A/N: This is the sequel to When Sheldon met Amy. If you haven't read that you may want to. This chapter doesn't say much of what happened in that story but it does allude to it. For those of you just joining this journey. Sheldon is the Sheldon from the unaired pilot. He was not a virgin when he met Amy but she was. He had a childhood friend who left when he was little and they just discovered it was her. They have been dating just under a year and are getting ready to move in together permanently. They are not yet engaged but it is coming. Okay enough back story if you want more check out the other story.

As always I want to thank my awesome Beta, Boys3allC for her help with this mess. She took on the sequel as well. Thanks so much and check out her stuff. IT is awesome.

I don't own these characters but they are fun to play with.

It had been a week since Amy had discovered the truth about her father and a couple of weeks since discovering she and Sheldon had been childhood friends. Her life really was a mess at the moment. She still had so much to think about. However now was not the time.

Howard and Bernadette had decided on a spur of the moment wedding at the courthouse instead of the big wedding they had planned for the following week. Because NASA really needed Howard to install his equipment as soon as possible, they moved his mission launch date up. He was leaving the following Monday so they had to get it done before then.

Amy was in the apartment getting ready. She insisted she wear her maid of honor dress even though no one else was getting dressed up. It was important to her. She didn't know if she would ever be asked to be in maid of honor again. Sheldon refused to dress up for the occasion, in fact didn't even really want to go.

"They are getting married at the courthouse. That isn't a real wedding!" He argued. "Why should we go?"

"We are going because they are our friends and they asked us. I think it is sweet that they are getting married before he leaves for the International Space Station." Amy said to him.

"I understand that but why do we have to go?" Sheldon whined.

"I already told you, because they asked us. It is not like we hadn't planned to go to their wedding next weekend." Amy told him.

"Yes but that was going to be a real wedding."

"So is this one." Amy pointed out. "Just because you get married by a justice of the peace instead of a minister does not make it any less legal."

"Don't tell my mother that." Sheldon said to her.

"Are you planning on getting married in a church?" Amy asked, a little bit surprised.

"Well I think it would make my mother and Meemaw happy." He answered. "What about you? Do you want to get married in a church?" He thought he should find out what kind of wedding she was expecting. Soon it would be their wedding they were talking about.

"I never really thought about it." She said seriously. "Mom and dad took me to church when I was little but after dad died mom left the church."

"Do you think she would be okay with a church wedding?" Sheldon asked.

"She will just be happy I am finally getting married." She answered.

"So what do you want?" He asked.

"I want whatever my future husband wants." She answered looking at him seriously. Amy knew she was talking about the man in front of her. However he had not yet proposed. She could not assume he was talking about her.

"I want whatever my future wife wants." He said to her.

"Well I guess we will have to wait and see who those people are." She laughed. Sheldon blanched.

"What?" He asked, choking. He couldn't believe she was seriously talking about finding someone else.

"Sheldon calm down. I am not looking for another man. As far as I am concerned you are it for me." She said.

"I feel exactly the same way. You Amy Farrah Fowler are it. No one else could ever take your place. I am in love with you and that will never change." He moved closer to her and pulled her in for a kiss.

"I love you too." She said, after they came up for air.

"Then why the talk about waiting for the person to marry?" He questioned.

"Well you haven't asked me so…" She said. "Unless all this talk is a proposal."

"No way. When I propose it will be special. Not just because we are getting all excited over our friends' wedding. Who do you think I am, Leonard?" He laughed.

"Not hardly." She laughed just as hard. "So you are going to propose?" She hinted.

"Cool your jets woman! I will get there." He said. The truth was he had already planned the whole thing out and he wasn't going to let her talk him into getting engaged early.

"Fine I will wait." She pouted.

"That won't work." He smiled at her. He leaned down and kissed her again. This time he didn't want to stop but she pulled away.

"We have to get going." She said.

"This isn't over." He said.

"I hope not." She teased. She stood up on her tiptoes and gave him a quick peck before running out of the room and into the bathroom to fix her hair.

