth.
Apple Jewel tried to reach for it until her mother came to pick her up, "Nice try, partner."
"Here, Screwy, come to mommy and daddy." Fluttershy held her arms out. Screw Ball had a magical surge surrounding her and floated to her parents.
Twilight picked up Fire, "And we don't eat engagement rings…" he cooed and touched his mother's nose. She gave out a smile.
The party was in full swing. Then, over by the punch bowl, Rainbow asked the newly engaged couple, "So when's the big day?"
"Oh gosh, Dashie, we're not sure since we have so much to plan!" Pinkie pointed.
"We're going to have the biggest wedding ever in Equestria!" said Cheese.
"Even bigger then Cadence and Twilight's!"
"You see, for every wedding we have attended, we made notes to see what we like and what we could do at our wedding."
On cue, Pinkie took out a rolled-up scroll and then unrolled it. As it became longer, it went around the entire building and passed the rest of their friends, which they took to notice of the long sheet. The end went out the door and stopped in the street.
Rainbow grabbed up the middle part of the list, "You're going to do all this for your wedding?! Together?!"
"No, silly." Pinkie gestured and the girls gave sighs of relief, but it turned to dread when Pinkie said, "We're going to split up the list!" she took the middle and both she and Cheese held it together, "Ready, Cheesy?"
"Ready!" Then, they tore the sheet. Now, she had the top half while he had the bottom half.
Rainbow whispered to the girls and guys, "I got a bad feeling about this…"
They nodded to that statement.
A few days later, while all of Pony-Ville was out and about, a shadow cast over. The ponies looked up to see the hot air balloon above them. Just then, Pinkie's head popped up and Cheese had a megaphone, "Come one, come all to the wedding of Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich!" Pinkie tossed sealed envelopes out for all the residents to grab them up.
Later, in the royal court meeting at the castle, Pinkie told her friends of the progress she made with her wedding.
"You invited the whole village?!" Rainbow yelled.
"Sure! And I have the Cakes doing the catering and the twins are ring bearer and flower girl."
"Whoo, sounds like you've been pretty busy." said Applejack.
"Tell me about it! I still have a whole lot to get done!"
"Oh, we'd be happy to help you out." said Fluttershy.
"You would?" her eyes rose with hope.
"But of course, Pinkie, we're your friends!" said Rarity, "And we still have to fit you into your wedding dress. I started on it since the day you got engaged."
"Aw, thanks, Rare."
While the council meeting was going, the guys hung out in the same spot as they always do while their girls had their meetings. Sitting in the grass of the park, they joked around with Cheese of how life was going to be different while he's married.
"Aw, knock it off guys. Pinkie and I are going to have a happy life just like the rest of you!"
"True, but then comes family life." pointed Discord, "Screwy cries every night and Fluttershy and I have to take turns to calm her down."
"Same with Apple Jewel." said Spike.
"Really? Fire hardly cries at night." said Flash.
"No doubt because he's so good like his parents that he would hate to get in trouble." snorted Discord.
"Well, I can't wait to be a dad!" Cheese jumped.
"How's wedding preparations going?" Soarin' asked.
"Great! Invitations are done and I have the music lined up for the reception, but there's so much to do yet. I have to find the right china, glassware, silverware, and not to mention the centerpieces! I'm so glad Pinkie's handling the ceremony, but I do need ushers. Which reminds me, do you guys want to my ushers?"
"Wouldn't have it either way, pal!" Discord patted his head.
"I was starting to wonder if you even were going to ask us!" said Soarin'.
"As your ushers, maybe we can help you with the reception." said Flash.
"You'd do that? For me?"
"Yeah!" said Spike.
He wrapped his arms around them into a hug, "You guys are the best!"
For the rest of the week, bride and groom were busy with their wedding planning. Checking off the things on their lists one by one, they slowly grew to exhaustion.
Rarity had Pinkie over to try on her gown. Pinkie stood on the platform wearing a ruffled dress that had two short sleeves and had a white hat similar to the one she wore at her first Grand Galloping Gala with a small veil over her eyes.
