Chapter 14
Mrs. Figg finished the service by saying, "I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss your bride." Ron and Hermione began kissing and the crowd broke out in applause and cheers. "I would like to introduce for the first time Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Weasley." Another round of applause followed this. Harry patted his friend on the back, "Congratulations mate." Ron's ears turned red, "Thanks" Hermione and Ron walked back down the aisle. Harry followed them escorting Ginny and Lizzy, then Remus with Tonks and Fred and George with McGonagall. When they got outside the tent they all shook Ron and Hermiones hands and then they got in a line to shake all the guests hands.
When everybody had passed, the wedding party made their way to the next tent. When they walked in Fleur came up to Hermione and said, "I love your dress Hermione." Hermione smiled and said, "Thank you Fleur. Your English has gotten better, and you can pronounce my name correctly now." Fleur blushed, "Yes, I am sorry about that, but Bill has been helping me and he made sure I could say your name right. I am sorry again about that." Hermione gave her a hug and said, "It's okay. I just considered it a misunderstanding in the language barrier." They both had laughed, and Fleur went to be with Bill.
Ron looked at Hermione and said, "Your dress is amazing! And you look amazing in it." Hermione's dress was white. It barley had sleeves and had roses embroidered on the bust area. The bottom half of the dress went all the way down to her feet. It flowed like water into a three foot train. Hermione was definitely filled the role of the blushing bride. Hermione smiled and said, "Thank you." Then gave her new husband a kiss.
After the dinner and cake, they all danced. Harry was only looking forward to this because he got to dance with Ginny. Fred and George were going to take turns dancing with McGonagall and Lizzy. The first dance was Ron and Hermione alone. That was followed by the dance with Hermione and her dad. Hermione insisted that Ron dance with his mother then too. Then it was time for the rest of the wedding party to dance. Harry felt like he was on clouds in Ginny's arms. Ginny looked at him, smiled, gave him a kiss, and said, "I have missed you so much. It was awfully nice what you did for Lizzy at the ceremony." Harry just smiled and they looked over to Lizzy dancing with Fred.
She was so small next to Fred. She was standing on his feet while he carelessly danced her around the entire floor. She was laughing and looked like she was having the time of her life. George appeared to purposely bump into them with McGonagall. Fred and George switched partners. Lizzy didn't seem to care she jumped onto Georges feet which made him jump and say, "Ouch." Lizzy laughed as George put a smile on his face and continued jumping all around the dance floor while holding tightly to the child.
The song had finished and it was about time for the evening to come to and end. Lizzy had run over to Harry and Ginny. "Did you see me? Did you see me dancing?" She was so excited. They both smiled and said, "Yes we did." Harry looked at Ginny as if asking her if now was a good time. Ginny nodded her head. Harry gave her a quick kiss and looked at Lizzy again. "Elizabeth, Can we talk to you for a minute." Lizzy calmed down, "Did I do something wrong?" she asked with a threat of tears in her eyes. Ginny bent down and took her in a hug, "Oh no, Lizzy it's nothing like that. It is something good."
Lizzy looked up at Harry and said, "But, Harry, you called me Elizabeth. You haven't called me that since Ginny gave me my nickname. You sounded so serious." Harry smiled and took Ginny's hand to help her up. "Well, Lizzy, this is serious, but you did not do anything wrong. Like Ginny said it is something good. At least we hope you think it is good." Lizzy started to get excited again, "What, what is it. OH Is it my surprise." Harry smiled, she was so full of life. "Yes it is, but first I think we need to get Professor McGonagall and go sit down at a table." Ginny smiled and said, "I will go get the Professor, you two go get the table." Harry and Lizzy nodded and found a table as Ginny was walking away.