The news of the Glinda the Good's engagement to her childhood sweetheart was the biggest news to hit Oz since the disappearance of Ozma herself. Glinda's mother had been beside herself with joy from the second Glinda had told her the day after Nikko proposed. Since Glinda was the public figure that she was, Larena had taken it upon herself to take care of most of the preparations for the wedding, arriving at the Emerald City Palace a couple of days later to stay with Glinda over the engagement period, leaving her husband and Glinda's father at home to fend for himself.
Of course some details required Glinda to plan them. For her wedding dress Glinda had chosen the gown she had bought from a dress salon on her very first visit to the Emerald City, when she accompanied Elphie all those years ago on her quest to see the Wizard. It was long and white with sparkly silver sleeves and sparkly silver bodice. She had bought a silvery-grey crown inlaid with two diamonds to wear on her wedding day.
For her bridesmaids Glinda had chosen her old friends from Shiz; Milla, Pfannee and Shenshen. She wasn't particularly keen on being around these girls again; they were snobby and superficial. Just like she had once been. However she knew it was social protocol for someone of her status to have bridesmaids at her wedding, and since Elphaba was not an option, these three girls were the best she could get.
Glinda found herself so busy during her engagement that she barely got any time to be alone with Nikko until the day of the wedding arrived. And of course, as was customary with any wedding, she wouldn't be able to see him until she walked down the aisle to become his wife.
The morning of her wedding, Glinda sat quietly at her vanity in her underwear applying her make-up while her mother rushed around manically. Glinda was after all, an only child, and Larena wanted her daughter to have the fairytale wedding she had always dreamed about.
Larena withdrew Glinda's wedding gown from her closet and laid it on the bed and waited for her daughter to finish her make-up, before helping her into her dress. Glinda sighed. She had never worn this dress before, in all the years that she had owned it. In spite of everything that had happened, she really did miss Elphie.
"My baby," Larena gushed, her eyes filling with tears. "Sweet Oz, you're growing up. You look beautiful."
Glinda smiled as her mother kissed her cheek. "Now," she said distractedly. "I must go and find your father."
So while Larena went looking for her husband, Glinda peeked into the adjoining room to see how her bridesmaids were going.
They were all in the room, squabbling over mirror space as they tried to apply the eyeshadow and lipgloss; wearing the identical baby-pink gowns, with an emerald green satin belt. Glinda had led everyone to believe she'd chosen green to represent the Emerald City, but in actuality it was to honour her Elphie. 'Pink really does go good with green,' Glinda smiled to herself looking over at the girls as they huddled together for the last minute preparations.
She walked back into her room and catching sight of the clock on the wall, withdrew the crown from it's case on the vanity and smiled as she looked into the mirror and slid the shining silver crown onto her forehead. It was time.
As she walked down the aisle behind Milla, clinging so tightly to her father's arm she thought her knuckles might pop, Glinda had to force herself to breathe. When Milla reached the altar and Glinda got the first look of her husband-to-be though, she gave up on that plan.
She had never seen Nikko look so handsome before. Granted, she had always found him attractive and since she had fallen in love with him she had thought he was even more handsome, but today he looked like a god to her mind. He smiled at her as she stood opposite him, clearly just as entranced with her as she was with him.
The rest of the day passed in a whirlwind and before Glinda knew what was happening, she was stepping into a carriage with Nikko, waiting to be escorted off to their new life together. As she settled herself inside, she heard a tinkling sound. She smiled as she looked at the sparkly bracelet on her wrist. It was silver, with tiny jewels in a repeated pattern; an emerald, a rose quartz, a sapphire, a ruby and a diamond. She'd had it specially made during her engagement by the best jeweller in the Emerald City. It was supposed to represent all of her friends; the emerald for Elphie, the sapphire for Fiyero, the ruby for Nessa and the diamond for Boq. And of course, the quartz represented her.
As the carriage pulled away, out of the gates of the Emerald City and towards Gilliken and Mockbeggar Hall, Glinda looked over at her husband and pondered on her situation, and suddenly, for the first time in weeks, the night of Elphaba's death came floating back to her memory. But it didn't make her sad. The conversation she had had with Elphie moments before she had melted began replaying inside her head. And that's when it truly became clear; what she had said to Elphie about people coming into other's lives for a reason was true. And now she saw the reason. Glinda was sent into Elphaba's life to provide her with a true friendship; Elphaba was sent into Glinda life to show her that life consisted of more than clothes, parties, boys and popularity. And Nikko had come into Glinda's life to heal her grief and provide her with true love.
Glinda's wedding dress and the circumstances in which she gets it are explained more in my fic One Short Day.
And at that, I must bid you Ozspeed. Never fear I have plenty more adventures coming from the Wonderful World of Wicked. I hoped you loved this fic as much as I did.