Unexpected (A Chris Hemsworth Fanfiction)

Chapter 34: One Family, Two Weddings Part 2

  (Although it is customary for the bride's family to be included as the party extending the invitation, the Andrews' were not hosting this event therefore, it was agreed that the Hemsworths would be the ones to be listed on the invitation which reads as the following):

Together with Leonie & Craig Hemsworth

Erin Marie Andrews 

& 

Christopher Thomas Hemsworth 

invite you to celebrate their wedding on December 16th, 2017 

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At 5pm in the Evening 

Wategos Beach, Byron Bay, NSW, Australia 

Food trucks for cocktail hour nearby

Reception to follow at Three Blue Ducks

Unlike my nuptials four months ago, I was not stuck getting ready with my mother and sister bickering for its duration. Instead, Jadyn and Elouise had graciously allowed the bridal party to use their adorable beach side air b and b as the place we would all get ready together. We arrived early in the morning for a continental style breakfast served buffet style, enjoyed a mimosa or two, and our photographer snapped some candid pre-glam shots. Before the make-up artist arrived, I provided my bridesmaids with tote bags filled with goodies to survive any wedding like gum and cute bandages for blisters, products for self-care as I had asked a lot of them being in two weddings in one year, and the typical monogrammed items with their initials such as tumblers and tea towels. 

We had a make-up artist, but some of our more talented gals with a make-up brush opted to do their own looks or they had to be somewhere else earlier like Samantha who would be checking on the kids and guys getting ready at her house. The only instruction I gave my bridal party and those utilizing the services of the make-up artist was to keep some similarity with colors and overall simplicity. I didn't want sister and friends to feel pressured to look like carbon copies of one another. They were all beautiful in their own right and each had individual features that would make one kind of blush look completely different on another body. While this wedding in both its inception and intention would be looser when it came to what made a wedding traditional, I wanted there to be some order and unity in it all.

I was the first to get my make-up done as I had someone else coming to do my hair. As the bride, people thought my work of planning had finished and everyone else had to enact Chris's and my vision. However, I still had some matters to orchestrate like a maestro conducting their symphony. For instance, I had brought a table to set up what could be described as an altar included a picture frame positioned at an angle with an image of Chris and me from our engagement shoot where our lips were inches from touching, with the tagline: The best things in life are unexpected on the left and; adjacent to it was a tiny gold easel with the save-the-dates; at the center-- the focal point-- dark sea green velvet pillow for the rings (mine had two bands, variously shaped small diamonds (marquise and round) that sat atop a bigger oval diamond that was-- the diamonds surrounding the large one looked like a tiara-- while Chris's was far more simple, having a finish that made it look incomplete; on each side of the pillow (corresponding to the whose ring was whose) were letters Chris and I were going to read before the ceremony-- yet another special delivery to come from Sam-- and I had some eucalyptus branches and protea flowers for color and rustic beach motifs of the wedding. Leonie would arrive soon to assist with staging pictures of my dress hanging on the door, anticipating its sashay down the aisle. These photographs would also be captured in motion through a video.