Pepper shakes her head at the question, giving a wry grin. "Oh, I... definitely didn't expect this tonight of all nights, but I guess I should have known better. Go big or go home is pretty much the only setting Tony has, most of the time."

Something that Steve very well knows. Her smile softens into something more subdued and sincere. "But I'm happy. More than I expected to be."

She never needed to get married in order to be happy and content, but now that it's actually happening, she feels a profound sense of completion that's hard to ignore.