THE WIDE AND WONDERFUL WEDDING MEME

[blackmagicduck]

 

What's prettier than a June Bride/Groom? This meme is all about weddings and marriage! Get out the ring, send out the invites, and engage maximum fluff mode!

 

PRE-WEDDING/ENGAGEMENT

 

Proposal

You've got the ring, you've summoned the courage, it's the big moment! Time to get on your knee and pop the question! Or maybe this is spur of the moment – you're so overcome with feelings that it suddenly comes out.

 

In-Laws

Is it your first time meeting the family, or are you here to announce the engagement? Are they furious for you stealing their baby, or relieved that you idiots finally got together? Celebrate the union, or bring out the drama.

 

Maid Of Honor/Best Man

It's the next biggest question – bro, will you be there for me? Enjoy some fun platonic friendship – or if you like pain, is the MoH/BM in love with the person asking them? Ouch.

 

THE BIG DAY

 

Cold Feet

It just hit you – you're going to be spending the rest of your life with one person. It's reasonable to get a little nervous – does your intended break tradition to talk to you and help calm you down? Or will a friend/family member give you the hugs you so desperately need?

 

Runaway Bride (or groom)

You thought you would be okay as long as your beloved would be happy – turns out, you're not. Do you burst into the chapel movie-style with a loud I OBJECT! Or are you the one wearing the ring and deciding “nope”, fleeing to find your real one true love?

 

Here Comes The Bride (or groom)

Skip the drama and walk down the aisle – this is the actual wedding part of the wedding meme. Exchange rings, speak vows, get out the tissues. (Why not make it a rainy wedding day too? I hear the hip youth are into that.)

 

Skip The Party

Who needs a church and all that hullaballo when eloping is just as good? Are you running away together, or just want a quiet, simple ceremony?

 

POST-WEDDING

 

Wedding Party

Time to get drunk and make some embarrassing speeches! Whoa, did the MoH and BM hook up? Look who caught the bouquet! This is the fun for all option – but no one will be judged for some sad “the one that got away” moaning.

 

Honeymoon – SMUT OPTION

Okay let's be real, we can't stop you from making any of these smutty, this is just the one that was intentionally chosen. Anyway, you're away from the world and all alone, or maybe you're carrying your bride over the threshold at home sweet home – make that big night count!

 

Drunk Vegas Aftermath

Whoa, what did you drink last night? And... who's that in your bed?! Why are you both wearing wedding rings?!?! This is the hangover option, looks like you two have some regrets besides tattoos. Do you regret it...?

 

EXTRA – add these to your recipe for extra spice!

 

Fake

Trying to get out of a sticky situation or shut up the family? Nothing works like a good ol' fake marriage. And it's not like you two will actually fall in love, right...? Oops.

 

Arranged

Be it a business transaction or some fantasy AU, your fate was decided for you, as was your intended. Have you met before and decided to simply go through with it, or is the wedding the first time you ever laid eyes on one another?

 

Accidental

Maybe your partner misconstrued things, or this is all your fault, but one way or another, you either accidentally proposed or accidentally got married. Can you take it back without the other person murdering you, or do you decide to keep going?

 

Childhood Promise

The adorable kiddo option – you're not entirely sure you understand what a marriage is, but you want to be with your BFF forever, so let's promise to get married when we're grown up! Or you can timeskip, reminisce about that silly promise you made as a kid... except maybe you don't actually think it was silly.

 

Comments

[richestduck]

"Very likely, she's locked down as much as she can," Scrooge sighed.

Well, it was fun while it lasted.

[lifesa_witch]

"Fingers crossed." A one shoulder shrug, resuming her meal. "Still prefer either of them over Adelia, knock on wood..."

[richestduck]

"At this point, I'd prefer a fire breathing dragon," Scrooge said with a groan. "At least I know what to expect with them."

[lifesa_witch]

"Ditto." Magica raised a drink to clink with this. "May she be eaten by one before the wedding day."

[richestduck]

"I'd rather have the dragon just swallow up all your kin so we don't have to go through this farce, but we've already had to spend quite a bit on this rubbish."

Magica was going to owe him a lot when this was over with.

[lifesa_witch]

"I wouldn't want to give the poor thing indigestion." She glanced over at Rosolio, who had begun having one of his fire-sneeze fits.

"The days are passing by fast, it'll be over before we know it. Surely you've faced worse quests than this."

