Chapter 4- Wedding Plans
The next day, Char and I woke up together and walked to the dining room, where we ate our delicious breakfast that Mandy made for us. After we finished the splendid meal, we walked into the garden where we had been yesterday. We both sat on the bench, rather closely, and didn't speak to each other for awhile, just enjoying the other's company.
"Ella," Char said, breaking the silence, "my father wishes to know who you want to invite to our wedding."
A look of thought appeared on my face as I thought who I could invite to our wonderful day. Mandy, of course, would be there. I thought that I should invite my father, even though I did not really want to. And then one person came into my thoughts clearly. Areida! She would have to travel quite a long way to come to Frell, but hopefully she still would. And I could definitely be her friend because I had broken the curse, so Hattie's order wouldn't apply. I could invite Slannen and many of the elves of the forest, Uaaxee the giantess, zhulpH the gnome, his mother zhatapH and of course, Apple, my centaur that Char had caught for me. I told him my list. He looked somewhat surprised.
"Is that all?" he asked.
I looked at him. "Yes."
He smiled. "Very well.
"How many people are you inviting?" I asked him.
"My most trusted knights, my family, of course, and a few friends that I met in Ayortha. My father wants us to invite all of Frell, though, as it is a royal occasion."
"Goodness!" I said, quite taken aback. But it made complete sense. It was a royal function, and the future king was going to be married. "I understand. Except there are three people who I don't want to see that live in Frell."
"Who would that be?" he asked me with a grin.
"Dame Olga, Hattie, and Olive. I have loved being apart from them these past few days, and I don't want life to change now."
Char laughed. "That can be arranged," he told me. "But now we have to worry about an even bigger problem. My mother wants us to be fitted as soon as possible by the palace seamstresses for our wedding outfits."
"That is fine. I want our day to come as fast as it possibly can," I told him. He smiled at me and then kissed me.
"I do as well. Come, let us go to the seamstresses." We walked together, hand in hand, to the palace.
It took us little time at all to walk to the seamstresses. They had a room to themselves in the palace where yards of beautiful fabrics, ribbons, and other things were strewn about everywhere. The head seamstress, Andrea, was a very bright and funny person.
"We need to be fitted for our wedding outfits," Char explained to her when we walked into the room.
Andrea nodded to us and pulled us both to an area full of tape measures and rulers. We had to both stand on little blocks. I was having a little trouble balancing, but Char stood on his block perfectly, as he had most likely done this thousands of times. Andrea first had her assistants measure Char for a new doublet and then they moved on to me. There I was measured for my dress. I kept moving as the seamstresses were measuring and they had to re-measure countless times. After I apologized many times to them all, Andrea took us to a room that was dark. She lit a candle and the whole room brightened up. Then I could see thousands of pieces of fabrics, more than in the other room.
"Please, pick the color of your doublet, Your Highness," Andrea said.
It took Char quite a while to find a color that he liked. He finally narrowed it down to two colors: a deep ocean blue silk for the top of the doublet and a soft blue satin for the lining. Andrea then had me pick the color of my dress. It took me twice as look as to find my color. I finally chose a light shade of green velvet for the overskirt and bodice of my dress, as green was the traditional wedding dress color. I chose an off-white satin for the underskirt. Andrea said that our outfits would be started as soon as possible. We finally left the room.
"Now, we have to go see my father and give him the list of our guests," Char told me. I nodded to him. We walked to the dining room, where we assumed that the king would be, as it was nearly lunch time. He was indeed there, and so we delivered the news of the guests that we were going to write. King Jerrold had the royal scribe copy down the names of the people we said, and his carrier was told to deliver news of the wedding to them. The carrier would also go to all the houses in Frell and deliver the news of our wedding. We had decided to have it in the old castle, for there were excellent stair rails there that we could slide down after the wedding ceremony. Char had not told his father that that was one of the reasons we wanted to have our wedding there, but the King had agreed. We would have a party afterwards for the guests (meaning all of Frell) after the ceremony at the palace, where food and drink would be served and the guests could dance. It was to be held in two weeks. I was quite excited for this day to come, as it would mean that I would be with my love forever.
Author's Note:
This is not that great of a chapter, for there is not that much action. But after the wedding (which is next chapter) there will be plenty of adventure. So be ready for more interesting chapters!
I am sorry that I did not update before 45 reviews. I am currently traveling, and my laptop is acting up (that is where I store this story), and so I was not able to post this chapter. I had to rewrite it, which took quite awhile to do, as I did not remember what I had said, so please forgive me! It won't happen again! :-)
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