The bride and groom had a lot to prepare, dresses to buy and fix, issues that only the bride could decide. Eneas was solicitous of Penelope's every whim, they were a perfectly normal couple of lovers about to get married, they were in the news again, their wedding once again brought joy to the world of the heart, the voices critical of the army perhaps uttered complaints about the excessive pomp that was being given to the simple wedding of a colonel and a lieutenant, even though she was in fact a princess and the heir to the legacy of the most powerful military family.