Disclaimer: I do not own Gilmore Girls.

So for the sequel, I decided to do a little something different. Instead of just one sequel, it will be a little bit of a series. This part will just focus on the wedding so it will only be a few chapters. Once this is wrapped up, there will be another posting that will pick up after the wedding and delve into the married life of Luke and Lorelai. The sequel will delve into Season 3 storylines in my own way.

Going to upload this while I have the chance. Luckily I saved this to my flashdrive before my computer decided to go crazy. It's in the process of being fixed though so there won't be a big break in my posting schedule.

Anyways, hope you enjoy!

Lorelai hummed 'Here Comes the Bride,' to the best of her ability as she descended the staircase and headed straight for Rory's room. Although the door was closed, Lorelai didn't bother knocking before entering Rory's room. She plopped down on the edge of the bed and began bouncing just hard enough to rouse her daughter from her sleep, her humming ceased and now on her face was a megawatt smile.

Of course she knew the potential danger that lay in waking Rory up early in the morning. She had caught the tail end of Rory's grumpiness a time or two before but she understood it since she wasn't exactly a morning person herself. However this was a morning that deserved an early rise. The early rise caused by the inability to sleep because of either the absence of Luke in the bed or because she was thrilled of what today would hold. For today was the day that Lorelai, Luke, and everyone else in the town had been waiting for. Today was the day that she, Lorelai Gilmore, would marry Luke Danes and officially become Lorelai Gilmore-Danes.

Lorelai continued to lightly bounce on the bed until she saw her daughter begin to stir and peek one eye open. Rory groaned and threw a pillow over her head to try and prevent her mother's surefire rambling this early in the morning.

"Uh-huh, none of that," Lorelai said, she grabbed the pillow out of Rory's grasp. "Where is your enthusiasm at on this very special, once in a lifetime, bright and beautiful morning?"

"My enthusiasm is where it is always at...right next to the coffee pot," Rory smartly answered.

Of course she knew exactly what today was, it was only the main topic of conversation everyday for at least the past two weeks. And truth be told she was just as excited as her mother for today. However it was still fun to pretend that she didn't know what today was and to joke with her mother. So for extra measure, she added on.

"And what would today be that would make it very special?"

Lorelai gasped and threw the pillow at her daughter. "How dare you! And to think that I named you the Maid of Honor. I could have chosen Sookie because she is the BFOTB."

Rory giggled as she sat up in bed and leaned back against the headboard. "Relax. Of course I know what today is."

"And you know that you'll always be my maid of honor," Lorelai said. She scooted around on the bed until she was leaning back against the headboard in the same manner as Rory. She wrapped her arm around her daughter's shoulder and pulled her close to her.

Rory laid her head down on her mother's shoulder. "It's someone's wedding today."

"You know now that I think about it, I do remembering hearing rumors that a wedding was going to occur today," Lorelai said with a smirk on her face.

"Hmm wonder who it could be," Rory played along.

Lorelai gave a light shrug of her shoulders. "Don't know. But whoever they are, they are very lucky because today is a beautiful day for a wedding."

"Mom, you and Luke are getting married inside. Not too sure if it matters if it is a beautiful day. It would matter more if you two were getting married outside," Rory pointed out.

"Oh it so matters," Lorelai quickly defended. "You don't want to get married on a rainy day. That just seems like a bad omen for your marriage especially if you were getting married outside. However snow..."

Rory filled in the blanks, "Snow would be a completely different story."

"Yes because we both know that snow is magical and having it snow today would just be the cherry on top on what is already going to be a perfect day," Lorelai commented. A pout then formed on her face. "But the weatherman has said nothing about snow today. It's just February, it could snow."

Rory tilted her head back to look up at her mother. "Since when do you listen to the weatherman? You always listen to your nose."

Lorelai threw her arm that was around Rory up in the air in exasperation, "Well my nose isn't telling me anything today! I opened my bedroom window and I sniffed and I sniffed and I sniffed...and nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. No snow for you Lorelai even on your wedding day. Now all I have is a cold nose."

