I'm gonna have so much fun wit this chapter! Especially since I have resources, after listening to my mom plan her wedding and stuff... even though it was canceled, but o well!

Zuko: Are you high?

Katara: Zuko, be nice

BF: Yeah, Zuko, be nice!

Zuko: You know you haven't done a disclaimer for about two chapters?

BF: CRUD! Do a disclaimer, then!

Zuko: When you're done explaining everything!

blueflame: sighs fine. This is the long awaited wedding chapter. Basically, almost the entire chapter shall be based on the wedding and reception. If I get to tired, it will just be continued in the next chapter. Most of you probably have realised that I'm big on detail most of the time, so... if this starts to sound boring, please point out why and in which part, so I can fix it? Katara is nervous, scared, and excited all at once. And poor Zuko isn't even allowed to see her. Yay for torturing Zuko! (It's always fun to torture these kinds of guys, huh?) And as for the smell of the three candles together. I had this shampoo by Herbal Essences, and those were the three plant things that it listed on the front of the bottle. It's a green bottle, if you happen to come across it. It just smelled so nice!

I have this whole boring part on instruments on here. I don't know why I do, so please, don't ask. Besides, it makes the chapter longer. All of the instruments in here look exactly like the ones in current production, and the Sonki horn, which i kno i spelled wrong, looks and sounds like it did when Iroh was playing it in episode 13, when Zuko was comming back from saving Aang. I'm sorry if some of my info is off. If you notice something, please point it out to me and I'll see what I can do on fixing it. I really want to be as accurate as possible. I like learning, when it doesn't involve school.

Zuko: Heheh... blueflame17528 doesn't own ATLA, or any other shows that she refers to in this show. The only thing that she owns is this plot, her twisted ways of thinking, and her insanity. ... Are the last two ones the same?

Katara walked with Kianna along the aisle way, checking out how the decorations looked so far. The young water princess was stunned, and thrilled. Her wedding was looking really, really good right now.

A very light shade of blue ribbon was tied in bows at the ends of the aisles, a white lily placed in each center. The wedding was outside, with the golden rays of the first sunlight that morning casting a gorgeous shade of light over the whole scene. A large fountain was off several yards away, and Katara noticed a beautiful white piano sitting in between two of the many collumns that were set up around the wedding area, forming a kind of court. Vines twisted up around each collumn, red roses budding all along the stems. Silvery, silk-like material had been hung between each set of two collumns, waving elegantly in the breeze.

Katara couldn't have asked for anything more. Growing up in the South Pole, she had always thought that her wedding would be some simple ceremony out in the snow. This... this was FAR beyond what she had ever imagined. And Kianna kept saying it really wasn't such a big deal.

"Katara, come along! We still need to check over the reception area!" Kianna called, already on her way to the gorgeous marble building ahead.

"Comming!" Katara hurried after her future sister-in-law, anxious to see what the second part of her wedding would look like. Yet again, Katara was left to gape.

"Is it really that beautiful to you?" Kianna laughed, her eyes shimmering. She had been the one to set the color scheme, and a lot of the other designs, for the wedding. So, of course, she was very happy to see that the bride to be loved her work.

Kianna really had done a nice job. The building was shaped like an L, only the upper, verticle part was much thicker than the stem comming off of it. That stem actually was open to the court outside, apparently showing that the reception was both indoors and outdoors at the same time. Katara loved how the room was opened through the archways... it just gave it such an elegant touch. She gently ran her fingers along the carved collumn, feeling the bumps and cool stone. Outside was beautiful enough, too.

The floors looked to be porcelin, freshly polished so that it gleamed in the sunlight. A golden harp was set next to a piano on a raised stage, with several other instruments that Katara tried naming. She reconized the flute, clarinet, tamborine, and hand drum. The other items were unknown to her. Kianna guided her over and picked one of them up. It looked like a horn...

