Challenge: The Ultimate Pairing Drabble Competition

Pairing: Dean/Ginny

Prompt: Meeting

The gardens of the Burrow were decorated in the same fashion as they had been years earlier for the wedding the eldest Weasley brother and his bride. For on this beautiful March day, the youngest child of Arthur and Molly Weasley was about to become the wife of the man that she loves.

With Her bridesmaids,that consist of Hermione, Gabrielle, and Luna,have already walk down the guests's attention turns to the bride on the arm of her a beautiful wedding dress designed by Lavender Brown,wasGinny was looking like a princess.

In those moments walking down the aisle, Ginny thinks back to the moment where she knew that her life was about to change for the better.

One day after helping George with the afternoon rush of students before that are returning for another semester of school,she decided to treat herself to a scoop of her favourite ice cream from Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour.

Sitting at a table with her ice cream, she takes the time to read the day's issue of the Daily Prophet. As she flips through the pages, there was an article showing her ex-boyfriend, Harry Potter, on numerous dates with different women.

Before she has the chance to think about her latest break-up, she saw someone that she has not spoken to in months looking for a seat. So she offers him the one at her table.

They used that time to catch up on each other's lives. During that time which they ate three helpings of ice cream. He finally, asks her out for dinner that Friday night which she immediately accepts.

Now here she was three years later, in front of the officiant of her wedding.

Ginny says her vows lovingly, "I, Ginerva Molly Weasley, take you, Dean Andrew Thomas, to be my husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; and I promise to be faithful to you until death parts us" before Dean kisses her for the first time as his wife.

She now knows that one unexpected meeting over ice cream lead her to becoming married to the love of her life.

* Note that her vows are a part of a traditional wedding ceremony*