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Everything in Italics is on the screen.

It was the morning of the engagement party and everyone was busy. Tristan had just gone out to pick up Ty, Laura and Noah from the airport and Lorelei had finally cornered Rory.

"So Tristan has some pretty good friends, flying all the way up here for his engagement party." Rory smiled.

"They are amazing, but Tristan's paying for it, so it's not like they are going too far out of their way. Plus, it's really his true family. It means a lot to them to be here today."

"Rory, why do I get the idea that there is something else going on here today that I don't know about?"

"Because there is, but I don't know the secret either. Now I've got to go finish helping set up the gazebo. I know nothing about this, but knowing Ty, it's going to be fabulous." She grinned and started walking away.

"This conversation is not over!" Lorelei screamed as the front door slammed shut.

OOOOO

When Tristan saw the trio walking towards him, he couldn't contain the smile that spread over his face.

"Hey guys." He said as Laura hugged him. "How was the honeymoon?"

"It was great, we learned how to Scuba dive." Laura replied.

"Amongst other things." Noah winked.

"So, how many people know about this surprise wedding?" she asked quickly changing the subject.

"Well, us, the three of you, and the pastor."

"Not even Lorelei?"

"No, although I'm pretty sure she suspects that something is going on because she was trying to grill Rory when I left. Come on, I'll help you get your bags."

OOOOO

"Honey, I'm home!" Ty yelled as he entered the house.

"Ty!" Rory came around the corner and jumped into his arms. "I'm so glad to see you! Please tell me what's going on."

"No, I'm here to make sure you don't leave the house, but I brought reinforcements." He said opening the front door again to reveal Laura. Rory reached out, grabbed her hand, and pulled her in the house. Lorelei was standing just outside the living room. She hoped to grasp some information from the strangers.

"Are you home alone?" Laura whispered. Rory shook her head and Ty pretended to zip his lips.

"Mom? Where are you, come meet our guests." Rory shouted with a smile on her face, knowing where she was.

"Coming," she said as she walked in. Ty glanced at Lorelei and then took a better look.

"Rory, you didn't tell me you had a hot mom." He said under his breath.

"Hi, I'm Lorelei. Welcome to the Hollow."

"Mom, this is Ty and Laura. Her husband, Noah, is Tristan's best man, but they both seemed to have disappeared."

"They are off doing secret things. This place is turning into an Agatha Christie novel." Lorelei smiled.

"I just wish I knew what they were up to." Rory said. "I don't like secrets."

"Noah wouldn't even tell me what was going on, so don't look at me." The three women turned to Ty.

"Don't worry, Tristan doesn't know either. He's at an undisclosed location."

"You've kidnapped my fiancé?" Rory gasped.

"Just momentarily. He'll meet you at the gazebo. We just wanted to do something special for you two. Trust me, it's going to be great." Rory rolled her eyes.

"Ty, why do I get the feeling that phrase will come back to haunt me?"

"Now I know you may not trust me, but I have Noah, and a few other people helping me out."

"Like who?"

"Oh now I've said too much. Gotta run!" He said as he left the house in a hurry.

"Ty! Come back here!" Rory yelled, but it was too late, he had already gotten in Tristan's car and was driving away.

OOOOO

Rory took one last glance in the mirror as a single woman. She had a beautiful white sundress on and was just finishing her lipstick when Laura came pounding on the door.

"Ror, come on. We're going to be late." She opened the door.

"I'm almost ready." She said with a smile.

"You're getting married tonight." Laura whispered. "Are you nervous?"

"Not at all, I feel like I'm just going to another party. I guess when you live with the guy, nothing's really changing. I already had my panic attack months ago."

"Come on, let's go shock the world." They walked to the town square together. Rory had yet to see it at night, but it was gorgeous. There were twinkling white lights everywhere and candles all over the gazebo. It was perfect. It was then that she noticed the huge white screen in front of the gazebo.

"It's part of the surprise." Laura whispered.

"You knew!" Rory said accusingly. She nodded guiltily and kept walking. "I can't believe you knew and didn't tell me!"

"Well, it was a surprise!" Just then Tristan spotted them and he found it hard to breathe. Rory looked like an angel in her white summer dress. He was reminded of that night at the garden party when he first spotted her in the moonlight. She walked over to him and smiled.

"Hi." She said.

"Hi." He replied.

"So, you nervous?" she asked, trying to make the moment as light as possible. He just shook his head and leaned in for a kiss.

"Hey!" Laura broke the moment before he got the chance. "Everyone's here so if you don't mind, we'd like to get started."

"Great timing!" He shouted to her retreating form.

"I try." He grabbed Rory's hand and they headed up to the front table and chairs. Everyone was starting to sit down at various tables and when everyone had found a seat, Noah began.

