First story is by Claremont and Nauck. Kitty recaps her life up until the present. Kitty's narrative moves from the bullet to her break to Gold (despite the art showing the WatXM era), which means Fraction to Bendis effectively gets erased from continuity. Some might argue that's because of the bad writing during that era, but it's probably because she had the audacity to date men not named Colossus during that period.
Anyway, there is ONE person Kitty loved more than anyone else and that is Grampa MacTaggart who is now the love of Kitty's life. Yep, even Godmont has betrayed us and fallen for boring heteronormativity in some miniseries nobody read. Kitty also remembers her dad as a good, honorable, decent men even though I think he did some naughty things related to fraud or whatnot.
Kitty goes to work at the old bar where she says she has wedding jitters. Nightcrawler appears and says if she's scared, she should just run away and everyone will understand, including Colossus. The ghossts of Grampa MacTaggart, Logan and Carmen Pryde show up to encourage her to get married anyway and Kitty has a happy weep while saying "I do".
Second story is the bachelor party by Greg Land. Nightcrawler is EXTREMELY happy and Gambit says boyo a bunch more times. Colossus is sad because he just wants to be with Kitty all the time. This kind of dependence on somebody is very, very healthy.
At the casino, they get interrupted by one of the bad guys from the Secret Empire tie-ins and Colossus beats him up. Ultimately the fight gets resolved because the bad guy fought Storm and OML, not these guys. The guys get away and Colossus points out this was just like that time Juggernaut. If you liked UXM #181, sorry that issue is cursed now.
Third story is the bachelorette party by Kelly Thompson and Marika Cresta. Colossus doesn't want Kitty to have a bachelorette party, which is EXTREMELY healthy. Anyway the bachelorette party is stripperoke. Kitty gets flustered and goes to the bathroom where Rogue is putting on too much makeup. They talk about wedding jitters again and Rogue says she's never been more happy with Gambit, probably because he says "boyo" now all the time.
Kitty gets teleported to the sewers by Callisto and they fight. As it turns out, Callisto is still in love with Colossus after their short fling decades ago. Sorrry Storm/Callisto's tentacles shippers! Anyway she says she'll kill Kitty if she ever hurts Colossus. Well, that came out of nowhere.
Kitty gets back to the party where she meets up with Magik, who found out about the stripperoke and decided to come. Everybody is dancing to Storm's singing. Domino is there, which about zero sense. Kitty gets champagne and a letter from Emma telling her to have an astonishing wedding. That's when my issue broke because of how incredulous that is but the good news it was the end of the issue anyway.
There are three stories in this book and none get the time to breathe with the ten pages they get in each. In fairness, some of this is the writers' own fault. Claremont didn't need to spend half his page time recapping Kitty's history. We just got those Legacy primers a couple months ago! Guggenheim wastes all his time on shitty character scenes, which means the fight is done in a double page spread and the resolution to the conflict is extremely rushed. Thompson's story works the best even though all of Kitty's paneltime is wasted on characters she rarely interacts with and mostly just serve to reiterate scenes from Gold with (Rogue, Callisto). Obviously, she deserved more pages even though the writing is rather poor.
All three issues brag about their continuity and none of it really works. X-Men True Friends is an extremely little known comic so making Grampa MacTaggart a crucial character in Kitty's history is pointless. The reference to Uncanny #181 was random and mostly just served as Guggenheim's answer to his critics that A) he has actually read a couple of comics and B) that he knows Kitty and Colossus had broken up once upon a time. But it mostly just serves as proof that Guggs is a bad writer because there is nothing "ironic" about the situation like Colossus tells us. Callisto's revelation about her feelings for Colossus feels equally bizarre and an attempt to show off continuity chops. That scene would've worked a lot better if it was with Domino. And where the hell was Karma??? I thought Thompson told me I was presumptuous about her when I said she doesn't know about her and Kitty. Oh well at least Kitty's BFFs Polaris and Domino are at the party...
That said, if you like some cooldown stuff and a lot of little character moments you will enjoy this book. Nauck and Cresta's art is neato and Land is Peak Land. 10/10 best issue yet.