This is the final chapter of my story and I am truly grateful for all the supportive messages and for all the time you spent reading it. I'm already starting a new story soon and I hope I can count on you again to read it and give me ideas! :) I am also thinking about, in the future, writing a sequence to this one. Maybe when Zola and Sofia are leaving to college? What do you think? Do you want to know how I would imagine Meredith and Arizona's future? Share your thoughts with me!

Epilogue

The big day has arrived and things were just perfect. They've chosen a small place outside the city, with an incredible garden to enjoy the pleasant weather, although summer was just gone; the fall was being quite nice to Seattle.

A lot of flowers adorned the space and the guests were enjoying the beautiful ideas the couple had to set up the wedding.

Arizona and Meredith sent the invitations with a beautiful message and request for them, asking them to donate the amount of money they would've spent on a present to a small box that would be on each row of chairs on the wedding day, so they could do a huge donation for the clinic in Malawi where Arizona had worked for a while.

The ornaments spread at the place were cute notes with messages of love, several photos of Meredith and Arizona together, and of course, several photos of the kids. Sofia, who flew two months ago to Seattle to spend the summer with Arizona, was there again to celebrate with her new family. Since Callie refused to go, even though Arizona sent her an invitation, Arizona's parents picked Sofia up and brought her to the wedding. The girl was super happy to see herself in a lot of photos spread in the place and to be with her new siblings that she loved so much.

Although it was a big day, neither of them was nervous. Meredith had both Maggie and Amelia helping her to get ready, while Arizona had April and Wilson with her. It all seemed so natural that weren't any doubts or second-guessing for neither of them.

When it started, Ellis entered it first spreading petals down the aisle. Bailey was the next one, with a little board that said 'Here come the brides'. Sofia and Zola were already up on the small altar waiting for their moms. Meredith entered first, along with Richard who offered to take her down the aisle. She looked stunning, with an off-white dress, with some lace details and her hair down, with just a few locks braided on the back of her head.

Arizona entered after, taken by her dad who seemed very proud of her daughter. She was wearing a gorgeous white strapless dress with lace and pearls details. Her hair was also down, and her makeup was light and shining.

Meredith couldn't hold her tears when she saw Arizona. Her wife-to-be was just perfect. Arizona stopped halfway on the aisle to kiss her mother and when she was just about to get to the altar, Bailey who was sitting down on the front row, ran to hold her. She bent down and kissed the boy's head.

The Colonel hugged Meredith and smiled to her.

"Take care of my girl, ok?" – He asked Meredith.

"I will, for the rest of my life" – Meredith answered.

They held hands and looked into each other, passionately.

"You look so beautiful. I love you so much" – Arizona said it first.

They've chosen Alex to celebrate it since he offered to get ordained. When it came to the vows part, all the guests couldn't hold their tears anymore. It was the most emotional vows they've heard, from a couple that went through so much in their lives.

Meredith started it first:

Arizona, I told you once that I suck at speeches. Especially when they demand some really emotional stuff from me. So when I figured that I needed to write my wedding vows I was completely scared. I couldn't just say anything beautiful, it needed to be a good and honest vow, so I could show you and all of our beloved friends and family how much you mean to me. In the end, after many drafts thrown away, I realized that I actually couldn't do it. I can't put into words my feelings because they don't even fit in my heart right now. All that I can say, at this point, is that you came around, after many years of just being an acquaintance to me, as my truly and most beautiful love. You smiled and suddenly I could smile too. You held my hand and made my knees feel so weak and tremble. You woke me up screaming, after one of our firsts nights together, because you were trying to make breakfast to surprise me, but a raccoon entered my kitchen and scared you, and that was lovely. You held all of my kids in the same loving arms that you hold your own, and you made them fell in love for you too. Every day, every single day, I was falling harder for you and it has torn me up inside because I feared that maybe you wouldn't feel the same way. Somehow, you did. And here we are, after so many milestones in our lives, enjoying this sense of happiness, that I can only feel whenever you're around me. Thank you for all of the days that you've smiled at me and lighten up my world. For that, for you, for our family - I would try harder to be a better person. I love you very much, for all of my life.

Arizona was the next and she couldn't hold her tears after Meredith's vows. She knew it would be an emotional moment for both of them, but somehow Meredith stayed calm and serene reading those magical words, and Arizona was crying more than she thought she would when they imagined this moment. But she needed to get herself together and read her vows to the woman who would become her wife in a few minutes.

Mer, … {she had to look up to stop crying for a few seconds}

Oh, this is not fair going after your speech. – The guests laughed at this.

Life is full of ups and downs. I have experienced a few on my own, and so have you. I was done with love. I thought I had my share in this life and I screwed it up. But that was fine, I still would have so much to live and be grateful for. And then, as a thunder, you jumped in my life. You've shaken my world, made me lose my breath, made me think twice when I had to pick up an outfit to work because you would be there. And I was nervous as a teenager gets whenever they see their first love. We've been in love before, though. We're not each other's first love. But this love, this kind of Hollywood-movie-romance-fireworks love, well, I never had this. I never thought I could have, actually. I didn't even know this type of love existed for real. But there was I with millions of butterflies inside my stomach, sparkles in my eyes every time I see you walking towards me. Somehow you broke my walls; you've ripped out my heart and made it a better place to hold you inside of it. Every day, every hour, every breath I take makes me more passionate about you. Not only in love but also passionate about being able to give you this amount of love and care, no matter what happens. You turned me into a much more valuable person. Today, I am in love with you, and I feel that you are in love with me too. And for that unique and amazing encounter of life, I am grateful. You are my better half and better side. I am yours truly and completely. I love you with all my heart, Meredith Grey.