Rory tossed and turned all night long, but eventually she closed her eyes and surrendered to sleep. Suddenly, she opened her eyes to broad daylight and the blare of Billy Idol's "White Wedding," followed by "Sunrise, Sunset," from "Fiddler on the Roof," coming from her CD player.

"Ay, yi, yi, yi!" Rory muttered, burying her head in the pillow.

"Up! Up! Up! Rory! You can't sleep through your wedding day," Lorelai said as she popped up in "Going to the Chapel," into the CD player.

"What time is it?"

"Seven o'clock."

"I think I can squeeze in another hour. Can you wake me at eight?"

"Come on, Rory. If I let you go back to sleep now, you're never going to get up and besides, I want to spend as much time with you as I can with you today before the wedding. I can't believe you'll be living in Narco Boy's house tonight."

"Well, I guess the timing's good. You'll want to be fixing up Mr. Peanut's nursery pretty soon."

"Is that why you're doing this?"

"Yep. You got me. I knew you needed this room for Peanut, so by golly I decided it was a good time to trick Dean into marrying me so I could make that happen."

"Come on, Rory. No cutes and funnies right now. You shocked the hell out of me and Luke and I'm sure just about everyone else on your invite list. Why the sudden wedding? I've never known you to do anything this impulsive in your life. It'd be believable if I did it, but I'm still shaking my head that Rory Gilmore would do something like this. Oh yeah, I guess I did do that – in Paris, with your father."

"I started doing a lot of thinking about my life when I came to Stars Hollow a few weeks ago. And actually this isn't the first impulsive thing I've done in my life. The first impulsive thing I did was to take the job with the magazine right on the spot when Clarice offered me the job at Luke's diner. The old Rory would have needed at least a week to weigh the pros and cons of that decision. I hope you weren't disappointed I left Forbes, left New York, but to tell you the truth, Mom, I wasn't happy there. Working on the Dandy is like a dream come, true. I'll be in charge and I'll be able to use the full force of my creative juices and get paid for doing it, too!"

"The Dandy!" Lorelai chuckled.

"Hey, no cutes and funnies. Anyway, once I made a decision like that, I felt so adult, so in charge of my life. Then I started thinking about everyone having children: you, Lane, Sookie and I realized that out of all the men I've dated, Dean's the only man I think I've ever met that I'd want to have children with. He's so kind and caring and loving and trustworthy, I know he'd make a wonderful father. Just like Luke will make for Peanut. Anyway, I started looking back over my life and realized the reason I've always been successful is because I've always been a planner and so I decided as far as men go, I wasn't going to waste time by dating man after man or date Dean in a wait-and-see mode, so I told him last night that unless he wanted our relationship to be permanent, I wasn't going to waste my time. That's when he took me to the jewelers to buy the engagement ring and that's when I told him we should get married today. We both agreed there wasn't any sense in waiting any longer since we already know we love each other and we're established in our careers."

"Well, I can't find any fault with that reasoning. I guess you're all grown up, widdle snookums. And if I had to pick a man for you, it'd definitely be the one who owns a bookstore."

"Lorelai, I got the chupah in the back of the truck, ready to take over to the inn," Luke announced. "You wanta come along to help me set it up?"

"Sure! I'll be with you in a minute, hon!"

After Luke and Lorelai left, Rory heard a knock at the door and almost had a meltdown, thinking it was Dean coming over to say he'd change his mind.

"Lane! Oh Lane! Thank goodness you're here! I'm a nervous wreck!"

"Believe me, I know the feeling. That's why I'm here, to lend my support!"

"Yikes! I just remembered I didn't ask you if you'd be my bridesmaid. Would you? Could you? I still have my bridesmaid dress from Sookie's wedding. It's not the usual ugly pink frau-frau with a fat yellow daisy sticking out of it. You might remember it from her wedding. It's a gorgeous, strapless, teal gown. You'll look great in it!"

"Well since it's not an ugly frau-frau dress, sure! Why not? Is there anything else I can do while I'm here?"

"Coffee! I would love some coffee!"

"Don't worry, I got it!"

"Lane, I'm so happy to be back in Stars Hollow and that we'll be close to each other again."

"And I'm so glad you're marrying, Dean. To tell you the truth, Rory, I really never liked any of your other boyfriends.

"Whoa! Way to be honest on my wedding day."

"I would have never said anything if you'd decided to marry any of them. I just figured it was okay to say it now since you're marrying, Dean.

"Which one did you like the least?"

"Oh no, contest, Jess. I mean don't get me wrong, I know he was really, really, cute and he could be pretty funny sometimes, but he was such a troublemaker at school, he totaled you car and I didn't like how he broke you and Dean up. From the outside looking in, it seemed like it had less to do with liking you and more like he was jealous of your relationship and that he almost enjoyed the challenge of seeing if he could break you up. Plus, he really didn't seem like a good catch for the long term. He had so many issues."

"Well, I asked you an honest question. You gave me an honest answer. I kind of wish you had told me this at the time."

"Come on, Rory. You were so smitten with him, if I'd said anything, that'd been the end of our friendship and it might have pushed you do to something crazy to try and prove me wrong. Well, I guess we should change the subject. The important thing is that you're back with who you belong and I couldn't be happier for you. Here's your coffee and I made you a pop tart."

