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"I hope you're not going to say anything stupid," Aurora sighed, looking at her brother as they sat around their old childhood backyard. She instructed her mom that she had news to share, and it only seemed right to do so in the backyard she grew up in. Her mom being her mom, had guessed right away what that news was.

"I don't know what you expect for me to say," Will chuckled, watching as his daughter played in the little sandbox. She'd definitely need a bath tonight. "It's not like you're a young chicken these days," he teased. "I wasn't expecting you to wait until you were 30 to get married."

The thing she was starting to believe that she wasn't going to get married at all. Love was out there for her, and she kept looking for it, she was slowly starting to lose hope she would find a love like her parents have or like her brother has. She thought she had found it a few times over the years, but in the end it never worked out. She went through a breakup because she moved back to Bluebell, he couldn't understand her need to be back home in a small town. He had left a small town and never went back. It took her moving back to Bluebell to reconnect with Hudson. In ways, she'll never understand and says it was fate all along, he's the one that she shares the practice with. 6 months after she took over for her mom, he came along taking over the Breeland half. Through the practice is how they found out their love is meant to be a forever love.

"That you're happy for me," Aurora commented, giving her fiancé a smile across the yard.

"I am happy for you," Will told her. "But I do have to ask, is this what you want? You're not rushing into marrying him or being pressured into marrying him, are you?" Will asked. Because he's friends with Hudson, doesn't mean he can't question what his motives are and whether if he's making his sister do something she's simply not ready to do.

"I'm not rushing into marriage, or am I being pressured into marrying him. He has always been a friend, even with our complicated history. It took me until now to understand what Maggie means to you and why you were willing to jump into marriage with her. It can't come soon enough to be his wife and for him to be my husband," she told her brother.

"As your brother, I had to make sure," he told her. "And now I can sit here with a smug look on my face and say I told you so," he smirked.

"About what?" She asked, moving her focus from her husband-to-be to her brother. She can't recall anything he ever did to toss an I told you so in her face. Let alone anything to be smug about.

"I am the one that set you up with Hudson," he stated.

"But you never said I would marry him," she pointed out. "Heck, I didn't even know I would be marrying him with the way our past had played out," she sighed.

"Yet, everything worked out the way it was meant to be, and there's no point in worrying about what might not have happened. You're here with your family, and the man you love," Will told her.

Aurora nodded, because her brother was right. She's here with the people she loves the most, her family. She's learned to let things go, mainly the what ifs that get tossed her way. Everything has worked out the way it was supposed to. And she's not about to question why it has.

Her brunette hair hung in ringlets down her back. She wanted her hair to be left down, just swept out of her face. Her veil held in place with some pins, flowing down her back. As for her wedding dress, she stuck with a simple and sophisticated A-line ivory silk dress. The dress hugged her curves with some ruching on the fitted bodice, a sweetheart neckline. Around her waist sits a lemonade pink color ribbon, to match the groom's vest and tie. The skirt of the dress flawlessly falls to the floor swooping into a train.

The bridesmaid dresses are the ones she spent far too long looking for. Her mom was there to help her find her perfect wedding dress, and it took a few dresses before she found the right one. But when it came to the dresses for her bridesmaids to wear, she wanted cute ones and not ones that everyone would think is ugly. Because she didn't want to do that to her friends, but they couldn't agree on anything. Finally, she settled on a maroon princess dress, a teal ribbon around the waist, to match the groomsmen, as they'd be wearing teal vests and teal ties. The sleeves of the dresses are a 3/4th of a sleeve of lace. The back of the dress flowed down from the waist into a small train.

"Your something old are the white lace shoes you found in your mother's closet," Holland stated, wanting to make sure they have everything covered. "Something new?" She asked, her soon-to-be-sister. And she didn't want to cop out and say the dress.

"The infinity bracelet from my very sweet husband-to-be," she said, showing off the sterling silver bracelet that Hudson had her dad deliver to her when they got to the Carriage house, the guys in the gatehouse. Mayor Rose, telling them they could use the Mayor's plantation. What better place than by the pond?

"Something blue?" Maggie asked, working on getting her sister's makeup done just right.

