AN:I am sorry this has taken so long, i truly am, life has been busy. I promised to write my dear friend a birthday storey, and i failed, and i have had no inspiration for a christmas storey for her either, so concluding this is the best i can do right now. So happy belated birthday, merry christmas, and hopefully a happy new year, my friend!

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Sheldon stood at the alter, ramrod straight in his coal black suit, the pants of which he had finally found in the university's lost and found, and dry cleaned twice before wearing. His tie was a garish pink, but he didn't mind, because Penny had promised her underthings were the same colour, and that intrigued him. If they were hot pink, they must be new. Previously, if she had new undergarments, something else new occurred as well. Trying to figure out what she had in store, and probabilities of each possibility being the one, had kept him quiet and occupied for the last week.

Miracle of miracles, it had only taken a week for Penny to organise this wedding. Las Vegas, of course. A white dress with frou frou layers and a whispy veil, which he wasn't to know about, except she was now coming down the isle, and looking suspiciously virginal for someone wearing hot pink panties.

Her brother couldn't come, being on parole, but her parents were here, and his brother stood at his side, twitching uncomfortably. he could see his mother dabbing at her eyes and signing her life savings away to the church as she had promised. He had purseuded her to keep it till she was dead though, at least, with the argument that she would need some funds to come and visit her future grandchildren.

His sister was here too, making eyes at Raj, and Howard and Bernadette were on the other side of room, grinning at him oddly. Leonard was sitting with his mother next to them.

As Penny got closer, she lifted up the veil, and from that point on, nobody was there but the two of them.

It had been six months since their first lust fuelled escapade, a deviation from his set plan of courtship, one that he did not regret in the least, and had repeated several times since, with enjoyment. He had felt the need after that to present her with his grandmothers ring, to prove his intentions. She had accepted, and began making plans for summer wedding. But plans had changed.

He had won the Noble Prize. On the heels of that, he had been offered a chance to work at CERN for a year. A year! But the wedding, the progeny production, the yard...

No problem, Penny had announced, she would go too! They could get married early, and rent out the house.

Leonard would move in the day after they left.

He, Sheldon Lee Cooper, Nobel Prize Winner, would be taking his award, his brain, and his wife to Switzerland. The thought made him absolutely giddy.

Until Penny adjusted her bodice, and he caught a glimpse of something hot pink.

"I do." He announced.

Penny grinned, and repeated his words. Elvis smiled at them and snapped closed his book and announced he could now kiss the bride.

And so he did.