"Cold nose is better than cold feet," Rory responded. She arched an eyebrow, "Speaking of which, you don't have those do you?"

Lorelai glanced down at her feet which were clad in socks with tiny ice creams cones on them. She wiggled her feet, smiled, and shook her head. "Nope, they are nice and toasty. Not cold at all."

Rory giggled, "And just to be sure...there's no chance of you resembling Julia Roberts today?"

"Yeah definitely not taking a turn towards prostitution." When she saw Rory roll her eyes, she added on, "I know what you meant. And to answer your question I'm not running anywhere. I'm staying put. This is sticking. And later on this afternoon I will add that hyphen Danes to my name."

"Lorelai Gilmore-Danes," Rory pondered. "That does have a certain ring to it."

Lorelai grinned. "Yes it does." She sighed and hugged her daughter close to her again. "I know it's probably cliché to say but I can't believe that this day is actually here. These past few months have passed by so fast."

"I know," Rory agreed.

As cliché as it might have been to say, it was true. The past few months did seem to pass by rather quickly. The months were filled with wedding plans which she actually involved her mother in. Of course in her true fashion, Lorelai didn't involve her mother right away. It was more of an involving-her-mother-once-she-noticed-she-was-upset-about-not-being-involved thing. It helped them to bond just a little more as a mother and daughter. They settled to have the wedding on February 22 but they didn't quite follow the vision that Emily always held for her daughter. It was a compromise between too-over-the-top and something a little more simple. And then while wedding planning, different holidays passed which provided the perfect glimpse for Lorelai into her wedded life since the holidays were spent with Luke, Rory, and Jess.

Much more happened over the past few months as well. Lorelai and Sookie decided that it was about time to jump in and go ahead with plans to open their own Inn. They were still working on trying to secure the Dragonfly as well as break the news to Mia that they might soon leave the Independence Inn. However as hard as they were working to secure the Inn, they also agreed that it might be best to hold off until after Lorelai and Luke's wedding.

Changes weren't only happening in Luke and Lorelai's life, they were happening in Rory's life as well. Besides anxiety and anticipation over sending out her college applications, Rory had recently started a relationship with Jess. To which Lorelai couldn't help but joke about since she was marrying Jess' uncle after all. They were rules set up to which they were to abide by. Rules were strict since Luke really no longer resided in the apartment and had all but moved in with Lorelai and Rory leaving his apartment all to Jess. The relationship was fairly new, it only happened in the new year. There were certain misunderstandings when Rory returned from Washington that only gave them the time to date now. Still it was a change for her and Lorelai actually approved of them being together.

The mother and daughter duo didn't care that the room had fallen silent. Instead they reveled in the quietness. In a few minutes they knew that they would be faced with different pre-wedding activities which included a trip to a salon that Emily arranged, so for now the quietness was welcomed. This was just a little mother-daughter time that they felt was needed at the moment. Soon their family dynamic would shift but for right now they were still just the Gilmore girls, mother and daughter.

Just as they were getting used to the quiet, someone knocked on the door.

Lorelai groaned. "Don't tell me my mother is already here."

"I thought you two were getting along better since you finally let her help out with the wedding planning," Rory said as she got out of bed and walked towards the window in her room. She peeked through the curtain and saw flannel-clad man dashing back to his green truck before driving away from the house. She smiled.

"We are but we also get along better once I have coffee in me. Which I haven't had any of yet this morning," Lorelai replied.

Rory turned away from the window and started across her room. "Well I don't think that will be a problem much longer. Because if my suspicions are correct than I think your betrothed just dropped off something for you."

"What are you talking about?" Lorelai asked, she began to follow her daughter out of her room and towards the front door. "That knock on the door was Luke?"

"Unless you know someone else who has an obsession with flannel and drives a green truck." Rory opened the front door and sure enough there were two to-go cups and a bag, all of which were directly linked to the diner man. "And I was correct."

