47 : PLANNING THE WEDDING
They spent a week off at Tony's Hampton beach house to celebrate their engagement. Steve told her everything about how he plan this wedding proposal. Natasha was surprised that Fury and Hill even agree to this.
They came back to the tower after a week and the newly engaged couple were immediately swamped by their friends who were so eager with every detail of the wedding.
Pepper and Tony will pay for everything and handle most of the detail.
"Just tell me what you want, we will give you everything" Tony said
"We spare no expense. If you want a wedding in any exotic place…"
"Including space"
"Tony, we agree not to mention space"
"It will be super cool, Pep!"
Pepper ignored her husband "How about wedding in Tibet or Machu Picchu or under the beautiful sea of Thailand?"
The couple looked at each other. Steve nodded and Natasha replied "Can we just stay in New York please?"
"You got it" Pepper said and noted the detail down "What about the month of your wedding?"
"Of course she will want to marry in the winter snow! It's must be December because little red wants a Siberian weather!"
"She's a woman, Tony! It's must be June!"
"I don't know. I always want a wedding in June"
"TONY! She wants a wedding in June. I told you!" Pepper yelled "And now we have only six months to prepare the wedding!"
Darcy and Jane were so eager to snap and record every movement of the couple with their equipment while Dr. Selvig had to pull the two girls away because they might get snap in half by the irritated spy.
"We need as much picture as we can get so we can put the picture everywhere!" Darcy said
"And we need an awesome video about your relationship to show the guest at the reception"
"We don't want to show our private photos to anyone, Darcy" Natasha said
"You guys suck" The girl said and walked away.
Clint and Bobbi came to them with ideas about their wedding dress and color theme of the wedding. The birds insisted that they shouldn't stick to the tradition with white wedding dress and stuff but instead Natasha should wear a black wedding gown.
"NO!" Natasha yelled loudly at the birds
Even Bruce and Betty were excited to help them planned their wedding. The scientists came to them with a binder full of list of caterer and foods from every corner around the world. Natasha was really tired and needed some rest because they just got back from the Hamptons.
Natasha noticed that everyone was so busy with their wedding. Tony and Pepper were on the phone talking to someone. Jane and Darcy were busying with their video montage of Steve and Natasha while Thor and Dr. Selvig stood there, watching them.
"Guys! We will talk about this within three day!" The bride-to-be yelled and took her soldier's hand before went to their floor.
6 months before the wedding
Three days passed, faster than Steve and Natasha could notice. The happy couple just came back from SHIELD and suddenly met with all of their friends in the living area. They immediately knew what they want to talk about.
"Since we have only 6 months to the wedding. I took the liberty to assign everyone in this team their specific task to help me and Tony prepare your wedding" Pepper began. The couple nodded in acknowledgement. "First task at the top of the list, choose your wedding party"
"Dibs on the best man!" Tony exclaimed
"I won't pick you, Stark!" Steve said
"Pepper, can you be my maid of honor?" Natasha asked the CEO
"Of course!" Pepper exclaimed and hugged Natasha tightly.
"And Clint Barton, can you walked me down the aisle?"
"It would be my genuine pleasure" The archer said and smiled at the spy.
"Capsicle, it's time for you to choose too" Tony said
"Fine, you can be my best man" Steve replied and rolled his eyes "But my god son will be the ring bearer"
"Fair deal!" Tony exclaimed "Pepper's niece can be your flower girl"
Steve and Natasha sat down on the couch while everyone was busy planning their wedding. The couple didn't even feel any rush of their wedding. Maybe because of their friends were all over their wedding right now.
"What about the guest?" Betty asked.
"I don't know. I can think of you guys, Maria, Fury, Sam, Coulson's team…That's all" Natasha replied
"Yeah, I can only think of those people"
"Date and venues?" Pepper prompted
"Any day in June and anywhere that small and quiet and romantic"
"One more thing, I want Fury to be the marriage officiant" Natasha said
"If you want Fury to be your officiant, why don't you just held the ceremony on the helicarrier chapel, Red?" Tony asked
"It's my freaking wedding, Stark!"
"Do you want a wedding planner?" Pepper asked
"I thought you are our wedding planner" Natasha replied, frowned.
"I will hire Cristina Verger to organize this wedding. It will be fabulous!"
