The weddings of Lord Jason Grace, Marquis of Skye, to Miss Piper McLean and Lieutenant Perseus Jackson to Miss Annabeth Chase took place on the first of August, Lammas Day. Saint Agnes church rang its bells, not only in honor of the two couples but also to signal the start of the wheat harvest.
Annabeth opened the window. The fresh, earthy smell of freshly mown hay wafted into her bedroom at Skye Castle.
"What do you think of Jason's gift?" Piper said.
She held up a carved wooden busk for Annabeth's inspection. Lord Skye had inscribed roses and lovers knots on the busk along with the words: près de ton Coeur.
"entré tes seins would be more appropriate, " Annabeth replied.
Piper blushed and slid the busk into the front of her stays.
"You're positively indecent!"
Annabeth's own Dear Percy had also carved her a busk with ships, anchors, compasses, and other nautical symbols.

Its message was "my anchor and my compass."
Personalized busks were popular love tokens given to young ladies by their fiancés. Annabeth vowed to cherish her's forever.
When the maid had brought up her breakfast, Annabeth could only manage to hold down a few bites of the toast and a few sips of coffee. Piper looked at her as if she were going mad whenever she giggled for no apparent reason.
Annabeth's joy was so overpowering that she might perish and be whisked away to the Elysian Fields. No mortal could handle being this happy.
"What are you doing?" Piper said when Annabeth plopped down on the bed and threw her arms around her knees. She hugged them with all of her strength.
"Is it possible to die from such bliss?"
"Don't be silly! You'll rumple our gowns."
Their wedding dresses had been laid out across the foot of the bed.
Piper grabbed Annabeth's arms and pulled her to her feet. The maid smoothed out the snowy Indian muslin of the wedding dresses.
Piper's tied with a simple satin sash while Annabeth's featured an overlayer embroidered in gold thread.

A turban weaved with flowers bound up Piper's sable tresses, picturesquely tousled in the style which suited Piper the best.  

The maid draped a gauzy veil over Annabeth's golden curls.

Annabeth covered her face in powder to hide the fact that all her blood had rushed to her cheeks.  Contemplating the heavenly rapture that awaited her in the arms of her beloved, those tender caresses that love inspired and marriage sanctified had that effect on her.
Their mothers knocked on the bedroom door and the maid let opened it for them.
"Are you ready?" Mrs. Chase said. Lady McLean was too busy giggling to say anything coherent.
"As I'll ever be," Piper replied.

Piper married Lord Skye by Catholic rites in the chapel of Skye Castle with only their families and a few close relatives and friends in attendance. Lady Thalia and her husband, Captain Castellan, and Silena and her husband, Mr. Beckendorf, served as witnesses. The bride's mother clutched her handkerchief and smelling salts during the entire ceremony.
Annabeth swore that Piper set the standard for bridal beauty so high that no future bride would ever be called lovely.  She acknowledged her vast inferiority to her friend, in looks, temperament, station, and merit, without any trace of envy or bitterness.
Lord Skye placed a simple golden posy ring etched with flowers and the words "no value but my love" on Piper's finger.

In return, Piper gave him a matching ring that read: "my heart and yours."

The Reverend Bruner joined Annabeth in wedlock to her Lieutenant Jackson in Saint Agnes Church. Percy never looked more handsome than he did standing at the altar in his dress uniform while the final strains of Handel's "See the Conquering Hero Come" played on the organ.

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Annabeth entered the church accompanied by another piece by Handel: A Virtuous Wife Shall Soften Fortune's Frowns.

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She stood across from Percy in front of the altar as Reverend Bruner began the ceremony. When it came time for the vows, Percy took her hand.
"I, Perseus Poseidon Jackson, take thee, Annabeth Athena Chase, to be my lawfully wedded wife."
Annabeth looked into his stunning emerald eyes and repeated the vows.
"I, Annabeth Athena Chase, take thee, Perseus Poseidon Jackson, to be my lawfully wedded husband."
Percy placed the ring on Annabeth's finger. It was inscribed with the phrase: I desire to deserve.