"Thanks for coming over and taking care of me, Lane. I'm almost numb right now. Do you have any words of wisdom about marriage you can share with me?"

"Well, I can guarantee you it won't all be peaches and cream, but it's great to have someone there to share your ups and downs. It fortifies you and makes you feel stronger to have a partner by your side. There's just nothing quite like having the right man in your life who's exclusively there for you."

"Any down points?"

"Well, men can be slobs, I mean to the point where it really grosses you out sometimes, and they can be annoying when they want to spend twelve hours in a row watching football games on Sunday, but hey now that you're back, that won't be any problem. Dean and Zach can hang out together and watch their games all day and we can go shopping. "

"We're back, Ror! Hair and makeup time!"

"Mom! Lane's here. I asked her to be my bridesmaid. I'm giving her the dress from Sookie's wedding to wear."

"That's great, Hon. I'll join you two in a minute; I'm getting the hair and makeup stuff together."

"Well, I should probably get the dress from you now so you can go ahead and start getting
ready. "

"Oh sure, let me go get that for you."

"Oh yeah, I remember this dress now. I love this dress."

"You can keep it if you want."

"Thanks, what time do you want me to meet you at the inn for my bridesmaid duties?"

"If you could make it at eleven that'd great."

"See ya then."

"Bye, Lane. Thanks for coming over to calm me down."

"You're very welcome, Rory."

"Rory, I just saw Dean come in," Lorelai exclaimed as they arrived at the inn. He's wearing a tux and he looks sooo fantastic I want to marry him!"

"You can't have him!

"Pleaaase! I'll give you Luke! I promise he'll make you chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast every morning."

"Okay, sounds like a fair trade to me."

"Just kidding, hon. You two are going to make an awesome looking bride and groom. I gotta surprise for you – that is – Sookie has a surprise for you. Come on, " Lorelai said as she led Rory by the hand to the kitchen.

"Sookie! You made me a wedding cake? You must have stayed up all night to do this?"

"I did, but I don't care! I love weddings and I love that you're marrying Dean and not Jess or Logan."

"I guess it's unanimous. No one ever liked any of my boyfriends, except Dean."

"Basically," Lorelai agreed, nonchalantly.

"Lorelai, Rory, Christopher's here and it's getting close to time to start the service," Luke said as he joined them in the kitchen.

"Shall we?" Lorelai said as she turned to Rory.

"We shall!" Rory replied.

In honor of her mother, Rory chose "Eternal Flame" by the Bangles as her wedding march song. As she gracefully descended the stairs with Christopher, and strolled towards the rose covered chupah, there were gasps throughout the crowd of guests, she was the picture of bridal beauty perfection.

Dean was almost in tears as he watched Rory approaching her, recalling the time he'd escorted her to the debutante ball. She'd been dressed in a white gown on that occasion, too and here she was today dressed in a white gown again, ready to become his bride. This wedding had been a long time in the making and he was going to do his best to make her happy for the rest of his life.

Lorelai gave him a wink as she proceeded down the aisle. Dean was the only man Rory had ever dated that she thought was good enough for her daughter. She knew that Dean loved Rory more than he loved himself and she knew that he was going to do his best to make her happy.

"Who gives this woman to be married?" Taylor called out.

"I do," Christopher said, beaming proudly. He'd never gotten the chance to get to know Dean very well, but the little that he'd known of Dean was enough to satisfy him that his daughter was in good hands.

After the vows were said, the crowd applauded and Lorelai played "We Go Together!" from "Grease" as Dean and Rory walked down the aisle as man and wife.

Though the reception was small, it was quite the Stars Hollow event. In addition to the phenomenal wedding cake Sookie made for the occasion, she and her kitchen staff had also prepared a superb wedding brunch buffet. There was smoked salmon eggs benedict, served on croissants, instead of the usual English muffins, pecan waffles, cinnamon French toast, huevos rancheros, rosemary hash browns, fruit salad, scones, muffins, maple flavored bacon, link sausages and quiche wedges flavored with white cheddar and country ham.

Dean and Rory made their way to the floor to dance and Lorelai popped in "Our Love is Here to Stay," to serenade them for their first dance together as man and wife. Rory was more than glad Lorelai hadn't intentionally chosen a goofy song from her early morning repertoire to mark the occasion, but then she remembered Lorelai and Sookie had hosted hundreds of weddings at their inn and they were both quite good at it.

"Well, Gilmore, how does it feel to be a married lady?"

"Name's Forester now!"

"Oh really?" he beamed with gratitude that she'd chosen to take his name. "I thought with you being a writer and all, you might want to keep Gilmore."

"Nah! It might make it too confusing when we have our own Mr. Peanut."

"True! Have you given any thought as to when you'd like that to happen?" he almost asked sarcastically, presuming she had the exact date already written down on infamous to-do list.

"Soon, very soon," she answered as she pressed her cheek to his.

"Have I told you that I loved you today, Mrs. Forester?"

"Uh-huh, every second with your eyes. I love you, too, Narco Boy, and I'm never letting you get away again."