Oliver and Louise's Wedding, but it's from the POV of their friends, Emily and Ethan. There thoughts and feelings as they watch the other two tie the knot. Fun idea huh? Let me know what you think. I will tell you right now that I suck at writing weddings so bear with me.

Oliver and Louise Tie the Knot

(Emily's POV)

I rose early this morning to help my friend, Louise Rachel White prepare for her wedding to my brother Oliver John Munch. I've been waiting almost as anxiousouly as Louise has been about this day. As I've helped her plan I've made plans for my own in my mind. We found her a beautiful off-white dress in Dodge when we went and I think she's going to look beautiful in it. I also like my own dress and I hope that Ethan is going to like it. It's pale blue taffeta, with out a lot of frill. I know Ethan and he doesn't like a lot of frill. It has a scooped neck on it and short sleeves, just perfect for summer. I am sure that this dress will become his favorite, even as much as he loves my yellow one.

I go into Louise's room and first look in on the sleeping Jesse. At almost four months old he has to be the cutest baby I have every seen. All wispy hair and chubby cheeks. His eyes are big and brown, which just makes him look a little like Oliver as a baby. His hair has a reddish cast but is beginning to look more brown than red. I kiss his cheek and leave him sleeping then I go and shake Lou awake. "Lou, it's time to get up." I say.

We had wrapped her pretty red hair into tight curls the night before and this morning we would take them out and fix her hair all up for her wedding day. "Emily, it's not time to get up yet, is it?" Lou asks me coming awake, but not fully.

"Yes it is my dear." I say in a soft voice to not wake Jesse. "I have to fix your hair and it's going to take a while."

We get started on her hair and my father comes and knocks on the door. "Emily? It's Papa." he says.

"Yes Papa. What do you need?"

"Well Oliver and Ethan are here to haul Louise's things over to the house. Are they ready to go?" my father asks.

I turn to Lou and ask, "Lou are your things ready to go?"

"Yes there all piled up in the corner. Go over there and make sure they take the right things will you?" Louise asks me.

I go over, wave down the stairs at Ethan and he smiles and waves back. Then I go and show my father the things that Louise needs hauled to Oliver's house. As soon as I do that I rush back into my own room to finish helping my friend get ready.

I pull the pin curls out and let them fall until her hair looks like a red, curly waterfall, and then I begin to carefully pull it up and pin that waterfall up on the back of her head. She cries when I take out the hand mirror and show her how pretty she looks. "Thank you, Em." she says. I hug her shoulders and we both allow ourselves to cry for a few minutes. The next thing I do is apply make-up lightly to give my pale skinned friend a little color into her cheeks.

"There now you're a blushing bride!" I say to my friend.

My friend sits with me and dresses her son while I fix my own hair and apply light make-up as well. I know that I am not the one getting married that day but I fix my hair just as carefully as I did Lou's. I want Ethan Stabler to be proud to have me on his arm today. When I am done and Louise is finished dressing Jesse into a little suit that my mother had that was once Oliver's. I help her into her wedding dress. It is so pretty and makes Lou look so young and refreshing. "Lou, this dress looks so beautiful on you." I say.

We cry, again. The off-white material goes well with Louise's hair and eye color and makes her look absolutely radiant. It is adorned with lace and small beads along the hem. Looking in the mirror in my room Louise asks me again, "Do you really think that Oliver will like it?"

I look at her, "Of course Oliver will like it! He's going to love it, because he loves you. Lou, you could wear a gunny sack up that aisle and Oliver wouldn't care because he only has eyes for you my friend."

That makes us cry again as we finish getting ready. Half an hour later we step down the stairs to see my waiting family, minus Oliver. Everyone tells Louise how beautiful she looks and Alexandra takes over the care of little Jesse. I am so proud of my father, he has stepped up and told Louise that he would give her away because he own father was not there to do it for her. I have encouraged Lou to write her family and tell them that she is married and that she had the baby, telling her that maybe her parents would change their mind and accept their grandson into their life. Louise has refused so far though; she doesn't want them to spoil her new life with talk of the past and the horrible thing that happened to her.

My family has accepted Louise whole heartedly into their fold. My mother loves being a grandmother to Jesse and says that she can't wait for Oliver and Lou to have more children. My father is the same way; he is already talking about all the things that he plans to do with Jesse when he is older, especially now that he is retiring at the end of the year. We all go out and gather into the buggy, as Oliver, Ethan and Ethan's family are all waiting at the church for the ceremony to begin.

