It had been just over three weeks since Kate and Tony had formally announced their engagement, and Abby decided they had waited long enough to celebrate it, she herself had known almost two weeks before most people. She had been planning their surprise engagement party since the night she had found out. She had booked the church hall for the night and invited all of Kate's family, all their friends from work, college, school, etc and a few of the people they were friendly with from the girls' school.
Her plan had worked perfectly. Abby had lied about some fundraiser they were invited to and that they had to dress nicely at be at the venue for 7pm. When the couple walked into the pitch black hall hand in hand, everybody jumped out and yelled 'surprise', scaring Tony more than it scared Kate resulting in him all but jumping into her arms like Shaggy and Scooby from Scooby-Doo.
The party had been going on for about an hour when the pair finally got to sit down after greeting their guests and thanking them for coming. It really was a surprise and Abby really had out done herself. The party was beautiful. The hall was decorated with baby pictures of Kate and Tony, ones of them growing up and ones of them together (ones they had known about and ones that Abby had secretly snapped of them). There was a DJ who was playing a wide variety of music to suit every one there and there was a rather large buffet. And not to mention the best part, the open bar!
As Tony got up and headed to the bar and buffet, Kate smiled as she scanned the room. Her father, Gibbs and Ducky seemed deep in conversation, her brother, Tommy seemed to be hitting on all women in the room -including Ziva and Abby- regardless of their relationship status, all the kids dancing and running wild and everyone else just mingling.
"Hey babe" Tony smiled as he sat back down, placing a vodka and a plate of food in front of Kate. "I didn't know what you wanted so I just got you a bit of everything" Tony smiled wider.
"Jesus Tony!" Kate exclaimed in a laugh. Her eyes landing on the mountain of food in front of her before she began to eat a mini pizza off the top of the pile.
She had grown to really love anything Italian over the past year.
After a few more mini pizzas and two more vodka's, a slightly drunk, yet blissfully happy Kate pulled Tony onto the dance floor. Kate's arms snaked around Tony's neck as his went around her waist pulling her in close to him.
"Y'know" Kate started. "I never imagined I'd get married".
"You didn't?" Tony raised his eyebrow in shock. Sure Kate had had a few drinks but he seriously couldn't believe it.
"I mean, of course I had always fantasised about it when I was younger and then I fell in love with Jimmy and I thought he was the one... But then when I realised I was a single mother, of twins non the less, I gave up on ever meeting any man again. But now? Now all I can think about is being your wife" Kate smiled, looking into Tony's eyes.
"Well... Good" Tony smiled back, his hands coming up to cup Kate's cheeks. "...because that's all I can think about. Calling you my wife. I love you so much Kate and I'm gonna spend every single day trying to make you as happy as you make me".
Tony pulled Kate's face to his and closed the distance between them by plunging his lips to hers.
Abby had sort of appointed herself Tony's co-best man as well as being Kate's maid of honour. He had asked Gibbs but the thought of Gibbs planning his bachelor party creeped him out, so whilst it was still weird that Abby was planning it, it was much less creepy than Gibbs. He was glad when Gibbs had accepted to be his best man as long as he didn't have to plan his bachelor party so it had kind of worked out for the best.
"Tony, stop squirming!" Abby huffed, purposely stabbing Tony in the back of his leg with the needle.
"Ow!" Tony flinched.
"Oh that didn't even hurt, Tony!" Kate scoffed. "It was a tiny needle prick and you're a fully grown man, you're an NCIS agent for crying out loud!"
"What are you even doing here?" Tony said through gritted teeth as Abby stabbed him again. "I thought we weren't allowed to see what each other is wearing till you walk down the aisle!"
"No, Tony. I can see what you're wearing but you can't see what I'm wearing" Kate smiled.
"Well that's hardly fair" Tony protested. "Oooowww, Abby!" He yelped again.
"If you stop moving then I won't keep stabbing you!" Abby stood up, taking a step back and admiring Tony in his suit.
It was a dark gray colour with a matching waist coat underneath. Gibbs and McGee who were stood next to Tony, and had both stayed silent after the fifth time Abby had 'accidentally' stabbed them, had matching suits.
"Well, Kate? What dya think?" Tony smiled proudly in his suit before spinning 360' so Kate could see the suit fully.
"I love it!" Kate exclaimed, her eyes tearing up slightly.
They had yet to pick an accent colour, although right now, both Kate and Tony were leaning toward either gold or lilac.
"Good" Gibbs cleared his throat gruffly. "Now can we get out of these things?"
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"No, Abby. I will not wear this dress!" Ziva huffed. "I look like Little Bow Peep!"
Ziva was right. Abby had picked out a baby pink dress that had puffy sleeves and had a wire at the bottom making the dress puff out at the bottom.
"Oh but Ziva, you look so pretty!" Abby swooned.
"No!" Kate's eyes widened in horror. "I kind of like the one Rachael is wearing"
Kate had her bridesmaids, Abby, Ziva, Rachael, her cousin Katy and the twins all lined up in the dress store in different dresses.
The dress Rachael was wearing was a floor length deep purple dress, which had a v neck-line that the dress bunched up at. It was simple, nothing fancy, but it was beautiful and elegant. "What do you guys think?" Kate asked.
