The next day we left the hotel rather late and began wondering into the centre of Florence, Alice really wanted to go into Pucci so I told her that well head there and then split up to do things we needed or wanted to see. I was planning on buying something for Esme as a present and then I need some new books, Rose and Jane were quite happy wondering through the smaller less expensive shops and I had a feeling Esme would probably go and sightsee with her camera and sketchbook – she never went anywhere without it as though she was waiting for the perfect opportunity for a picture.

The weather was clearer today, which was a slight problem for my family but they managed it by keeping the shade and under umbrella's – although they still sparkled a little, it was that noticeable unless you knew they should.

So around half eleven we all dispersed in different directions agreeing to meet by the doors to the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in an hour. Trying to be subtly, I slip inside Parenti , a small but well esteemed jewellery shop.

10 minutes later, I left with a gift wrapped jewellery box to give Esme the morning of the wedding. I had brought her a necklace and earrings set, that was a dainty silver floral vine with elegant tear-shaped red crystal drops. She would also receive some flowers on the day, by tradition, but this was something more personal. Besides, she needed some red in her outfit apart from the red organza shawl I had at the castle already for her.

With still over 40 minutes left, I made my way to the bookstore and then onto the large library where I settled down to wait for the time to pass.

Half an hour later, I reluctantly put my book away and began to make my way towards the cathedral. It wasn't the biggest cathedral in Italy, the cathedral in Milan held that title, but it was a handsome building, with arches and domes.

Jane and Rose were already standing in the shade of it when I arrived, so I quickly joined them while we waited for Esme and Alice to arrive, which they did within five minutes of each other.

'Am I the last one?' Alice asked as she danced over, bags hanging of her arms. We all nodded unsurprised, reaching toward her to take some of the bags off her. 'Thanks.'

'So,' I asked as we sat down on a beach by the wall, 'is Uncle bankrupt?'

Alice rolled her eyes, 'of course not.'

'Well, where are we going now?' Rose asked me, after placing one of Alice's smaller bags inside her own larger one.

'I'm trying to decide what I want to do for the other bridesmaids,' I told her. 'You three have got those jewellery sets but-?

'Wait,' Alice stopped me. 'What jewellery sets?'

I blanched before closing my eyes in annoyance at the stupidity of myself.

'I'll show you when we get back to Volterra,' I sighed. 'I can't believe I haven't given you them yet. My mother gave them as a present to her aunt and they're absolutely beautiful. Father gave them to me a while after you left.'

'Anyway back to your dilemma,' Esme smiled at me as Alice and Rosalie looked excited.

'Right, yeah … um. Bridesmaids jewellery,' I reminded myself. 'With you guys having the old sets, what should I have them wear, because anything I buy won't match so would it just look odd? Or should I have them not wearing any at all or just earrings or-'

I was cut off from my rambling with a laugh from Jane, 'you're over thinking again, Izzy honey.'

I scowled at her: she always said I overthought things.

'We'll you're buying them jewellery as a gift anyway so why not just get them some similar earrings and a pendant,' Rose suggested, smiling at me amusedly as I nodded.

'I suppose,' I said, chewing on my lip.

'Iz, the earring would be easy to find something similar and then if we find a pendant with a crystal hanging from it, it will be fine,' Jane rolled her eyes. 'Trust me.'

'Fine, okay, that's sounds good,' I admitted that it would probably look the best. 'Let's go look, I know a great jewellery shop.'

Standing up I led them back to the shop where I had brought Esme's present, shaking my head at the shop keeper when everyone turned to look at the jewellery as he smiled at me.

It took us a while to find a similar set of earrings, since only Jane and I knew what they actually looked like but eventually we found them and a lovely simple pendant for everyone to wear. Traditionally, I knew the bridesmaids traditionally paid for their own wedding assemble but I wasn't allowing that. With my friends from the Volturi, they used my family's money on the main anyway and the rest were my family – a load of my money came from Uncle Carlisle anyway as presents or things over the years. Adrianna, of course, was the exception but she had paid for everything when I was with her, since I had hardly any money at that point, it was about time I brought her something. So I had informed all my bridesmaids that I would be buying their wedding clothing, no arguments.

