Short Kings Anthem

Part 39

To her surprise Lauren managed to get about five to six hours sleep that night, it was slightly broken but it could have been a lot worse. She was staying in the bridal suite alone, Chris sharing his parents suite the night before to uphold the tradition of not seeing each other the night before the wedding. The girls soon came up to the bridal suite one by one, including Kelly as they were having their hair and make up done.

"I still can't believe you managed to get us fitted for bridesmaid dresses without us knowing, how did none of us guess what was going on?" Nicole asked standing next to the hanging up dresses, slipping the gold fabric between her fingers.

"There's only one dress I'm interested in, go on where is it?" Ellen asked excited to see what Lauren would be wearing.

"It's in my room, I haven't peaked I promise," Kelly said and Lauren nodded smiling, she wouldn't mind too much if she did, it probably was incredibly tempting bringing it on the plane and having it hung up in her room all night.

"All in good time," Lauren smiled then looked at her phone again for the time. Nine eighteen AM.

"Shall we order some breakfast?" Lauren asked picking up the phone, she was also very aware that notes were now being dropped in everyone's doors requesting their presence at reception at one pm with instructions to dress up, she knew a few people now might twig it but she tried to stay calm and enjoy her morning.

"Yes please, and fizz?" Hannah asked, when it was her wedding day she was too busy getting ready she didn't drink a lot so was desperate to join in the festivities this time.

"On it," Lauren smiled. After half an hour the door went and a copious amount of pastries, fresh fruit, yoghurt, tea, coffee and three bottles of champagne were brought up, also in the room now was the wedding coordinator.

"How are you feeling? I saw your new husband this morning he is fine," Camila, the co-ordinator said to Lauren. The red head smiled and nodded, glad Chris seemed in good spirits.

"A little nervous but okay, Lauren smiled with tears in her eyes, happy tears of course maybe a little bit overwhelming.

"If you're going to cry, do it now before your makeup is on," Hannah warned, speaking from experience.

"I've just come over a bit nervous all of a sudden, it'll pass." Lauren replied taking a swig from her coffee.

"It's natural. Now all of the letters have gone out, the back half of the hotel has been completely shut off so if people want to go for a walk they have to go out the other way and they won't be able to see a thing," Camila reassured Lauren who took a deep breath and nodded.

"You're fine, come on lets eat something," Kelly suggested giving Lauren a hug, she hugged quite a lot like her brother so she did a good job at calming her down.

The time came for Lauren to get dressed, she went into Kelly's room with a member of hotel staff on hand to help her as she still wanted the dress to be a surprise.

"You look beautiful," the woman said to Lauren when she had it on. The dress had an embellished lace top with a floral pattern and shining crystals; it had thin straps and a plunging neckline. The skirt was a white, a little fuller but still quite sleek and the train was roughly ten meters long, she knew the train probably wasn't a good idea in the sand but she fell in love with it as soon as she put it on, plus she had an outfit change for later on more appropriate for dancing. Her hair was in a low bun with two curls out at the sides, a sparkling floral piece keeping her bun in place. She thought people would expect her in a short forties style dress and that was the case for her evening dress but this was something she couldn't resist, it was very classic bridal but still had the small touches of her, for example her red lips were still there.