Rory bent down and picked up the goodies that were left by her future step-father. She passed off a cup of coffee to her mother before walking by her and heading into the kitchen where she quickly tore into the bag which contained four cherry danishes and a note. The note was snatched up by Lorelai which she read quietly to herself with a smile on her face.

"What's it say?" Rory asked, she sat down at the table to enjoy her danish.

"Hmm just that he loves me, he can't wait for tonight, and that we're both deserving enough to have danishes delivered to the house even though it is not danish day," Lorelai replied.

"Well now I feel special too," Rory commented.

Lorelai re-read the note as she began to enjoy her danish. There was a little detail that she left out of her re-telling of the note to Rory which made special mention of plans he had for her after all the wedding activities had ceased and they were alone. For Luke, it was bordering on a dirty note. She was just glad that she grabbed the note before Rory could. The note was tucked into the pocket of her pajama top for safe-keeping.

Lorelai's danish was only half-gone before a knock sounded at the front door again. This time she just knew it was Emily. Her intuition was proved correct when instead of knocking again, Emily just waltzed right in the house leading Sookie who like slightly frightened to be in the presence of the Elder Gilmore.

Emily scoffed and placed her hand on her hip when she noticed that both Lorelai and Rory were still in their pajamas and that Lorelai's pajamas happened to be covered in pictures of different desserts.

"Lorelai Victoria Gilmore, you're still in your pajamas?" Emily questioned incredulously. "Honestly Lorelai, we have so much to do today."

"I...I just woke up," Lorelai lied. She was awake for a little while before she snuck down to Rory's room. "And now I'm eating breakfast so yes I'm still in my pajamas."

"Well we have things to do, you both need to get ready," Emily ordered. "Our appointments are soon. Which means we don't have time for you two to dawdle around. I know how long you take to get ready."

Lorelai peeked around her mother where Sookie still stood. "You went to get Sookie before coming over here?"

"Well she is going with us today. I decided it might be better to stop by her house first then come pick up you two," Emily replied. She directed her next comment to her granddaughter. "Since your mother isn't listening, you need to get ready so we can leave. I'll handle your mother."

"Got it," Rory replied as she held the danish between her teeth, grabbed her coffee cup, and headed into her bedroom where the door was promptly shut so she could get dressed.

Emily shook her head knowing that holding food in her mouth when her hands were full was a habit that Rory learned from her mother and not a habit of a proper young lady. That was the lest of her worries though, Lorelai still wasn't going to her bedroom to get dressed so they could leave. Instead she was chatting away with Sookie.

"So she just came in your house like she came in mine?" Lorelai asked Sookie who now look less frightened.

"Well she waited until I answered the door but then she just came on in and lectured me about still being in my pajamas," Sookie recounted. She then started giggling. "But it was funny to see Jackson broken out of his morning stupor when he tried to hide his wrestling picture pajamas from your mother."

Lorelai giggled at the face she could imagine her mother making at the sight of Jackson's wrestling picture pajamas. Oh if she could have been a fly on the wall in that room.

"What kind of grown man wears pajamas that feature pictures of himself wrestling in high-school?" Emily questioned which only caused Lorelai and Sookie to giggle even harder for some unknown reason.

"What kind of proper society lady just bursts into someone's house without permission?" Lorelai retorted, once she ceased her giggling. "My, my where have your manners gone Emily Gilmore?"

"Lorelai Victoria Gilmore," Emily said using her daughter's full name already twice this morning. What a day this was going to be just trying to get Lorelai to her wedding. "If you don't get up to that room and get ready this moment, I will forbid you from walking down the aisle."

"Chill Mom," Lorelai said breezily. "The bride is supposed to be the one in a panic. Not the mother. You don't need to turn into Mother of the Bride-Zilla."

"I will chill if you will go get ready so we can leave for our appointment," Emily replied not as easy breezy as her daughter.

Lorelai and Sookie once again burst out into giggles at Emily's use of the word 'chill.' With a stern look from her mother that meant she wasn't playing and would somehow actually prevent her from walking down the aisle, Lorelai quickly sobered up.

