Home Ice.

Chapter Thirteen.

Avery

Making the impulsive decision to get married in less than a month brings a lot of different emotions. I'm so damn excited first of all, I'm so excited to finally get married to the love of my life. I've been dreaming about this day for a long, long time. It's going to be incredible, everything about it.

You'd think I'd be more stressed, but I'm weirdly not. Sure, it's a lot all at once and maybe it's just because I'm trying to get it all done in time that I'm not thinking much about it.

I don't even know how Finn ended up getting us a spot in that venue he was talking about. It's an absolutely beautiful place and I can imagine weddings this time of year are booked out, but he got it done. We're doing it on a Friday where he doesn't have any games for four days. November 15th.

We put together the guest list the night we decided to have the wedding and as soon as we got the date, we sent out invitations. We warned our friends and I told my cousins before they got sent out but I sent one to my mother without any warning so I guess we'll see how that goes over.

We did end up putting on all the invites, "Sorry for the late notice. We decided on this last week."

Grace has been an incredible maid of honor already, she's come with me after work every day to help me get decorations and make things for the reception and ceremony. She and Kenny even went with me to the florist yesterday to pick out the flowers for it. I'll give you one guess as to what the primary flower is going to be.

Finn is on another road trip and has felt guilty that he hasn't been as involved with the planning as he wants to be, but that's kind of the price we have to pay to have a wedding during the season. That's why most players wait until the offseason to get married, but I'm really not a summer wedding kinda chick. I don't mind that he can't help as much, though. He asks all the questions and has me run through everything with him when we have our phone chats.

So that's how we got to where we are, which is standing in the lobby of a bridal shop, about to start looking at wedding dresses. I'm really excited about this, it was the first appointment I made once we decided to do this. I want to make sure I can find one I love and get it tailored in time, though I won't lie - I'm not overly picky about what I want.

Our wedding party is small too. Grace is my maid of honor, and Morgan and Sophie are going to be my bridesmaids. I was going to have Lindsey be one, but she's coming here the night before the wedding and there just wasn't enough time to get her involved. Casey is obviously Finn's best man, and Cam and Jack are his groomsmen. Luckily Jack can come up here for the day, but he has to leave the next morning because he has a game the day after. I'm pretty sure Finn would have picked another day if Jack couldn't come. Ugh, it's going to be such an intimate wedding and I'm over the moon about it.

All of this is making it easy to forget about Mason, which I'm not mad about. I don't want to be caught up on it, not when he's on house arrest. I know he won't be by the time the wedding comes around, but I'm just going to believe that he stays put for the time being. Jordan called us back and said that she's been made a lead on his case again and will be checking in on him personally to make sure of it. We told her that we're getting married on the 15th, and she said her wedding gift to us was going to be following him around from afar to make sure he doesn't leave the city.

Finn signed us up for self defense classes, too. I know he did it for me but he knew I wouldn't be comfortable doing it alone, so he's going to take the class with me - as if a professional hockey player needs self defense lessons. Grace and Casey offered to take them too, so who knows if they will or not. I love them a fucking ton for going through this with me.