By the way, I don't actually know exactly how marriage ceremonies work

By the way, I don't actually know exactly how marriage ceremonies work. I've only been to a few weddings, and I sat near the back at those weddings, so I couldn't really hear anything. And I'm definitely not a vicar. So yeah, sorry to all the vicars reading this who know the wedding thing inside out if I've made a few mistakes.

I hope I've made that clear and I don't want to get loads of reviews saying 'Urgh, you made loads of mistakes in the marriage ceremony and that means you're stupid and the story stinks!!' if I do make mistakes. Feel free to point my mistakes out to me but please do it nicely.

Rant over lol. Enjoy the chapter everyone!!

The Wedding

The organ player started to play 'Here Comes The Bride', as Spinelli walked down the aisle, looking beautiful in a long white dress with her black hair in an elegant bun. Her father was stood next to her, dressed in a suit, his arm linked in hers, ready to give her away. Give her away to someone who she didn't love, who probably didn't love her and she could never be truly happy with.

Behind Spinelli were her bridesmaids- Gretchen and a couple of her female cousins, wearing pastel blue dresses, looking gorgeous. Spinelli could see a lot of familiar faces sitting in the pews- Vince and Ashley A, Mikey and Kurst, Gus, and some other people from all three schools she'd attended- including Miss Finster, who was a very old lady by now. Miss Finster was a very strict teacher at Third Street School, and a close friend of Spinelli's parents.

On the very front pews were Spinelli and Byron's families. All of Byron's family had the same blond hair, tall, skinny figure and pointy faces. And Spinelli's family- her big brother Joey and his wife, and her mom, taking her mother of the bride role very seriously by buying herself a huge, flowery hat.

Then at the front of the church was Byron himself, with one of his friends who he'd chosen to be best man, and the vicar, who had a white beard and was holding a Bible.

Spinelli got to the front of the church. Byron smiled at her and Spinelli gave him a small smile back, but she didn't feel like smiling. It was her wedding day. It was meant to be the happiest day of her life. But it was anything but that.

Here she was, at the front of a church, about to promise to some guy she didn't even love that she would love him forever.

Maybe they could get a divorce, but Byron would still be entitled to everything Spinelli had, and it could get messy- Spinelli didn't want to end up in court.

"We are gathered here today in holy matrimony to celebrate the marriage of Byron Marshall and Ashley Spinelli."

And so the ceremony went on. They sang a few hymns and exchanged the rings, until they'd got up to the crucial part: the I do's.

"Do you, Byron Marshall, take Ashley Spinelli to be your lawful wedded wife, to have and to hold, to love and to cherish, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do you part?"

"I do," Byron said, smiling at Spinelli.

"Do you, Ashley Spinelli, take Byron Marshall to be your lawful wedded husband, to have and to hold, to love and to cherish, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do you part?"

Spinelli bit her lip. "I do," she said. If I'm stuck with Byron till death, here's to hoping I die early, Spinelli thought. But in a minute she wouldn't be Spinelli. She'd be Ashley Marshall.

Yuck.

"If anyone knows of any reason why these two may not be wed, you should speak now or forever hold your piece." A/N- that's where the title comes from D.

It was that very moment the back door of the church flew open. "Stop the wedding!" A familiar voice cried out, and Spinelli smiled, a real smile this time.

Wearing a backwards red baseball cap with a suit was a look only TJ could pull off.