Grey’s Anatomy season 11 ties a neat bow on the end of a tumultuous season. Find out who is happy, who is moving on, and who ties the knot!

Grey’s Anatomy‘s season finale felt almost like a series finale as the final moments gave way to more happy endings than sad ones.

Case of the week: The husband and wife from the tunnel collapse enter their final surgeries.

April 2.0 is a woman Bailey can get behind. Taking charge, bringing patients in on tow trucks, thinking outside the box, April is no longer the girl in pigtails smiling at everyone. Catherine Avery has a similar spunk in her step, a trait that Richard Webber used to find endearing. A little give and take is natural, but both Catherine and Richard only feel themselves giving and getting nothing in return.

The same can be said about Jackson and April. Since her return from deployment April is giving less and less to Jackson and he is reaching his limit for how much longer he can wait around for the woman he married to come back.

Keith’s wife is slowly on her way to her spinal operation, when she begins to hemorrhage after the delivery of her son. Arizona is able to tie up the bleeders while Amelia goes to work on correcting the interns’ mistake. Edwards is banned from the OR, seeing as she must now take full responsibility for leaving first years alone in the room with a patient. Even ones who look really, really good.

Outside of the hospital, Meredith explains to Keith how the process is going to go to get him from the car to the OR. With only the furthest operation room open (of course), once Keith is cut out he must be on the table in five minutes or he will bleed out. Meredith’s calming presence is enough to keep Keith focused, but she has one more idea to give him the final push to fight for his life — a visit from his newborn son.

We’re not sure why Jackson picks the worst of the crop to handle locking down the hospital after they already botched a neck brace removal. Nearly missing the window to keep the elevator open, Keith makes it up to surgery and is revived on the table.

Alex returns the newborn upstairs before the cutting begins in the bay where Jo waits for him. Alex’s best efforts to include her in his decisions all backfire. With his widowed best friend and her three kids tapping on the window, how does Jo actually have a choice in the matter?

Joan does not have a choice in who gets to enter her room, but Edwards and her interns make it just in time to catch a hemorrhage in her airway. Edwards and Deluca (we need a hot nickname for him), take care of the in room care, until she is carted to the OR and they retreat to the gallery. Bailey does not sit by and take Edwards’ dismissal of her interns no matter how far they stray. When they fail, Edwards fails. (Remember Denny’s LVAD wire?) Her actions shape these doctors whether she likes them or not.

Speaking of doctors who are able to give up their well-being for the betterment of the hospital, isn’t it high time that Miranda Bailey don the chief’s white jacket? Richard thinks so, Ben thinks so, but most importantly, Miranda Bailey knows so.

Joan and Keith are the first couple to receive their happy ending as their recovery beds are placed side by side and they share their first moment as a family of three.

The clash of the titans turns to a silent stand off that Meredith walks right into. Enough is enough. She pulls out her dead husband card and lays it before their eyes. Richard has lost Ellis and Adele. Catherine has lost… well, someone, surely. But there in that room, they have each other and the possibility of fighting. Isn’t that enough? They decide to figure it out and pick up their tug-o-war rope one more time. Catherine takes recommendations for residents and a nomination for a new chief and Richard gets Valentine’s Day and no work talk in the bedroom. With that, the rings are back on and they walk down the aisle.

Seeing one more relationship that needs mending, Meredith hands Amelia her old phone that has one saved voicemail.

There is a relationship that is not going to need a little more than some TLC. Another plane leaves for Jordan in a few weeks and April wants to be on it. After their son died, April’s spark went out. Jackson let her go on her journey that turned from months to a year all the while wishing he had someone asking him how he was doing. Someone to grieve with him. If she goes on that plane, he is not sure that he can wait around again.

The reception fills Meredith and Derek’s house for one final party that grants Derek’s wish to fill the home with love and noise and family. Alex and Jo steal away to a loft space that Jo wants to build into their home, just the two of them. Meredith can take her house back and rebuild her family life.

Amelia tucks away to listen to Derek’s voicemail and Owen joins her to help give her the final nudge to let go. As we see him on the ferry one last time describing the most perfect Seattle day, the final cover of “How to Save a Life” plays in the background.

Meredith, Maggie, and Amelia sit on the deck looking in at the happiness that fills the bright home. Even in their darker moments, there is plenty of light. They just need to position themselves in the right direction to take it in.

Grey’s Anatomy returns with new episodes fall 2015.