"This, is a trumpet. Actually, I have a certain disdain for them. I have no idea why, considering how, when played well, they sound rather good. I guess it's because they almost always have loads of parts in music, while the flutes end up having rests that are up to 12 or more measures long." Katara smiled, nodding in agreement. Kianna set it down and picked up another horn-like instrument. "This is the Sonki horn. Actually, Zuko plays this really, really, really well. Better than I play the flute." Kianna laughed, a glowing smile on her face.

Zuko plays an instrument? It surprised Katara, but she shook the thought from her head, pointing to a longer, hooked instrument with keys. "What's this one called?"

"Oh, that's the saxophone. My little brother can play that really well, too. Actually, Zula can play the clarinet, too. The three of us used to play songs together, Zuko on sax, Zula on clarinet, and me with my horrible flute playing. The three sound really good together, considering that they're the three most common wood-wind instruments." Katara was a little surprised at the last statement. Only one of the three instruments was made of wood, and that was the clarinet. The other two had metal in them, the flute entirely made of metal.

"That's weird, my GranGran always told me that the flute was a Brass instrument." Kianna blinked, then began laughing.

"Oh, wow. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude, laughing like that. It's just that, I know people think 'woodwind' isn't the best name for something made of metal, but I've never heard of them as being reffered to as Brass Instruments. That's... that's funny..." She continued laughing, wiping a tear from an eye and moving on. Katara grinned, enjoying Kianna's company.

"Girls! Come, you need to make decisions on last-minute preparations!" Yolane called from the archways in the building. Kianna grinned wolfishly, eyes flashing with mischeif.

"Kianna, please, be nice. Yolane's very... high matinence. She freaks out about the slightest thing going wrong, and her screams could seriously kill an ear drum, no matter how small or quiet she tries to be. Her voice is trill enough as it is." Katara warned, holding a gentle hand up in front of Kianna. The older girl smiled more kindly, nodding.

"You really are wise beyond your years Katara. I am truly proud to call you my sister in law, and I know that Zuko is even more proud to call you his wife. Now, as soon as we get this wedding moving, we'll actually be able to call you those things! Let's go see to those last-minute preparations, shall we?" She grinned, strolling towards the archs. Katara smiled, shaking her head then following the lively fire princess.

The inside part of the reception looked to be just as grand as the outside. Katara admired the glistening marble floors, along with the beautiful invory drapes that hung over the full length windows. The material was thin and shimmery, letting the sun streak through it and making it dance along the floor as the curtain billowed in the breeze. Ivory table clothes were set delicately over many, many round tables, currently with nothing set on them. At the head of the room was a longer, rectangular table, with blue triangles cutting through the ivory at each corner. This table also had nothing set.

Countless workers were bustling around, fixing the table cloths, re-polishing the spots they missed on the floor, running over designs with others, and some just plain losing their minds.

One lady hurried over to Katara and Kianna, a clipboard in her hands. "I beg your pardon, your highnesses, but there is nothing here for what you would like for the table center pieces. Could you chose one from the examples?" Katara's brightened up even more, and she looked at Kianna with a grin as they nodded and followed the woman.

"It's not like you to miss something like that..." Katara had a feeling that Kianna had purposely left some blank spots, so as to give Katara the oppurtunity to chose a few things in the wedding. Normally it was considered unfit for a Princess bride to plan her wedding, and it was left to whichever princess would become her sister. Kianna knew that it would really make Katara happy if she got to pick out a few things, so she had set out the main stuff and waited for Katara to fill in the blanks.

Katara eyed the table of examples carefully, realising just how hard it would be to choose. Kianna pointed to several of the pieces, then explained, "You actually might want to choose what color and scent of candle you'd like, first. That way they can put your choice in these pieces that would hold a candle, and you can see the true effect." Kianna looked over her shoulder at the man who had been waiting for them to finish, a nervous look on his face. "Hey, calm down. We're not gonna bite you," Kianna smiled now facing the man. Katara did the same, a gentle look on her face.

"Sorry... I, I just needed for you to pick the candles, like you just mentioned. We have all of our colors and scents over here, if m'lady would please come with me to choose?" Katara nodded, following the man with Kianna right behind them.

