Chapter summary: Sheldon begged his mother to stay another day after the wedding.
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Title: "The Connubial Catalyst"
Description: Sheldon and Amy wrestle with the increasing demands of modern life and family, but an opportunity comes along that may finally make their dreams come true.  Meanwhile, Leonard, Howard and Raj face major life changes as well.
Fandom: The Big Bang Theory
Genre: Comedy/Romance/Angst
Characters: Sheldon/Amy and everybody else
Word Count: 65,000+
Author's Note: This is a companion piece to "The Coitus Consideration" and a sequel to The Gamete Indeterminacy, and those stories are mandatory reading to understand this story.  So… chop, chop.
Disclaimer: The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, and is produced by them along with Lee Aronsohn. It is a Warner Brothers production and airs on CBS. All characters, plots and creative elements derived from the source material belong exclusively to their respective owners. I, the author of the fan fiction, do not, in any way, profit monetarily from the story.
Rating: M (for later chapters)

As had been scheduled in an email, commanded by his boss, and persuasively argued by Amy, Sheldon entered the Physics Building's conference room bright and early on Thursday morning for the delegates to the Meeting of the Science Education Commission. According to the email, elite science institutions throughout the U.S. had been invited to send professors who, ahem, "had an invested interest and altruistic desire to lend their professional expertise in spearheading and implementing bicoastal initiatives that would enrich the nation's high school and undergraduate science programs, building better scientists for tomorrow." There was quite possibly nothing Sheldon wanted to do less. Other than kill crickets in the bathroom. That was Amy's job.

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In the season finale, when Howard and Bernadette decide they want to be married before his NASA launch, the gang rushes to put on a wedding. At the last minute, Howard has doubts about entering space.

When NASA moves up Howard's mission, he must face his fears and Bernadette's dad, thus putting the wedding plans in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Leonard says something surprising to Penny in the bedroom.

After the guys throw Howard a bachelor party, Bernadette reconsiders marrying him after learning about his sexual history.