5 months before the wedding
Cristina Verger booked a date on Sunday 26th of June. Everything went smoothly as it could be. Steve and Natasha already talked to the wedding planner about the theme of their wedding, mostly it was Natasha idea. When she asked them about the venues they want to hold their wedding, Natasha told her that they might have to think about it again.
They came home after a very long day of searching the right place in New York to hold their wedding. Natasha and Steve took a shower and prepared to go to bed. Steve was busy with his mission report while Natasha went through her wedding checklist again.
Then, Cristina called Natasha on her cell and informed the bride-to-be about the venues. Natasha hung up and…
"STEVE!" Natasha yelled "COME HERE NOW!"
Steve ran into their bedroom and found his furious fiancee "What's wrong?"
"You're not gonna believe it!"
"What is it?" He asked again as he sat down.
"Tony wants to hold our wedding at Central Park with at least 500 people in the guest list!"
"You know him. He always does what he want"
"BUT IT'S MY WEDDING DAY! I'M THE BRIDE"
"Honey, calm down"
"Sorry, I yelled at you like that, Steve" She sheepishly said and laid on top of her fiancé. "I just want a small quiet wedding"
"We can run away if you want" Steve suggested. His hands wrapped around her small form "We still has Vegas…"
"No way in hell I will get marry in Las Vegas, Steven" She retorted "Where do you wanna go?"
"I don't know. I will go wherever you wanna go, Nat. You're happiness is an order"
"Machu Picchu sounds good now" She sighed
Natasha sealed Tony in his suit the next day for booking the venue without consulted with her first. At least Bruce and Betty were way better than their eccentric friend when the scientist couple took them to meet with the finest caterer in town.
They set the menu for the reception with the finest of finest ingredient in the world. Pepper provided them with an army of lawyer to oversee the hiring contract and the agreement to keep everything about Captain America and Black Widow's wedding a secret.
Because Pepper knew how this couple want everything to be as low key as possible.
With Steve excellent culinary skill, the Captain picked out every dish by himself and told the caterer that every dish must have to exact same taste he had today.
Darcy and Jane offered themselves to be their photographer and videographer. Natasha looked at them like she was about to snap the duo in half before she came up with a lot of terms for them to comply as she want.
Clint booked a wedding band while Bobbi asked the couple about the song to use at wedding reception, their first dance, last dance and everything in detail. Steve handled this matter while Natasha theathening Tony who came to talk to her again.
"Red, calm down. I came here with just an update"
"IF YOU TELL ME THAT YOU INVITED A HUNDRED MORE GUEST, I WILL KILL YOU!"
"I just want to tell you that I reserved the whole hotel for guests who are from out of town"
"This is the first time you did something right"
Pepper arranged them a day for their dress/tuxedo fitting. The girls went with Natasha to help the bride pick up her wedding gown while the boy took Steve out too even the Captain insisted that he will wear his army uniform.
"The tuxedo is for your wedding reception. You can wear the uniform at the wedding" Tony said as he pushed the Captain inside his personal tailor shop.
The groom-to-be were standing on the stage while Tony's longtime friend, Valentino Garavani, the famous designer, measured the good Captain by himself. He told them that it was his honor to be the one who made the finest tuxedo for the finest hero.
The groomsmen got their tuxedo too even Thor insisted that the son of Asgard will wear his armor for this glorious occasion. Clint and Dr. Selvig had to talk the god into wearing this 'normal Midgadian' clothes.
Valentino told them he will designed each unique tuxedo for every one of them.
The girls were having fun with dress shopping too. Pepper appointed a fitting with Vera Wang herself. The designer told Natasha that she will design a special wedding just for her only. The bridesmaids dress were in red.
Natasha picked the style that she like and with help of Vera, they picked out the material that will suit the bride.
"Can you make it like…I can put a gun at my thigh?"
"Natasha!" Everyone said at the same time
"What? Anything could happen" The spy told
"NO! This is your wedding so no gun allow" Pepper told
The spy sighed and let the staff measured her.
The couple met up again for their dinner at her favorite French restaurant. It was a very quiet and peaceful moment until they stepped out of the building and got swamped by a hoard of paparazzi. Natasha lifted her hand to sheath her eyes for waves of flashlight.
