A/N: Thank you so much to everyone who has followed and reviewed this story. It is overwhelming. Anyway so sorry for the delay. For those of you who are following my other story When Sheldon met Amy I am working on that too. Unfortunately life and writer's block got in the way. So I am back now and working on both. Hopefully I can publish the other by end of this week, early next week. Three weeks to plan a wedding is not a lot and Amy will realize this and have some help. Wedding gown is first on the agenda. Hope you enjoy!

I own none of these awesome characters!

I have three weeks and then I will be Dr. Amy Cooper. Or maybe Fowler-Cooper. Yes most definitely Fowler-Cooper. It would get confusing if there were two Dr. Coopers in one household. Three weeks, I can't believe it. I honestly didn't think this would ever happen and now it is. In three weeks! Oh damn, I only have three weeks to plan my wedding. What the hell was I thinking? Amy was lost in thought on Monday morning while waiting for Penny and Bernadette to get to her apartment to start dress shopping.

"Earth to Amy." Penny said as she entered Sheldon's apartment. He had agreed to let her stay on Sunday night since the girls were going shopping.

"Huh?" Amy asked coming out of her thoughts.

"Where were you?" Penny asked.

"Trying to figure out what the hell I was thinking agreeing to get married in three weeks. There is so much to do." She answered.

"I thought you were okay with getting married so quickly." Penny said to her.

"Oh believe me I am. But I think Sheldon and I weren't thinking when we decided to get married in Lake Tahoe. I mean we have to send invites, get flowers, get dresses, book hotels, rent tuxedos, and…." Amy started naming things off.

"Hey slow down. We will help. Don't worry so much." Bernadette said. "But first things first. Let's go get you a dress."

"And I know the perfect place." Penny said. "I found this shop just around the corner. I went looking for a dress for myself. They didn't quite have the styles I was looking for but it will be perfect for Amy."

"Well let's get going then." Amy said.

The girls made their way to the small bridal shop. Amy looked shocked as she walked in. The store was made up of all kinds of vintage gowns.

"Penny, this is perfect." Bernadette said, looking at all the old fashion gowns.

"I told you. When I walked in two weeks ago, I knew this would be the perfect place for Amy. I knew once they set a date we could come here." Penny said.

They were greeted by a young woman who had a very similar look to Amy.

"Good morning ladies. My name is Jessica. Who is the lucky bride?" She asked them.

"I am." Amy answered.

"Oh terrific. Are you interested in a vintage gown?" Jessica asked her.

"I hadn't really thought about it. My friend Penny here recommended this place. Now that I am looking at some of these gowns, I think this could be the look for me." Amy answered.

"Well let's start with the basics. When is the wedding?"

"August 15." Amy answered.

"Okay that is soon. What took you so long to come looking for a dress?" Jessica asked.

"Oh we just decided on a date yesterday." Amy answered.

"And you picked three weeks from now? How long have you and your fiancée been engaged?"

"Two months." Amy answered

"Wow, that's quick. How long have you been together?" She asked. She was curious as to why they were getting married so quickly.

"Five years. My fiancée is a bit old fashion when it comes to us living together. He wants to wait until we are married. So we decided to get married quickly."

"Oh I see." Well she must have been wrong about a pregnancy then, if he was that old fashion. "Okay so do you have any ideas about what you want?"

"Well I've always dreamt of having a dress with lots of lace."

"Oh I have an idea." Jessica said. "I'll be right back." She went to the back of the store and came back with a couple of different dresses.

"Oh Amy look at this one." Bernadette said, pulling a sleeveless tea length dress that was covered in lace.

"Oh I don't know about sleeveless." Amy said. "But I'm willing to try it on."

"Amy you are getting married in August. You can't wear a cardigan on your wedding day." Penny laughed.

"I know that. I was thinking something with lace sleeves. Maybe something like this." Amy said, pointing at one of the dresses.

"Oh that is very pretty." Bernadette said.

"Oh Amy look at this one." Penny said pointing at another one that was not sleeveless but had more of a cap sleeve made of lace.

"I really like that one. Let's try these three and see what I think looks best." Amy said, taking the three different dresses.

"Well then let's get started." Jessica said. She took the dresses and led Amy to the fitting rooms.

