"Bartholomew Henry Allen, do you take Iris Anne West to be your lawfully wedded wife to have and to hold,until death do you part?" John Diggle asked.
"I do" Barry responded gleefully.
"Place this ring on her finger and say with this ring I be wed".
"With this ring I be wed".
"Iris Anne West, do you take Bartholomew Henry Allen to be your lawfully wedded husband to have and to hold, until death do you part?" John Diggle asked.
"I do" Iris responded with a sweet grin, gazing into Barry's eyes.
"Place this ring on his finger and say with this ring I be wed".
"With this ring I be wed".
Diggle cleared his throat "Is there anyone here who objects to this union?"
"Wait" Felicity Smoak spoke up to everybody's shock. "John, will you marry me and Oliver too". She turned to Oliver "Will you marry me?"
"I thought you didn't believe in marriage" Oliver nervously countered.
"I believe in you", Felicity persisted "I believe in us and what we have together. I love you Oliver. I love William. I love our story"
"Yes Felicity Megan Smoak, I will marry you. Is that okay, Dig?" Oliver said.
"Are you kidding Oliver?" Diggle asked in a chipper tone. "I'm the one who has been trying to keep you and Felicity together since day one".
Everybody took deep sigh of relief. "Felicity, Why don't you say your vows?"
She began "Oliver, our love is what gets me up each morning. Knowing who I will open my eyes to see lying next to me empowers me. You're my inspiration who I've been relentlessly in love with since the day you walked into my office at Queen Consolidated. I have dreamed of my wedding day since I was a little girl and I could not have asked god for a more honorable man to share it with".
"Oliver begin your vows" Diggle prompted.
Oliver cleared his throat. He had a feeling in his heart that he would've never expected on his wedding day The feeling was dread with a razor-thin edge of anxiety.
"Felicity", Oliver nearly shouted "You, I, and everybody else here knows that you make me a better man. My life,as Oliver Queen and The Green Arrow, is considerably better because I have loved you". Oliver let an audible gasp from sharp pains attacking from inside his chest. Felicity noticed her husband to be was now profusely sweating.
"Oliver?" She lightly placed her arm around his shoulders.
"Wait... stop, I just can't do this" Oliver admitted, broken and tearful.
"What do you mean?" Felicity said as the shock and hurt mold her facial expression.
"My heart... god, I am sorry Felicity, in my heart I know the truth. I am still madly in love with Laurel Lance".
Sara Lance stepped out of the crowd of onlookers and took quick strides toward Oliver. She embraced him but gave him serious look; eye to eye.
"Oliver, we all miss Laurel so much. The pain of Laurel being ripped away from us gets worse everyday. Still, we need to embrace that we, and I mean everybody standing here, are still alive. If Laurel were here she would be begging you to marry Felicity, have a family, and finally savor the hope and happiness in your life".
"Sara" Oliver said, never breaking eye with the younger Lance sister. "You and I both know that Laurel and I were one another's first and are destined to be one another's last. I am in love with the dear departed Laurel Lance, and if I can not bring her back, well then, I am simply destined to be alone".
Sara looked at the ground. Felicity looked helplessly at John. Oliver apologized again to Felicity and his friends and he fled from the sight.
Barry took a moment to kiss his bride. "I love you Iris West-Allen and I will right back. Barry disappeared in a flash of yellow light and stopped before his friend.
"Oliver, stop. It's okay and I understand" Barry announced loudly.
"Barry-" Oliver started to say.
"Listen", Barry interrupted "Laurel is the woman you have loved so fully for the better part of your life. When you lost her, when Darhk took her from you; from us all, it was enough to drive you to start killing again. I am so fortunate to have been able save the woman I love from certain death. Oliver, you are one of strongest-and most honorable men I know. So I am going to help you. If death wants to keep Dinah Laurel Lance, Death will have to put up one hell of a fight".
Oliver rotated his head back and forth "Okay Barry I don't really understand this. Are we talking time travel because I've asked Sara time after time and she keeps saying-"
Barry pointed to Sara Lance who was approaching the two heroes followed closely by Ray Palmer, Jax Jefferson, Martin Stein (healed by Gideon), and to Oliver and Barry's surprise Roy Harper.
Roy placed his hand on Oliver's shoulder and flashed a grin. "Good to see you, Oliver. I heard about everything from Thea, and I mean everything. I'm so sorry about what happened to Laurel and I am sorry about how things worked out with Felicity".
Oliver embraced his former teammate. "I didn't know you had contact with Thea" he expressed.
Roy shrugged and grinned "We have had contact over the past four months. I passed through Starling while you, and everybody else were here in central city for Barry and Iris's wedding". Roy offered his congratulations to Barry. "Oliver, your sister and I are back together. It's as if I never left Starling. But I want to talk about you- and Laurel".
"Actually, we all do", Ray added. "I may of at first believed that you and Felicity were meant to be together, but Laurel, I've never seen anybody look at some one else the you looked at her".
Sara made eyes at Oliver proclaiming sh3e was apologetic for putting pressure on him to go through with wedding the wrong woman. "Oliver, I wasn't lying to you when I told you time travel couldn't save my sister. But Jax informed me of another feature he discovered. We can use an update in the Gideon's software to travel through the fabric of our universe and get to where Laurel is—earth 15".
"Wells told Cisco and I that Earth 15 is desolated", Barry said curiously "How could Laurel be there, or on any earth?"
"Because", Ray stated as if the answer was common knowledge "Earth 15 is not really an earth at all. Earth 15 is Purgatory".