Katara knew that this wouldn't be as hard. She actually chose quite quickly. The light blue ones with the silver design up the sides for indoors, and the deep scarlet ones with the same designs, only in gold, for the outside. The man then took out a few candles for each color, looking at the labels on the bottom before setting them on the counter in front of the princesses.

"Each of these are different scents," He explained, laying the labels with each scent before their matching candle. "You can choose to have the same scent for both colors, different ones, or up to two scents for each color. Unless, of course, you find that another combination of more than two scents smells good..." The man was loosening up, noticing that the ladies were kind and gentle. He wasn't about to get his head bitten off.

Katara smelled each individual candle, furrowing her brow a bit in concentration. "Do you think you could light the lavendar, rosemary, and orange flower, please?" Katara asked, wondering. The servant nodded, but Kianna cut him off.

"Please, allow me. I really haven't done much fire bending recently." She smiled, then breathed deeply, snapping her fingers. Instantly three of the blue candles were lit, along with three of the red ones. She used her air bending to circulate the smell faster, and her eyes widened a bit in pleasant surprise. It smelled really, really nice.

"Yeah, I like these ones. Um, how about we do lavendar and rosemary inside, and rosemary and orange flower outside. The scents are likely to mingle together after awhile." The servant nodded, smiling. The girl had good taste for a water bender. He brought the packages out to be set with her choices, grabbing a few for her examples for the center pieces.

Katara waited until her candle choices had been set in the pieces requiring them. There were eight different pieces, but two of each, so that Katara would be able to see how it looked for both red and blue. The first set was rather pretty. The candle was set in a hurricane lamp with white flowers around the base with the blue candle, and more cream-colored flowers around the red one. It was nice and simple, but Katara didn't believe it would do the rest of the set justice. Moving on was a piece that she really adored. The blue candle was set up on an intricate sort of silver stand that was placed on a round mirror. Also on the mirror were smaller tea-light candles in the same shade of blue, set in silver containers. A few petals from the same kind of flower as the first example were scattered around it, as well as small treats in wrappers, such as chocolate covered strawberries and candy. The red candle was similar, only the silver stands were gold, and the flowers matched the same as the ones for the last red candle. The servant explained that they had many, many different treats to place on them. The effect of the lighted candles was beautiful, but the most beautiful was the red and gold set.

Once the candles were ignited, the light seemed to make the flower petals glow, and the golden light danced and reflected in the mirror everything was set on. Katara knew how wonderful it would look in the dark, but the indoor color scheme was blue and white, and those colors for this set didn't look as nice. She decided that, since most of the reception would actually take place when it was dark out, she would have this set up for the outdoors, but would choose a different one for inside. Kianna smiled, greatly approving of Katara's choice.

After looking through the rest of the designs, Katara became weary of how many things she still had left to do, and that she would run out of time. She decided to go with the first set she had been shown for the inside set up. Next she was hurried over to a display of dining ware. This only took about five minutes, her choice being whisked away to get placed in it's spot. She told the musicians several songs which should be played, picked out the napkins, and countless other things. By the time she was heading back to the small palace, it was almost noon.

The palace they were staying in for the time being was grand yet subtile at the same time. Katara had been pleased to find out that they would not be living in the Fire Lord's palace, rather than their own on an island some ways away from the capitol city. She was told that their home would look much like the one they were currently in, only much, much bigger.

Back in her suite, Katara was shooed up onto the raised square over in front of the three way mirror, her maids rushing off to get her dress. All of the final arrangements would be made right then and there. Katara looked up when she heard a knock on the door, smiling as Kianna and Zula walked in with Yue and Odette materializing beside them the second they were inside.

Yue looked to be in much better spirit, smiling brightly as she talked with her four friends. Katara was honored to have the two goddesses here on her wedding day, and relieved to see that Yue was happier than what Kianna had said she'd been like almost a month ago.

"We're here to help you get ready for the wedding, so your finickey little maids don't give themselves heart attacks." Zula stated, helping the other girls to take the dress from said maids' hands and ordering them to go find something else to do.