"Fine, I'm going. I'll go get dressed. I'll be as quick as I can," Lorelai promised before she exited the kitchen and headed up the stairs in the exact same manner that Rory did.

Emily could do nothing but give a shake of her head one more time seeing just how much her daughter and granddaughter were alike.

Since Lorelai and Rory were both out of the room, Emily turned towards Sookie. "You never tried to get rid of those pajamas?"

Sookie shook her head no. "Jackson loves those pajamas and I love my mushroom man."

Meanwhile over at the diner, Luke was putting in just a couple hours work since the wedding wasn't until late afternoon and since he wouldn't be able to work when he was on his honeymoon. The diner was going to be left in the capable hands of Cesar with Jess required to work in the diner when he wasn't in school as well as two other people he hired who were proving to be quite capable.

The diner was abuzz with the excitement of two of Stars Hollow own wedding later this afternoon. Especially since it was Luke and Lorelai, who everyone knew belonged together. Luke couldn't help but serve every one with a smile on his face. Nothing was going to ruin his mood today.

"How's Lorelai today dear?" Miss Patty asked when Luke stopped by her table. "I know you're probably following tradition so you won't see her until later but have you spoken to her? Is she nervous?"

"I haven't spoken to her Patty," Luke replied. "But I did drop off danishes and coffee at the house so I know that for right now, she's great. She's always great when she has coffee."

Babette nodded. "That she is. You know she's going to be the most beautiful bride."

Luke's smile grew even wider at the mention of his beautiful bride to be. She was definitely going to be the most beautiful bride and he was the lucky groom whose arm she would be on tonight. She would add the Danes onto her name and he would be able to call her his wife. Life was good.

"I have to agree with you there Babette," Luke replied. He grabbed his order pad and poised his pen to write. "Now what would you ladies like to order? For you two it's on the house this morning." He gave the two ladies a wink.

"Oh if it wasn't your wedding day Luke, you would be in trouble," Miss Patty told him with a certain look.

Luke blushed then brushed off her comments. Since the news of the engagement spread months ago and as the wedding grew closer, her comments of 'it being a shame that Luke was taken' seemed to escalate. Most of the time Lorelai joined in on the teasing of Luke but was also quick to remind people that Luke was her man.

After taking their orders, Luke passed the ticket order off to Cesar before walking up to the counter to check in on his other customers. Jess joined his side refilling customers' coffees. They worked in tandem until the customers were taken care of and enjoying their breakfast.

"You know if you need to go up to the apartment and pamper yourself," Jess said with a smirk that was all his own. "I can handle the diner for a little while."

Luke rolled his eyes and ignored his nephew as he started to wipe down the counter.

"I'm serious Uncle Luke," Jess continued on. "That's what Rory and Lorelai are doing today. If you need to do the same...you know, get your nails done. I'm fine here."

Luke was going to say something to his nephew for making a smart ass comment but as he sat the rag down he did catch a glimpse of his hand. Now he would never go get his nails done but he could admit that he did need to do a good scrub underneath his fingernails. And maybe also trimming them just a bit. He also needed to shave and a haircut wouldn't be a terrible idea. It was getting just a little longer than he usually wore it.

Jess watched his uncle who was remaining eerily silent at the moment. "You know I was joking, right?" he asked, unsure of whether or not Luke actually knew that. "But if you want to go to the salon, I won't stop you."

"I'm not going to the salon," Luke snapped. "But I do need to go somewhere."

Jess smirked. "Somewhere like a salon?"

Luke rolled his eyes again. "Not a salon, a barber shop. I need a haircut," he informed his nephew. He looked at Jess' unruly hair. "Do you want to go with me?"

Jess shook his head no. "My hair is fine."

Luke held up his hands in mock-surrender. "Right wouldn't mess with your hair. There's probably too much hair gel anyways and the scissors will just get stuck right in there."

"Go have fun getting pampered at your salon, I can handle the diner for a little while," Jess replied.