Steve pushed her into the limo and Happy took them back to the tower immediately. By the time they got back to the tower, the news about their engagement was everywhere and the team was currently watching it at the living room.
On the television, CNN was reporting the news and showed the picture of Natasha's engagement ring on her left hand.
"Looks like we're about to have a good news from the earth mightiest heroes. Paparazzi is able to snap the first look of the Black Widow's engagement ring…."
"I hate the paparazzi" Natasha muttered as she sat down next to Pepper. Steve followed and wrapped his arms around her.
"They will find out eventually, Nat" The Captain said "It's only the matter of time"
"And we have an update on your wedding plan" Tony said
"Please tell me you didn't plan a press conference for us" Natasha face palmed.
"We will throw an engagement party for you guys. Only our closest friends at the tower"
4 Months before the wedding
Everyone took the opportunity when the couple when on a mission for three day to prepare for their engagement party. Tony made sure that everyone must attend this party even though some of them were world away or at the other corner of the world.
Tony sent his private jet to pick Hill up at Papua New Guinea and picked Jane and Darcy up at Egypt. Phil's team also got the invitation after they managed to take down John Garret and captured Grant Ward.
Everyone will be here when the couple came back.
"Sir, Captain Rogers and Agent Romanoff are on their way up to the living area" JARVIS informed everyone.
Everyone gathered in front of the elevator and when the door opened,
"SURPRISE!" They all shouted and the confetti fell on the couple.
Steve went to a florist with Pepper, Betty and Bruce since 9 AM but Steve left a note for his Natasha to let her know so when the spy woke, she didn't have to worry about him.
Natasha slowly got up, take a shower and headed downstairs. Bobbi told her that she already cooked breakfast for everyone. The spy noticed something in the living room. Tony, Darcy, Clint and Jane were giggled as they looked at the laptop. Something sketchy was happening and those troublemakers were sure causing it.
She had to investigate.
"You don't wanna know, Nat" Bobbi warned but the spy won't listen
"Hey! what are you guys doing?" Natasha
All four of them jumped off their feet and Tony slammed his laptop shut.
"Nothing!" They all exclaimed but the spy knew them all too well so she opened it again to find a wedding website, Steve and Natasha's wedding website. It's contained information about their wedding and every update about their wedding. The numbers of visitor reached over 1 million hit already.
"I WILL KILL ALL OF YOU!" Natasha bellowed and ran after Tony and his gang.
Steve came back in the evening and found Natasha stood in the living room with the four troublemakers tied together.
"Do I need to know what's that all about?" Steve asked Bobbi
"No, you don't" Mockingbird said
Pepper had to ask Natasha nicely to untie them all before they can have their dinner. Natasha negotiated that Pepper must took her to the register tomorrow instead of Jane and Darcy. They met up with Steve to select and purchase the invitation.
When they came back to the tower and was in their bedroom, Natasha began to talk about their honeymoon destination.
"Hey, baby" She began as Steve stepped out of the bathroom with towel wrapped around his waist "Where do you want to go for our honeymoon?"
"To be honest, I don't know." He replied "How about Bora Bora? It sound beautiful when Pepper told me"
"Yeah, it's nice" She agreed and noted it down "How about Croatia? I always love that country"
"It's the first time we really dance together. You thought me and I remembered that I stepped on your foot a couple time too"
"Yeah, you are but I'm lucky you are a quick learner"
"What about sail on a boat around the Mediterranean for a month? We can stop wherever we want"
Steve put on his sweatpants and sat down beside his fiancée. Natasha automatically snuggled into his warm body and nuzzled her head to his chest.
"Can we make it two months off for our honeymoon?" She said as she relaxed in his arms
"Baby, you cannot go for a week without spying or shooting at something"
"But I have sometime alone with you. I'm okay with doing nothing and let you spoil me"
He smiled and kissed the top of her head "So, sailing across the Mediterranean?"
"Yes, it is"
Three months before the wedding.
Natasha and Steve finalized and approved everything with helps from their friends. Everything was going smoothly but the bride-to-be still freaked out over everything. It's her usual self to be worry of everything but Steve was always there to help her put her focus on something else.
After the news about their wedding gone public, everyone called Tony and Pepper and asked to be a part of this wedding. Natasha and Steve didn't know how to decline because the Stark paid for their wedding.
