Marco felt a headache starting. The planning of a wedding was more annoying than working through his piles of paperwork.
They didn't have to worry about the clothes as Izo had begged to take care of these. So this point was off the list.
The rings were already dealt with. Two simple gold rings. The engraving was kept simple, too. There would be the date of the wedding day, the first letters of their names intertwined (M & L) and the words 'A new dream'. He really had to thank Jozu for his help as the third division commander knew a trustworthy jeweller who did really great engravings.
Food and so one was dealt by their cooks. They only had to give a few suggestions on the cake. Sanji and Thatch were insulted even by the slight suggestion to look for some other cooks to help.
A location for the wedding was something that could be discussed when the guest list was ready. Because the location had to be chosen under various aspects which would be defined by the guest list.
So this simple list of people was the biggest problem.
If it would be a normal wedding from one of their members they would invite their allies to celebrate on some of the islands under protection. This usually got a lot of attraction around the Grand Line and the marine always seemed close to attack them, if there was a wedding. But the last wedding was years ago when the marine headquarter was still stationed in Paradise. Also, they hadn't Akainu as Fleet Admiral back then.
The magma bastard wouldn't even bat an eyelid to attack them if he noticed something big was going to happen. Another problem was that the marine headquarter was now located in the New World. That meant keeping the chance of attracting attention as low as possible had to be their goal.
So they had to keep the guest number low. This wasn't easy as they both knew a lot of people and were somehow connected to them. Luffy to people he met on his journey and Marco to the allies, who were like family.
The first suggestion was to only celebrate with the two crews. That would mean all nine Straw Hats and the 1616 member of the Whitebeard pirates.
But then Sabo's name fell and Luffy whined that the blonde member of the revolutionary army should be part of the wedding. After all, he was Luffy's brother. So when they invited Sabo, he would bring the orange-brown-haired girl named Koala, who was said brother's girlfriend, too. When Luffy just informed his brother about the wedding, Ivankov was there, too, and declared he would participate to present Monkey D Dragon, Luffy's father. Because the man himself would definitely like to come by but would attract too much attention.
This meant three people were added to the guest list (total 1628 guests).
Then Luffy suddenly wanted to invite civilians who took care of him when he was just a little boy. This meant the bear of a woman named Dadan, who wanted to roast him, and Makino, Akagami's lover, should be part of the wedding, too. So they would get to know Luffy's nephew. Also, there were a few more names of civilians form Foosha Village and some bandits (he still didn't think he heard that right) from Mt. Colubo.
Marco massaged his temples.
With inventing these civilians (and bandits), they had to be even more careful. They even had to think about getting them to the New World without making the marine suspicious. Because as a famous pirate crew of the strongest man in the world and the pirate king with his crew, they couldn't just go to one of the Blues without raising a lot of attention.
"Ji-chan is coming and he didn't want to take a no", Luffy said and interrupted his thoughts.
Marco looked shocked at his fiance who stood at the door.
