A/N: Basically what it said in the summary. This should be a nice, light, happy fic but there's not predicting these things.

Does use my OC Ella Marlowe, who travels with the Doctor and has done for some time. Has appeared in some of my other fics but I don't think you need to read them to make sense of this - might be interesting though.

Other Doctor Who characters from the series will be turning up.

I don't own Doctor Who.

Heres the Bride, the Bridesmaids and the Doctor

Chapter One

"Ella? It's Martha."

Ella juggled the phone so it was under her ear and she could hand the Doctor his sonic screwdriver.

"Martha! Hello, how are you?"

"I'm fine - "

Martha was interrupted by the Doctor's voice filtering through the mouth piece.

"Is it Martha?"

"Yes," Ella replied patiently. "That's why I said 'Hello Martha'."

"I want to talk - give me the phone, will you?"

"No! I'm talking! You concentrate on getting us out of here."

"Er, is now a good time?" Martha broke into what promised to be a lively argument that would probably involve the Doctor stating he had no need to concentrate on getting them out, he could do it with one hand tied behind his back and the other holding the phone so he could talk to Martha.

"Oh no, it's fine. He's just trapped us in a cupboard."

Martha paused, trying to gauge whether she should be worried, she came to the decision that the Doctor could probably handle it.

"So, what's up?" Ella sounded as if she was having a normal conversation with a friend, not at all like she had the Doctor's elbow in her stomach and three live wires in her hand.

"I just wanted to let you know me and Tom have set a date."

"Oh, how exciting! When?"

Ella could be counted on to give the right sort of reactions to these kind of announcements, one of the reasons Martha had elected to call her rather than the Doctor.

"July 1st."

"Summer wedding, how lovely. How far away is that for you?" It was all but impossible for Ella to be able to work it out, and she wasn't about to try.

"Only three weeks."

"My god, you must be so busy."

"Yeah, that's one of the reasons I phoned. I'm trying to get bridesmaid dresses fitted and I was wondering if you could come over." Only someone who had been with the Doctor could describe traveling millennia in time and space as 'coming over'.

"Sure, should be able to - hang on. You want me to be a bridesmaid?"

"Please, if you don't mind that is."

"I would love to! I never get to be a bridesmaid!"

Martha was sure she could hear the Doctor muttering something about with her it was always the bride and never the bridesmaid.

"Oi! I'll have you know that was the one and only time! Never before and never since! And anyway, we agreed never to talk about it!" Ella turned her attention back to Martha, who was rather enjoying the exchange and rather intrigued by the story behind it. "What date do you want me there?"

Traveling with the Doctor you had to be very specific about dates, and even then he sometimes managed to screw it up.

"Can you do 24th June?"

"Er, yeah, sure." There was a sudden clunk and a loud "OW!" and it was clear the phone had been dropped to the floor of the cupboard. Ella raised her voice so Martha would be able to hear her but sounded oddly far away. "Um, Martha I dropped the phone and can't exactly pick it up right now. I'll see you on the 24th ok?"

"Sure, see you then."

Martha paused for a moment before hanging up and Ella's very irritated voice could still be heard.

"You hit me in the head!"

"Well you electrocuted me!"

"That was an accident. When someone hits you on the head you generally jump and we are in a very small space meaning you got in the way of the stupid wires you're making me hold."

There was a huffy silence from them both.

"What did Martha want anyway?" Curiosity finally overcame the Doctor's grumpiness.

"I'm going to be a bridesmaid!" Ella sounded genuinely thrilled but the Doctor was not impressed, muttering darkly about women and dresses. He clearly had bad experiences.

There, I hope you liked that. Just a short introductory chapter to set the scene. I'll try and update soon, when it gets a bit more interesting. Please review and let me know what you think! xx