“Twenty more minutes…” Lily said as her mother did the fifth round of ‘last touches’ to her hair. “I know I know, we just have to set this broach straight.” she muttered through the bobby pins in her teeth. Petunia Dursley was sitting on the coach behind the two; she out of all the bridesmaid’s was the only one ready, mainly because she didn’t put much effort into her dress and hair, after all it was just freaky Lily’s freaky wedding and she had no business in it thank you very much. Keri Bell (a muggle friend), Alice Longbottom and Nessa Starr were Lily’s 3/10 of bridesmaids; Alice was the maid of honor. Nessa and Alice went to Hogwarts with her, Nessa and Lily shared a dorm together in Gryffindor tower, she and Alice were the only female friends Lily ever became close to, since she spent most of her childhood with one boy, him. But they weren’t friends anymore, and he was just her past, Lily looked in to the mirror, this was now and now could not wait. Without knowing she slapped her mother’s hand from her hair and stood up “I’m going now.” She said absent mindedly. The clock was ticking to fifteen minutes left. Lily left the room being followed by Petunia. “Lily,” Petunia called out; Lily spun on her heels “I just want to say… congratulations on… well everything.” She said sheepishly, Lily presented no emotion “I thought I was just a waste of space… according to you when you said that non-stop since I came back here.” She crossed her arms. “I don’t think you’re a waste of space. I love you Lily.” Petunia almost whispered; Lily began to tear up and threw her arms around her sister “Thank you Tunie, I wish you could have said that a long time ago though.” Lily whimpered. “Yes, yes, now hurry up and get in the barn, we should be there by now!” Petunia released herself from Lily’s embrace and scuttled away.
“so are we flying there or what?” James said frantically “You and Sirius take the motorbike and Peter and I will apparate over to the farm.” Remus said. The wedding was being held at James’ families farm on the country side and the groom couldn‘t be there while the bride was at the same time, according to Remus it was bad luck. “Okay… just hurry up and go, set up everything.” James said and with a loud crack, Remus and Peter were out of sight. “Shall we?” Sirius said throwing a helmet at James, whom was already mounting the motorbike “WAIT” James jumped off the bike and stumbled back in to the apartment; Sirius groaned. “I can’t forget my baby!” James came back with his broom, the latest Nimbus model. “Let’s race!” Sirius shouted, and on a count of three, both of the reckless young men zoomed in to the sky, careless enough to forget about the busy street of muggles below them.
Lily was getting hay all over her wedding dress, it was a mermaid style white dress that hugged her curves and draped to the ground. “Lily wait!” called out a familiar voice. Lily almost broke her ankle from the loose floor board below her; Remus caught her just before she fell, “We don’t want the bride in a wheel chair on her wedding day now do we?” he chuckled softly. “Thanks Remus, so what do you need? Where‘s James?” she brushed the hay off the hem of her dress “Can’t tell you but… he’s here… and ready,” Remus said his eyes beating quickly. Lily smirked, “anyway I need your opinion on the seating arrangements, Peter’s too busy with the catering and I’m about to crap a castle if this doesn’t turn out right.” Remus said frantically; Lily laughed “Don’t worry Remus, just arrange the chairs in two rows, not many people are showing up anyway, I’ll go help-” “No. you cannot leave the barn, you must not be seen.” Remus held her shoulders “You make it seem like I’m hiding from Voldemort or something…” Lily said sarcastically; Remus held a finger to her lips. As he walked out of the barn, he met one of the bridesmaids, Keri, whom Remus had secretly fancied the day Lily introduced him to her last summer “Hello Remus.” Keri said in a smooth Scottish accent “Er- ah- Hello. Keri.” he said sheepishly, Remus was never the type to talk to girls. “Want to help me paint the sign?” Keri said, Remus so desperately wanted to say yes but refused and awaited the arrival of his friends.
James and Sirius both came running down the dirt path, “lots and lots of bridesmaids” were the only things heard from Sirius. “And five minutes to spare.” James said, feeling accomplished by this. “Your mum’s waiting hurry!” Peter led James to the Altar. The bridesmaids were already in line, and already checking out the three Groomsmen and Frank Longbottom. Sirius stood up first, being James’ best man, he took this moment and added it to his list of bragging rights. Remus wasn’t far behind.
The Organ on the side began to play and two little children walked on to the altar. A six year old Nymphadora Tonks wobbled down the aisle throwing flowers about, a little muggle boy followed closely. Then came the main event. Lily Evans was walking flawlessly down the aisle. Each step she took seemed to make the grass grow green and sprout flowers. She was as radiant as the sun itself and James looked shabby next to her, she smiled softly at the sight of his sneakers. James wasn’t the very least surprised about Lily’s appearance, he already saw Lily’s beauty ever since they met on the train in their first year. The moment she stepped on to the altar and exchanged vows was the very moment that the young couple sealed their love story with a kiss and time seemed to stop and all remained still, this was not only the time Lily was joined to James forever, but also the split second her last name changed from Evans to Potter.
