Chapter 7
A few mornings after they'd announced their engagement, they all went to Diagon Alley to get invites, a dresses, etc. Once they were there they headed over to a dress shop. Harry and Ron went over behind the curtain. Ginny could see all kinds of dress robes over there. She and Hermione went behind the other curtain. There were all kinds of dresses over there. Ginny automatically saw a beautiful pink strapless at first glance.
"Oh! I love it! I want that one for my bridesmaids!"
"Do you have it in another color?" Mrs. Weasley asked.
"Yes. We can make it in any color you like."
"If you'll bring in the Bride's Maid, I could pick her best color."
"Oh, she's my bride's maid." Ginny said pointing at Fleur.
Fleur looked the dress up and down.
"I sink zat ze green vould be ze best color for me," she said.
"What about blue?" Ginny suggested.
"Oh, zis is ze Slytherin probleem. Iz it not?"
"Or, maybe another color, you know how I feel about Green!" Ginny pleaded.
"Vell, ve don't have to do ze Slytherin green, ve could do lime or a light green instead..."
"Actually yes, I saw a beautiful glittery light green fabric just yesterday in the back." the sales lady said.
"Well, maybe..." Ginny said growing less worried by the second.
"Here, let me show you. I think you would like it. If you like it as much as I do, perhaps we could incorporate it into your gown," the sales lady added looking as though she had had some Felix Felecius.
She led the group through a door on the back wall and to a wall of nothing but bolts of fabric. She walked to the very left corner and pointed out a bolt of the most beautiful fabric Ginny had ever seen. It would make a beautiful dress.
"I don't know..." she lied.
"You don't like it?" the lady asked, looking disappointed.
"Well, it is the most beautiful fabric in your store, but I think Mary's Bridal, down the road has something similar for thirteen knuts a yard.
"Well, I'm afraid ours sells for a galleon a yard."
"Maybe, we could compensate. I'd hate to have to tell all of my friends how much better Mary's was. Maybe, say, five sickles?"
"Eight."
"Six."
"Seven."
"Five."
"Six."
"Done."
"Whoa..." Hermione said. "Good job!"
"Thanks. I learned from the best." Ginny said giving her mother a hug. Mrs. Weasley blushed.
"Well, now we should look for the brides. Darling, do you have a Maid of Honor as well?"
"Yes. She couldn't make it. She had to work. She's a lawyer in the muggle world. I did bring a picture though." Hermione said handing over a picture of a long legged brunette. She looked very pretty, but very stern, like she'd make a great lawyer.
"Okay, well as she has bluish green eyes, this green would be both of your best bet."
Soon, Ginny and Hermione had found beautiful bridal gowns and the green sparkly fabric was a good color for the six Bride's Maids.
After they had been measured and had given the maids measurements who couldn't make it, they went to find makeup and accessories. Soon, they had everything for the wedding day.
Ginny and Hermione had had a lot of fun finding their garters.
"I think I'm going to put mine up to here." said Ginny pointing to the spot that really, really short shorts would go down to. "Tease the guys a little, you know?"
"Yes, remember my vedding? Bill got so mad ven I pulled the garter off and threw it to the guys?" Fleur said laughing at the memory
"Oh my gosh! That was hilarious! Remember Ron's face when he saw her hiking up her skirt?" Hermione added.
"Yeah. Poor Harry was turning beet red. That was the reddest I've ever seen him go!" Ginny laughed.
The three girls kept laughing until they met up with the guys to taste cake.
"Hi, Ginny." Harry said with a happy looking smile.
"Hi, Harry."
"So, cake testing. Oooooh! Double Chocolate! Can we try that one?"
"It looks like you and Ron will be pushing for it together, so as long as Hermione agrees, it sounds good to me!" she laughed, giving Harry a kiss.
Gabby and some guy she'd run into at The Ice Cream Shop were making out when the baker stepped out and looked over at them, "These must be the engagees."
"Oh! Gabby! You are a pretty girl, but you can't do zis kind of zing vith every boy who looks at you. Run along, leettle boy." Fleur said.
"These are the couples." Mrs. Weasley said pointing towards Ron and Hermione and Harry and Ginny.
"Ah! And let me guess, you two want to try the double chocolate. Lady's don't worry, we've gotten everything set up in the party room.
Sure enough, as soon as Ginny walked through the white, French style doors, she lat out a deep gasp.
"Oh my goodness, Harry! It's gorgeous!"
There was a large table with hundreds of pieces of different kinds of cake on little saucers covering the entire surface of the table.
The baker handed each of them a fork and they slowly tried each kind of cake.
"Oh! I'm stuffed!" Harry said on the way back to the burrow with a satisfied smile on his face.
"We should get married more often! We'd be eating all that excellent cake all the time!" said Ron, who was only just starting to look healthy again after their trip to get rid of Voldermort.
Ginny and Hermione laughed.
"I'm just glad they didn't try to talk you into that double chocolate! That would be murder eating more than one piece! It's so rich."
"Nah! The chocolate chip was sooooo much better!" said Ron excitedly.