Two hours later the group was at the Cheesecake Factory deciding what to do about Howard and Bernadette's wedding. The courthouse was overcrowded with anxious couples and they were unable to get married before the 5:00 deadline.

"You know, we could always drive to Vegas and get married." Howard suggested.

"Isn't that kind of tacky?" Bernadette said. She really didn't want to have to drive to Vegas to get married.

"Hey, I know tons of people who got married in Vegas." Penny told them.

"Are any of them still married?" Bernadette asked.

"Yeah, I mean, not to the same people but…" She started then she blanched. "Oh my God!" She screamed.

"What is it?" Bernadette asked.

"Oh it's nothing. Just something I remembered from a wedding I attended in Vegas."

"When did you attend a wedding in Vegas?" Amy asked.

"Oh about six months ago." Penny answered.

"Wasn't that when you were dating Zack?" Bernadette asked.

"Yeah." Penny said quietly. She really didn't want to get into this now. She had almost forgotten about the fact that she and Zack had gone to one of those chapels when they were drunk on Thanksgiving.

"Who got married?" Leonard asked, afraid to know the answer.

"Um, well you see…." Penny started.

"Penny did you and Zack get married?" Amy asked, shocked at what was happening with her friends.

"I was drunk and I thought they were fake. We got married by an Elvis impersonator for God's sake!" She yelled.

"So you are telling me that you married that idiot but when I ask you get upset?" Leonard said.

"Wait when did you ask Penny to marry you?" Raj asked.

"Last week." Howard answered.

"Wait are you telling me that you have known about this for a week and never bothered to tell me?" Raj looked at Howard.

"Why would I tell you?" Howard asked.

"Because I am your best friend." Raj said to him. "Just a quick question, how many people knew?"

"I knew." Amy said, followed by Bernadette and Sheldon saying the same thing.

"You all knew and no one bothered to tell me. I am hurt." Raj said.

"Okay can we get back to the fact that my girlfriend is married? This is not about me asking her to marry me." Leonard interrupted.

"I am just saying it would have been nice if my best friend would have told me."

"Geez how close were you two before I met Howard?" Bernadette asked.

"Best not to look under that rock." Leonard said. "So how are we going to deal with this?" He asked.

"Well we can't do anything until Monday now anyway as the courthouse is closed." Penny said. "I guess I can have it annulled."

"Are you sure?" Sheldon asked. "There is certain criteria to having a marriage annulled."

"How would you know that?" Penny asked.

"My brother had to have a marriage annulled a while ago." He answered.

"Great, well, what do I have to do?" Penny asked.

"It says here you can get an annulment if any of the following conditions are met. Were you unable to consummate the marriage?" Amy asked, looking at her phone.

"Hah! Penny? Next." Sheldon said. Leonard glared at him.

"Is there any evidence of fraud, bigamy, want of understanding?" Amy asked.

"Want of understanding? What does that even mean?" Penny asked.

"Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner." Amy smiled.

"Fine I will call Zack tomorrow and we will get it taken care of. Now let's move on to the problem of Howard and Bernadette's marriage." Penny said.

"Thank you." Bernadette said.

"Well, I know how to make it special." Raj said.

"I told you we are not recreating the wedding from The Sound of Music." Howard said to him.

"Yes, you made that brutally clear to me. What I was going to suggest is if that you're willing to wait until Sunday morning, the Google satellite will be over Pasadena. You can have a wedding photograph from space." Raj told them.

Everyone was impressed. It sounded like a great idea.

"That's so cool." Leonard said.

"Way to go, Raj." Howard said.

"I keep telling you, if I wasn't an astrophysicist, I would have been a party planner. It was always a coin flip." Raj told the group.

"Okay, so we know we're going to do it Sunday morning. Now we need to find a good place for the satellite to see us." Howard pointed out.

"How about our roof?" Leonard suggested.

"Oh, I like that." Bernadette said.

"That's great." Howard agreed.

