|A L W A Y S & F O R E V E R| B O O K 1

52||D i n n e r R e h e a r s a l

Date: 6/25/16
Day of the Week: Saturday
Location: Liverpool, UK
Place: Titanic Hotel

Russell
Two days had passed by since Ci and I's fun day out. Yesterday, everybody else arrived here, and this morning we had our wedding rehearsal. It went pretty smoothly, thankfully. I'm glad we got that out of the way. Now, we were getting ready to go to our dinner rehearsal. It starts at 4:30 PM, and the dinner rehearsal starts at
6:00 PM. It's being held at the Peckforton Castle in one of the spaces inside. It takes close to an hour to get there, and I wanted to get there early so we could greet everyone. I looked down at my watch and sighed in slight frustration.

"Babe! Are you almost ready? It's almost 4:30, and we need to get going if we want to make it there before everyone else." I called out to her from the bedroom.

"I'm almost done! Just give me a few minutes!" She said from the other side of the bathroom door. I took a seat on the edge of the bed and scrolled through my phone to keep me occupied as I waited for her to finish. As I was scrolling through social media, I didn't notice her come out of the bathroom.

"You ready, babe? I'm all done now." I looked up from my phone to see her standing at the end of the bed. I smiled and got up to walk over to her.

"You look beautiful, baby." I leaned in to kiss her lips softly. She smiled while blushing a little.

"Thank you. You look handsome tonight." She scanned over my outfit for the night. A crisp black Tom Ford suit with a matching pair of crocodile leather dress shoes.

"Thanks. I tried." We shared a laugh. I looked over her outfit. She had on a spaghetti-strapped blush pink floor-length dress with a slit on the right side that stopped mid-thigh. Her hair was in an updo, and she had on light makeup.

I grabbed my wallet with the hotel key card in it before we made our way out of the hotel room. Once we reached the elevator, we got on, and I pushed the button for the first floor. When we reached it, we got off and headed out of the building to go to our rental car.
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I pulled up to the building at 5:30 PM. None of the wedding party members were here yet, but our wedding planner was. I parked a distance behind her car before turning the ignition off and getting out of the car. I put the keys in my pant pockets and walked over to the passenger side to open the door for Ci. She got out, and I closed the door and grabbed her hand into mine. We walked up to the building and went inside. Jess greeted us, giving both of us a welcoming hug.

"Hey! I'm happy to see you guys!" She smiled warmly.

"Hey! We're glad to finally be here!" Ci spoke.

"Well, alright. Let's head inside." We followed her inside, and she led us to the dining room-like area.

There was a large glass dinner table with six 24K gold vases full of pink peonies, carnations, and white and red roses as the centerpieces on top of a white table runner. Gold dinnerware lined each side of the table. They were sitting on top of white table mats. There was another table in the corner that had different options for desserts, snacks, and drinks. Ci wanted to go all out, so there was also a chocolate fountain in the center of the refreshment table. On the other end of the room in the corner, there was another table lined with a white table runner and two 24K gold vases full of flowers at the ends of it. It displayed some of the pictures we took together from our date nights and other special times. The flames of the tall candles flickered. Ci gasped and walked over to it.