A Simple Beginning

Wedding Blues

Kate
I look at the picture and it overshadows our wedding plans and I hope that we get the same kind of attention they have received. Elliott told me he had no idea they were seeing each other. He knew that they lived in the same building as we do and he had moved her into the apartment below his after seeing the efficiency she lived in he was advised by Jason to get her moved into a secure apartment and the few available ones were in Escala. Elliott told me he never saw her in the penthouse but it has several exits and entrances and safe rooms. There is also escape routes around the apartments. He won't tell me where they are. Ours has its own safe rooms and escape exits as well and he will show them to me when we get back home.

Elliott
I am looking at the photos and luckily you can't tell who they are thanks to the bodyguards. But looking at their hair it is obviously Christian and Anastasia. That copper perfectly styled hair was very obviously Christian and a petite brunette he towers over can only be Anastasia and Kate told me she disappeared and never came back about the same time Christian left the party to attend to a business deal. I call Christian and he is not in the mood to talk about anything right now because dad is on the other line. I can guess what dad is saying because he discussed a prenuptial agreement with me and I told him that I was not going to have Kate sign one and she isn't having me sign one. I figured that with all the security and press that she put up with it all so she should get half of everything we have.

Christian
I am awake because Jason has sent me a message showing the photos of Anastasia and running out of the chapel after getting married to each other. Anastasia and I have been in private meeting over several of her licenses and patents and she definitely knows how to negotiate. She had set aside enough money to buy a building and have it equipped to handle all the equipment she needed for her inventions. We finally settled on an agreement and it made her a wealthy woman in her own right. We were very sober when we got married. Things heated up after we got through the business meetings. The attraction was obvious and I decided to move it to a permanent situation and surprised her by marrying her in Vegas. I had planned on marrying her the next day, but we ran into each other at the elevators and I asked her there and then to marry me. She agreed and we were driven to the first wedding chapel we found. The wedding dress was a bit big on the top, but the place was able to pin it so it looked perfect on her. My tux was a perfect fit. The wedding photos were great and they had a beautiful selection of wedding rings and engagement rings. No wonder they had armed guards standing by.

Anastasia
Even though Christian and I bumped heads in the negotiations he was still fair in the end. It was because he treated me with respect even though I am employed by him he realized my inventions were done on my own time and with my own equipment, so he couldn't claim any of it for his precious GEH. Barney told him that my contract only included things that I worked on at GEH and only at GEH. After we got through with the contract negotiations we decided to have dinner and then watch a movie and ended up making out. That was how it started and he had me join him for dinner and then we enjoyed our time together and now we are married. I get a text from Kate about the photos on l8be and on the front page of the newspaper and including her family's paper. What we didn't know is what happened next, Mia and Barney were also married but two miles away from our hotel. Barney and Mia dropped by just as Christian got off the phone with his angry father. Then I hear that his mom was upset about the fact we got married without her present. I am betting that she has realized that I have no family and there would only be Barney on my side of the aisle. That's why Christian recommended getting married in Vegas. He had thought about it when he heard the wedding plans for Kate and Elliott. So I agreed to marry him in Vegas.

Kate
I then find out that Barney and Mia got married as well, but they somehow escaped the paparazzi that found Christian and Anastasia. The PR department is going crazy and I am getting calls from them to verify the story is true and both stories are true. Now we have to work on a press release for both couples. Then they asked if I was going to have a wedding or just marry in Vegas as well. Of course I am having a wedding. My family and his are expecting it and everything is planned out.

Barney
My parents actually flew in for our wedding. We had to wait for them to arrive. Mom was ecstatic that I am marrying Mia. She likes her and helps out at 5he restaurant and the catering. She is learning cake decorating as well. I think mom wants to change careers and she has been working hard to do it. Mia was hesitant at first but then she tasted mom's food and saw her cakes and had her hired as a trainee. It didn't take long before they placed her in a position that she wanted and they moved her into a management position. She took business management courses so they placed her in several areas and she stays very busy and brings in a lot of business.

Mia
I am thrilled to finally marry Barney. His ex is always chasing after him and he has told her that he wants nothing to do with her at all. He finally had her arrested after she broke his car windows out. A restraining order was issued and she broke it. Sylvia Emmons was the daughter of friends of his family and she had a crush since they were in kindergarten together. He told her that he was engaged to me and she destroyed my car as well. My security guards made sure she spent time in the psychiatric hospital. Mom and dad have not found out about our marriage yet. The millers think that I should have invited my family to the wedding too. It's too late now.