Luke pointed his finger at Jess. "Don't screw anything up," he ordered before rounding the corner and leaving the diner.

Luke had faith that Jess would be fine with the diner. It's why he felt comfortable leaving him to work in the diner while he and Lorelai went away on their honeymoon. He and Lorelai were also taking extra precautions by having Rory stay with her grandparents while they were away so there was no chance that the teens would spend a night together. Although they trusted both of the teens, they still didn't trust teenage hormones. Which is why the town was supposed to be on high alert watching the two teens while they relaxed on their honeymoon.

"I still can't believe you ate my danish," Lorelai said, she directed her comment towards her mother.

The four ladies were now all seated at different shampooing stations around the salon. Getting their hair done was a part in their pampering activities to prep for the wedding. Manicures and pedicures would both also on the pampering menu for today. Then once the ladies were all spiffed and polished up could they head over to the church where the ceremony was to be held and where they could finish getting ready for the big day. The ceremony was going to be held at the church with the reception to follow at the Inn.

"Oh Lorelai give it a rest already," Emily said. "It's only a danish."

"Blasphemy," Lorelai scolded her mother. "Did you hear your grandmother?"

Luckily they were all seated next to one another so they wouldn't have to resort to yelling to be heard. But even then they were really the only people in the salon so Lorelai wasn't opposed to yelling if she needed to say something to Rory or Sookie.

"I heard," Rory replied. "And I agree that's just blasphemous."

"I figured you weren't going to eat it," Emily replied. "A lot of brides are too nervous to eat on their wedding day."

"Well nerves might set in later but they were not preventing me from eating another danish this morning. My heart was set on it but imagine my surprise to come downstairs and see that it was gone because you ate it." Lorelai sighed. "I miss that danish."

"Oh stop being dramatic Lorelai," Emily rolled her eyes. "The danish was delicious though."

"Dramatic is what I do."

"So no nerves at all?" Sookie asked. "I was a wreck before my wedding."

"Honey I know, remember I had to talk you down from almost destroying your wedding cake while in your wedding dress the night before your wedding?" Lorelai reminded her.

Sookie laughed at the memory. "Oh yeah. Everything worked out perfectly though."

"Yes it did," Lorelai agreed. "And as for nerves I think they are setting in now. But not bad nerves, good nerves, like can't wait until this actually happens nerves. Can't wait until I'm standing up at the altar with Luke nerves."

"Those are good nerves," Emily responded wisely. "It's the way I felt when I married your father. But when everything started and I was looking into your father's eyes, all that melted away. You have to remember to enjoy every moment, it all goes by so fast."

Lorelai smiled, "I will," she promised.

"Well I can attest for her being excited because for the past two weeks it seemed that every time Luke was out of the house, she was trying on her wedding dress," Rory noted.

"That's exactly what I did when I married Richard," Emily replied. "I tried on the wedding dress every night."

"Me too," Sookie agreed since she as well enjoyed just the simple act of trying on her wedding dress whenever she got the chance.

"And I even had to talk her to not sleeping in her wedding dress last night," Rory teased.

Lorelai shot a glance over at her daughter as the lady finished washing her hair and sat her up in the chair. "Oh now you're exaggerating. You did not have to talk me into not wearing it to bed."

Rory laughed as she now sat up in her chair. "Okay, so I didn't do that. But you did come into my room wearing your dress like it was completely casual."

Lorelai couldn't help but blush. "Well what can I say? I love the dress and I love Luke. When you are the blushing bride you are able to try on the dress as many times as you want and no one can say anything about it."

"Fine, I will say no more about it," Rory conceded. "Well at least for now."

"Go on," Lorelai challenged with a smile. "You can't ruin my day. I'm way too happy."

Rory smiled as well. "I'm happy for you."

"Me too," Sookie chimed in.

In a rare act of endearment, Emily reached over and took her daughter's hand in hers. She gave it a gentle squeeze. "Me too."

Lorelai smiled softly, "Thank you Mom."

And that's it for the first chapter.

More wedding goodness to come soon!

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