We left the shop with seven sets – I had decided that Abi and Harriet would have the same jewellery – and I felt like screaming (in a happy way). The bridesmaids were done, as was Aunt Esme, my flower girl and my train girl, I just had to make their dresses… and find some shoes for the Usherettes. I sighed, so much for the shoe shopping done.

'Guys, we have to find a shoe shop,' I said heavily. 'I forgot the Usherettes shoes.'

'Don't worry,' Aunt Esme smiled, 'that won't take long, and you must know what you want?'

I nodded and we walked at a fast pace back to the shop we were in yesterday. Dani was just finishing up with a customer when we walked in and, one she'd done she came over, a large smile on her face.

'Forget something?' she grinned.

'Usherettes,' Alice laughed, smiling.

'What are you looking for then, Isabella?' she asked and I was surprised she remembered my name: she seemed to notice that. 'It's not often we get such a big wedding party in here, I perked up my day. What do you need?'

'Um, honey gold colour and the same toe style,' I thought actually having no idea except the colour but remembering that Esme had chosen shoes with the same front as mine and the bridesmaids, 'but not glitter.'

'Alright,' Dani nodded and disappeared.

'How many of these do we need?' Esme asked.

'Yeah, who are the Usherettes?' Rose questioned as we all sat down.

'The guard,' Jane answered Rose while I tried to count how many.

'6,' I answered Esme. 'But hopefully, I can just send them here and then can get the right size.'

'That'd fine,' Dani replied and I turned around even though I knew she was already there. 'I'll tell the manager to keep a variety of sizes in and then they can come in give us your name and well get the shoes.' (She placed down the two boxes she had in her hands to pull the notebook out of her pocket) 'So it's Isabella?'

'Volturi,' I smiled.

'Great, and 6,' she returned me smile before picking up one of the boxes. 'We only have two shoes that fit the criteria you set.'

She opened both boxes and placed a shoe on the table. One had what I was almost certain was called a Dorsay back while the other had a cross front back. They were both in Suede and of course, honey gold.

'I like those,' Rose smiled at me, pointing to the cross ones.

'Me too,' I agreed. 'Jane, Alice, Auntie?

I still felt a little weird calling Esme "auntie" but "aunt" just sound weird and "Aunt Esme" was far too long to say over and over again. It was just that "Auntie" kind of made her sound old which was definitely not the case. She, however, didn't seem to mind and she smiled every time I called her it, just like Uncle Carlisle.

'This is your choice, Iz,' Jane reminded me.

'Fine, yeah,' I rolled my eyes. 'Alright, the cross straps, thank you, Dani.'

'I'm glad to be of help,' she smiled, noting it down and putting the shoes back in there boxes. As she left to put them away, she turned slight. 'Oh, and be more confident in your decisions, as your friend said, it's your wedding.'

'I know,' I muttered quietly, feeling once again like I should be blushing.

Dani laughed and left.

'See that wasn't too hard, was it?' Aunt Esme chuckled lightly. 'What have we got left to do?'

I thought about it, brushing my hair from my face since it had escaped the scruffy ponytail I had put it in earlier that day. I had the dresses to make but I had brought the material for all of them the previous day so I had done all the shopping for that – I had everything else in the castle; we had ordered my dress, veil and jacket and I would have to go for a fitting around six weeks before the wedding, that was done; the jewellery for the bridesmaids and "children" were bought as well as Esme present so jewellery was done and we had ordered all the shoes for all the females in the wedding party – so what else did we need to do?

'I think we're done,' I said still frowning in thought. 'I mean, I still have to make the dresses and get mine altered but that's not to do for a while.'

'Really?' Jane asked. 'That was quick.'