"We know how to sew and stuff, so there's no need to worry. And now we can talk while we get you ready, and you won't be bored out of your mind." Kianna grinned and helped Katara into the white, glittering gown; holding it so the other three could do it up.

The four girls were dressed plainly, in outfits all very similar to the one Katara used to wear when traveling, only, the colors were different. Each girl had a thread and needle in their hands, making adjustments where neccessary. Kianna worked on bringing in the waist and chest of the dress so that it hugged Katara closely, yet not uncomfortably. Odette was adding blue silk to the train, letting it ruffle out elegantly and working so that the white hung over the edges of it loosely; a breeze would blow the bits of white back a bit and reveal the rest of the blue piece. Zula was working on sewing in the remainder of the glitter designs, and Yue was finishing up the hem.

Katara looked in the mirror and gulped, bitting her lip as she felt her heart constrict. She was in her wedding dress. She was going to get married. The thoughts poured into her mind and she breathed deeply, trying to calm her racing heart.

Each one of her friends noticed it, too. "Hey, relax, Katara." Zula smiled and reached up, resting a comforting hand on Katara's shoulder. "Just breathe, you'll be fine. We know this must be scary, but... think about the good things, too."

"Zula's right, Katara" Yue agreed, nodding and looking up from her work. "I mean, I was terrified of my wedding since the day it was decided that I would be married. You have a growing relationship with Zuko, and you're getting feelings for him. I can see that one day you're going to be believing this the best choice in your life."

"It's not marrying Zuko that I'm worried about," Katara explained, smiling slightly then taking a few ragged breaths, still trying to keep the tears from falling. What was going on? Why was she so terrified? "I... I'm already in love with him. I can't wait to be called his wife, really, I swear. It's just the wedding in and out of itself. I mean, I'm getting married. To the man I love, yes. So... so why am I so terrified?"

"Everybody is terrified before they get married. If you're not, then the relationship may need some questioning. After all, if it's perfect, then, chances are, it won't last long. I can see this marriage lasting a long, long, long time." Everybody turned at the new voice, and Katara let the tears fall, only, now... they were happy ones.

"GranGran..." She choked out, smiling and crying and feeling she might burst with emotional over load. Having finished with the dress, the other four girls put away their materials as the old lady came in to join them; she, too was dressed in a plainer outfit so as to help get some work done before the wedding.

"You look beautiful, Katara." Kana whispered, her own tears forming as she hugged her grandaughter.

"Thank you..." Katara murmured, ecstatic. How did she get here?

After about half an hour, all of the girls were sitting and talking, Katara's dress hanging up and ready to be put back on. Another knock on the door brought a hault to their conversation, and Zula got up to answer it. Opening the door about two inches, she peaked out, scowling playfully at the boy standing outside.

"What do you want?" She asked, grinning.

"To talk to my sister!" It was a defiant demand, and Katara reconised the voice almost instantly. Sokka.

"Fine. But if you're going to visit with her, we'll have to get her dressed and ready first, or we won't have time later. Wait out here for a second." Sokka would have said something, but he door was closed in his face. Ten or fifteen minutes later, it was opened and Katara's five guests stepped out, needing to go and get their own dresses on.

"We'll be back in about twenty five minutes. No stealing her away while we're gone, because we will hunt you down and you will not like the kind of target practice we'll use you for." Kianna threatened in a joking tone. GranGran smiled. After hearing them talk for awhile, Kana had come to find that having Zula and Kianna as grandaughters wouldn't be a bad thing at all. She liked their spunk.

Sokka scowled and walked into the room, the door closing behind him. He stopped abruptly when he looked up, gaping at his little sister.

Her hair had been curled and then set up in a bun, several of the springy locks of hair hanging around the piece holding them up, and one wavy piece of hair curving along the side of her face. Pearl-ended bobby pins were set to show the contrast to her dark chestnut hair. The dress was a shimmering white, with designs sewn in with glitter along the upper layer. The top was a V-neck that stopped right before where clevage would start to show. Silky, ruffled material was used for her sleeves, which didn't sit on her shoulders but instead hugged the part of her arms right below them, covering about five or six inches of her upper arms. A silver ribbon lined her waist line and along the dip between the skin on her chest and the fabric.

