CHAPTER 29: August 6, 2003
Paige and Greg were in her bedroom laying down on her bed. Paige had her head rested on Greg's shoulder and had her fingers interlaced with his. They were discussing the wedding. "I for one would like to plan all by ourselves, no wedding planners, none of that stuff, I wouldn't feel like it was my wedding. I wanna be totally involved in every aspect, how about you? Are you one of those old fashioned grooms that wants to do nothing but show up?"
"Not completely. I don't wanna pick out floral arrangements but when you find the one you want, I would like to take a look at it."
"Okay because I already have the perfect one in mind. I saw it at a flower shop a couple weeks ago and absolutely love it."
"Great, when do you wanna check it out?"
"Not right now, first we need to discuss a bigger issue. Where are we going to live afterwards?"
"Well, we could live at my place until we find a house of our own."
"That's what I was afraid of. I mean, don't get me wrong, I definitely want to have our own place someday soon but just remembering what happened when Phoebe and Cole moved out. I know that you're not evil but it just separated us so much. We just had the basement redone and it's more like a little apartment than one lousy bedroom in a house with my two crazy sisters. Do you hate me?"
"No of course not, I could never hate you. I would like to get our own house but I understand how important your family is to you, to us, they're like family to me too and I like all the craziness of the house."
"Thank you, I love you." Paige leaned up and kissed her soon to be husband before he could answer.
Piper and Leo had been sitting in silence for some time now, just thinking about how lucky they were. "Hey Leo, I've been thinking about what we should get Paige and Greg as a wedding gift."
"Umm….sweetie, it's only February, I think we have a little time before we need to worry about that."
"Yeah I know but I had been thinking about this for a while now and since it's finally happening, I figured I should tell you about it. Besides, it might take a while to arrange. Okay well after Green Day played at the club, I kept in contact with them just in case I wanted to ask them to play again. Well they're all really nice and they're not on tour right now so I was thinking, what if we get them to play at the wedding?"
"Oh that's such a good idea, Paige will love you forever, her favorite band playing at her wedding. Do you think they'll do it?"
"I think they'll do it but I don't know if they'll be free on May 27th. I'll call their manager now." Piper got up off the bed and walked over to the nightstand on her side of the bed and opened the top drawer, pulling out her address book for P3. She kept the numbers and addresses of all the bands that played at her club in it. She looked for Green Day and dialed the phone. She was on very good terms with their manager, and spoke to her often, not just when she wanted them to play at her club. She also knew all three members personally but all business was best put through Tracy first. "Hi, this is Piper Halliwell, may I please speak to Tracy? Okay thanks." Piper was put on hold for a couple of minutes but finally Tracy, Green Day's manager, answered. "Hey Tracy, it's Piper. Listen my sister is getting married this May. I know it's sudden but her favorite band is Green Day and she would absolutely love for them to be able to play at her reception. Do you think the boys will be free on May 27th?"
"I'll hafta check with them first but I'm sure they'd love to do you a favor. I'll get back to you by Tuesday."
"Thanks Tracy, you're the best. I'll talk to you later."
"Bye Piper!"
"Well, she has to check with them first but all signs point to yes!"
"That's great! Paige is gonna be thrilled."
Phoebe had only gotten back from Quake ten minutes before Jason arrived. She was just filling his glass with water when he rang the doorbell. She ran to the door and opened it. Jason was standing on the porch with two dozen roses. "Hey beautiful." He greeted, handing her the roses.
"Hey handsome." She replied, accepting the roses, "I figured we could eat in the conservatory today, have a little privacy, sit down I'll be right back, I wanna put these in water." Phoebe led Jason to the conservatory and he sat at the table and watched her walk away. She quickly returned, putting the vase full of flowers on the dining room table. She closed the doors behind her and sat down."
"Wow Pheebs, everything looks great. You must be an amazing cook."
"Oh thank you. So how have you been? I feel like we haven't seen each other in forever."
"I'm great, it's only been two days, I saw you at work on Friday and Friday night for dinner. How about you?"
"I know but still. Anyway, I'm great, Paige and Greg are getting married."
"Oh wow, that's great. Did they set a date yet?"
"Yeah, late May sometime."
"Oh wow that should be nice." Phoebe and Jason continued making small talk in between bites for another hour until they were both done. Jason suggested a movie and Phoebe called out to Paige and Piper that they were leaving and the couple was out the door.
Paige and Greg had finished discussing the living situation, and decided to go check out the flowers Paige had seen earlier. The couple emerged from the basement and Greg grabbed his keys off the hook while Paige walked to the foot of the stairs and called up the stairs, "Piper, Leo, Greg and I are going out, I have my cell phone if you need me," not waiting for a reply, she walked out the front door with Greg.
Ten minutes later, Greg was pulling the car into a parking spot in front of the local florist shop. Paige got out of the car and ran up to the window. "Oooh, oooh, look that's it." Paige squealed, quite out of character for her. Greg came up behind her and looked at the flowers. "Wow, very nice. Let's go inside and talk to someone about them." The flowers were white lilies and Paige planned on wrapping them around the banister at the manor. A little bell jingled when Greg opened the door and someone emerged from a door in the back of the shop. The florist seemed to be in her late twenties to early thirties and very enthusiastic. "Hello, I'm Rachel, how may I help you?"
"Hello, my name is Paige Matthews and this is my fiancée Greg Foreman. We're getting married in May and I absolutely love your display outside. We'd like to talk about ordering them."
A/N: Okay I lied, the next chapter will be the last, I don't have time to finish this one and I want to upload as soon as possible but I promise you, the next chapter will be the last and it will be almost entirely about the wedding plans