"Its nice, Kate. But it's your wedding. We'll wear whatever you put us in" her cousin smiled.
"I want a princess dress, Mommy!" Lilly insisted.
"Me too!" Amelia added.
"You guys are gonna be wearing princess dresses, okay?" Kate smiled before turning her attention back to the adults. "Yes, but I want you guys to be comfortable too. And Abby" Kate waggled her eyebrows. "You'll still be able to wear your boots under that dress!"
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"I thought you wanted a big Catholic wedding in a church with hundreds of people there" Tony sighed, sitting down on the sofa next to Kate.
"I thought I did too" Kate rubbed her temples. "But honestly, I'm happy with how it is now. Small and intimate. Just friends and family" Kate smiled as she snuggled into Tony, her head resting on his chest.
"So what you're saying is you want me to uninvite your scary fourth cousin Gertrude on your mother's side that's twice removed?" Tony replied with a hint of cheekiness in his tone, Kate shutting him up by planting a passionate kiss on his lips.
"Oh. That's another thing I wanted to talk to you about" Kate pulled away. "Its only three weeks till the wedding and I think we should stop having sex until our wedding night. What dya say?" Kate bit her bottom lip.
"You mean" Tony started as he showered Kate in kisses. "That I've got to wait three weeks till I can do this" he rolled on top of her. "And this" he nipped and sucked at the magic part in Kate's neck. "And this" he rolled his hips so he was pressing against Kate.
"Well" Kate giggled. "I guess we'll start tomorrow" she laughed as Tony began unbuttoning her jeans.
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After they had settled on dresses for the bridesmaids, Kate took her daughters out to pick their dresses. She knew they would most probably end up with something pink, puffy and as 'princessy' as possible but that didn't seem to bother Kate in the slightest. Her and Tony had decided the twins would be flower girls and their nephew Max (Rick Jnr and Jessica's youngest son) who was of similar age, give or take a few years, would be their ring bearer. They had had a mini suit made up for him in the same colour as Tony, Gibbs and McGee and he looked absolutley adorable in it.
"What about these one's Mommy?" Amelia asked, as she twirled and the white dress covered in pink and purple beads and patterns.
"I like it" Kate smiled, she really did, and it would go with the other dresses too.
"Me too!" Lilly smiled, examining the pretty purple netting on the dress.
"You two are the two most beautiful princesses I have ever saw!" Tony smiled as he walked into the shop, sitting down next to Kate.
"You like them Daddy?"
"Like them?" Tony said with just as much enthusiasm as his six year old daughters. "I love them!" he smiled.
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Abby had planned Tony's stag party the night before. It had paled in comparison to Kate's. They had just gone out to a bar and had been home before 12 (which had shocked everyone) but they were all thankful that Abby hadn't taken them to a stripclub. Kate's hen party however, was a completely different story.
Everybody, including Ziva and Kate's 90 year old Grandmother, were drunk.
Kate, who was currently nursing a martini was laughing and giggling like a typical drunk girl when the doorbell rang. Abby staggered to the door, drunk but still more sober than everyone else in the room, and then re-emerged with a rather tanned and buff police officer.
"We've had some complaints about the noise" the man started. "Apparently its not loud enough" he added before ripping his shirt off to reveal an extremely toned torso. "Which one of you is the bride-to-be?" He asked and everyone pointed to Kate. The stripper threw his shirt at Kate before he walked over to her and began to dance for her, ripping his pants off in the process and throwing them at Ziva.
Kate was laughing as she pushed him away from her face.
After the stripper was done with Kate, she got up and staggered to the bar to get herself another drink whilst the rest of the women squealed and threw themselves at him. As she turned back around, she found him dancing in front of her Grandma who was spanking his butt and wearing his hat.
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"Okay, this is it" Tony smiled, his fingers interlocking with Kate's. "The next time I see you you're gonna be walking down the aisle!" He smiled the biggest smile he had ever smiled.
"You better not ditch me!" Kate laughed, punching Tony in his arm, only half joking.
"Kate, I can promise you, with every cell in my body, that I will be stood waiting for you at the end of that aisle tomorrow" he stroked a stray hair off Kate's face and behind her ear.
"Good" Kate smiled, taking Tony's hand in her own once again.
"C'mon Tony, Kate's gotta get her beauty sleep!" Abby wined.
"She doesn't need any beauty sleep, Abbs" Tony smirked before he leaned down and captured Kate's lips with his own.
Tony was going to stay at Abby's apartment for the night with Gibbs and McGee whilst Kate stayed at their home with Abby, Ziva, her cousin Katy and the girls (Rachael and her father would be there early tomorrow morning).
"See you tomorrow, Caitlin Todd" Tony smirked as he left the house, knowing that this time tomorrow she would be Caitlin DiNozzo.
Okay, I have no idea whatsoever how to plan a wedding but I hope you liked the chapter anyway! I purposley left Kate picking her dress out so we'll find out what it looks like in the next chapter, yay! Thank you for all the amazing reviews, please keep them coming. The next chapter is the wedding:-)