"Sokka, you came... how?" Katara was stunned. Both her grandmother and brother were here, and she hadn't expected anybody from her village. And now Sokka was just standing there, and she was beginning to get nervous.

"Katara, you look... amazing..." Sokka shook his head in disbelief. His baby sister was getting married. It was just too much to really fathom. He walked over and hugged her tightly, closing his eyes and whispering. "I'm so proud of you..."

Katara blinked, and began to cry once again. "I didn't think you guys were comming, it was just so far away from home... and now you're here, and GranGran..."

"And Dad and Grandpa." Katara's head shot up at this and she stared at Sokka, disbelief written across her face.

"Dad? Grandpa? But, how? How do you guys all get here?" Katara wanted an answer, and she wanted one now. Sokka motioned to the chairs and they sat down, Sokka sighing and leaning forward, his elbows resting on his knees."

"Your future husband, that's how. He sent his ship down to the South Pole. The captain, Lieutenant Gi, I believe, talked to us and gave us a letter from Zuko. Zuko had said that the wedding was in almost two weeks, and anybody who would like to come was more than welcome to, and that they would be given a ride on this ship. There were special notes for me, Dad, Pakku, and GranGran. He said that he knew it would mean a lot to you if you got to see your family here, and if our dad was the one to walk you down the aisle."

Katara sat there, smiling and wiping away the continuous stream of joyful tears that were running down her cheeks. "He had said that his ship was off somewhere when I had asked before, but when I asked exactly where he had just smiled and said that it was a secret. A surprise." Katara laughed a little, feeling a wave of warmth in her heart at the thought of her fiance.

Sokka grinned and stood up, hugging his sister again. "It's almost time for your friends to come back, and I don't really feel like listening to a bunch of girls chat about what ever girly things you guys... well, chat about. So, I'll see you later. Good luck, Katara." Katara smiled as she watched Sokka leave, and she put a hand to her heart, feeling it flutter with nerves and excitment, love and hope. There was nothing to worry about. She was in good hands.

Man, I just realized that I could end the entire story right there. But, that would be kinda evil. So, instead, I'm going to end it in another few chapters and I promise to make a sequel on their life as a married couple. Okay, so now a few things to mention that I couldn't say in the middle of the story cuz i didn't wanna ruin the mood.

A.) Yes, I do realize that there was no interaction between Sokka and Yue, and that I had said that most people wouldn't be able to see the goddesses. Well, if I explained everything it'd probably make ur head hurt or just get u very confused, because I'm just a very confusing person and I just had a whole lot of caffiene, so... yeah... But I didn't want to take up a whole lotta space in this chapter to go through Yue and Sokka's emmotional roller coaster. But, I am gonna work on it eventually. I think it would make a very emotional chapter. However, one of my reviewers said they liked how this was a light story, so I'm gonna try and keep the angst down a bit.

B.) So I didn't put the wedding in this chapter after all. It will definately be in the next one though, I promise.

C.) Okay, for those of you who wanted a juicy lemon for the story. I made one, but it is posted as a different story than this one. It's called 'Here It Is'. You could always just find it in my user lookup. This story is where I'll put all of my lemons, and I'll try and notify you when I post one. But if it looks like there's a lemon scene missing in here, you'll most likely find it there. Does that make ne sense?

D.) I have another lemon story too; a oneshot. Title is 'Hold'. TY Spleef for the boost of confidence, as I didn't really think that the lemons I wrote were that good. O, I heard that there r places i can go for tips on how to write a good lemon, if ne one kno's of a few, could you please let me kno? The tips could inspire some citrus. Please let it be subtle, though... I don't wanna go to some hentai site...

C.) Wow, I actually wrote a pretty long chapter, considering how short mine usually are. And I don't think it's even just the A/N's, either... is it?