Lucy is simple, she loves everything and she's got this amazing ability to make anyone feel special. She just makes you smile the second you see her and she makes the world brighter.

The music starts, it's not the wedding march though. I know this one. It's by Ed Sheeran, Perfect. Juvia and my cousin walk out first and then Lucy steps out from behind the big oak tree and everything stops. My heart, my fidgeting hands, time. Everything is frozen to look at her. Her dress is a light pink, blush. It comes just above her knees and it's go two sets of sleeves, one over her shoulders and one draping along the side, her hair is half pulled back, I saw the braid before and the flower crown and the shoes but as time restarts and I can hear my heart in my chest… she looks like something from a fairytale.

"You okay, man?" Grey whispers as my cousin trails in front of her in a little flower girl dress throwing petals all around her. Flowers fall from the tree above as if they can't help but celebrate Lucy

"Natsu." Grey nudges me again but I can't stop staring at Lucy.

"Yeah…" I breath, I don't want to speak too loudly, if this is a dream, I don't want to see reality ever again.

"that's yours, man." Grey says. I can hear the smile in his voice.

"Yeah…" I breath again.

Juvia and my cousin stand to the side. My grandma and grandpa[GM1] and a few cousins and nieces and nephews stand all around. I glance up at the movement in the tree Lucy just walked under and see my other little cousin, Aiden, sitting on a branch with another basket of petals he must have been throwing the petals from above. He looks a bit upset but that's probably because he was convinced Lucy was going to break up with me for him.

"Hi." Lucy smiles as she joins me in front of my grandma's neighbor and ordained minister, Henry. Juvia takes Lucy's Bouquet from her and I take her hands.

"We are gathered here today to witness a union that is long overdue." Henry begins sparking a few chuckles from our family and friends.

"You're telling me." My grandma adds. Lucy giggles softly but her eyes stay on mine.

"We've all watched their love blossom from shared laughs to shared memories and through disagreements and the kind of fairytale love we only see in Disney movies." Another laugh from the crows. Henry looks pretty proud of himself right now.

"and finally, they have decided we can stop holding a breath as they join as one in holy matrimony."

I can hear my grandma start to sniffle and a few other hiccupped sobs. Lucy stand before me with her eyes shining and her smile bright.

"Who gives this woman to this man." Henry asks looking out at the gathering expectantly. Panic surges through me because Lucy has no family here, no one to give her away.

"I do." Juvia steps forward

"I do." Grey walks around me and pats Lucy on the shoulder. And clasps mine. "take care of her, Natsu." Taps my chin with his knuckle "or we're gonna have a problem." He smiles at me and joins me back at my side. Juvia stands proudly beside Lucy but not without gesturing 'I'm watching you' to me.

"And who gives this man to this woman?" Henry goes on.

"Take him!" A few of my cousins and most loudly, my grandma, says.

Lucy laughs. "they're excited to pass you off."

"I think they knew you were the one for me before I did." I admit "but they're smart, I shouldn't be surprised."

"The love birds have decided to write their own vows." Henry is officially having too much fun with this.

Lucy pulls her paper out of her pocket. I didn't know wedding dresses had pockets but since my grandma made it, it was probably a special thing she asked.

"Natsu," she begins. "I didn't know that I knew I was going to love you. We met by chance and you were so cheesy and cute and just you and it was the most honest and endearing thing I had ever seen, so I said yes to our first date. I didn't know it then, but that was when I said our first I do.

I couldn't have guessed that before we went on our first date and we danced and you called me the day before and you asked me what color I was wearing, and you showed up in the same color pocket square and tie and a beautiful corsage. I couldn't have guessed that that was the second time I said I do.

No one told me, that falling in love, into, honest, unconditional true love happens like making a friend in the sandbox as a toddler. You start to play together, then you share toys and then your mom takes you home but… you think about your new friend until the next time you see them.

I didn't know what true love felt like, until I met you, and I made a friend. I didn't know that you say I do hundreds of times before you're even asked.

I will say I do everyday I have with you, Natsu. I will hold your hand through the highs and the lows, I will feed you chicken noodle soup from a can when you are sick and I will love you with every beat of my heart and every breath in my body… until death tears us apart. And even then, I will wait for you again and we can have more I do's."

I can hear my grandma and cousins crying. I'm pretty sure I even hear a sniffle from Grey behind me. I catch a glimpse of Juvia's eyes, full of tears just past Lucy

"Lucy, I always knew you were special. I could see it in your eyes. The first time we had coffee together and you wore those red glasses and you got tea, with no sugar and I knew it even more. Not because you were drinking tea but because you didn't look at your phone once. You looked at everything else. You watched the people outside and you laughed with me.

Lucy you say hi to random people and you offer a smile to everyone that passes by. You care about people you don't even know. You care that they get a smile and you care more about what is going on around you than you do about what's going on in your phone.

You love people and the world and you appreciate everything and you want to experience everything first hand, you don't want to just read about it, or see pictures about it.

You are the first girl my grandma learned to text for, the first one that my family liked more than me. You have this way about you that just lights up a room and you just make the people around you feel good about… you and themselves and you make the world seem so much brighter. You are special but the best thing about you is that you make everyone around you feel special too.

I can't imagine a world where you and I aren't together. I don't want to live in that kind of world because, Lucy, you are my sun and my moon and my earth and everything. You are my everything and I will cherish and accept and love you every day just as you are right now, as you were yesterday and as you were the day I met you, covered in sweat.

I love you Lucy Mae Dragneel[GM2]."

Lucy bites her lip, she takes a second to gather herself.

"Wow." She half laughs and half cries. "that should go in one of your books too." She chuckles and its only us. Only we exist in this space in time.

"That was beautiful." Henry stifles what I think is supposed to be a sob but nothing can ruin this moment.

"Will the ring bearer please bring the rings to the bride and groom." Ironically, my first girlfriend's four-year-old son walks the familiar wooden box to Lucy and me.

"Thanks, Clay." I pinch his cheek and he scowls at me. I lift the puzzle piece necklace.

"You are my other half, Lucy." The only thing that could possibly be written on these necklaces. I place the necklace over her head. Her face is glowing and pink as she lifts the other half out and reaches up to place it over my head.

"You are my other half." She repeats, she rests her hands on my shoulders.

"By the power vested in me by the State of New York." Henry says, "I now pronounce you husband and wife."

Lucy jumps into me and kisses me. I pull her against me and finally everything feel exactly as it should.

"I now present to you Mr. And Mrs. Dragneel." Henry's voice booms out louder than I expect but Lucy doesn't flinch and everyone claps and when she pulls back and our gazes meet it's like nothing can touch us anymore.


Dear Natsu,

I'm Mrs. Lucy Dragneel and I couldn't be happier. You have made me so happy. You have given me everything and I wish I could do the same. I wish I could keep my promise because I lied today. I lied because I wanted it to be true and I thought maybe if I said it out loud, if I swore it to God and in front of our friends I thought that it might be enough to make it true


Author's Note:

Thanks so much for reading I hope you're enjoying, thank you so much for the comments.

I hope you have a great night and I will see you tomorrow

XOXO