"So you and your fiancée have been together a long time. What took him so long to ask you to marry him?" Jessica asked.

"Sheldon is different. When we first met, neither one of us wanted a relationship. In fact I told him that all forms of physical contact up to and including coitus were off the table."

"Wow. What changed?" She asked.

"Well we started as just friends but slowly he worked his way into my heart. It was tough getting him to see that we were meant to be."

"How did you get him to see it your way?"

"Well I knew he had feelings for me when I mentioned that I had been attracted to another man. It was about 6 months after we met. I met one of my friend Penny's ex-boyfriends while out on a girl's night. He was beautiful. He was tall and handsome and had a great body. I had this feeling in the pit of my stomach."

"Wow. So what happened with your fiancée?"

"Well as I had never really experienced feelings quite like that, I thought I was sick. I was checking my vitals at lunch with Sheldon and he said he would help me determine what was wrong."

"How romantic." Jessica said sarcastically.

"It really was silly wasn't it?" Amy said, picking up the sarcastic tone. "But as I had no idea what was wrong, I needed to know. Well we came to the conclusion that it was sexual arousal and Sheldon called Zach and asked him to meet me."

"Zach? Tall, sexy and handsome Zach? Your fiancée called him why exactly?" Jessica asked.

"He thought I could be taken care of. Basically he asked Zach to have sex with me."

"Your fiancée pimped you out?" Jessica was flabbergasted.

"Yeah in a way. Well we went to meet Zach and he was just a big idiot. There was no way I could have ever forgiven myself if I had given up my virginity to a moron like him."

"So you had never?" Jessica asked.

"No. And I knew I was beginning to feel things for Sheldon. He was it for me. I knew that from day one but I guess I was fighting it so hard. And so was he. He actually refuted my claims that he was jealous about Zach. I held his hand that day. I felt sparks but Sheldon was so taken back that I had grabbed his hand that I told him I was doing an experiment and I let it go. But I knew then that he had my heart."

"That is so sweet but it sounds like Sheldon needed some convincing."

"Yes he did. His wake up call finally came when I agreed to go out on a date with another man. One of his acquaintances, Stuart, he owns the comic book store Sheldon always goes to, asked me out."

"You went out with someone Sheldon knew? You go girl."

"Yes, well, Sheldon showed up on our second date and asked me to be his girlfriend. I of course said yes. He showed up at my apartment that night with our relationship agreement."

"What the heck is a relationship agreement?" Jessica asked.

"Hey what's taking so long in there?" Amy heard Penny asking.

"Sorry, I was telling Jessica about Sheldon and my relationship." Amy answered.

"Yes, she was just getting to the part about a relationship agreement." Jessica said.

"Well continue your story while putting a dress on." Bernadette said.

"Okay we will."

Jessica got the dress off the hanger. "So you were saying, a relationship agreement."

"Yes, it is a contract of sorts. It really was strict at first. My fiancée is a germaphobe. He doesn't like touching people. So he set up boundaries for our relationship. Basically at first it was just a title. I was his girlfriend, but we did nothing that normal couples would do. We didn't kiss or hold hands or obviously sleep together." She continued her story while putting on the first dress.

"So when did that change?"
"It took a long time to break his walls. He held my hand for the first time almost two years after we met and six months after we became official. He kissed me for the first time on Valentine's Day two years after becoming official. Things just were slow, but it was okay with me. I knew how he was. But I knew he cared."

"You are very patient." Jessica said. She zipped up the first dress. "What do you think?" She asked.

"I like this. Let's see what the girls think" Amy answered.

They walked out of the fitting room and the girls turned.

"Oh my God Amy. You look amazing!" Penny said. "And you thought sleeveless wasn't for you."

"I like this but I still feel really exposed. Do you think Sheldon will like it?" Amy asked concerned. She had never shown this much skin to him in clothing.

"Sheldon will love whatever you are wearing. You know how he is. You are beautiful to him no matter what you wear." Penny answered her.

"Still I think I want to try the others on." Amy said.

"You do what is best for you." Bernadette told her. "I tried on fifteen gowns remember?"

"You are right. Let's try the one with the sleeves." Amy said.

"Your call." Jessica said. "Now it took him over two years to kiss you, why?" Jessica wanted to hear the rest of the story.

