"We can get it changed. You know at a certain point we might as well just have a wedding. I've never had a wedding before and I don't think we can have one anymore if the world ends. And you complained about people not having them in heaven."

"We could invite all the grad students! It would confuse them so much! --And you like weddings. You always cry."

"I do like weddings. Obviously we can't have one in a church. We could do a beach or a park or a garden. Possibly a castle."

"We could have it here."

" - we could! We could decorate everything and give everybody cake."

"And promise to be together until the end of the world."

Hug. "And if we're very lucky it'll be more than eleven years."

"It all depends on how good we are at being parents. --You're going to make us have a wedding before Marie arrives, aren't you?"

"Yes. Babies should have unambiguously married parents. With rings. And vows."

"But she'd be so cute as a flower girl."

"But then we'd have to wait years."

"Fine. --It's hard to plan a wedding in three months but I guess we can just miracle the decorations."

"I bet it's not that hard. It doesn't have to be a big wedding, and we don't have any family to invite. But we can miracle things if it is. It's not like it's something we're going to be doing regularly."

Lev, who miracles things he does regularly all the time, does not comment about this.

Instead he says, "I love you and I am so happy to have a wedding and a baby even if they are in the godly order."

"I love you too! Thank you for marrying me officially even though we've apparently been married for centuries anyway. We are going to be - extremely loving if not strictly speaking extremely good parents."

"I for one will support her in following all but two of her possible dreams."

"I'm sure she could theoretically come up with some kind of terrible idea that falls short of actually destroying the world. But I will love her no matter what."

"Well, if she does good things I'll be proud of her in the normal parent way, and if she does bad things I'll be proud of her in the demon way."

Her husband is excellent and he is getting hugged again.

"I really really hope you don't get tortured forever."

"Same to you."

"Mhmm."

Everyone agrees that it was the strangest wedding they had ever seen.

Everyone still alive who had ever been a regular at Hearts & Halos Bookshop received an invitation, even though it was far from obvious how the proprietors of Hearts & Halos knew where any of their old regulars lived. The proprietors looked identical to the proprietors of seventy years ago, even though they must be... grandchildren or something. 

Neither the bride nor the groom appeared to have any family, possibly because they were spies, or maybe eccentric vampires. Several of the grad students were growing more enamored of the "eccentric vampire" hypothesis.

The bookshelves were covered with handmade decorations. The tables were spread with an excessive number of cakes: half homemade and as delicious as if the baker had spent six thousand years perfecting her recipe, half purchased from a baker and far less delicious but making up for it in being shaped like Daleks, Wall-E, Legos, or something called a "Lensman." The bride and groom exchanged their aggressively secular vows in front of a justice of the peace; instead of "till death do us part," they said "until the end of the world" which (it was generally felt) did not make it less likely that they were some sort of particularly eccentric and book-obsessed vampires. They hugged instead of kissing.

After the vows, there was dancing: a medley of the greatest hits of the past five centuries. Fortunately, some of the grad students did social dancing and happily waltzed and did the gavotte.

It's perfect. Or - not perfect, not the clean bright white unchanging walls of heaven, not the exacting dance of the stars as they circle one another through the celestial spheres, but she thinks she likes her wedding more than she likes perfect things.

Her ring is very pretty and her cakes are very good and she loves her husband very very much.

It is totally perfect! He bounces on his heels every time he looks at his wife (his wife!!!! who is his!!!! she's so excellent!!!!).

He is going to end up tortured for eternity but also for eternity he is going to get to remember what Kairiel looked like smiling in a white dress and he thinks that this is worth it.

Her husband is adorable and wonderful and hers. (She tells him this many times, after everyone leaves and she has to put the cakes away. It takes a while because it's very easy to get distracted by the fact that her husband exists and is married to her and is wonderful and adorable.)

"Thank you for doing this. Officially."