"It's wonderful!" Rarity exclaimed, "Darling, you look so beautiful!"
Pinkie stared in the mirror and frowned, "Hmm, it is pretty, but I was hoping it be more… puffy."
"Puffy? But dear, you look so good already!"
"But I want puffy on my wedding dress!" she shouted out.
"Oh… if you insist, Pinkie, it is your wedding day…" she started writing in her note pad.
Cheese moved around Sugar Cube Corner, inspecting the final results of the reception settings.
"Hm, everything looks good…" then, he stopped at a small chocolate fountain, "Wait, this fountain should be bigger."
"Bigger?" all the guys said.
"Yes, bigger!"
They shrugged, and then Discord snapped his fingers and the fountain got taller. But Cheese still wasn't pleased.
"No, bigger!"
Discord snapped again and the fountain was about the same height as him.
"Bigger!" Cheese yelled.
"But, Cheese," said Flash, "isn't it big enough?"
"No it's not! It has to be twice as big!"
"Alright, you asked for it." Discord snapped and the fountain touched the ceiling.
"Perfect!"
The rest gave unsure looks.
By then, things were becoming unbearable for the friends of the bride and groom as they gave out ridiculous demands. When going over floral arrangements with Twilight, Pinkie wanted every kind of flower for the wedding! Cheese told Flash he wanted zigzag patterns for the napkins! Then, Pinkie told Fluttershy she wanted blue doves and Spike was told by Cheese to blow bigger balloons!
"No, no, no!" Pinkie was fitting on her new improved gown, with bags under her eyes. "This is not what I was hoping for!"
"But, Pinkie, you wanted puffy! And that's what you got!"
She stared back in the mirror. Her gown was bigger and puffier and had puff sleeves. Her veil was bigger, too, but she grew angry with each passing second. The girls walked in just as Pinkie blew her top.
"Well, I don't like it! It's not the dress of my dreams, so fix it!"
The girls gasped to the outburst and Pinkie saw the horror on their faces. Her face softened, realizing what she had done.
"Pinkie…" Twilight started, "Why are you acting this way?"
"Yeah! Ever since you started planning for this wedding, you've been a real pain!" Rainbow pointed out.
"Rainbow Dash!" Twilight scolded.
"No…" Pinkie took off her veil and stepped down, "She's right… I've been planning the perfect wedding to have that I wasn't thinking of the fun I would have with my friends while planning it… I've been overdoing things, haven't I?"
They made small agreements.
"Well, no more! Rarity, I'm so sorry I was being a big meanie pants! The dress you designed the first time was perfect! I wish I'd remember that from the time you made my gala dress."
"It's alright, darling. You weren't being yourself… And no wonder, look at those eyes! You need to rest and relax!"
"So, what you need to do, Pinkie," suggested Twilight, "is to tone down the wedding a bit."
"You're absolutely right!"
"And there's a perfect way for you to feel better," said Fluttershy. "Why don't we all go to the spa?"
"Great idea! I could really use a massage! Who's with me?!"
"I'm in!" they volunteered, and with a few giggles, they left the boutique to a day of relaxation.
"This is all wrong!" Cheese yelled, staring at the plates and silverware.
"What are you talking about?" said Soarin', "They've always been like that!"
"But they're not the way they're supposed to be!"
"Well, what do you want us to do about it, Cheese?" questioned Spike, "Replace everything?"
"As a matter of fact, yes."
"What?!" they shouted.
"Okay! That's it!" Discord floated up in frustration, "You have gone too far with this reception, and I know a thing or two when things get out of hand, and this is definitely one of those things! You've been too demanding on what you want!" He grab hold of Cheese's head and turned it around the room, showing him the wackiest decorations and the six foot ice sculpture of two hearts together, "Look at what this wedding planning has cost you already!"
"Cheese, we know you want the best," said Flash, "but you have overdone some things that you're not aware of."
Cheese's eyes nearly filled with tears, "You're right! I've been pushing all of you too hard! I'm sorry!"
"Aw, we forgive you…" Spike comforted.
"We do?" Discord questioned, in which Soarin' had to nudge him, "I mean, yeah, we do!"
