Chapter 7: The Wedding Plans
We left the Leaky Cauldron and Carly again blinked us back to headquarters. When we walked in, everyone was sitting in the kitchen eating breakfast.
"We're engage!" I shouted. Carly blushed and soon we were both engulfed in hugs, kisses, and congratulatory wishes.
After everyone calmed down a bit Mum asked the question on everyone's mind.
"When are you two planning on getting married?"
Taking my hand in hers, Carly said three very small words. "In two months."
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George grinned at me and then kissed me. Then I walked over to ask Hermione, Angelina, and Ginny to be my bridesmaids.
"Do you think you two would be interested in being my bridesmaids?"
"Interested? Carly we would be honored." Ginny gushed.
"Only if you promise to be mine when I get married, Carly." Hermione answered.
"Carly, I would love to be one of your bridesmaids!" Angelina smiled.
"Thanks." I said and they wrapped me in another hug.
Bill and Fleur came next and I asked her to be my bridesmaid, too.
"Of course! I am so honored you would ask me!"
"Since recent events, I didn't cancel the bank transaction. I also exchanged your American money for our money here. If you don't mind…" Bill began watching his wife talk to Tonks.
"Thank you."
"Welcome to the family, Carly." Bill said giving me a hug.
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I watched Bill leave Carly's side and wandered back over to her. She turned around and saw me and started walking toward me.
"I need to send an owl to my brother Jeremy and my sister-in-law Pixie." She said and gave me a quick kiss.
I watched her leave and couldn't help but smile at her. She missed her brother Jeremy a lot. He was younger than her by four months and he was only her half brother. Her father had another affair to a married woman to give her a child. Jeremy had married her best friend, Pixie Lee. The woman had also left Jeremy with his biological father's last name, Hawkins.
"Where's Carly?" Mum asked.
"Upstairs, writing her brother to come because she's getting married."
"Well we need to start planning! TWO MONTHS! George Arthur Weasley, do you have any idea how fast the clock is ticking?"
I smiled. "Mum, you did say Carly was a smart woman. She has mostly all of this planned out."
"Mrs. Weasley, don't worry. I can plan this." Carly interrupted coming back down the stairs.
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"Pixie Lee Hawkins is going to be my maid of honor. Fleur, Angelina, Hermione, and Ginny have already agreed to be my bridesmaids. My brother Jeremy is making my cake, it will be marble with white icing, flowers, and two look-a-like figures of George and I on the top. I have my something old which is my grandmother's pearls. My something new is my brand new high heeled white sandals. I'm borrowing back my mother's dress from Pixie. My bridesmaids are doing my hair and they'll be using some blue ribbon. My 1965 silver sixpence is up in my trunk. Everything else can wait until this afternoon…"
George and his mother were looking at me as if I were psycho.
"You've never heard the wedding saying?"
"There's a wedding saying?" George asked.
"Something old, Something new, Something borrowed, Something blue, and a silver sixpence in her shoe."
"I've never heard of that one, dear." Mrs. Weasley answered quietly. "George, have you decided whose going to stand by you?"
"Fred is going to be my best man. Bill, Charlie, Ron, and Harry are going to be my ushers." George announced proudly.
I smiled and nodded. My notebook that I had bewitched back in my 2nd year wrote down whatever it heard.
"Mrs. Weasley—" I started.
"Please dear, call me Mum." Mrs. Weasley smiled. "You're family now Carly, no formalities."
I smiled back. "Mum would you please help me plan the wedding?"
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I left Carly and my mother to plan the wedding that was going to happen in April. Then I saw the shocked look on Carly's face when Mum told her to call her Mum like the rest of us.
"Well, if it isn't George!" Bill started teasing.
"We thought the fiancée would never let you out." Ron added.
"Not like last time at all, Carly will let you out to hang out with us… Won't she?" Fred's teasing stopped and seriousness took over.
"He can do whatever he wants as long as he comes home in one piece and doesn't have another woman's lipstick on his face." Carly answered sticking her head in the doorway. "Charlie's here, and he wants to play Quidditch."
Bill, Fred, Ron, and Harry all looked amazed at Carly's little outburst. I smiled, it was just one thing I loved about her. Then Charlie walked in the door smiling.
"I hear you're getting married George."
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I smiled when I heard the boys leave. Mum called the girls to help and to start planning the wedding.
I thought of the color of invitations I liked all different designs. I skimmed my fingers over a blank piece of paper and muttered a simple paper spell I had taught myself back at Sarcoma. Remembering what the invitation looked like I muttered "Papier."
In front of me a crisp white envelope looked ready to be addressed. A beautiful white dove stood looking ready and willing to deliver the invitations. There was a smaller envelope with my address on it. I picked up the invitation that was engraved with beautiful lilies.
You are invited to attend the wedding of:
Mr. George Arthur Weasley
And
Miss Carly Nicole Hawkins
On April 11, 2006. It will be
A garden wedding at The Burrow
With a Reception after.
"Carly, those invitations are beautiful!" Ginny cried reading over my shoulder.
I smiled. Then I put the invitations, the reservations, and the extra envelope into the beautiful crisp one.
"Notebook please write 'Carly's Guests'." I instructed. "Envelope, Notebook, please put down my Grandmother Hawkins to the list."
Open mouthed, my bridesmaids and Mrs. Weasley stood dumbfounded."
"Magie." I whispered another spell to the rest of the invitations. Then I sent out 100 invitations from my list. Mum caught on and told the notebook a hundred addresses for George.
"You're going to have to teach me that one, Carly." Hermione said when we were finished.
"I can still remember tying those stupid bows on your invitations, Fleur." Ginny grumbled.
"Don't forget those annoying beads on yours, Ginny." Angelina reminded.
"We'll never forget you wanting that still picture on the invitations either!" Fleur prompted.
"Girls!" Mum shouted.
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After spending four hours with my brothers we decided to head back to headquarters.
I noticed Carly was sitting on the steps looking very pissed off. They nodded to her and she gave a small smile.
"What's wrong?"
"What's wrong. George, your mother won't let me have lilies at our wedding. Which we have agreed is going to be an outside wedding at the Burrow. She wants ROSES! I want LILIES!"
I took her in my arms and held her.
"Would you like me to talk to her?"
Carly promptly burst into tears. "For once in the past 18 years I finally got what I have always wanted… A mom. In an hour, I get the mother-in-law from hell that wants to tell me how I can have our wedding."
I started stroking her hair. "Are you going to dump me because my mother is driving you mad?"
Carly smiled into my worried expression. "No, but if she's not at breakfast tomorrow, I will plead guilty to burying her in the backyard."
I started laughing. My mother and my sister were both headstrong women. They were determined to have everything their way, to always be in control, and to always thinking they knew what was best for you. Carly didn't seem to be as controlling as they are. She did however make sure if it was hers, she would make sure it would be what she wanted.
"Can we go in now?" I asked when I finally stopped laughing.
Carly nodded. I opened the door and standing there listening was my mum.
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George kissed my cheek and then his mothers. After murmuring "I'll leave you two alone." He left.
I couldn't believe he left. After I basically just said I was going to kill his mother and bury her in the backyard during the night! What a stupid man!
"Carly, I believe I owe you an apology… I'm pushing my own personal wedding plans on you, when you obviously have your own. I did the same with Fleur, Angelina, and Ginny… And now you. I'll probably do it to Alicia, Hermione, and whoever Charlie decides to marry. Carly I'm so sorry… Can you ever forgive me, dear?" Mum looked pleadingly.
I have never been good at accepting apologies. So I simply asked a question. "Do you have something blue?"
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