Geek Getting Hitched

CatherineJosephineMarie007

Thank you so much to jaa162, who asked for a short set of stories about the wedding or Marianne, and inspired my fickle muse. This set is about planning the wedding.

"I'm sorry, what did you say?" Leonard asked as Howard cleaned up the orange juice that had squirted out his nose.

"We're getting married." Sheldon replied from his Spot. "It only seems logical after an eighteen month courtship."

"You proposed?" Penny asked incredulously.

"We had a logical discussion about it after my mother let slip some not-so-subtle remarks at her last cocktail party," Layla answered. "We decided it was something we wanted to do."

"Where am I supposed to live?" Leonard asked.

"You have eight months to think about it." Sheldon replied promptly.

"Sheldon Cooper… married man." Leonard shook his head, "Who'd have thought he'd be the first?"

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"Layla, you can't be serious." Amelia scoffed at the small stack of glossy photos and computer printouts that were her plans for she and Sheldon's wedding.

"What's the problem, mother?" Layla sighed, resting her chin in her hand. She had known from the moment she and Sheldon announced their engagement that her mother would want to throw a wedding to make Princess Margaret proud. "It's not like we're a society couple who will have seven hundred guests in attendance. We'll be lucky if we even have a hundred, with Sheldon's social anxiety. So just stop trying to plan the wedding of the century!"

"Layla, you want to get married in some Presbyterian church in Pasadena, fly in a handful of Texans, and you refuse to have your reception at the Castle Green! What part of this am I supposed to be happy about?"

"The part where I'm finally going to be married and now you only have one disappointing daughter?" she asked, getting up and gathering her things. "You know what, Mom, why don't you just worry about finding a nice outfit and showing up on time? Penny and I will handle the rest."

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"So, you and me are planning a wedding?" Penny asked, looking like she might be ill.

"Yep," Layla sighed, flopping onto the blonde's sofa. "But don't worry; it won't be that big of a deal. Tiny wedding, itty bitty reception, nothing special."

"Okay, well, that's alright then… I guess… where do we start?"

"I guess with a venue," Layla replied, thumbing through 'Weddings for Dummies'. "I wanted to have the service at the church where we went when Mrs Cooper was in town."

"Wait, a church service? Sheldon?" Penny giggled.

"It's purely to avoid infuriating his mother," she replied with a smile. "And I thought maybe you'd know somewhere we could hold the reception? A little pub or something?"

"I'll see what I can do. Now we're done with the boring stuff, can we work on getting you a dress?"