The process of picking the perfect wedding the was not a fast one.
It wasn’t that either Dana or Matilda were trying to be difficult, but there were so many options, and every ti soone got a great idea of what to add to the ceremony, that changed how one of the ideas would work with the others, and then they had to adjust it all over again.
Fortunately for them, they had Opal on their side.
She could recreate everything that they visualized so that everyone could do a live critique of how it worked.
Dana knew that the ceremony wouldn’t be small, as they had many friends and allies. But her idea of reasonable, and Matilda’s idea of reasonable, were very different.
Even Nachtia thought that it might be wise to invite the entire Golden Divine Academy to the wedding. When they had a church wedding, they typically invited the entire church in their city. So, dragons typically got married with five to ten thousand people in attendance.
It wasn’t a big ceremony unless they were leaders of the church, but it was expected that everyone would take an hour or two out of their day to support the couple with their presence.
They also cast a group blessing on the ceremony to bring good luck and fertility.
That part was another point of contention.
Given the amount of divine favour that their group attracted, if she really did agree to the blessing, how long would it be before she was pregnant? Was she ready for that? And what species would the children even be?
Not that she had a particular basis, but she had long found that Karl’s cat demon transformation was much more comfortable to sleep next to, and she wasn’t sure how she felt about the chance of having kittens.
Or would they be fox kits? A hybrid?
Matilda thought that the whole issue was funny. She was Dana’s age when she had her first clutch, and she had turned them over to the Red Dragons to raise, as was custom for all High Priestesses at the ti.
That way, they didn’t grow up in unearned privilege, or gain an unseemly attitude thanks to a parent’s wealth.
"You know, that is an option. We’ve got an orphanage at the Drodh Guild House now. You could have the Red Dragons raise your kittens, so you wouldn’t have to stop travelling with us.
They would be right there, and the dragons don’t deny you visitation. Everyone knows who is a child of clergy and who is an actual orphan anyhow." Rae suggested.
"Wait, back up. Since when do we have an orphanage at the Guild House?" Dana asked.
Rae shrugged. "About three days now? Ti flows differently there than it does here. Karl arranged it after we left because he needed people to work the shops for the new crafters in the expanded workshop village.
He’s even got Leatherworker and tailors coming to slave for ."
Tessa gave Rae a disapproving look, and the spider relented.
"Do the work of crafting the boring stuff for ." She anded.
"Where did they even find tailors up to your standard?" Ophelia asked.
Rae puffed up in pride. "The city governor talked to a friend in Nerud, and they sent over a whole group of spider beastkin for us. They will know how to work with proper materials, for sure."
Dana sighed. "Let get this right. You found out that Karl was bringing in more craftsn to make items for the Guild store, and then had him talk to the City’s Governor, who brought in a whole group of workers from another nation, on the other side of the continent, just because you thought that spider beastkin would be better at working with spider silk?"
Rae smiled, showing her pointed teeth. "He really is good to . They even found a whole group of Overlords so that they can make the pretty stuff that all the Alliance mbers want.
That gives all the ti I need to decorate my Dana for her wedding."
She was quite pleased with this setup. She had sent over one hundred different design patterns for them to get started with, as well as one thousand bolts of silk. If they started to run out, she would adjust her supply plans.
But a hundred different dress and suit designs should be enough that only ten people in the Alliance had the sa basic design, and they could customize each of them as they worked, so they wouldn’t all be identical.
The plan was coming together wonderfully. It wouldn’t be long before the whole world was cocooned in her silk.
Cara laughed a little at her sister’s thoughts, then held up so white roses with blood-red tips on the petals that seed to bleed down the side.
"Oh, those are good for the tables. Excellent call, Cara." Tessa complinted.
The flowers were a specialty of the Red Dragons, and they would go well with the red wedding gown that Dana had decided on.
Going ultra-traditional with the red gown and veil had been deed both excellent luck and appealing to Dana. The only change she wanted from tradition was a thinner veil so that she could actually see what was going on, and not just what was right at her feet.
Dana cleared her throat. "So, are we agreed? Black and White for the Darklight host as the main the, and then red and gold for the bridal party? Reversed for the bridesmaids."
Everyone nodded in agreent, and the final plans were started.
They had a dress for Dana already. Now, they needed them for everyone else.
Rae briefly wondered if they should make Cara transform for the ceremony, or if she was fine in beast form. Opal would naturally be coming as a butterfly, but she was already sparkly.
But Cara was black and white, so she did fit the the. They could just throw her in a bubble bath with Lotus to get her clean.
Weddings were complicated.
Dana wasn’t worried so much about the details of Cara’s appearance as she was about the proposal by Matilda that they hold the wedding in a separate space in Cyhosasa so that she could invite all of the twenty thousand guests that she thought should be there.
For ’just a moderate’ ceremony, as she called it.
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