'Right,' Alice said hours after we had returned from hunting. 'The dresses, I'm thinking' (Rosalie gasped causing Alice to send her a look) 'medieval and renaissance style dresses. Bel - Izzy, found this for you.'
Alice pushed a picture toward me. The dress she had chosen for me was definitely an early medieval dress in a forest green colour, no doubt due to the fact that 'A Midsummer's Night Dream,' was set in a forest for the majority of the time, there was a gold trim round the bottom of the dress, around the front of a high waist line and around the same height on the arms. Underneath the golden trim was line of elegant buttons. I could see as the picture showed the back as well as the front that it had lacing on the back. I loved it, it was simple, not to fancy and yet princess-like and I knew Alec would love it as well.
'Alice, it's perfect,' I smiled over at her, she beamed back at me.
'I know, I saw it,' she laughed as I stuck my tongue out at her. 'You'll look beautiful in it. Plus Alec won't be able to take his eyes off of you.'
'He can't normally,' Jane laughed.
'What about Esme?' I asked, looking around at my aunt and trying to ignore my soon-to-be sister-in-law.
'Well ...' Alice said pushing a picture toward Esme.
Esme looked at the picture for a minute as smile on her face, 'prefect for the theme, Alice, it's lovely.'
Esme must have felt my gaze on her as she pushed the picture toward me, smiling amusedly. I gave her a sheepish look before turning to the picture.
Esme's dress was simple, even more so than mine, and yet lovely, in a forest green the same as mine it had a golden trim around the waist, neck and floor line. There was also a line of trim at t-shirt sleeve length were the green dress turned into a white long sleeve. I nodded in agreement with Esme's statement.
'What about ... Jane?' I asked randomly choosing the next person.
'Well,' Alice said once again but this time she didn't push a picture she continued talking. 'I was thinking that since Rosalie, Jane and I are bridesmaids then our dresses, even for the engagement party, ought to be similar but Jane's slightly different. Here that's just the design the colors change for each of us.'
'That's a charming idea, Alice,' Esme smiled at her daughter.
She pushed a picture towards Jane and since I was sitting next to her I looked at the same time.
The dress for my bridesmaids were a bit more intricate but, as Alice probably guessed, I was glad thinking it may take some of the attention off of me. The dress had three parts; an outer dress which had a bone front and shoulder ties; a white chemise top with a metallic strip down the arms; and a petticoat, which was only visible in the centre as the outer part left a gap.
'It's gorgeous,' Jane and I said in time.
'I'm glad you think so,' Alice said as I pushed the picture to Rosalie.
'Perfect,' she nodded.
'Okay,' Alice beamed. 'So Rose your outer dress is black and your petticoat gold, mine petticoat is red and the outer black, as well, and Jane your petticoat is the same color as Izzy and Esme's dress and the petticoat is black.'
'Thank you, Alice,' I beamed at her getting up to hug her. 'I'm glad you came to visit.'
'What about the boys are we leaving them to find their own clothes?' Rosalie asked.
'Isabella isn't helping the boys,' Alice smiled. 'But we are.'
I laughed.
'Fine,' I sighed but the smiled brightly although it was slightly confused. 'But I've been meaning to tell you, Alec and asked Emmett.'
'They hit it off then, didn't they?' Jane laughed, looked as surprised and amused as I felt.
'Strangely well,' Esme agreed, as Alice and Rosalie nodded.
'What about the decorations?' Rosalie asked after a while, trying to get us back of track.
'So Mid Summer's Night's Dream,' I thought back to the last time I had seen the play, 'was a lot about fairies wasn't it? and I know it's in a forest.'
Jane nodded, 'how about we hang fake vines from the ceiling of the ball from and pin them to the walls.'
'Yes and we could scatter flowers over the tables,' I enthused.
'You could put some fairy lights around,' Esme suggested. 'Maybe wrapping around the vines at times.'
'and sprinkle glitter over the tables,' Rosalie added as Esme suddenly remembered to write these things down and we paused for a few minutes as her pen scratched across the paper at vampire speed.
'and rose petals,' Jane said when Esme had nodded to them to continue. 'And maybe put small flower shaped candles on the table, although that may be a problem if one of the guests catches fire.'
'I think it'll fine,' I laughed.
'What about some butterflies hanging from the ceiling, with glitter on their wings,' Alice smiled as I beamed happily, if I had been doing this all by myself the ball would have looked terrible but Alice, Jane, Esme and Rosalie I knew it was going to beautiful; I didn't need Alice's visions to see that.
'Izzy,' Alec said walking in to the "office"; we all jump having all been so caught up in our planning that we hadn't seen or heard him enter my room.
'Alec,' I jumped up, wrapping my arms around his neck as his went around my waist. 'How long have you been there?'
'A few seconds, I swear,' he chuckled, kissing my nose before turning to everyone else in the room. 'Ladies and annoying twin' (Jane scowled at him) 'would you mind if I steal Iz for a few hours.'
'Go ahead,' Esme beamed. 'Even in the short time we've been here, we can see how little time you get together.'
Alec and I both smiled at Esme before Alec pulled me out of the room.
'Entertain yourselves,' I called back to them.
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