"With this ring, I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow."
Annabeth then gave Percy his ring which read: "You Never Know."

"I now pronounce you: man and wife," Reverend Bruner said.
Percy leaned over and gently kissed his new wife. "I love you, Mrs. Jackson," he whispered into her ear.
She stood on the tips of her toes to return his kiss. "I love you too, Seaweed Brain."
The congregation clapped and cheered as the newlyweds left the church.

The wedding breakfast was held in Skye Castle's drawing-room. Percy and Annabeth received the congratulations of the guests who wished them a long, happy life together and many children.
Annabeth wasn't sure about many children. One or two would be nice. A boy to name after her father and a girl to call Sophia, a name she'd always liked. She imagined young Master Frederick and little Miss Sophia running around Atlantis Hall.
Nearby, Hazel accepted a cup of tea from Zhang and Solace brought Mr. Di Angelo a plate of ham, bacon, and cold tongue.

The four kept in touch over the next few years. Hazel and Zhang waited patiently for a chance to be together while Solace and Mr. Di Angelo shocked everyone by eloping to France, where such a relationship could, if not thrive, survive.
His father disowned and disinherited him, making Hazel the heiress of the Di Angelo fortune.
The elder Mr. Di Angelo died in 1797 after contracting cholera in Louisiana. He freed Hazel in his will along with leaving her a fortune of 3,000 pounds a year and a comfortable estate. She could now marry her beloved Frank. The two of them washed their hands of their plantation in Louisiana and hosted abolitionist meetings at Styx Abbey. Whenever she could, Hazel sent money to her brother in France. The Younger Mr. Di Angelo became famous for his poetry and soon no longer needed his sister's financial assistance. Solace studied medicine at the Sorbonne and opened up a successful practice as a surgeon.
Through an arrangement such as theirs was not illegal in France, they conducted it as discreetly as they could, lest it damages their careers.
In another part of the drawing-room, Valdez piled up toasted bread rolls onto his plate while his wife, the former Miss Calypso Titan, sipped hot chocolate and rolled her eyes.

The two were expecting their first child- they would go on to have six, three strapping sons and three bonny daughters. Their second son relocated to Manchester and opened up a prosperous cotton mill while their youngest daughter ran away to London where she became a famous actress and mistress to a number of wealthy and influential men. Mr. and Mrs. finished their lives in a comfortable home in Cheapside.
Lady Thalia took coffee with her husband, Captain Castellan. His grandfather would die a few years later, making them the Viscount and Viscountess Kronos. Castellan's talents and connections helped him to rise to the rank of general during the wars with France. But, unfortunately, he was slain at the battle of Waterloo.
Annabeth took a break from greeting her well-wishers and fortified herself with asparagus omelet and fish in sauce remoulade while Lady Thalia read aloud a letter of congratulations from Dona Reyna.

Dona Reyna was now a novice in a Spanish convent. She eventually became the mother superior of the order. When Napoleon's troops invaded Spain, she leads her fellow nuns into battle, armed with kitchen knives and heavy golden candlesticks, to defend their cloisters. She went down in history as "the fighting abbess."
The center of the wedding breakfast was a giant fruit cake, enrobed in marzipan, frosted with meringue buttercream, and layered like the spire of the St. Bride's Cathedral.

Piper and Lord Skye were the first to cut into the cake.  They became the Duke and Duchess of Olympus in 1800 when gout finally carried of his father.
After trying for a number of years, they were finally able to have a child, a son, and heir. Two daughters followed him. Their son was one of the youngest Miss Valdez's lovers and their elder daughter married Percy and Annabeth's son, Frederick.
Annabeth and Percy then cut their own slices of cake. The first couple of decades of their marriage were spent bouncing around from port to port. As a woman with an adventurous spirit and a desire to see the world, Annabeth saw this as an advantage.  She was fortunate enough to see some of the world's greatest wonders: the rock of Gibraltar, the Pyramids, and the Parthenon. During the wars with France, Percy's crew captured many ships and he earned himself a large fortune. The Prince Regent knighted him for his naval service. Annabeth ended her days as Lady Jackson.