"Well I tricked him into going on a romantic weekend for Valentine's Day. I took him on a vintage train ride for dinner. He met this man who loved trains as much as he did and he kind of ignored me the entire night. When I called him out on it, he went on a bit of a tirade trying to show me all the romantic things we could do. He drank wine, stared into my eyes and then kissed me. He was doing it to spite me but then he took two steps forward and put his hand on my hip. That's when I knew it had changed."

"Oh wow. It sounds very romantic." Jessica said.

"To me it really was. I knew then that he really cared. When we got back from our trip he immediately changed the relationship agreement to include kissing. It was totally his idea. I never argued. Things had been going so well." Amy said.

"Had been? Why do I have a feeling this story is going to take a turn for the worse?" Jessica said, taking the first dress from Amy and giving her the next choice.

"Well Sheldon is a physicist. He worked in the field of string theory. He had been studying and working on it for almost twenty years."

"Twenty years? How old is your fiancée?" Jessica asked. She knew you had to be pretty smart to work in science. She knew a little bit about the field but not enough to study it.

"Thirty-five." Amy answered. "Before you start trying to figure it out. My fiancée got his doctorate at sixteen. He is what you call a child progeny and genius."

"Oh wow. So what happened?" Jessica said impressed.

"Well he decided it wasn't for him. A lot of things started changing around him. His roommate and best friend got engaged and wanted to move in with his fiancée."

"Makes sense." Jessica said to her.

"I know. And then when he asked his boss if he could change fields, he was told no. Sheldon doesn't like change, except when he wants it. So Leonard wanted to move out, he couldn't change fields, I said something dumb about me moving in with him and his comic book store burned down. He couldn't take it anymore. He took a bus to Pasadena's train station and bought the first ticket out of Pasadena."

"He didn't say goodbye to you, did he?"

"Nope, the only reason I knew he left was because Leonard and Penny had found him there. If they hadn't found him, I don't know when he would have let us know he left. Needless to say, our relationship took a bit of a break."

"How long was he gone?"

"Forty-five days." Amy answered. She had just gotten the dress laced up.

"Wow. What happened when he got back?" Jessica asked. She finished the last laces. "Tell me you gave him hell."

"Well…." Amy started. She looked at herself in the mirror. "Oh I really don't think this is the one." She said.

"Do you want to show it to the girls?" Jessica asked.

"I guess, but I'm not a fan."

They went out of the room and Amy stood up on the stand.

"Oh Amy, I don't think so." Bernadette said.

"I agree." Penny nodded. "That one is too much."

"I'm glad you think so. I don't like it at all." Amy said. "I thought I would want something that covered me more but this is terrible. One more to go."

Jessica and Amy went back to try on the last dress.

"Now what happened when Sheldon got back?" Jessica asked. This was the best story she had heard in a long time and she wanted to hear all about the happily ever after.

"Well he called Leonard, his roommate, when he was robbed and never even bothered to call me. Thankfully, Leonard had the sense to ask if I wanted to go with him to pick Sheldon up in Arizona. Needless to say, Leonard did not have a pleasant six hour car ride with me. I couldn't believe Sheldon had called him instead of me. I was pissed. Then when we got to the police station, Sheldon had the nerve to ask me why I was there."

"You are kidding?"

"I wish I was. The car ride home was all about his trip. Finally, I had had enough when he was playing some kind of guess the type of ketchup game. I asked him if he couldn't tell I was stewing for two hours while he rambled on. He thought I was bad at the game. I told him I was mad and explained that he didn't call or say goodbye then didn't call when he was in trouble. I had no idea where I stood with him. He said he didn't want me to know he failed. I couldn't stay mad. He was worried I would be ashamed of him. I know it is lame and I should have stayed angry but to see him so vulnerable melted my heart. I was in love with him even if he wasn't with me. So much has changed in a year."

"That was only a year ago? By my calculations you have two more years of relationship to tell me about."

"No our five year anniversary is the day we met. We have talked and talked about when our anniversary was and we have celebrated our first date as May and September but then finally just decided that it was the day we met. We established that we had been seeing each other since then even if we didn't start actually visually seeing each other until the September after we met. So our five year anniversary was two months ago in May."

"Okay that makes sense. So what all has happened in the last year."