(Ethan's POV)

I came into town early this morning and helped Oliver move Louise's things into their new house. Oliver has been living here for almost a month now and from the looks of things the place could use a woman's touch. I make the promise to myself that when I ask Emily to marry me and I have her move into my house I'm going to have Ma clean it up a bit before she moves in. I'm standing in the front of the church with Oliver, waiting for this to begin. My parents and brothers and sister are setting in the pews waiting as well. Pretty soon the pastor's wife begins to play the wedding march and Emily comes forward. I almost stop breathing at the site of her, she's so pretty. She told me the other day that I would like her new dress better than the yellow one that I always seem to favor and I'm sure that she right. I wonder how Oliver will feel when he sees Louise coming down the aisle in that white dress if I feel this way about seeing Emily in that blue dress. She smiles at me and I smile back and give her a little wink.

Louise comes next and she's on the arm of John Munch. She looks pretty too, I think to myself but I don't have the same reaction to her that I did to Emily. I guess that's how a fella knows the girl is right for him. I let my eyes stray to Oliver and can see that he is having the same reaction to Louise as I had had to Emily.

I stand a few feet back from my friend, making constant eye contact with Emily as we listen to the words that the preacher is saying to the two people we are standing up for. Never once do I let my eyes wander from Emily's. I can see the tears in her's as the preachers pronounces her friend and her brother husband and wife and I watch them fall as they kiss for the first time as man and wife. As they walk out of the church arm in arm, I move over, like we had rehearsed doing the night before and offer my arm to Emily. She takes it and we follow the happy couple out the door. I have an urge to kiss Em right here and now in front of everyone but I know that it's one that I can't give into. I have to restrain myself until later.

(Emily's POV)

My brother and Louise had a beautiful wedding. So simple but yet so elegant. I looked at Ethan the whole time the pastor was reciting the words that would bind Oliver and Louise together for the rest of their given lives.

Once Oliver and Louise precede us out, I take Ethan's arm and we follow. Before we reach the doors that go out of the church I turn back to get Jesse and see my mother with him. She is in grandmother heaven so I leave her be. I look at Ethan and he motions towards his own buggy. We are supposed to be going back to my house for a wedding reception. I follow Ethan and he helps me in and then we follow Louise and Oliver in Oliver's carriage. The rest of the wedding goers will make their way over there on their own.

When we took off I look over at Ethan and say, "Oh wasn't that a beautiful wedding Ethan!" I say.

"Yes, it was." he replies. "Louise made a pretty late June bride. You did a nice job fixing her up this morning."

"Thank you." I reply. "Did you help Oliver pick out her wedding band?" I ask.

"Yes." he says.

When we arrive back at my house, Ethan goes and parks behind our buggy house and when he parks, he kisses me. It was a kiss so full of want and need that I nearly faint. "What was that for?" I ask him, swooning.

"For being the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. You know I only had eyes for you this morning, standing up there." Ethan said.

I roll my eyes and kiss him again, lightly, "Yes, I noticed."

We get out of the buggy and are the first ones to greet the bride and groom. I hug Louise and tell her how happy I am for her and then I hug Oliver. "Make her happy Ollie." I say into his ear.

"I will." he says back to me. Then he kisses my cheek.

Later that evening Ethan and I took a drive after all the excitement of the day. Louise and Oliver spent the day at my parent's house, greeting well wishers and eating and drinking with the rest of us. Ethan and I both felt like we were on emotional overload so we decided to take a little drive. It was a drive that would change my life, forever.

(Ethan's POV)

I took Emily for a drive after the festivities ended this evening. After today and all that went on, I decided that I had to tell her. I know that we've only been together as a couple for a few weeks but I've known her my whole life and I just decided that now was the time to say the words that I'd been holding back for days and weeks.

We drove out of town and ways to a nice stand of trees, the same stand where the church picnics and socials were usually held. I helped Emily out of the buggy and led her over to a log. It was smooth from years of people sitting on it, probably young couples like Emily and I. Young couples doing what Emily and I were doing tonight. The sun was still up but it was slowly going down so there was a little light coming down through the branches and leaves. I lead Emily over to the log and have her sit and then I sit down next to her. "Em," I say, swallowing hard, "I have something that I've been wanting to say well for a lot of years now I guess." I'm having trouble looking at her now and I can feel myself getting nervous. My palms are sweating so I wipe them on my pants and take her hand in mine. Gee, it's small, I think to myself. Small and soft, especially compared to my big, rough paw.

"Go ahead and say what you want to say Ethan." she says to me. Always the understanding one, she is.

I finally just let the words out, "Em, I love you. I-I've loved you probably since I was a boy I just didn't know how to tell you."

Emily starts crying then, and that scares me. What did I do wrong? Why is she crying? I look at her, the fear probably showing in my eyes and say, "I'll take it back if you don't want me sayin' things like that."

She smiled at me then, "No Ethan." she said, taking her hand and placing it against my cheek. "I love hearing you saying that, because I love you too. I guess I could have said it sooner to you too."

I smile at that and then take my thumb and wipe the tears off her cheeks. "That's good to know, Em. That's real good."

What did you think that he was going to get so caught up in the marital bliss that he would ask her to marry him? Please R&R.