Good heavens, who let her do this?

[deniabilities]

Janet Ford is nervous. She arrives in the Nexus fidgeting and unsure of herself, her body language betraying that she has no clue what she's doing. Which is wildly out of character for an FBI agent who's spent 11 years facing complicated cases and the occasional life-threatening incident. But this might be the most intimidating thing she's ever been asked to handle, as she sprawls herself on a bench in the Plaza and the stack of bridal magazines inelegantly fans out beside her.

She has a prestigious college degree. She has a commendation for exemplary service. But ask her to help plan a wedding and that's what freaks her out.

It should be said that this is not her wedding, thankfully, but it does involve two people very close to her so she wants to do everything she can for them. The groom is one of her coworkers whom she's known for her whole career and his fiancee is a superwoman who's somehow balanced a successful career with putting up with everything that the FBI can throw at a couple. Janet wants them to have a huge night since they rarely even get proper date nights. That doesn't mean she knows how to make it happen. Or knows anyone who does. So here she is in the Nexus. Someone in the multiverse ought to be able to help.

"Does anybody know anything about weddings?" she asks. "Anything other than they're expensive and way too complicated?" This second question posed as she gets up just to get herself a frappucino from the nearest coffee cart before reclaiming her seat. She thinks that she's going to be here for a while. At least until the headache stops.


[ ooc: Feel free to be as unserious with this thread as you like - I'm hoping to develop Janet's comic voice / life outside the FBI more, so anything goes! That said, please excuse me if she's a bit awkward as I'm trying to get her back after having some negative RP experiences. I'll do my best to make her work with whatever anyone else is comfortable with. ]

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[deniabilities]

"I think it'll be a while off for me." Janet chuckles bashfully. She's certainly thought about it, and so has her boyfriend's mother. She still remembered Ginny dropping a very heavy-handed hint about how her ring would have made a perfect engagement ring.

"But no, one of my colleagues at the Bureau is finally tying the knot with his girlfriend of several years, and he's asked me to get involved to help him sort it all out. I'm in the very early stages of just taking in all the information and trying to distill it down into something we can all understand. You know? Separating the really important stuff from the noise."

[suomi_thunder]

Her response only escalates his excitement as he scoots closer. " I helped my friend pick out his engagement ring and clothes."

He's still over the moon happy that he was asked to help with something that special. Though his unbridled energy tones down for a second as he has an important question to ask. "What kind of wedding? All the religions and cultures have different weddings."

Aarne knew this well being around a lot of people with Western and Christian traditions when he didn't. That was one of the first things he noticed while helping others.

[deniabilities]

"It's probably not going to be a huge deal," Janet said. While she knew the groom would want to do something special for his future wife, there was a difference between special and turning the whole thing into a spectacle. That was why he had reached out to her and the rest of his colleagues in the first place. They could take his imagination and ground it in reality.

"But it's something that's probably a few years overdue, and so I'd like to do my part to make it as great as we can. The friend of mine who's getting married doesn't get a lot of attention nor does he have a lot of family, so I feel like he deserves it."

[suomi_thunder]

"Make him important." Aarne had a lot of opinions on things like this since there were quite a few people around him engaged now. "Take him out for a men's manicure and spa day?"

Then he caught on to her words about not a lot of people around. "Plan the bachelor party? It's stupid that men have to do it. I'm sure you could throw him a party better than anyone else."

He believed that too give how she talked about this man deserving more attention and good things.

[deniabilities]

"Oh, God, is he even having a bachelor party?" Janet blurted out. She had completely forgotten that part of the proceedings. No one had even asked. Add that to the list of things to bring up with Adam the next time she saw him. "Maybe we'll just take everyone out to dinner."

She and her best friend had tried almost every restaurant in their city and knew several nice ones. If Adam didn't want a full-blown party, they could easily take the whole group out to dinner, especially if they were going to have to pack up and leave for Kentucky. Try and give them a relaxing night out before all the craziness started.

"He did throw me a birthday party once," she remembers with a laugh. "It was nuts. I found out our boss is in a band... and not just any band, a serious rock band."