"Oh so much. After he came back, he worked on being a better boyfriend. I never had to remind him about kissing me. We made up all missed dates. He was just so attentive. We even took this compatibility test and scored an 8.2 out of 10. We were meant to be but something was missing."

"Oh what was that?" Jessica was curious.

"I just didn't know how he felt. I knew I was head over heels in love with him and I had to tell him but I was so afraid that he didn't feel the same way."

"So how did you tell him?"

"This is the best story ever." Penny said sticking her head in the room.

"Oh Penny you scared me." Amy said.

"Well you were taking so long back here, I decided to come back and see what you were up to. I heard you telling the Shamy love story."

"Shamy?" Jessica questioned.

"A juvenile amalgamation of our names. Sheldon and Amy, Shamy. A term which I used to hate. However all my friends use it so I have learned to live with it. Sheldon on the other hand still thinks it is stupid. Don't say it around him."

"I think it is cute." Jessica said.

"Me too." Penny said. "So you were about to tell Jessica about the prom."

"Prom? She said nothing about a prom."

"Because I hadn't gotten to it yet. We recreated prom since most of us had had terrible experiences with them as teenagers. We decorated the roof of Sheldon and Penny's building and got all dressed up."

"Sheldon had a panic attack." Penny interrupted. "Because Amy looked so gorgeous."

"Really?" Jessica said.

"Well yes as my friend Penny here so eloquently put it yes. He panicked. Not just because I looked so pretty, his words, but because he was afraid I would force him into doing something he wasn't quite ready for. I was waiting for the night he would ask me to stay over. It hadn't happened in four and a half years. Apparently some of our friends had told him it was expected that one lose their virginity on prom night and he just assumed I expected it as well."

"You guys still hadn't had sex?" Jessica asked shocked.

"No we hadn't. As I said, he had issues. I told him that night that just because he thought I looked pretty didn't mean we had to spend the night together. This made him much more relaxed. I told him I was always hoping."

"And then you told him you loved him?" Jessica asked.

"Not exactly." Amy answered.

"What does that mean?" Jessica asked her.

"Well I started to tell him. I said and I will quote it exactly because this is the one thing I will always remember. I said 'Sheldon, there's something else I've been wanting to say, but before I do, I just, I want you to know that you don't have to say it back. I know you're not ready, and I don't want you to say it just because social convention dictates…'" Amy said.

"And then what?" Jessica was hanging on threads. She needed to know what his reaction was.

"He interrupted me and said he loved me too."

"What?! That is amazing. So he knew what you were going to say." Jessica shouted.

"Yes he beat me to the punch."

"That is about the most beautiful story I have ever heard. So you lived happily ever after." Jessica said. "Now here you are getting a wedding dress. This is the best love story."

"Oh that isn't the end of it." Bernadette said, joining the girls after hearing Jessica let out her scream of shock.

"What do you mean?" Jessica asked. "You know I haven't heard the proposal story."

"Well that is the other part of the story you haven't heard." Bernadette said.

"So what happened? How did he propose? Was it romantic?"

"Sheldon Cooper romantic? HA!" Penny shouted.

"I think he can be very romantic." Amy said. "And even though the proposal wasn't what you call romantic, it was very much us."

"That is very true." Bernadette said.

"Okay so what happened?" Jessica loved this part of her job. She always loved hearing the love story that brought a bride into her little shop.

"So things were going very well for a very long time. We had a few bumps, like when he thought he could ruin Christmas by buying a gift. Before you ask, let's just say he has this theory that you must give if you receive a gift and it must be of the same value. So he got me this amazing gift thinking that since I didn't get him anything I would ruin Christmas. Little did he know that I had in fact gotten him something so perfect it made him love Christmas again."

"What did you get him?" Jessica asked.

"I made him his grandmother's cookies. I called her and got the recipe. He loved them. I got more than one kiss that night."

"So sweet. But you said some bumps, what else?"

"Oh there was the little bump about him telling Penny that it was his birthday."

"Hey that was a question in the intimacy test that you agreed to let us take." Penny said.

"Oh it was not a question. I know what question he answered with the answer being his birthday. It had to be about communicating if he were to die that night. He probably thought it would be satisfying to know you died on your birthday."

"Wait, how would you know that was the question?" Penny asked confused.

