Enough for Now
Chapter 11
Six weeks of planning this wedding and I'm about ready to pull my fucking hair out.
Because of who Garrett is, this has to be a huge society wedding and I'm so not into all of that.
Heidi helped me find a wonderful wedding planner, he was gay and fabulous.
She'd told me the females were all 'bitches who'd try to sabotage your big day', but the males where 'fabulous and wanted to make a name for themselves, especially where Garrett was concerned.'
"So many people in society where convinced he was gay Bella and here you are, you've managed to tame him." She smiled.
"I didn't tame him. We just finally found each other." I reminded her.
She waved her hand in true Heidi fashion as we walked into the cake shop to meet Rose.
"Rose, so glad you could make it." I hugged her back.
"Me too." Traffic was a nightmare. "So, what filling choices are we going with she smiled.
"Garrett said as long as we stay away from chocolate and lemon then we're fine." I shrugged.
"Well those are two crazy choices." Heidi huffed.
"Remember, Greyson can't have chocolate, so that's obvious. He wants him to enjoy this too. And lemon because he just hates lemon filling." I rolled my eyes.
"Okkkk." Rose laughed.
"So, what do your think?" Heidi asked pointing to all the choices.
I blew out a breath and looked at the extensive list.
"Well I know everyone does raspberry, but it's so yummy! But I don't want to be like everyone else. And it's going to be a fall wedding, so maybe something seasonal?" I questioned. "Do you think they do special orders?" I asked.
"You're going to be marrying Garrett Lee, one of the richest men in the world! They'll make you whatever the hell you ask for." Heidi smiled wickedly.
"Heidi, that's not me." I shook my head.
"That's why I'm here and you hired a wedding planned dear. He'll make sure everything is taken care of. He should be arriving any minute as well." She smiled.
"Heidi! My love!" A tall slender man wearing a dark blue skinny pant suit kissed her cheeks.
She introduced Rose and myself.
"Isabella, you're even more gorgeous than Garrett described you." He kissed my cheeks.
"So, where are you on your wedding ideas?" he asked.
"Well, we know it will be in the fall of next year. So I want fall colors obviously and it's also very elegant. I want twinkle lights, and very romantic. There must be romance. I want a night wedding and Heidi has said it's a 'society' wedding and with Garrett's status this must be the 'talked about' wedding of the year." I smiled.
"Leave it to me and it will be the talked about wedding of the century!" he made wide hand gestures.
I began bouncing like a little kid making them all laugh.
"How about simple decorations of 'dead trees' with twinkle lights wrapped around them or draped, we'll experiment to see what works best. We have time. Let's start with this cake. Then we'll meet again for lunch and chat some more." He clapped his hands. "Oh, budget?" he squinted.
"Garrett has given me free reign. The sky is the limit. He said my dream wedding, as long as I'm happy."
I shrugged.
"Wow! He does love you. If he's being that free with his money." Heidi giggled.
I smacked her arm.
"OK, for his groom's cake I want a spiced rum cake. That's Garrett's favorite. And a cream cheese frosting. I think he'd like that. He loves to golf too, so maybe shaped like a golf club or golf bag?" I asked.
Ivan was busy making notes and talking to the cake shop and having them get samples ready for us.
"Now for the wedding cake, what do you have in mind?" he smiled.
"BIG! Plus I'd like to have cupcakes for people who don't like the cake flavor. Everything is still going to be fall themed, but there will be choices for everyone and I need everything to be labeled as well, do to allergies. So keep that in mind, elegant calligraphy." I smiled.
"OK. That's easy." He nodded making notes.
"Let's get to your cake flavor, what are you thinking?" he smiled.
"I'd like an apple cake, with apple frosting and in between the layers I'd like caramel drizzled in. However they can do this to make it look elegant, I haven't looked at toppers yet. I'll let you know when I find one so we can tell them. As for the cupcakes I'd like four or five flavors. A pumpkin pie, pecan pie, a simple vanilla with maybe sprinkles and the champagne wedding cake cupcakes. They all look and sound delicious." I smiled.
"Those can all be made on a beautiful tiered stand in the back of the room, painted gold and wrapped in twinkled lights, it'll be breath taking as well Bella." He smiled.