"Oh my gosh, I can't believe my maid of honor dress is going to be on Google Earth." Amy said, excitedly

"So, we have the where and the when, but we still need to figure out who's going to do the ceremony." Howard said.

"Well, that's easy. Anyone can go online and get ordained as a minister. I know a piercing parlor where, for a hundred bucks they'll marry you and stick a wedding ring through any body part you want." Penny told them.

"Great, well, who's it going to be?" Bernadette asked.

"I'll do it, provided I can perform the ceremony in Klingon." Sheldon volunteered

"No." Bernadette told him.

"What do you see in her?" Sheldon asked Howard.

"Klingon really?" Amy asked Sheldon as they were driving back to the apartment. Penny and Leonard were in the back seat bickering about her marriage to Zack.

"Of course. Can't you see how cool that would be?" Sheldon said.

"No not really." She told him.

"Well I think it would be fun." He said. Amy just smiled. She had a feeling that her wedding was going to have Klingon in it whether she wanted it or not. Then she realized that a wedding should be about compromise.

"Maybe we could do our vows in Klingon." Amy told him.

"Really?" He asked. He figured he would lose on the battle of Klingon just like Howard had.

"Well a wedding is about both of us. So if it means that much to you, we can do part of the ceremony in Klingon." She said.

Penny had heard the end of their conversation and her ears perked up.

"Are you guys keeping something from us?" She asked them.

"Like what?" Amy asked.

"You are talking a lot about weddings. Did Sheldon finally pop the question?" Penny asked.

"Don't you think if he asked me to marry me I would tell my best friend first?"

"Maybe but if it just happened." She said, thinking maybe Sheldon had asked her earlier in the day.

"There has been no proposal." Sheldon informed them.

"Is there going to be one?" Penny asked.

"Eventually." Sheldon said. He couldn't understand these women and their rush for proposals.

"Good to know." Penny said.

The following Sunday everyone was gathered on the roof. All five had decided to get ordained and have a group ceremony. Howard brought his mother over and she outright refused to sit on the roof. Raj was in charge of the decorations and setting the stage and he was acting more like a Bridezilla than Bernadette ever was.

"Come on, Raj, we're ready to start." Leonard and the rest were getting impatient. There was only so much time until the satellite was overhead.

"We're ready when I say we're ready." Raj said and fixed the runner one last time. "Now we're ready."

"Ma, you want to move your chair over here so you can see?" Howard screamed to his mother.

"I'm fine where I am. I don't want to fall off the roof." Mrs. Wolowitz yelled from her seat.

"You'll fall through the roof before you fall off it." Howard yelled back.

"Penny, the music." Raj said and Penny pushed play on the player.

Mr Rostenkowski, Bernadette's father, came to give his daughter away. "Your new mother-in-law's a piece of work." He said as he walked her down the make shift aisle.

"Not now, Dad." Bernadette groaned.

"She's got a bigger mustache than me." He said, arriving at the front. "Here you go." He said to Howard.

"Here you go? What am I, a football?" Bernadette commented.

"Like that guy could catch a football." He mumbled, walking back down the aisle to join his wife.

"Howard and Bernadette, the five of us stand before you as your friends and newly ordained ministers." Raj started.

"Louder!" Mrs. Wolowitz yelled from a distance.

"They all got ordained, they're all marrying us, and it's adorable, if you want to hear come closer." Bernadette yelled back at her.

"Guys, when I look at the two of you starting your lives together, it fills my heart, It fills my, heart, okay, I'm going to need a minute." Raj started to tear up as he spoke.

Penny spoke next. "Okay, I'll, I'll go. Howard and Bernadette, I know you two planned on getting married in a big fancy wedding, but when you're in love, it doesn't matter where or how these things happen. It just matters that you have each other."

"Hmm." Leonard mumbled. He was still angry she was married to Zack and had turned him down.

"Problem?" Penny asked.

"No." Leonard told her

"I think the Reverend Hofstadter is making an ironic connection between your statement about love and your rejection of his proposal in the bedroom, as well as your marriage to Zack the idiot." Sheldon interjected.

