Part 7
Teddy stood in a large tent. There were many rows of silvery chairs in front of him and he could see friends and those who would soon really be family crowding in and taking seats.
"You ready Ted?" asked his best friend and best man, Graham.
"More than ready," he said.
"Are you nervous?" asked Graham.
"Not at all actually," Teddy replied.
Golden balloons hovered above his head, and Teddy knew they would soon burst and release white butterflies. Lily's bridesmaids, Dominique, Roxanne and Ris entered and came to take their places at the front. They were all looking gorgeous in flowing silvery dresses. Teddy knew it was only a matter of minutes before his bride would walk down the isle towards him.
Sure enough, the band abandoned the festive song they had been playing whilst everyone entered the tent, and started playing a slow sweet melody that Teddy and Lily had picked out to be their wedding march.
She appeared in the entrance of the tent, framed by the late afternoon sunlight. Her white wedding gown came in at the waist and flared out from the hips, as the dress that she had worn at the Valentine's dance had done. That was five years ago, but Teddy felt his mouth drop open as it had done on that occasion.
The wedding dress was made of silk with small green and blue gems along the neckline and around her waist. The bottom of the dress was trimmed with lace and she was also wearing a lacy vail and her aunt Muriel's tiara over her red hair. However, Teddy could see through the vail that her hair was falling loose around her shoulders and down to her waist in ringlets today, and the sun behind her made it look as if her face was literally framed by a halo of fire.
As she glided down the isle on Harry's arm, she smiled radiantly and looked straight into Teddy's eyes.
Teddy didn't even notice Ginny's happy tears and the gasps of wonder from the other guests. He hardly even paid attention to the quiet whispers from the bridesmaids behind him. All he could look at was her.
She had always been beautiful to him. From the first time he saw her with her incredibly shiny eyes when she looked at him as a baby, to the first time he had seen her in white, sitting next to him at the pond with flowers in her hair. From the times she had slumped across from him in the Three Broomsticks with messy wind swept hair wearing jeans and no trace of makeup, to the time he had stood in awe as she had descended the marble steps as a totally transformed girl as he waited to take her to her Valentine's dance. However, he couldn't remember a time that she had ever appeared as exquisite to him as she did now. Teddy smiled broadly as he contemplated the fact that in a few minutes, Lily Luna Potter would become Lily Luna Lupin, and he would be the luckiest man alive.
"I've seen you in jeans with no makeup on
And I've stood there in awe as your date to the prom
I'm blessed as a man to have seen you in white
But I've never seen anything quite like you tonight
No I've never seen anything quite like you."