"I'm confused. What are we talking about?" Jessica asked. Bernadette was a bit confused as well since she wasn't around at the time this happened. She had heard briefly about some kind of test but not any real details.

"Amy heard about this test that can make two people fall in love in a matter of hours by asking a series of questions to make the others gain true intimacy. Her fiancée and I took it as a joke but he revealed to me that he would feel comfort in knowing that he died on his birthday. This was something no one knew, not even Amy."

"Seriously, Penny, you thought Amy didn't know when Sheldon's birthday was?" Bernadette asked. "They tell each other everything."

"Of course I knew. We celebrated every year together. We didn't do presents just dinner and a movie of his choice or mine on my birthday. We didn't go out that night because he wanted to see a movie that started the following weekend. I agreed. So we had dinner with you guys and then that silly test came up. I know I brought it up but it was still upsetting to me. Don't worry Penny, I never thought that you guys would fall in love. But I was upset that he told you about his birthday. I kept his secret for five years and he told you that night."

"So your boyfriend took a test with Penny to see if they could fall in love? And you were okay with that?" Jessica asked. "You guys sure do seem to have a strange relationship."

"We do but Penny's fiancée also agreed so I didn't think it was that big of a deal. Sheldon and I did the test a while ago and we are even closer now."

"You guys did? Leonard refused to do it with me." Penny said.

"I can only imagine why. You don't need that kind of a test to know how absolutely perfect for each other you are. The way he looks at you all the time. And the things he says. I sometimes wish Sheldon said things like that to me. He is getting better but still." Amy said.

"Yes but we would be married by now if we had taken that test. He may have come clean earlier." Penny admitted.

"That is true but you are still getting married in less than a year and that is what counts." Amy said.

"Okay back to Amy and Sheldon." Penny said, changing the subject. She had no desire to rehash bad memories from months prior.

"Yeah I want to know about the proposal." Jessica said. The girls seemed to forget about the reason they were in the store.

"Okay we had bumps but we are on the same page. We had a fight about Mars that was solved by him asking me to go with him. We had our first sleepover after having childlike fun in our fort."

"You guys sound like such a fun couple." Jessica said.

"They take getting used to but they can be really fun." Bernadette said.

"Okay now the proposal." Jessica said.

"So he was going to propose on our fifth anniversary but we got in a huge fight and then I asked him for a break."

"Wait what?" Jessica was now very curious as to how this couple got to where they were. She had said their anniversary was just months before but now she was saying that she broke up with him. "You broke up with him?"

"No, I asked for a break. I needed time to think. He had said something really stupid while we were finally making out on his couch. It was the most intimate we had ever been. I asked him what he was thinking about and then he asked me if he should watch the Flash TV show."

"He asked that in the middle of making out?" Jessica said.

"Yes. It got me thinking and I needed to decide what I wanted. I didn't think we were on the same page. Luckily for me, Sheldon didn't take what I said seriously and he was at my doorstep three hours after I told him I needed time."

"Awww…" All three girls said, even though Penny and Bernadette had heard this story.

"Yes well he said it was all his fault. He basically said everything I wanted to hear and left. He was willing to give me the time I needed. Then I went to his place an hour later and we made up. We broke up for all of four hours. The making up part was the best. Way better than some distracted make out session. Later that night I was at Penny's having a girl's night catch up and when we went back, Sheldon was asking the guys the right way to propose. I told him he should just ask me. We had to talk again. I needed to know when he got the ring. I found out it was his grandmother's ring and his mother had brought it out to him earlier in the month. He called all our friends back into the room and he asked. I obviously said yes."

"That sounds perfect to me. All your friends were present and he asked. It is very romantic." Jessica said. "Now let's get you in this dress."

The girls all helped Amy in the last dress. It was tea length with lace. It had short lace sleeves. It was beautiful. Once Amy was fully in the dress, the girls turned her toward the mirror. She knew it at once. This was the dress. Amy started to cry. She never thought she would ever see herself in a wedding dress and now here she was and she looked amazing.

"Amy it is absolutely stunning." Bernadette said.

"You look beautiful." Penny said.

"I have to say, it is perfect." Jessica told her.

"I love it. This is my wedding dress." Amy said.

I have a picture of the wedding dress now as my picture from this story. I hope you like what I picked. It is perfectly conservative for Amy.

Reviews are always welcome.