"You want to what?" Warrick looked at Nick doubtfully as the news that he'd proposed to Sara and that they wanted to get married on Valentine's Day started to sink in.

"Sara wants to get married on Valentine's Day." Nick repeated with an amused smirk on his face. The surprised look on Warrick's face that he'd proposed to her and that she'd actually said yes made Nick think that perhaps Warrick's ears had been momentarily short circuited.

"I heard what you said, but this is Vegas and if I was willing to wager, I'd say that Sara isn't the type to get married the way that Tina and I did." Warrick regretted that; he wished that he'd taken the time to have a wedding that his friends could attend, but since his Grams had passed on and neither he nor Tina had much in the way of family, it had seemed like the logical thing to do at the time.

"She's not." Nick let out a chuckle. "In fact she specifically said that we'd have to get out of the car for our ceremony." Nick was a little nervous about trying to pull everything together so quickly, but Sara was stubborn sometimes and he'd learned after years of friendship that he needed to let her figure out certain things on her own.

"Doesn't make it any less legal." Warrick held up his left hand and flashed the band of gold surrounding his ring finger. He wondered to himself if he and Tina had taken the time to have a proper wedding if they'd have even gotten married at all. He loved her, but he didn't know her as well as he'd always thought he'd know his wife before he married her. He had a fleeting thought that maybe he should have taken a chance with Catherine when he had it, but her promotion and then him meeting Tina had turned the tide on that dream. He was just going to have to push out thoughts of what might have been and embrace what he already had. So far, he was having a good time and Tina seemed to adore him.

"Yeah, well, we're looking for something a little more than 'just legal'." Nick teased, still not sure what this wedding was going to look like and when they'd actually have time to plan it. At the current rate crimes were being committed in Vegas, they'd be lucky to have time for a drive through wedding.

"She does realize what she's getting herself into, doesn't she?" Warrick had known Nick for probably longer than any of the other CSIs and they were close friends; he had met many of Nick's family as they'd come through town and visited now and then and he knew that Sara really didn't have anyone. He wondered how she was going to fair being swallowed up by the enormous Stokes clan.

Nick looked at Warrick quizzically. "I'm gonna treat her right." He knew Warrick was pulling out the big brother card and he wanted to reassure him that his intentions were pure. He wanted to marry Sara and it wasn't a decision that he was taking lightly.

"I know you will." Warrick replied with a serious expression on his face. "I was talking about your family." He didn't need to go into detail about Sara's lack of family; they were all well aware that no one with the last name Sidle had come to visit in the nearly six years Sara had lived in Vegas. Even her friends from college seemed to be few and far between, having had similar all encompassing careers and not much motivation to take vacation.

A flicker of recognition dawned in Nick's eyes. "Oh, yeah, well, she did pretty well with my sisters when they were here in November and my parents were here last spring." He didn't mention exactly why they were in Vegas; he didn't really feel the need to bring up his ordeal since they all knew that the last time his parents were in town was because he'd been kidnapped.

"But she doesn't have a family." Warrick was thinking more about how he would have felt if Tina had as big of a family as Nick did; as it was, her only relatives were all on the other side of the country and he'd only met them once when they'd flown out east for a few days around New Years.

"Yeah she does." Nick smiled genuinely. "You guys are her family." He counted the people that he worked with as being almost closer to him than his family and he knew that when the chips were down that they'd always be there for him. He knew that was true for Sara too.

The sound of someone clearing their throat caused Nick and Warrick to glance up from the evidence they were sorting through. Catherine stood there with an arched brow and an amused smile. "If you two are done here, Grissom wants to have a pow wow to go over what we've got." The call for all hands on deck had put the team out to investigate a triple homicide and now they were down to sorting through what they'd collected at the scene in one of the layout rooms.

"Did Nick tell you his big news?" Warrick gestured towards Nick with one of those looks that said 'just wait until you hear this one'.

Catherine's interest was piqued. "News?" She had a fairly good idea what the news was given how distracted Sara had seemed at the scene earlier and she thought she'd seen something a bit sparkly on her finger. A smug smile spread over Catherine's face as she watched Nick's face light up.

Nick could tell that she already knew. "We're getting married." He couldn't stop his grin from growing even wider.

"Congratulations, Nicky." Catherine was genuinely happy for him; she had watched him go through his fair share and then some of girls she just didn't think were good enough for him. She'd even had doubts at first at how long he and Sara would last, but the idea had grown on her as she'd watched them together and she knew that they would balance each other out well.

"Thanks, Catherine." Nick looked rather pleased with himself as he began to place evidence they still needed to examine on one side of the layout table and that they'd already checked for possibility of trace on the other.

"Yeah, but just wait until you hear when they want to get married." Warrick looked skeptical that they could pull off a wedding in less than two weeks.

Catherine glanced at Nick and just arched a brow expectantly.

"Valentine's Day." Warrick continued dryly.

"That's the week after next." Catherine looked at him doubtfully. "Are you planning on a drive through reception too?" She knew that to pull together a wedding in that amount of time even in Vegas would be quite the undertaking and she wondered if either Nick or Sara had any idea what they were up against.

Nick felt a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach and shook his head. "No, Sara wants a real wedding, a small wedding, but a real wedding." He wondered to himself if maybe he could call in a few favors from his sisters for all of those disastrous blind dates they'd set him up on in exchange for a little footwork to help Sara out. Of course, that would mean he'd actually have to have called them to let them know that he was engaged; something that he and Sara hadn't quite gotten to before they'd been called in to work.

"On Valentine's Day." Catherine had a slightly worried expression on her face. "Do you have any idea what's involved in planning even a small wedding?" She would do anything she could to help out, but on such short notice even getting a dress would be a challenge.

"Well, that was the first date we had in mind." Nick sounded worried. "We haven't exactly had a lot of time to talk about it; I just proposed to her a few hours ago."

Just then the woman in question appeared in the doorway seemingly oblivious to the conversation she'd walked in on. "Hey, guys, Grissom wants to know what's taking so long." Sara smiled in Nick's direction and then the corners of her mouth twitched downwards as she noticed the expression on his face.

"I hear congratulations are in order, Sara." Catherine decided right then and there that it would be in everyone's best interest to try and help them make it happen rather than have Sara fall apart at a crime scene from the stress of wedding planning reality.

"Uh, thanks." Sara smiled in spite of the fact that Nick looked really worried and the sinking feeing she had in her own stomach.

"Valentine's Day, huh?" Catherine gave both her and Nick a reassuring smile as an idea formed in her mind. "I think I might just be able to help you out."