Closing Dusk ¤ Leah Clearwater | ✔

Epilogue. Hitched

So,  I'm excited!  I decided to update today, even though I'm at a party. Have fun!

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Disclaimer I own no characters belonging to twilight, they are owned by Stephanie Meyer and are borrowed by me. I only own the unfamiliar characters.

Leah

It was no secret, Sue wanted a spring wedding. And Nikolai was willing to please his mother-in-law but I put my foot down. The most I would I delay was no longer than a month, so my wedding reception would be in December. December twenty-seven to be exact. It would be a winter wedding!

It had been a private wedding hosted in Nikolai’s residence, just family and friends, but still enough for a crowd for the reception, with most of our acquaintances invited for that. The ceremony had two flower girls, and two ring bearers.

Alice should have gotten a medal. Truth be told I didn’t know how she managed to do it, but she did. She was responsible for doing my bridal party’s make up, which would only be Leloopa and I – since my other three bridesmaids and my maid of honour couldn’t wear makeup.

Rose, my best friend and maid of honour, did my hair. She rolled the back of my hair, tucked under and pinned in place with hairpins, then back comb the front until it was fluffy before pinning this section with the back When she was finish, my hair resembled an ebony Cinderella.

As planned, bridesmaids - Alice, Leloopa, Asia and Bella - wore a pale gold cap-sleeved embroidered bustier, tulle dress with pastel crystal necklaces.

Rosalie, the maid of honour, wore an A-line gold beaded dress that accented her curves and emphasized her beauty with pastel crystal necklace.

Alice made me stand so that she could ease the dress over my hair and makeup.

The lace fabric with delicate beaded detail and sheer, long, sleeved lace mermaid tail wedding dress with a plunging V neck, that stopped above my navel accented my curves marvellously; as for my back, it was explicitly exposed to the cool winter afternoon. The long chapel train was about six feet in length.

“Oh, Leah!” she squealed now, gushing before she was all the way through the door. “Oh, honey, you’re so beautiful! Oh, I’m going to cry! Where did you find this dress? It’s gorgeous! So graceful, so elegant.”

There was a loud, gruff throat-clearing in the doorway.

“Sue, Esme said it’s time you got settled down there,” Charlie said.

“I’ll be right there, darling.” She responds. “Give me a hug before I go down,” Sue insisted. “Carefully now, don’t tear anything.”
My mother squeezed me gently around the waist, then wheeled for the door, only to complete the spin and face me again.

“Oh goodness, I almost forgot! Charlie, where’s the box?”

My stepfather, Charlie rummaged in his pockets for a minute and then produced a small white box, which he handed to Sue. Sue lifted the lid and held it out to me.

“Something blue,” she said. “Something old, too. They were your Grandma Julia. Charlie and I only had a jeweller replace the amethyst stones with lapis lazuli.” Inside the box was a heavy gold, leaf hair comb. Tiny bright blue lapis lazuli rhinestones were clustered into intricate grape shapes atop the teeth.

My throat got all thick. “Mom, it’s beautiful.”

“It was Alice’s idea. Once she saw it, she was hell bent that we included it as something old,” Sue said.

Alice stepped up and quickly slid the comb into my hair in front of the cone wrap the edge. “That’s something old and something blue,” Alice mused. “Before I forget…”