[richestduck]

"Depends on your definition of 'worse', lassie," Scrooge said dryly. "Because this whole experience is in the top five on at least three separate ranking systems."

[lifesa_witch]

Didn't that make her want to know all five on all three! "Sometime you've got to write this stuff down, it's getting hard to keep up."

[richestduck]

"Eh, people have been nagging me to write an autobiography for ages now, but I'm too busy for that sort of thing," Scrooge said. "And a ghost writer would just mangle the thing."

[lifesa_witch]

"So the only way I get to hear your stories is an actual conversation?"

The kids were all distracted with meals and pranks for the day, Granny was sobbing, Rosolio was sneezing - only Minima was watching the "happy couple", amused.

[richestduck]

"For the moment, yes. Unless something happens where I have to turn over the company to a successor and can't adventure anymore so all I have left is to write that autobiography."

[lifesa_witch]

"Something like me stealing the dime and finally making the Midas Amulet?"

[richestduck]

Scrooge snorted. "You ever manage to do that, and I'll kick off recreating Black Thursday of 1929 here at the Bin because that's what's going to happen if you ever get your hands on that amulet."

[lifesa_witch]

A slow blink. "... Am I supposed to have any idea what that means?"

[richestduck]

Scrooge stared at her for a long moment, waiting for her to indicate she was joking.

"Seriously, you never studied history even once?"

[lifesa_witch]

"I studied witch history," she answered, but even that was a barely passing grade.

[richestduck]

Scrooge rolled his eyes.

"Black Thursday of 1929 was the day the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began. People went from wealth and leisure to abject poverty in a matter of hours. Some people even threw themselves out of windows when they realized they'd lost it all."

[lifesa_witch]

"What does that have to do with me being insanely wealthy? You're rich, you're not making people jump out windows... at least because because of your wealth."

[richestduck]

"If you're going to be..." He paused, seeing that Minima was watching them. "...my wife, there's something you have to understand: inflation. If I wanted to crack open my Money Bin tomorrow and spend every last gold piece inside, what do you think will happen?"

[lifesa_witch]

Magica followed Scrooge's line of sight and jerked - how long had that devious imp been listening in?!

"Don't mind me," she chirped, the devil in her eyes.

Rotten little - if she hesitated for too long, the rest of the families were going to notice. "Lower our mutual stress?"

[richestduck]

"Temporarily, maybe, but it'd be flooding the market with gold."

He thought for a moment.

"What's a rare component in potions?" He paused. "Dear?"

[lifesa_witch]

"Pegasus hair." Minima answered.

"Nobody asked you, brat."

"It's still true, though. Right next to Ogre eyes."

[richestduck]

"Let's go with ogre eyes," Scrooge said. "Can't get as many off of an ogre as you can pegasus hair and pegasi can periodically be found in herds. So ogre eyes are rare and can't be duplicated easily. Makes them a good base for currency."

He held up a finger.

"Money - paper money in particular - is just paper. The only reason it has value is because everyone involved in trading for goods and services comes to an agreement on more or less what it's worth. It's a promise: 'This piece of paper is worth this amount of currency if you needed to trade for the real stuff'. Given its rarity, let's say that one ogre eye is worth one thousand pieces of specially-printed paper which are Witch Dollars. Following so far?"

[lifesa_witch]

"Already regretting bringing this up, but yes." Magica said, resting her cheek in her hand.

[richestduck]

"Now then. Suppose someone managed to find a way to quadruple the supply of ogre eyes. With their rarity going down, their value goes down. Suddenly, an ogre eye is worth only two hundred and fifty Witch Dollars, not one thousand. Any potions you sell with ogre eyes in them will also be worth less by extension, meaning you'd need to sell more to make up for the loss to be able to pay for things you need."

Scrooge toyed with his knife.

"This creates a domino effect. Someone who needed one of your ogre eye potions to make a luxury product suddenly has a glut of potions because you're making more potions to make up for your financial loss. He makes more of his stock to use up those potions which drives down his own prices because he's got more to sell so people are less willing to pay a premium price for something more readily available. Onward down the line it goes. This is inflation.

"Under normal circumstances, the market can re-balance itself to adjust for that inflation. Luxury items drop in price as they become more readily available because people have figured out how to make them cheaper so that more product can be put up for sale which also affects the market. This is healthy to a certain extent.

"But there's a caveat: the production of luxury goods might increase and lower their prices but food production might not be able to keep up. That loaf of bread you bought for two Witch Dollars last week? Well, now it's jumped to eight."