He drew a rough sketch for me.
"I love it." I smiled. "How many are we looking at?" I asked.
"Probably two to three hundred." He calculated in his head. "It'll depend on your guest list.
"Right, guest list. I need to finish that this weekend." I sighed.
"Yes. We'll meet again Monday and figure out a venue and cake size and number of cupcakes. Then everything else will fall into place. Have you looked at dresses?" he asked.
"NO! I'm working too." I sighed.
"What! Garrett has you working?!" he gasped.
"No, I want to work." I shook my head.
"You're marrying Garrett and you WANT to work?" he asked flustered.
"Yes! I have to contribute too. Even if he's the one paying me, I'm still working for it." I shrugged.
"She's warped." Heidi laughed. "I work for my money." She laughed wiping her lips.
"Gross! Now I'm going to picture that when I see Alistair. Yuck!" I shivered.
She laughed and wiggled her eyebrows.
They brought out our samples and they were divine. I knew I'd picked the right place and the right flavors.
"We'll have a sample of the wedding cake and the groom's cake ready for you in two weeks and the cupcakes in a week, will that work?" Cheryl the owner asked.
"That'll be perfect. Thank you. Could you make a cupcake in the wedding cake flavor as well? I'd like my fiancé to taste that as well." I smiled.
"Yes ma'am. Would you like the groom's cake sample as well?" she asked.
"No thank you. That's a complete surprise." I answered. "I totally trust you." I shook her hand before leaving and we all confirmed plans for Monday before leaving.
"How'd your day go babe?" Garrett asked coming in late from work.
"Busy, but good." I sighed.
"What are you working on?" he peeked over my shoulder.
"Wedding stuff. I've been told I'm dress shopping tomorrow. Can you keep Greyson tomorrow?" I asked.
"Of course. I'd love to veg out all day." He sighed.
"Well, Alistair is coming with the girls and you'll probably have Emmett too. Rose and Heidi are joining me." I shrugged.
He plopped down in the chair next to me and groaned.
"So much for the vegging out." He sighed.
"I'll make it up to you." I stood up and massaged his shoulders. "Did you eat?" I asked.
"Yeah, we ordered Chinese around 7." He kissed my hand. "Now, about making up my day of vegging out?" he pulled me into his lap.
"Let's take this into the bedroom." I kissed him softly.
He picked me up as I wrapped my legs around him.
Ever since we'd moved in with Garrett our sex life has been very adventurous.
Garrett was a very generous lover, we were very compatible, like we were made for each other. I honestly didn't want to know how many others he'd been with because I knew it'd break my heart, even though I knew he'd been with plenty before and after that night with me, but I knew there would never be any others after this.
"What are you over thinking why I'm trying to love you up?" He asked why nibbling on my neck.
"Sorry, just lost in thought." I blushed.
"Well stop thinking and just enjoy." He removed my top and kissed down my chest making me moan.
We made love well into the morning hours.
"Rose is going to be so pissed that I have dark circles under my eyes." I laughed.
"Tell her to take a hike." Garrett yawned.
"Let's get a couple hours sleep." I snuggled into his side passing out immediately.
"Mommy! Daddy! Wake Up! It's time for Breakfast! I'm starving!" Greyson yelled while jumping on the bed.
We both groaned in unison and I smacked Garrett on the stomach playfully.
"Quick showers and then we'll go out to breakfast." I groaned.
"Oh Yummy!" Greyson squealed as Garrett caught him mid jump.
"You're showering with me! Time saver." He threw him over his shoulder and they disappeared into Greyson's bedroom while I walked into ours.
I stood under the massive sprays and let them massage my muscles before washing my hair and face.
I finished the rest quickly and then toweled off.
Dressing in a Victoria Secret sweat suit for comfort and ease for trying on dresses today with my strapless bra, I was glad to see I didn't have any dark circles under my eyes so I didn't have to wear any makeup so I put on my usual lip-gloss and pulled my hair into a ponytail and a pair of Toms and was ready to go.
