This is the day Bobby Santiago and Lori Loud have waited for ever since they started dating 10 years ago at age 13.
Their relationship has endured many things, from Lori's younger brother Lincoln trying to avoid Bobby's younger sister Ronnie Anne and causing a temporary break-up before they reconciled as Lincoln and Ronnie Anne got into a relationship of their own, to the Santiagos moving to Great Lakes City to live with other relatives with the last name of Casagrande.
At that point, Bobby and Lori's relationship temporarily became a long-distance one until Lori started attending Fairway University in a Great Lakes City suburb.
While Lori wasn't occupied with college related activities and Bobby wasn't occupied with running the bodega, the two planned their wedding, which was to be the first of many weddings the Loud children would be in.
And the day was finally here. The Loud and Santiago-Casagrande families were about to become one. And this wouldn't be the only wedding between a Loud and a Santiago. Lincoln and Ronnie Anne were to get hitched in the future, but they weren't quite ready for it, they were only 17.
As well, Lana Loud and Carl Casagrande had crushes on each other, now that they were 12 they started communicating with each other online more.
The entire Loud family was at the wedding, as was the entire Santiago-Casagrande family. Of course it wouldn't be a Loud family wedding if Lynn Sr. didn't get very emotional at it. He was expected to do so at all his kids' weddings.
Luna Loud and her band, the Moon Goats, were to provide the musical entertainment. Lynn Sr. and Rosa both made the food for the reception.
Luna and Lincoln weren't the only ones of Lori's younger siblings to bring their dates. Leni brought Gavin, Luan brought Benny, and Lucy brought Rocky. Leni and Luan had graduated high school by this point, and Lucy was in high school.
Both Lincoln and Ronnie Anne also insisted their respective friend circles be invited to the wedding. It would be at this wedding that Clyde and Sid met, and they immediately felt a connection. Lincoln and Ronnie Anne got excited that their BFFs were falling in love.
Now 12-year-old Lola, Lana's twin sister, served as the flower girl. Lori's female friends Whitney, Carol, Marisa and the female friend who was never named on-screen served as her bridesmaids. Par was Bobby's best man.
Now was the time for Bobby to walk down the aisle to the stage where he and Lori would exchange vows. He would do so with his dad and his best man at his side.
Once he was there, Rita, Lori's mom, walked the eldest Loud kid down the aisle alongside Lori's bridesmaids. Lola tossed the flowers which were caught by Ronnie Anne.
The priest began to speak. "I have been told that Bobby Santiago and Lori Loud have written their own vows. I shall allow them to proceed."
Lori spoke her vows first. "Boo-Boo Bear, ever since I first met you 10 years ago at Royal Woods Middle School, it seemed destined that we were meant to be together. Now here we are, about to become wife and husband. I've been waiting for this day for 10 years, and now I can say with pride that I, Lori L. Loud, take you, Roberto Alejando Martinez-Milián Luis Santiago, Jr., to be my husband."
Bobby said his vows next. "Babe, these past 10 years have been a real ride because I've had you by my side the entire time. And now today begins the next phase of our lives, as husband and wife. And we won't be the last in our families to get married. I look forward to the days our combined family gets bigger and bigger. For I am proud to say that I, Roberto Alejando Martinez-Milián Luis Santiago, Jr., take you, Lori L. Loud, to be my wife."
The priest began to say something else. "If there is anyone who has any objection to the wedding of this couple, I advise you to speak now, or forever hold your peace." No one at the wedding objected to Bobby and Lori getting together. For it was clear they were meant to be.
The priest spoke again. "I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss the bride."
Bobby soon kissed his significant other for the first time as a married man. And not surprisingly, Lynn Sr. got very emotional witnessing this.
It was official. The Loud family and the Santiago-Casagrande family were now one. They had always had a strong alliance, now there was a married couple among them. From this day forward, Lynn Sr. and Rita's eldest daughter would go by the name of Lori Santiago.
At the reception, the Moon Goats performed classic rock love songs, while everyone there got to enjoy the cooking of Lynn Sr. and Rosa. The newlywed couple wanted both of them to jointly cater the wedding, because they felt choosing just one would not be fair to the other. The Loud kids decided this would be standard for all their weddings in the future, even as only Lincoln and Lana were set to marry a member of the Santiago-Casagrande family.
The Moon Goats' set included a song from 1984 by an Illinois band named REO Speedwagon, "Can't Fight This Feeling". It was very applicable in this case. It was a song about how a friendship blossomed into romance.
Bobby and Lori first became friends in elementary school at age 9, and it developed into a romance when they were 13. This is exactly how the relationship between Lincoln and Ronnie Anne evolved, though those two first became friends at 11, and after years of insisting they were just friends, announced at age 15 they were dating.
In this time, Ronnie Anne developed a friendship with one of Lincoln's more tomboyish sisters, Lynn Jr., which Lincoln insisted happen. As such, Ronnie Anne took on a number of Lynn Jr.'s habits, and that only strengthened the bond between the two.
Alas, there were still several weddings involving Loud kids to get to before Lincoln and Ronnie Anne could get to theirs.