"Oh, grow up." Penny told him.

"Hey, I didn't say it." Leonard pointed out.

"Alright, that's enough from the both of you." Amy said.

"Well, he started it." Penny said.

"Well, I'm ending it." Amy said. Then she turned back to the ceremony. "Bernadette, I want to thank you for allowing me to be your maid of honor. I also want you to know, that I will be happy to do it again if this marriage craps out." She finished. Everyone just looked at her in disbelief. She had watched this relationship go through rough times. She wasn't sure they would last and she wanted to make sure Bernadette knew she was available as a maid of honor again.

"Thank you, Amy." Leonard said. "Very touching. Howard and Bernadette, you are lucky enough to be best friends who love each other. And that's the strongest kind of love because at its core, it has kindness, patience, and respect. Qualities that are hard to find in people these days."

"Would you like some aloe vera? You just got burned." Sheldon laughed. "Alright, my turn. Howard, Bernadette. Daq tu' taH Daq yIn tlhej ghajtaH."

"Sheldon! I told you no Klingon." Bernadette yelled at him.

"Fine, I'll say something in English, but that Klingon would have moved you." Sheldon said. He began again. "I have always been perplexed with the need to bond. However, so much has changed in the last year. I hope you and Howard find as much happiness in life as I have in mine." He said. Amy looked at him in awe.

"Sheldon that was beautiful." Penny told him.

"It's true." He said.

"I believe you two have prepared vows?" Raj asked them.

Bernadette began, "Howard Joel Wolowitz, like you, this is going to be short and sweet. I love you with all my heart and soul and promise to be with you forever." She said.

"Bernadette Maryann Rostenkowski." Howard started but was interrupted by his mother yelling again.

"Speak up!" She screamed.

"Hey, from now on, she's the only women who can yell at me!" Howard yelled back and then turned to complete his vows to Bernadette. "Until I met you, I couldn't imagine spending my life with just one person. And now I can't imagine spending one day of it without you."

"By the power vested in us, by the state of California…" They all started but Sheldon interrupted "And the Klingon High Council…" which earned a glare from Bernadette

"We now pronounce you husband and wife." They completed. Everyone clapped as Howard and Bernadette kissed for the first time as husband and wife. They all then went out to dinner and had a very nice time.

Two days later they were all sitting in apartment 4A watching Howard take off to the International Space Station. As ignition of the Soyuz capsule started, the gang was on the edge of their seats.

"Oh, my God, it's happening." Bernadette said. She was so nervous watching him.

Penny came rushing in from work, "Did I miss it?" She asked.

"No, come on in. Hurry." Leonard said, patting the seat next to him.

"I love that man." Bernadette said.

"Me, too." Raj agreed, and Bernadette took his hand in support.

"I can't believe it. This whole time, a small part of me thought he was lying." Penny said. She took Leonard's hand.

"This is it." Leonard said, his eyes glued to the television.

Sheldon and Amy were sitting side by side on the couch, sitting up, eyes glued to the television just like everyone else.

"Boldly go, Howard Wolowitz." Sheldon said to the television, and he also took Amy's hand in support.

The friends watched in awe as the capsule launched with their friend on board.

Okay so that is chapter 1...Sheldon has a plan and for those of you that read the other story you may know what that is. This will be a bit shorter story than that one because I want to get to the engagement but I needed to have Howard and Bernadette's wedding first. I hope you like my version of the Klingon even if it wasn't the true translation. I couldn't have him say he didn't want to get married...geez. Anywho...if you liked it please be so kind as to leave a review. I so love the feedback. Okay I won't promise quick updates but I will try my best. I have two other projects I am currently working on...An Unlikely Relationship and I am not Stupid, a crossover with Harry Potter...it is not Shamy but it is fun if you like Zack and Penny with Sheldon as a tag along. It can be found in the crossover section...it is written by percyjacksonfan135. I have written a couple chapters of it...we would appreciate the support.

Okay thanks and I hope you review this one. Until next time.