Nearly a week later, Harry walked into his kitchen to find Ginny curled up on a chair at the table, wedding book open. Her eyes were bloodshot and she was fiddling with her flaming hair agitatedly and stirring her coffee with a stone-cold piece of toast, absentmindedly. Harry took some apple juice and two glasses and took the seat opposite Ginny. He filled both glasses up with juice and handed one to Ginny.

"Here. It's got to taste better than lukewarm coffee with breadcrumbs."

"Huh?" Ginny looked at Harry with a puzzled expression. Then she took a look at what she was stirring her coffee with and sighed in exasperation.

"Have you slept at all?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, a bit," Ginny replied, rubbing her eyes. "I've got so much to do today."

"Like what?"

"Well, first I have to see Michael and make a final decision about the flowers. Then, Lavender and I are going to sample some wedding cakes. Then, I have to go shopping for the engagement party on Saturday. Then, Hermione and I are going to look at wedding dresses."

"Wow," Harry said in awe. "That is a lot. Can you get all that done in one day?"

"Of course I can," Ginny answered. "I just have to move quickly."

"Well, if you're going to be moving around all day you should have a good breakfast as a headstart."

"No, Harry! I don't have time! I have to have a quick shower and then go. I should already be in the shower now, but I need to take a look at these invitation cards. What do you think?" Ginny held up a pure white, laminated card with thick, black, Gothic-like script all over it.

"It looks good to me," Harry answered.

"It's a bit thick though. You have to kind of squint to make out what it says. I think I'm going to change it to this one." Ginny held up another card. The font was less thick and bold and the letters were more fancy and curly.

"I like that one a lot actually."

"So do I. OK, we'll go with that on." Ginny turned to the wedding book and circled one of the pictures on the page which Harry assumed was the wedding card they had chosen.

"Now," she continued, getting out a piece of paper that had her own hand writing on it. "This is what I'm going to have the invitations say. Tell me if it's alright.

Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley would like to cordially invite you

to their wedding on the...

"I haven't set a date yet," Ginny put in.

"OK," Harry replied.

at Montgomery Hall. We do hope you can make it.

Please let us know no later than...

"Because I haven't set a date for the wedding yet, I haven't got an R.S.V.P. date either."

"Yeah, that's fine."

either by or in person. You are all welcome to bring one guest if you wish.

We enclose an acceptance/declination card along with this invitation.

Many thanks,

Love from,

Ginny Weasley and Harry Potter.

"And the invitation card goes like this:"

I will/will not be attending the Potter/Weasley wedding on the...

I will be attending with/without a guest.

"Is it alright?"

"It's really good," Harry replied, taking two mugs of hot coffee and passing one to Ginny as he sat down. "You're putting a lot of thought into this wedding, aren't you?"

"Well, you only have one wedding. And I want to make ours really special. Oh, Harry, tomorrow Lavender and I have a meeting with the caterers and I want you to come with us."

"Really?"

"Yeah. I'm going to ask Ron if he could come as well. I thought it would be good to have a guy's opinion when it comes to food."

"OK, then. Actually I'm going to Madam Malkin's at three o' clock to get a suit for the wedding made."

"Ooh! OK, thanks Harry! I can check that off the list now."

"You know, Ginny, you should hire a wedding planner to take some of the stress off you."

"I have! But even with wedding planner, there's still quite a lot to do!"

"Really? Who did you hire?"

"Well, I hired Lavender because she's on maternity leave and she's bored and I thought helping me plan the wedding would give her plenty to do. And anyway, she is great at helping out."

"OK. Are you paying her?"

"I offered to. But she wouldn't hear of taking money for helping her friend plan a wedding."

"That was nice of her. Oh, we've got post." Ginny looked out the window and saw a screech owl soaring towards their kitchen window. Ginny got up and opened the window to let it in.

"Both letters are addressed to you," Harry said, as the screech owl hopped around on the kitchen table. Ginny took the letter and read it.

"What does it say?" Harry asked.

"It's from Montgomery Hall. I wrote to them last week asking what days they were available for a wedding. They just replied saying that the next available Saturday is 5th March."

"That's a month away."

"I know. That's hardly any time! But the next available date is 22nd June. That's four whole months! I can't wait that long to marry you!"

"I don't think I can either."

"But how the hell am I supposed to plan a whole wedding in a month, Harry?"

"Ginny. Take a look at the wedding book. Most of the pages have huge, red ticks on them. In case you haven't noticed, you've already basically planned half of the wedding. In just two weeks! I'm sure you can do the rest of it in a month."

"Do you think so?"

"Definitely. And it won't be just you alone. You'll have Lavender and all the rest of us helping you."

"OK then. I guess I'll reply to Montgomery Hall and say they can book our wedding for 5th March."

"OK. Now you go and have a shower and I'll make us some breakfast."

"OK." Ginny wrote a reply to Montgomery Hall and tied it around the owl's leg and it took flight again.

Fifteen minutes later, Ginny came downstairs, fully dressed and her hair still wet.

"You know what, Harry? I don't think I'm going to have breakfast. There's not enough time."

"Oh, Ginny, you have to stay. I made you your favourite breakfast. Blueberry muffins and French toast." Ginny stopped as soon as Harry said the words "French toast."

"French toast?" she asked.

"Yep. And more coffee."

"OK. But five minutes. Ten maximum." She sat down as Harry handed her her plate and coffee. "So, what are you going to do today?"

"Well, I think Teddy and I are going out after breakfast," Harry replied, munching his French toast.

"Oh, that's nice. Where are you going to go?"

"Well, I think we're just going to walk around Hogsmeade. We'll definitely go to Hneyduke's and then have lunch later on. Then, afterwards, I think we'll go to Ron and Hermione's. I'm going to ask if I can leave him with them for half an hour ir so when I go to Madam Malkin's."

Ginny and Harry discussed wedding plans further while eating their breakfast, but all the while Ginny was worrying about how close the wedding was getting. She was excited and nervous all in one. In fact, the only thing that was keeping her going with all this wedding planning was the fact that she and Harry would be married in just one month. In her whole life, she had never been happier than she had been the past two weeks. This was the way it was meant to be. She was meant to get married to Harry Potter.