New place, internet's spotty, right not, just glad I got this up!
We walked in together, with the bridesmaids following. Inside folding chairs were set up to form an aisle, ready to make way for the reception later. Each one was filled with men in suits and ladies in elegant dresses and odd looking hats, not sure I'd ever get that one.
Some of them I recognised, some I didn't, some of Jamie's family and my UK family I didn't really recognise. At the back sat the Big Four, the Guardians.
Having them at the back was by no means meant as an insult, it was just so people who didn't know about them would notice the suspiciously empty chairs.
Right at the front Jamie was waiting, in a royal blue suit, his hair combed back. Next to him, he had two best men. One of them was a college friend that I didn't really know, the other was Jack.
For everyone who didn't believe in the Guardians, Tim was Jamie's best man, anyone who did knew who the real best man was.
Jamie and I had talked long and hard about that, I had no real issue with it, except, that, it didn't seem to fit Jack. I know those two have been friends for years, and Jamie had kept believing all that time, but having Jack Frost as your best man? It just seemed odd to me.
Sadly, that had been my best argument, and I'll admit, it was good to see him in his dark blue suit, staff still there and grinning like an idiot. Tim also scrubbed up well, but, sorry, I wasn't as bothered about him.
Jamie glanced back as I walked through, and he stared, clearly not quite believing what he was seeing. I felt my face burn a bit, but I decided that I didn't care. This was happening, and at that moment I was glad that it was.
That feeling didn't last as I stepped up, my dad and the bridesmaids got to their seats, and the vicar started talking.
We ended up going for a traditional ceremony, to appease our more conservative relatives, and I regretted it when he started it. It was so dull!
I could see both Jack and Tim struggling to stay awake, and Jamie's grin had gone fixed and his eyes were glazing over. I just fixed my gaze on a spot just above his balding head and kept an ear out for important words.
When it came to the rings though, we had our own twist.
Both of us had plain wedding bands, let's be honest, neither of us wanted anything bulky when we had fight. Once those were on, I produced a snowflake, out of nowhere. It was a Bergland tradition that we were adopting, although sometimes it was the norm for a snowflake to be presented at the proposal. It was for the fiancé to wear somewhere, and Jamie and I had gone for doing it at the wedding, as he hadn't known about the tradition.
The little show was enough to grant a round of applause to those who thought I had just pulled a magic trick, and Jack gave me a sceptical look. A very clear 'how did you know that you were going to get away with that?' look.
I formed a pin on the back and pinned it to Jamie's jacket, where the flower would normally be. He then pulled a pre-prepped snowflake, which Jack gave an obvious grin about, from his sleeve and clipped it into my hair.
With that, I vaguely heard 'You may now kiss the bride', but it was lost as Jamie grinned and did the movie style pull down to kiss, which I did not squeak at.
That thought quickly left as the kiss happened. I know Taboo activated the confetti, because I could hear clapping instead of confused silence, but I didn't really care.
As always, the rush of emotion took me by surprise and it felt like fireworks were going off in my brain.
We had to pull out for oxygen and everyone started to file outside, with Jamie and I at the head. From there there was the greeting everyone and photos and such, but I saw one kid, one of my younger cousins I think, he was about five or so, staring at the Guardians, who did look a little awkward.
Bunnymund was in a dark green suit and glasses, which I understood to be a very traditional look for him. North was in a traditional red and white suit, but it looked more formal than what you'd expect from Santa Claus. Finally Sandman looked about the same as always, but he did have a sand top hat on his head.
My cousin's green eyes were bulging out of his head as he stared and I looked at Jamie.
"Shall we introduce them?"
"One of us has to stand here." he said. "Rock paper scissors?"
"Sure."
We stood there for a few seconds until I won, so I left Jamie to greet the guests as I went over to the kid.
"Hey." I said, and he jumped out of his skin, turning to look at me.
"H-hi." he said in a cute English accent, clearly nervous.
I looked at him, then flicked my eyes over to the Guardians, sans Jack, who was currently trying to make Jamie laugh by pulling silly faces behind the guests. Then my eyes flicked back to my cousin.
"Shall I introduce you?"
His eyes went even wider and he looked back and forth between me and the Guardians, who had clocked on. North was trying not to laugh while Toothiana was smiling sweetly. Sandman was just smiling and Bunnymund tried to not look too big.
"You know them?" my cousin asked in a stage whisper.
"Jamie and I invited them." I could tell that I'd gone up on his list of cool people.
He looked back over. "Isn't there one missing?"
"He's messing with some of the other guests, making this a bit more interesting."
He looked over at Jack and started laughing. "How come no one else can see them?"
"No one else believes. No come on, let's go say hi."
We walked over, but as we got within a few metres of the Big Four he hid behind my skirt, peeking out at them.
"They're not going to bite." I assured. "Well, Bunny might, being a giant rabbit and all."
"Hey!" Bunnymund cried, irritated, but I just grinned at him, surprisingly more relaxed around them than ever.
I knelt down a bit to my cousin's level. "So, this is..." I thought for a second, names passing before my eyes. "...Callum. Callum, I think you can guess who these guys are."
He stared in wide eyed awe, and Toothiana was the first to come over.
"Come on, let's see those teeth!" she squealed and without waiting for answer she opened his mouth to have a look.
I looked over at the other three. "This is normal, isn't it?"
North nodded solemnly while Bunnymund face, pawed and Sandman laughed silently.
"I must say!" Toothiana withdrew with a smile and a thumbs up, leaving a confused looking Callum. "You have excellent teeth, keep it up!"
I chuckled before I heard her say. "Don't think you're getting out of it, just because it's your wedding!"
"Wait, wha-ah!"
She was careful not to touch my gums and withdrew, satisfied while I tried to the get the burning sensation out of my mouth.
I heard Callum laugh at my expression and I gave him an amused look.
"We'll see who's laughing when the snowball fight starts."
"There's going to be a snowball fight?" he asked, lighting up even more.
"Probably, I wouldn't put it past Jack." I looked over at where he was. "Speaking of which , I'd better go pretend to be a normal adult."
"You are a normal adult." Callum said, and I'm pretty sure I heard Bunnymund snort with laughter, quickly turning it into a cough.
He was young, I decided to take a risk.
"Let me tell you a secret." I leaned down and whispered. "I'm secretly an ice bender."
"No!" Callum didn't believe me, but I nodded.
"Where do you think that snowflake came from? Jamie's came from Jack, but mine didn't."
I stood up. "Have fun you guys."
I was sad to leave, but they seemed to be okay, especially as Callum excitedly told North what he wanted for Christmas. I also saw Sophie finish hugging her brother and going a little nervously over to Bunnymund, and the two started a conversation.
"Jackie!"
I got side tackled by Alice, who was laughing her head off. She turned a few heads, especially mom's sister, who was looking down her nose a bit. Oh, wait, that was her normal expression.
"You're married now! That's so cool!" She squealed, pulling me into a hug so tight I fought to breath.
"Air..." I gasped and she released me, still grinning.
"You know... A Dothraki wedding is considered boring if no one dies." She said, contemplating.
"Aright you a little psycho, but this isn't a Dothraki wedding."
"I'm joking! I didn't know some of your family could be so, boring."
"Had to get my deadpan from somewhere."
"No kidding. I don't your aunt has stopped looking down her nose."
"She's like that."
"Reckon we could..." Alice mimed rolling a snowball.
"I think Jack might be on that." I said, eyeing the pile he was making by the side of the marquee. "We'll have to see."
Alice followed my gaze and grinned. "This is going to be amazing."
"I agree."