"First of all, I want to thank everyone for coming out tonight to celebrate the engagement of my dear friends Tristan DuGray and Rory Gilmore." Everyone cheered and clapped and he continued. "Now, I've known Tristan since he was seventeen. However, even at the age of seventeen, I had already missed the previews and the beginning of the Tristan and Rory movie. So as the best man, I asked Tristan to give me a Cliff notes version of what the beginning was like. However, he didn't know that I was secretly taping the entire session. My lovely wife Laura did the same thing to Rory and this is what we came up with. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present "Mary and Bibleboy: Chapter One." Rory and Tristan were both laughing and slightly embarrassed that they had been involved in their own surprise. The movie began, with a baby picture of Tristan. Ty was narrating.

"Tristan Janlan DuGray was born on…."

"Ty, skip ahead a bit will you?" Noah's voice said cutting off Ty mid-sentence.

"Where to?"

"Just let me do it." Everyone laughed. The movie was cut off and started over. "Our story starts with Rory's first day of Chilton." The movie cut to Tristan sitting on the couch at his apartment in North Carolina.

"She was new and I immediately wanted to know who this naïve girl was. I offered to help her study." Tristan started laughing. He remembered this conversation.

"I met Tristan at Chilton, on my first day of school. The first thing he did was hit on me." Rory laughed and pointed at him. "He kept calling me Mary, which drove me crazy."

"She was someone who was different, I was totally intrigued by her. She was the only girl at Chilton who refused to have anything to do with me."

"He drove me nuts. He was always making out with girls in front of my locker. He was a total player and I wanted nothing more than to be rid of him.

"I knew she had a boyfriend, but I asked her out anyway. She refused, multiple times."

"He just kept asking me out, like I would suddenly change my mind."

"Then at the formal, I got into a fight with her boyfriend."

"He tried to beat up Dean."

"It was stupid, but I was really stupid back then." Rory laughed and agreed.

"Things really started to change after that."

"Then came our first kiss." The crowd started oooing.

"I had just broken up with Dean and I was feeling miserable, so my mom sent me to a Chilton party."

"My girlfriend Summer and I broke up at the party. I retreated into a side room to sulk."

"He was just sitting at the piano. And for the first time, we really talked."

"She was so genuinely nice, even after I had made her life miserable."

"He said 'You're really odd, you know that?' and then it just happened."

"And then I kissed her. And then she started crying."

"I started crying and I ran out of the room." Rory nodded ashamed.

"It's true." She told the crowd.

"I figured I had blown any chance I had with her."

"The next time I saw him, I tried to explain that it had nothing to do with him. I don't think he believed me. Anyway, after that we sort of became friends."

"She told me the kiss didn't make her cry, but I never believed her. And then she got back together with her ex-boyfriend."

"And then we were thrown together to do the play."

"Romeo and Juliet. Like the universe hadn't tortured me enough."

"And to make matters worse, we had the end scene."

"I once again enjoyed making her nervous. I got to kiss her in front of Dean, which was something I could definitely hold over his head."

"But we never got the chance to perform it, because ten minutes before the scene, he was no where to be found."

"I had gotten into some trouble involving a safe."

"Then he comes in and tells us he can't perform because he's being sent away to military school."

"I got to say goodbye to probably the only person I would ever really miss at that school."

"And I was sad that he was leaving. Which completely took me by surprise. Then being his typical self, he said 'So I'd kiss you goodbye, but your boyfriend's watching. Goodbye Mary.' And he walked away."

The movie stopped and everyone clapped. Noah returned to his position.

"Well, two days after that fateful night. Tristan wandered into my life and we hit it off right away."

"Brothers from another mother." Tristan pointed and shouted up to Noah.

"It's true, but he told me about this girl. His Mary." He said looking at Rory. "By the time that we had graduated we were both different. We had grown up. We went to UNC, happy to be surrounded by women again might I add. And I found Laura."

"Ahhhh." Rory said.

"And for the first time, I understood what Tristan was talking about. Well, Tristan made a trip back to Hartford this spring to visit his cousin. There he met his cousin's girlfriend, who turned out to be none other than His Mary. Of course, as luck would have it, Rory and Logan were breaking up. Tristan and Rory immediately fell head over heels in love with each other, grateful to have a second chance to continue what they started all those years ago. And now, here we are." The crowd clapped and cheered again.

"Now that you know what happened in their past, I can tell you something about their future. Rory, you look beautiful tonight by the way, I know that you make this man very very happy. I'm so glad you are a member of this family. Tristan, don't do anything stupid to let her get away again. She loves you, and we do too." He got down and gave Tristan and Rory hugs.

"It's show time." Tristan whispered as he grabbed the microphone out of Noah's hand.

"Thank you. You are too kind." Tristan said to the crowd. "Let's give Noah and Laura a hand for their creative and wonderful presentation." Rory grabbed Lorelei and pulled her to the back of the crowd.

"What are you doing?"

"I have a surprise for you!" Rory whispered as she picked up a bouquet of white roses.

"I know we told you that this was an engagement party, but we lied." Tristan said.

"Rory, why are you holding flowers?" Lorelei said in a nervous voice. Just then the screen was removed to show the Reverend standing with his Bible. The crowd gasped.

"The wedding is tonight." Rory said. "And you are giving me away."