From the mayor of New York City to the US congress and senator. From World Security Council to President of the United States. From Oprah Winfrey to every single Hollywood superstar.
The list went on and on and JARVIS confirmed that every single one had no threat but the couple didn't want this much people to attend their wedding. It was nearly six hundred guests by now.
"If you add more people into the list, I will call off this wedding" Natasha announced as she couldn't take it anymore.
"NOOOOO, you cannot do that!" Tony exclaimed
"Then stop adding guest to the list. I know only twenty people on that list!"
"It's Captain America and Black Widow's wedding, red" Tony stated "Everyone wants to be a part of this"
Natasha and Steve had to learn to accept the truth that they might not have any of their privacy in this wedding.
One month before the wedding
Steve knew his fiancee too damn well that she was about to break down any minute by now because it was only one month before their wedding and she had been through a lot.
Well, she threatened to kill Tony for countless time. She always yelled at someone and no one blamed her.
The final fitting of her wedding dress went through very well. Her body didn't change much. Pepper and the girls told the spy that she will be the most beautiful bride.
Steve also came up with a plan to distract Natasha and relief some stress from them. He tricked her and took her to Tony's Hampton mansion for a week, to spend some time alone. The soldier was about to get murdered by his fiancee but he acted quickly and kissed her.
"You are very good at distracting, soldier" She murmured
"Shall I take you to bed, ma'am so I can distract you with something else" He grinned against her mouth
And Natasha could deny him nothing.
Everyday of that week, he always woke up for a morning run and pick up a wild flower along the way and made a flower crown for her. He woke her up with breakfast in bed and his loving kiss. Planning the wedding can be really stress out but her soldier did a very good job in releasing that tension for her.
Steve also revealed something to her when they watching the sun rose up at the beach together on the last day of their stay.
"Nat, remember when you injected me with Stark's truth serum" He started
"Yes, I remember"
"I lied about the Long Island question" He said and she frowned "It's a very first question that you asked me but the serum didn't kick in yet so I can lie. I was there, that night, in Long Island with you"
"Really?"
"Yes, I heard from Stark and Pepper that you are not doing well so I had to be there to check up on you. I'm sorry I lie and I'm sorry that have to leave you in the morning because I don't want to confused you any further."
"I know, Steve. I completely understand." She said "But I'm glad that you came to me after all you always care for me, be there for me whenever I needed you"
"I always be there for you, Nat" He whispered and placed a kiss on her her neck. "I love you so much"
"I love you too, Steve"
They came back to find that everything was ready and there was nothing to be worry. Tony and Pepper were able to contain amount of guests at 600 people. The gang threw a little party to celebrate a very successful wedding planning (and nobody was killed by Natasha). Phil's team was in town too so all of their closest friends were attended.
Coulson introduced them with their newest member, Antoine Triplett, grandson of one of the Howling commando, Gabe Jones. Steve was excited to meet a grandson of his friend and told him that Triplett was doing the right thing, joining SHIELD and protecting people.
May and Hill also discussed with Natasha about her early wedding gift from both of them. They were managed to secure Grant Ward for two hours in the next day. Everything was off record even Fury was agreed with this.
Well, the two agents just wanted to watch the Black Widow beat a living shit out of Grant Ward. That's all.
Steve not even stopped her from that too. He just nodded and smiled when she asked if he was okay with this. Steve took her to the rooftop for some time alone when they were not the center of attention anymore.
"You know, I just want to have a private wedding with just our friends down there" She spoke up "But I have to accept the fact that we are public figures and privacy is something we can't have"
"The offer of running away still stands" Steve replied
"You know we cannot do that"
"We can have our second wedding, somewhere during our honeymoon."
"I just wish that our first wedding is what I always dream about, not a wedding to boost people ego"
"I understand, my love but we will have forever together anyway. We can always do whatever we want"
"Thanks to our serum"
Unbeknownst to them, Thor and Jane overheard their entire conversation. The god looked at Jane and they both know what to do. They came down to the library for some private meeting.
"Lord JARVIS, please inform everyone to assemble here except Lord Steven and Lady Natasha?"
"Yes, sir"
Five minutes later, everyone was here and Thor told them right away.
"Friends, I have a favor to ask?"
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