Wedding in Baia

Wedding in Baia Chapter 4

Yes, another thing off the list. I trusted Lissa and her eye for details. I turned the tv on and watched say yes to the dress as I gave my commentary to the empty room. Seriously, these women were picking horrible dresses. Occasionally they tried one on that was nice but none even seemed to be as amazing as my dress. Even though I haven’t actually seen my dress on me I knew it’d be perfect. It was literally being made just for me. 

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 It had been a few weeks since I told Lissa that I wanted to marry Dimitri in Baia and we got a few dates back and we decided on a wedding date of June 5th. Once we got the date set we sent out invitations to our friends and family and we were keeping it small. I didn’t want to parade in front of a bunch of people. It was just something I wanted to keep small and special to those we loved. Abe totally understood and was okay with that even though he wanted to throw a big bash.

 I think he understood that Dimitri and I were happier with a smaller wedding. Lissa picked out some beautifully mixed flowers for our bouquets. I knew they were navy and pink and white, I could spot a few roses in the bouquets but I trusted her. All the flowers I was shown were always so beautiful that honestly I would’ve been fine with any of them.  

Dimitri’s sisters were more than happy to help me get ready, even though I didn’t want a big wedding party since I wanted them all to enjoy the day. We didn’t have a ton of guests so I wanted them to enjoy the day. We asked Declan to be our ring bearer and Sonja’s little girl to be our flower girl. Paul was going to walk down the aisle with a sign saying. “Here she comes…” 

Dimitri learned about the bread tradition and the toast we were going to do with him and he was very happy to see us add a few traditions into the wedding. His suit was being made by the seamstress who was making my wedding dress. His suit would be a light grey with a white shirt and Navy tie with a small white and pink flower and a pink pocket square. I told him that after the pictures he could take off his jacket and wear his duster. He assured me that he could live without it for one day. Dimitri told me he had the wedding bands covered and he wasn't going to let me see mine till he was putting it on my finger. 

Trying on my mock dress was amazing. Even though it was just out of a solid underskirt material it showed off my figure so amazingly. The perfect amount of cleavage, and we decided to go without the illusion top. I hadn’t tried the real dress on yet. The seamstress promised me it would be done in plenty of time for us to fly out to Baia. It still felt unreal, that I got to have the wedding I always wanted with the only man I’ve ever loved. 

 I took every moment to enjoy this experience. I was so excited and also nervous. I had most of the wedding planned out now and I was so flustered when it came to my vows. I’ve always had a hard time saying how I feel out loud, and being with Dimitri was, well it was like I found another part of me. 

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I woke up stretching seeing Dimitri was sound asleep next to me. I kissed his cheek as I got up and got ready for the day. Today was my final wedding dress fitting. I told Abe he had to wait till the day to see it so he was not allowed to tag along today but my mom and Lissa were coming. I knew tears would be falling today so I opted for no makeup and I made sure to grab the shoebox with my wedding heels in it, they were a decent 4 inches. They weren’t able to fix the full foot of difference between me and Dimitri but it definitely helped so he didn’t have to lean over so far. 

I met my mom and Lissa outside the dress shop and I was happy we were doing this early so hopefully Abe didn’t try to crash the party. Once I put the dress on I walked out to the platform she had in front of a bunch of mirrors angled to show every side of my dress. I smiled and I turned to show Lissa and my mom and I saw they both were crying. 

“What do you think?” I asked hoping they loved it. 

“It’s perfect. You’re perfect, Dimitri is one lucky man.” Lissa said, smiling and coming to hug me carefully.

“You are more beautiful than the day you were born, you are one amazing woman and I’m so proud of you sweetheart. Lissa’s right Dimitri is the luckiest man in the world.” She said, wiping her tears away before she came over to hug me tightly. 

I looked at myself from every angle before I asked Lissa to take some photos with my phone so I could send them to Olena and Dimitri’s sisters. I knew they wanted to be here but couldn’t make it so I promised to send them photos.