"My necklace," she said, motioning to the table before them where the very same necklace her mom had worn at her wedding sat. She learned the pearl necklace with a blue flower pendant that belonged to her great-great-grandmother on her grandpa Harley's side. Not only would it work for the blue category but the old category as well.

"That leaves the borrowed category," Holland said, not sure what it was they had that would work.

"I've got that covered," Zoe said, entering the room, getting a bit teary eyed seeing her daughter looking beautiful on her wedding day. "This belonged to your grandmother Jackie," she said, handing the box over that held the pearl and crystal brooch. Jesse and Calla took it, as they too want to let their daughter borrow it on her wedding day.

"It's beautiful," Aurora smiled.

"You're beautiful," Zoe told her daughter. "I need to go find your dad, are you going to be okay?" She asked Aurora. Who in return nodded her head, slightly. "I'll be back with your dad, when it's time to get you out there and married," she smiled, slipping from the carriage house.

"Do you think I can get some space?" She asked her friends. She was done getting ready and now just waiting for the wedding to start. Her parents weren't here for her yet, and she did briefly wonder if everything was okay. Her friends nodded, letting her have her space.

Wade knocked on the door to the carriage house, seeing that his daughter's friends were waiting outside on the porch, out of view from the guests who are waiting for the wedding to start.

"You don't think she got cold feet do you?" Zoe asked, adding to her husband's knocks when Aurora didn't answer.

"She could have," Wade sighed. "Why don't you go in, and you can inform me when it's safe to enter," he suggested to his wife.

Zoe nodded, trying the door handle to see if it was unlocked. She slipped inside, worried about the state she would be finding her daughter in. As exciting as getting married can be, your nerves can take their toll on you as well. Zoe didn't know if she was going to find Aurora crying, or if her daughter would be having a mini meltdown of some sort, worried by some small detail.

"Aurora." Zoe spoke softly as not to startle her daughter. Aurora sat in front of the vanity, staring at her reflection. Unmoving. This isn't what Zoe thought she'd be walking into. "Honey," Zoe said, resting a hand on her daughter's shoulder.

"Mom?" Aurora questioned, blinking and making eye contact with her mom. "What am I doing?" She asked softly.

"You're going to go out there and marry your best friend. You're going to join your life with his and make a life you both want filled with love," she shared. "I know it's scary, and you're thinking that you can't marry him for a degree of reasons, but you can, if you truly love him and want to be with him," she told her daughter. "I won't make you marry Hudson, if it's not in your heart to do so," she promised her daughter. She would never make either of her kids do something against their wishes when it came to something this huge.

"I don't know if I can do that," Aurora said, her eyes filling up with tears to shed. "I love him with my whole being, but I don't know if I'm ready to be someone's wife, to be his everything," she whispered.

Zoe got her daughter a tissue, not wanting her daughter to ruin her makeup, because she has a feeling that there will be a wedding and this will be something silly Aurora will laugh at later on. "It's scary, it really is," she shared.

"Understatement of the year," Aurora sighed. "I want to marry him, it's just harder to go through with it," she confessed.

"I had thoughts like that as well. I love your father, but tying your life to someone else's, it's hard to grasp, but I wouldn't change my life being twinned with his for anything. But, I can't tell you one way or the other on what to do. You need to figure out if you want to marry your best friend, the man you love and want a family with," she told her daughter.

"How am I supposed to make a choice when I don't know what it is I want to do?" She asked, she may be sitting there in her wedding dress, and she may have told her brother she can't wait to be Hudson's wife, but there's a difference when you're about ready to walk down the aisle to start your forever.

"You'll find the answer in your heart," Zoe told her, leaving her be with those little words of wisdom. "She's having trouble, deciding on if she wants to go through with marrying Hudson," she explained to her husband.

"She'll make the right choice for her," Wade commented.

He likes Hudson, he's a good kid. He can handle Aurora when she gets into her little attitude moments that she got from her mother. But the very last thing he's going to do is tell his daughter that she needs to be walking down the aisle to marry him. He'll very gladly walk up there himself and instead of giving his daughter away, he'll thank everyone for coming and break the news to Hudson in private. Aurora's happiness is what matters to him, not the money spent to make this day special for them.

"I'm ready to get married," Aurora smiled, stepping out on the porch, looking as perfect as ever, no traces of her meltdown to be shown. "I'm ready to get married," she repeated, grinning.