'We'll I suppose it's because Iz had most of the dresses planned out,' Rose smiled at me, 'besides her own. '

'You mean we're actually done shopping?' I asked. 'After two days?'

'The shopping,' my aunt nodded and I was sure was going through everything we had brought in her head. 'However, you still have the transport to sort out, who's actually going to perform the ceremony, decorations, dance lesson, music, you need to talk to Alec about the grooms wear, the invitations – that's shopping, you need to find a Wedding Stationary shop.'

Before I could say anything, Dani returned.

'Would you like to pay for these now or while your usherettes bring money with them?' she asked kindly.

'Um, now,' I smiled, giving my aunt a one minutes signal with my finger and following Dani.

I quickly paid for the six pairs of shoes before gathering my family and leaving the shop. I turned to my aunt suddenly feeling very lost under all the things I had to do that she had listened.

'So what do I have to buy from the Stationer,' I asked as we walked down the road toward the park.

She sighed heavily and I feared a big list coming, 'announcements; thank you notes; invitations & envelopes; ceremony programs; response cards & envelopes; seating and table cards; save-the-date cards; location map; guest book; a stationary set for a post box/wishing well if you want one.'

'They're so sweet,' Alice smiled, interrupting Aunt Esme. 'You could have a wish-well shaped one which would look great with the theme.

'What are they for?' Jane asked, looking as confused as I felt overwhelmed.

'People can put messages and cards in them,' Rose smiled. 'Wishing you luck, you could put it at the wedding if the majority of your "kingdom" aren't invited to the reception.'

'I like it,' I smiled sitting on a bench. 'A golden wishing well. It's a sweet idea. So I need to talk to Alec?'

'That would be a good idea,' Jane smiled. 'He might have an opinion on the invitations, at least.'

'You also need to decide who it's from,' Rose added. 'Aro, Aro and Esme, you and Alec, The Volturi?'

'I would suggest either your father or you and Alec,' Aunt Esme told me since I had grimaced. 'Since I'm only acting your mother.'

'Right,' I smiled. 'We'll we can't do that now since I think it's probably best if Alec and I go to one in Volterra.'

They all nodded in agreement.

'You and Alec also need to get your wedding rings,' Alice grinned, wiggling her own at me, 'and you need to find a way to send all the vampires the announcement since hardly any have fixed addresses.'

'And you're honeymoon,' Jane grinned, laughing.

'You need to sort out a photographer,' Rose added, 'and a wedding gift list.'

'Alright, alright,' my aunt laughed, placing a hand on my back and I rested my forehead against my knees. 'We're going to overwhelm her.'

'Too late,' I heard Jane mutter as my aunt rubbed my back.

'What do you think about horse and carriages?' I said into my knees and knew, although I couldn't see, that their eyebrows had risen in shock that I was actually thinking about what they said rather than just being dazed by it all and completely lost.

'We're vampires, Izzy,' Alice said. 'Animals don't like us, they know they're in danger from us.'

I shook my head but Jane was the one who spoke.

'There's this vampire and he has tonnes of different breeds of horse,' she explained. 'The masters allow him to study them, even change some into vampire animals – it doesn't work that well but it's possible. Anyway, they're so used to vampires that they don't make a fuss about us.'

'We'll we can't have cars, can we?' Rose laughed and I took that as she thought it was a good idea.

'Shall we head home tomorrow, then?' I asked, pulling my head off of my knees and smiling at them. 'Alec may be home so I can start talking to him about all this stuff.'

'Why tomorrow?' Jane asked.

'The plane,' I shrugged, 'they need twenty-four hour advanced notice. Plus it means I can get all the measurements I need for the dresses while we're still here.'

'Okay tomorrow, it is then,' Esme smiled at me as we all stood up and headed back toward the hotel.

So much shorter than the previous chapter and not as good in my opinion but I felt this was a good place to end it. Hopefully I can get some writing done tomorrow (or later today since it's half 2 in the morning) but no promises since it's my brothers birthday :D.

Hope you like it, please review x