This is my story for the Harry Potter Fanfiction Challenges. It is for Static Lull's Legendary Literature Challenge. It is also part of my Next Generation Series.

The characters of the Harry Potter universe belong to Ms. Rowlings, and I'm borrowing them for my own imagination.

Ringing of Wedding Bells

Pushing aside her copy of 'The Kite Runner', Molly Weasley looked on her desk for her notebook with wedding ideas. All the Weasley women had come together at her parents' house today to celebrate her engagement to Joshua.

"Here it is." She muttered to herself. She grabbed it and raced back down to join to women in the living room. She was eager to get more ideas from the women she loved.

"This is just so exciting." Her Grandmum Weasley was gushing from her place in Molly's dad's favorite chair. Her Aunt Ginny was in the matching arm chair. Her mum Audrey, and Aunts Hermione and Fleur were sitting on the couch looking over some wedding magazines they had brought with them. Molly joined her Aunt Angelina and cousin Victoire on the other couch. Her sister Lucy, as well as the rest of her female cousins, sat on the floor around the coffee table.

"We want to wait until after Joshua finishes Auror training and I finish Healer training. That way we can have plenty of time to plan the wedding." Molly explained.

"Did you have a long engagement, Mummy?" Ten-year-old Rosie asked.

"Not really. Ron asked me to marry him during Christmas break of my final year at Hogwarts and we were married the following August. Aunt Audrey and Uncle Percy's engagement was the longest. Except for Aunt Fleur and Uncle Bill, and you all know about their engagement and wedding during the war." Hermione explained.

"Percy only beat Ron in the getting engaged department my three hours." Audrey said.

"Of course yours seems very long considering Angelina and George's engagement." Ginny added.

"I cherish every hour of my engagement, all twenty of them." Angelina remarked.

"We know all about Mum and Grandmum's wartime weddings, but we haven't really heard about the others." Victoire said. "Can we hear them? You could go in the order you were wed."

"Yes, please?" Was asked by all the cousins.

"I guess that means I go first?" Angelina asked, and the rest of the Weasley women nodded.

"Okay, well, first of all I hadn't expected George to propose, ever really, but most certainly, not when he did. It was approaching the first anniversary of the final Battle of Hogwarts. The month of April had been horrible for everyone, especially George. It started when he had celebrated his first birthday without his twin Fred." Angelina began.

"That had been a horrible day. Teddy and Rapier were both still babies, and everyone's melancholy moods kept them both irritable all day as well." Hermione remembered.

"It was April 30, and we knew that Kingsley was planning a big memorial service at Hogwarts. George both wanted to go and feared to go. We all knew it would be a very hard. We were having dinner that evening after he and Ron had closed the shop. Ron had gone to a meeting at Hogwarts to help with the planning of the memorial as he was a part of Kingsley's advisory committee." Angelina remembered.

"I want to married." George suddenly said as they were clearing the table of the dishes.

"That is nice." She hadn't taken him completely seriously.

"I want to marry you." George said.

"That's nice to know," Angelina said as she turned and watched him warily. George had lots of moods swings lately, and she wasn't sure were this topic had come from or where it was actually heading.

"I'm saying this all wrong. Bugger." George muttered. "I am asking you to marry me."

"Are you serious? I won't think this is funny if you are just playing a joke." Angelina warned.

"I'm completely serious. I love you, and I want, no I need a guarantee that you are going to be around for the considerable future. At least as much of a guarantee that life allows us." George said more serious then Angelina had ever seen him.

"I love you, too. I would love nothing more than to be your wife, and share a life with you." Angelina said.

"Because it was a spur of the moment proposal, George didn't have a ring. We made plans for the following afternoon, May 1st to go to a jewelry store. It wasn't until we were at the jewelry store that George started asking me what kind of wedding I wanted. I actually hadn't given it much thought yet. I hadn't been close with my parents since I had refused to leave England during the war, so I told him I didn't want anything real big or fancy. I'm sure Fleur wedding was beautiful, but it wasn't my style." Angelina explained.

"Then he started hem-hawing around the issue of best man and maid of honor. He had always expected Fred to be his best man. I could see that he didn't know what to do." Angelina recalled.

"We could just elope." Angelina suggested.

"You would really be okay with that?" George asked. He had seen enough of Bill's wedding planning to know what a big deal all that was to women.

"Yeah. We could elope and just host a reception later, after the honeymoon." Angelina knowing that it would be easier that way on everyone including herself.

"We need to get wedding bands as well then. I wonder where the closest place we could go to elope is." George said.

Angelina was shocked when the jeweler pulled out a list of places to elope to and handed it to George.

"You want to get married today?" Angelina asked.

"Yeah. We'll get a jump on the others. We'll tell them tomorrow, and my family and Lee will help Ron watch the shop for a week. I was actually planning on taking the next week off anyway. Spending it with you on our honeymoon would be perfect. And we can get a jump on all the others. There are so many weddings coming up. Harry and Ginny will eventually get engaged as well. Mum could plan a big reception for when we return." George said.

Angelina was stunned, but when she saw the hope in George's eyes, she agreed.

"After a brief stop at the cemetery to tell Fred our plans, we apparated to this beautiful little chapel in Scotland not far from Hogsmeade. The preacher was a little old man, and his wife stood up for us. She had picked wild flowers from the field for me to carry, and George and I actually came up with our own vows at the spur of the moment." Angelina recalled.

"I just remember how shocked I was when George arrived at the memorial and announced that you were married. I kind of figured that you had to get married." Ginny omitted.

"That was a popular reaction." Angelina said.

"I was actually relieved. I had been so worried about George, and you two marrying strangely eased some of those worries." Mrs. Weasley said.

"I glad. It hasn't always been easy, but I think I love George even more than I did the day I married him." Angelina said.

"I know what you mean. For me it's a deeper love." Hermione said.

"You're wedding is next, right Mum?" Rosie asked.

"Yes, my story is next." Hermione replied.

TBC