"I guess Pinkie and I have been planning this day for so long, that we felt we just had to have everything." he takes out his half of the list and shred it up, "Well, no more! Come on, let's get rid of some of this stuff!" he put on a hard hat.
That night, Cheese showed Pinkie the more controlled environment to having reception.
"Oh, Cheesy! It's perfect!"
"I know it's not what we planned…"
"But it's way better! I was acting such a meanie pants to my friends…"
"You, too, huh…? I was pretty jerky-jerky to the guys; they were only trying to help."
"We got some super duper friends."
"We sure do…" they scrunched noses.
"Only three days till our wedding. Ooh! That reminds me: my mom and dad and my sisters are coming the day before the wedding! You can finally meet them and they can finally meet you!"
"Wha…?" he gulped while she gave him a hug.
The next night, the boys gave Cheese his bachelor party. Cheese told them about Pinkie's family coming for wedding.
Discord was laughing his head off, "I sure am glad I'm not in your place!"
"Really?" Cheese's face filled with dread.
"Don't listen to him!" Soarin' flew in and put his arm around Cheese, "Meeting the in-laws will be no big deal. When I had to meet Rainbow's dad, I was nervous, too, but once I met him, we got along great!"
Flash came up, "I had to meet Twilight's parents before we got married and they were nice ponies. I'm lucky to have them for in-laws."
"But this will be different. Pinkie's told me all about her living on the rock farm where everything was dull and gloomy. Her own folks were like that and so were her sisters."
"Yeah," said Spike, "I remember meeting Maud. The girls had a hard time just trying to be friends with her when they couldn't find common ground. The only thing that kept them together was Pinkie."
"See?!" Cheese motioned, "I got to find some way to impress them!"
"Well, that's easy: just change your appearance and attitude!" said Discord. Then, with a snap of his fingers, Cheese had on his old glasses, his shirt was changed from yellow to white, and he had on a red tie. He offered Cheese a hand mirror.
"Are you sure about this?"
"Of course! All you have now is tone down the positive energy or else you're never going to sell them!"
"I don't think this is the way to go, Discord…" Spike pondered.
"Which reminds me: none of you blab this out to the girls!"
"Why not? We know it's going to backfire on you, anyway…" Soarin' snickered.
Discord uses his sarcastic tone, "Hardee-ha-ha…"
By the time Celestia raised the sun the very next day, Pinkie waited for her parents outside of the sweet shop. She had a wide smile on when she saw her father pulling the wagon with her mother and sisters in it.
"Mom! Dad! Limestone! Marble! Maud!" she raced to them giving them all a hug.
Cheese looked out the window of his guest room to see the Pie family had already arrived. He turned back to the mirror and pulled his curly hair back and added mousse to keep it slick.
"Well," he straighten his tie, "I'm ready as I'll ever be." he practiced his frowning and made sure he couldn't have the urge to smile.
Pinkie led her family inside, "Doesn't everything look great?"
"It's very… ornamental…" Maud said.
"Thank you! Cheesy has worked very hard!"
"And where is your intended?" her mother asked.
"He'll be down very soon. I can't wait to see the look on your faces when you meet him! I know you'll like him!"
"Pinkie!" Cheese's voice came from upstairs.
"That's him now! You can come down, Cheesy!"
"Alright!"
Then with a climp-clomp from the stairs, Pinkie turned back to her family saying, "Every pony, this is my fiancé, Cheese Sand-" she turned around in shock to the sight before her, "wich?"
"It is an honor to meet Pinkamena's family at last."
"We are honor to meet you, too, young colt." said Igneous Rock.
"Cheese, what are you-"
"Yes, dear?"
"And that's another thing. You never call me-"
"Tell me, Mr. Sandwich, what do you do for a living?" Cloudy Quartz questioned.
"Living?" Cheese froze.
"You do have a living, right?" said Igneous, "If you are to marry my daughter and support her…"
"I do! I most certainly do, sir!"
"We're in the same line of business, Daddy." answered Pinkie.
"But he doesn't look like a party pony in all those letters you wrote." said Marble.
