Rex and Ahsoka's Marriage and Everyone is happy. Honeymoon destination is a resort in the mountains of Alderaan. The twins are three months old.
The chronometer started chirping at 0500. I woke up with a big grin on my face and butterflies in my stomach. Excited, I jumped out of bed, and hurried to the fresher to take a shower. As the steam filled up the shower, I wrote "Mr. & Mrs. Rex Tano". He was taking my last name because he did not have one as a clone.
Today was the day that I was going to get married to one of my best friends and someone I would follow to the end of the galaxy. As tradition, Rex and I had not talked since last night before our bachelor and bachelorette party. Padme, my matron of honor, had arranged for an evening out at The Pinnacle, an upscale restaurant in the Federal District. She met me there with Lucy, Falicia, Thalia, and Feather, my bridesmaids. As best man, Anakin was in charge of the bachelor party, and I know that he had taken Rex and some of the other boys in the squad to some club with beautiful women and a lot of alcohol. I was not mad though, because Obi-Wan had tagged along to keep the crazy dialed down, and make sure everyone was on time to the wedding, hangovers at a minimum.
I got out of the shower, and put on a tube top and some leggings. Grabbing my lightsaber and my ID, I headed toward the Jedi Temple, where we were getting ready for the ceremony, which was being held in the Tranquility Spire at the top overlooking the city of Coruscant. The Jedi had gone a long way from forbidding marriage to having the ceremony take place in their own temple. They even had the place decorated with flower from my home world, to give the temple a festive look, a present and a blessing from the Council.
Although I was excited for the wedding, I could not wait to get it over with, and get to the honeymoon. Rex had picked out the romantic destination of Alderaan, a resort in the mountains. We decided to get a hotel so that we could get room service, and not have to worry about anything. We could be alone together, just the two of us, as husband and wife. We left tonight. Anakin was letting us take the Twilight so we could come and go as we please. I was so excited!
When I got to the temple, I made my way to the rooms where the girls were getting ready. When I entered, I saw Lucy, Falicia, Thalia, and Feather were all dressed in blue silk bridesmaids dresses.
"You're here!" said Lucy. "Okay makeup first, then we will get you in your dress."
The girls buzzed around me as they got my make-up on, which was simple, but elegant. Then they helped me into my silky tribal wedding dress, pearl necklace and earrings, and boots. By the time we were done, there was a knock on the door.
"How is it coming?" said Padme, poking her head in.
"Padme, it is taking an army to get this done," I said laughing.
"I know. That is why you only wore a simple white dress for the rehearsal. You look beautiful though. I am really glad you decided to go with your traditional Togruta heritage."
"Well, I did not want to get married in my Jedi robes. There so plain. They say 'off to fight the Separtist' not 'happiest day of my life'."
Suddenly we can hear the wedding music started.
"I don't mean to rush you," said Padme, "but can she be ready in five minutes?"
"She's ready now," said Lucy.
They stepped back, and revealed me in a white floor-length dress with a swooping neckline lined with fur. I had on a long wood-beaded necklace and a small choker made of the same material. I had pink natural lipstick, and white eyeshadow on. Looking in the mirror, I felt like I was the tribal princess, and not the Jedi I knew I was.
"Do you think Rex will like it?" I asked.
"He will love it," said Padme. "Your gorgeous."
Anakin popped his head in. "Ladies its time." He looked at me. "Wow, Snips. You look amazing."
"Thanks, Skyguy. Let's do this," I said.
It never really bothered me that I did not have a relationship with birth parents. It actually does not really bother any of the Jedi. We form relationships with the people in the Order. They are are family, and we are all okay with the fact that we do not know our biological parents because we are busy living our amazing lives. It was only after I left the temple that I felt like I was alone and homeless. Those years of trying to find myself without Anakin or Master Plo at my side were heart breaking. When I died, Obi-Wan and Master Plo guilt tripped me into coming back into the order as a way to honor Anakin, but it felt like coming home. I actually found some sense of healing.
As I considered who I wanted to give me away, I realized that the only person that I wanted would be Skyguy himself. He trained me, protected me, loved me, and we were like brother and sister. I considered Luke, Leia, Jinn, and Ashla my nieces and nephews. Padme was like a sister to me, and I would do anything for Shmi. When I asked Anakin if he would walk me down the aisle, he looked at me offended, and said "Were you actually considering asking someone else?" I laughed. Yeah, Anakin was perfect.
"You nervous?" Anakin whispered, as we walked through the sea of people.
"No, he is like my best friend, aside from you," I whispered back.
"Good. Marriage is not a fairy tale, like I thought it was when I got married. But it is waking up everyday knowing you got somebody who will be there for the amazing things and the hard things. Never take it for granted."
"Okay," I said, as we inched closer to Rex at the slow tune of the wedding march.
"You are not listening to a thing I just said."
"I did. Marriage is a fairy tale."
Anakin laughed, and we kept walking towards Rex. Rex was in his dress uniform, a blue button up shirt and pants, with a jacket and tie. It had his captain's bars on it, and a military insignia. He was standing at attention, waiting for me to come down the aisle, but he was grinning wildly at me, and I was grinning at him. I could not wait until I got to him so that I could kiss him and claim him as mine officially.
When we got up to the altar, Skyguy kissed me on the cheek and then placed my hand in Rex's. We stood there as the holy man preached about something along the lines that Anakin said that marriage is about working hard to maintain a loving and healthy relationship and it's not all walks in the park. It was hard to pay attention because Rex was doing the hand signal for I love you into my hand, and I copied it into his hand. I started to fantasize about getting to the honeymoon suite.
Finally, the holy man got to the part where we exchanged vows.
"Ahsoka, do you take Rex to be your own true love? Will you be true to him so long as you are together? Do you promise to place his needs above your own and put him first, knowing he will do the same for you?"
"I do," I said.
As he repeated the same for Rex, I remembered when Rex and I discussed changing the vows to a more contemporary wording. The traditional words were meaningful if your parents said it that way, and their parents said it that way, but that was not the case for Rex and I. We both decided we wanted something simple and plain but meaningful, so we asked the holy man to change the wording of the vows.
"You are now husband and wife. Rex, you may kiss your bride!"
Everyone cheered as Rex gave me a deep kiss on the lips. It was soft and sweet, like a promise to hold me forever. At the end, we just hugged each other.
"I love you," he whispered in my ear.
"I love you too," I whispered back.
"Ladies and gentlemen," said the holy man, "I would like to present Mr and Mrs. Rex Tano!"
Everyone got on their feet and cheered and Rex and I walked down the aisle toward the reception.