I wrote this story a year and a half ago when someone on Tumblr asked me when Seymour got Audrey a ring, and I noticed she wasn't really wearing a big diamond in Somewhere That's Green. So this is my attempt at explaining that:

They weren't the only ones in City Hall that day. They didn't know what they expected going in. But they weren't expecting a wait. Though a wait wasn't such a terrible thing when they had a whole lifetime after this.

As Audrey sat on the waiting bench she examined the others. She noticed families with impatient children rolling papers into balls to toss. She noticed people standing lonesome nervously fidgeting. She tried to come up with stories for each of them. She wondered why they were there. Was anyone else here to marry the love of their life that day?

The reason behind them being here was fairly obvious based on their attire. Audrey knew she herself was being examined. Her newly repaired wedding gown made her stick out. But she didn't care. The gown was all she wanted for her wedding. The gown and the groom. Nothing else mattered.

Seymour sat just to the left of her. She could see him try to repress his excited smile. Like Audrey, his heart was beating very fast. Without realizing he began to twiddle his fingers. He didn't notice he was doing so until he felt Audrey grab his hand to steady them. She interlocked her fingers and gave his hand a squeeze. He smiled and rubbed his thumb against her hand. Suddenly a thought occurred to him and he jolted as if he had been shocked.

"Oh!" He exclaimed. Before Audrey could ask what was the matter he held up their interlocked hands moving hers to be on top. "A ring. Audrey I forgot to get you a ring."

"Oh," she said, as she herself had not thought of it either.

Seymour got up from the bench. Did he have time before to get one? Where would he? Should they postpone? He felt awful.

"I'm sorry Audrey. I'm so sorry."

Their hands were still interlocked and Audrey pulled him back down to sit beside her. She took his other hand.

"Seymour I don't need a ring."

He looked down at her hand. "But…"

"I don't. It doesn't matta' to me… here."

She let go of him and pulled her suitcase out from under the bench. She balanced it on her knees and flipped it open. Seymour watched as she dug around before pulling out a small floral cloth coin purse. He heard it rattle when she moved it. Audrey snapped it open and peered inside. A smile spread across her face before she reached her fingers in and pulled out a small silver band. Seymour had seen her wear it before on an average day in the shop. A small dinky little thing it was. Thin and sported no gems, real or fake. But by the way Audrey held it, it might as well have been the world's most rare diamond.

"This was my motha's ring," she explained in a hushed whisper.

Audrey snapped the coin purse closed and lay it back in her suitcase before shutting the lid and returning it to under her seat. She held the band in her palm.

"She didn't leave much. We didn't have much to begin with. But it's one of the few things I have of hers." She slipped it on her finger. "And now it'll be my wedding band."

Once on her hand it seemed to almost glisten.

"Are you sure?"

He didn't need to ask. She was beaming at it already.

"… can I give it to you?"

Audrey looked up at him and smiled, sliding it off her finger.

"Sure."

She handed it off to Seymour who held it gently between his thumb and forefinger. He got up off the bench and knelt before her. Something he hadn't done the first time he had asked her. It felt more real.

"Seymour Krelborn and Audrey Fulquard," they heard their names called across the room as if on queue.

"Will you marry me?" He asked quickly.

Audrey nodded, worrying she might cry before the actual wedding.

"Sure."

He slipped it on her finger and there it stayed forever after.

The two of them rose and interlocked their hands once more.

"You ready?"

As they entered into the back a thought came to Audrey.

"Seymour," she whispered to him. "That's the last time someone will eva' call me that. It won't be my last name much longa'."

He was already smiling.