I found the boys waiting by the door dressed alike in khaki's and blue button downs with the sleeves rolled up and boat shoes on. I shook my head, pulled out my phone and snapped a picture. I loved when Garrett did this. It was fucking adorable and my ovaries hurt and go into overdrive. Which I think he knew. And I know he wanted more, we'd talked about it extensively. He wanted two or three more.
And he wanted to start right away.
I sighed, putting my phone in my purse as we walked out and went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast.
When we arrived, everyone was there.
"What? I knew they'd complain so I invited them, might as well make this a family tradition." He shrugged.
I kissed him and hugged everyone.
"Alright after breakfast we'll all split up then and the girls will take Bella for her dress." Heidi claimed.
"Sounds good. We boys will go back to our house with the trips, and we'll have a day full of fun… Right?" Garrett asked.
"We're NOT boys and we're not trips, we're triplets." Arianna snapped.
"Of course you're not." Garrett let out a sigh.
We all chuckled at his expense, he did that shit all the time.
"So will you be OK hanging out with us all day?" he asked.
"I guess I don't have a choice since I can't go with mom." She pouted.
Heidi sighed and looked at me.
"If she can behave and not have an attitude, she can go. But the first tantrum, Alistair has to come get her. I won't put up with it." I leveled her with a glare. She knew Aunt Bella didn't play.
"Oh my gosh, really? I can go with the girls today?" she asked surprised.
"Yes! If you're good! But one whine… Because you don't get your way and you're gone! Got it?" I glared at her.
"I promise Aunt Bella. I promise I'll be SO GOOD FOR YOU!" she hugged me tight.
Garrett shrugged and smiled and mouthed thank you as did the other two triplets. They were fine in spending time with the guys, they liked playing video games and thoughts of going to Toys R Us for toys was always a plus for them.
Breakfast was a long, but fun event.
Arianna didn't move from my side. She chatted on and on about the wedding and dresses and of course they were all my flower girls, so I'd be taking them for their own dresses soon and Arianna was over the moon about that as well.
I was thinking with the girls coloring that maybe a burnt orange would be a nice color on them and I'd talk to Heidi about letting Arianna try on some colors today, make her feel a part of it, I know the other two would not like that part of it, so at least we'd have the color issue out of the way. We could go over styles at home online together so trying on wouldn't be long and tedious.
The color issue was settled in the car on the way there, Arianna was thrilled to be going through color samples.
We must have tried on over a hundred dresses today, I didn't find any that I liked. I couldn't wait to get home.
We did find the colors for the girl's dresses, we had to wait on styles though until I found my dress though.
"Have a good day baby?" Garrett asked as I plopped onto the couch.
"No, I tried on at least 100 dresses and not 1 of them screamed at me." I sighed.
"Well, I hope they didn't scream at you." He laughed pulling my shoes off rubbing my feet.
"Why are your feet so swollen, baby?" he asked concerned.
"I guess because I was standing on them all day. I don't know." I shrugged.
"If they stay like this, you're going to the doctor. This isn't good." He said pulling me to him for a kiss.
"I'm fine. Just stressed and having to focus on the wedding instead of work isn't my idea of fun." I pouted.
Garrett chuckled. "You're the only woman I know who'd rather work than plan a wedding, especially one with no price limit on it."
"I know, I just miss my work. I miss you." I hugged him tight.
"You've got me every night baby." He kissed me softly.
"No, you still travel at times." I pouted.
"Bella. That's not fair. You know I have to. And I only go for a day or two. Never like I did before. You know that." He scolded.
"I know." I sighed.
"I need a shower. I'm really tired." I kissed him once more and extracted myself from him.
"No invitation?" he asked hurt.
"You looked busy." I shrugged.
"Bella, I'm never too busy for you or Grayson. You should know that by now. I thought I'd proven myself over and over again." He ran a hand through his hair as he paced.
"You have. I'm just tired and cranky. You know I get whiney. I'm sorry." I stepped in front of him and kissed him softly, pulling him with me towards the bathroom.
AN:
The wedding is stressing Bella out…
It's going to be the TALK of the SOCIAL circle…
There's no doubt about that…
MRI test results came back… INCONCLUSIVE… So I have to wait and have more testing and get a referral to a neurologist now…
So I'm basically back to waiting… :0(
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