Private Beach, Neptune, California, Sunset on Saturday, 8/16
Nobody much cares where you sit, since it's not like there's a bride's side, or like Xander and Bridge don't share all the same friends, but the green fabric deck chairs are separated by a white runner anyway ( Read more... )
Bridge's hand is warm in his, and he almost feels like he doesn't have to say anything, because God knows it's all there. But there's a reason there's other people here tonight.
"I used to think I knew what family was, before I met you," Xander says. "And marriage. Family was a lot of the people here tonight, or pretty good lookalikes, and marriage was... something my parents did." And that's as much of that as he's going to let into this wedding. "I never believed I could do both. Or that I'd ever want to. But you did. You just keep trusting me to be better than I think I am, and...I want to be that for you. So that's what I'm gonna do."
He closes his eye for a moment, finding another breath, then opens it and adds, "And also I promise to always wiggle my fingers when somebody says buttery--" Which he does. "And never yell or be mean, kiss Parker without permission, grope Marty Blank, or go off to the apocalypse without leaving a note about where it is so you can find me. And when I screw up and do all those things except for the kissing and the groping, I promise to stay and fix it, and never walk away."
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"That- I'm good with that," Bridge says. "Like, really, really good with it. It's a very good plan and I approve wholeheartedly." Yes, he's kind of a dork. This should not be news.
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"I caught that, yeah," Xander assures him.
"Just checking. Now would be the time to say something, if you had any objections."
"I'm good."
The rabbi looks up at the audience. "Anybody else?" This would be the interfaith part. Also the 'grooms told him he had to ask' part.
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"Anyone? Anyone? No? Yay. Proceed."
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She didn't mention how glad she was that she hadn't accidentally broken it somehow. Don't ask how, Willow would've found a way.
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This one's easy. It's short, and there's only one tiny bit in a foreign language, which he's been assured repeatedly won't set anything on fire.
"Ani l'dodi v'dodi li," he says carefully as he slides the ring onto Bridge's finger. "I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine."
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Which is why it takes him a couple of moments to remember that oh, yeah, my turn now, and he's turning to Anders to get the other ring.
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At any rate, he's got the ring in his hand and he's grinning like a mad, proud, crazy fool as he hands the shiny little band to his best friend, and wow.
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"Ani l'dodi v'dodi li. I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine," Bridge repeats, taking Xander's hand once again so that he can put the ring on it, where it belongs.
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And forever, surprisingly, feels pretty frakking good.
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"This is the part where I say do you and you say I do, if you want to do that part, but from where I'm standing I think you already did."
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Then he places the bundles, light-bulb shaped because they make crunchier sounds it's always better to avoid embarrassing too-sturdy-wineglass malfunctions, on the ground in front of Bridge and Xander.
"This is where you get to do the kissing part."
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