"That's because…" Cheese took off his glasses, "This isn't the real me…" Pinkie beamed at him, "I was trying to impress you to show I was right for your daughter…" he ruffled his hair to turn back curly and he took off the tie. "but I guess it didn't work. I'm a super duper party pony, just like Pinkie."
"Young man, any pony who would go so far for the well-being of our daughter is A-okay in our book."
"Quite." agreed Cloudy.
"Oh, Cheesy, that was so sweet of you that you wanted to get closer to my family like that, but I want you to be yourself so they can love you all the more!"
"All that matters to us is that you love our sister." said Maud.
"Do I ever!" he pulled Pinkie closer to him.
"Now that we're all one big happy family, let's have a wedding!"
Every pony from Pony-Ville gathered in front of the castle and that included guests that weren't ponies like Cranky and Matilda. Twilight was at the top of the stairs with the girls to her right and their husbands on her left. Cheese stood next to her wearing his tux with tails and a top hat. Fluttershy signaled her bird choir to start the march and every pony turned their head to see Pumpkin Cake, the flower girl, coming from the side throwing petals. Then, Pinkie appeared with the same dress Rarity made for her from the start. Cheese grin widely to his bride and she returned the grin.
She found her family when reaching the altar, giving them a smile and they returned those smiles! Reaching the top of the stairs, the two party ponies gave each other looks and then turned to their friend.
Twilight spoke with authority in her voice to all her subjects, "Filles and gentlecolts, family and friends, we gather today to join in union of Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich. At odds with each other when they first met, they came to realize that they were more for each other then they thought. They have been right for one another ever since. May we have the rings?" She turned her head to Pound Cake, who carried the pillow with the rings on his back.
Using her magic, she lifted the two rings with gold chains and placed one on each of the couple's necks, "Pinkie, do you take this stallion to be your husband?"
"I do!"
"And do you, Cheese, take this mare to be your wife?"
"I do!"
"Wait! I do more!"
"No, I do more!"
"Will you just shut up and kiss each other already!" Discord shouted.
Twilight giggled and said, "I now pronounce you mare and colt. You may indeed kiss the bride."
Instead of Cheese grabbing on to Pinkie, she was the one who grabbed on to him.
"Or kiss the groom…" motioned Twilight.
The guests cheered and stomped in applause. Discord used his magic and showered flower petals on the kissing couple…
"And that's how we had a normal wedding like every pony else!" said Pinkie.
"That was so cool!" Butter Ball jumped.
"It sure was! And the party was just as cool!" Cheese took the book and flipped through the pages showing the reception of the both of them next to Vinyl Scratch handling the music. Then, there was a photo of them dancing to the jive as their first dance as a married couple.
"And don't forget us leaving for the honeymoon!" Pinkie pointed to the picture of them getting in the hot air balloon with a 'Just Got Married' sign attached.
"That sure was a great time…" Cheese sighed happily as the family kept going through the book, unaware of the burning cookies…
AN: That's five! One more to go! Sorry if this one seems a bit rushed, but I did tell you in my last author's note it would be hard for me to write these two. I love the shipping, but there was so much craziness to get written down! As a side note, you would expect Rarity to be the demanding bride in her wedding story, but I got much bigger plans for her (Mua-ha-ha! Mua-ha-ha!) *Ahem* Sorry, sorry, was that too evil a laugh? Anyway, back to business, the last wedding story will be a big one as a bang to complete this series. Now I want you to know something: before I started this idea, I was on the verge of doing a sequel for A Midsummer Night's Dream: Pony-Style. But then, the Wedding Chronicles popped into my head, so I guess you could call this the sequel. For those who read MND: Pony-Style will recall I listed all the shippings here in the last chapter of that fanfiction. So I want your opinion: should I make a sequel to Midsummer Night's Dream: Pony-Style, and if so, what play should I do? Or would you prefer a sequel to this fanfiction instead: MLP: The Baby Chronicles? Should we explore into the kids' births? I'll leave it up to you. In the meantime, Rarity, it's finally your moment to shine and have the wedding of your dreams!