A few weeks later, we had decided to have the wishing well at the wedding ceremony so we could have something from our subjects while I guestbook stayed just for our friends and family. We now had a late evening appointment at our stationer in Volterra to order everything we needed to from save the date to the seating guards.

Aunt Esme and my cousin had left after greeting Alec so now the Volturi Castle was back to normal. I had started making the dresses. Of course, it had only just dawned on me that I was making seventeen dresses but I had a lot of free time since my father had once again heightened the security around me meaning I had less jobs to get done but I was fine with it as long as meant I could focus mainly on making these dresses that I had around thirteen months to make – that wasn't even a dress a month! But none of that mattered because I was happy and in just over a year I was going to married to the man I loved for, almost literally, the rest of eternity. I could hardly keep a smile off my face the whole time I was working.

We had wondered round the shops last week and we'd, finally, written down the guest list. Yesterday, we had decided on the wording so we were all ready to place an order, except we needed to choose a style, which was what we were doing today but at least we knew a lot of the information needed including the colours. Alec was scared I was being so optimistic: it wasn't usually my forte.

'Look at these, I love 'em,' I smiled over at Alec before turning to the stationer who was helping us. 'Can you get that out for me?'

'Of course,' he smiled unlocking the glass show cabinet and placed the invitation in front of where I was standing.

The wedding invitations I had spotted had an intricately embossed and laser cut black wrap surrounding an ecru shimmer invitation card. A black satin ribbon tied around the wrap for a finishing look, I smiled contently pushing the invitation along the counter toward to Alec, who had come to stand next to me.

'They're really nice,' he said but from the look in his eyes I could tell he would like anything I picked out. 'I think they're kind of the wrong colour though.'

'Do you have them in any other color?' I turned to the man helping us.

'What colours do you have in mind?' he asked.

'Well,' I looked at Alec quickly, 'our wedding's red and golden themed so preferably the invitations would be in those colours. Like a red wrap and ribbon, but golden invitation card.'

'We can have it made,' the man nodded. 'If this is the one you and you fiancé want.'

'Alec?'

'Yeah, I like these,' he chuckled as my smile grew.

'Alright, why don't you come and take a seat over here and we'll go through the information,' our stationer suggested, gesturing to a table and three chairs.

Two hours later we left with our order for everything we needed complete and we walked back to the castle, holding hands.

'It's coming together,' Alec told me.

'Not getting cold feet already I hope?' I replied teasingly.

'Nope,' he chuckled, leaning down to kiss me. 'I can't wait to marry you.'

'Me either,' I grinned against his lips, pushing myself up onto my tiptoes to kiss him quickly before pulling back and grinning at him widely, shrugging as I giggled slightly. 'I'm so excited – Signora Isabella Talor, has a nice ring to it, don't you think?'

'Sounds perfetto, la mia bella fidanzata (perfect, my beautiful fiancée),' he grinned, pulling us to a stop to kissing me properly. 'By the way, I have I told you I love you recently?'

'No,' I pouted, looking at the ground.

'We'll let me remedy that,' he chuckled placing a hand under my chin. 'I love you more than anything and that'll never change.'

I grinned up at him, 'we really are going to have to worry about your reputation.'

His booming laughed echoed around the street before he muttered something about "moments" and "wrecked" under his breath. He threw his arm around my shoulders and shook his head before kissing my head continued walking us back to the castle.

'Oh by the way,' I glanced up at him as we entered the castle. 'I love you too.'

With that I kissed him lightly on the cheek and skipped off toward my office so I could continue making the dresses. I pulled out my dress pins and sat down at the table, pulling Esme's dress fabric towards me to start pinning the places. I had already done some of the other's, Jane's included. She had got very annoyed at having to stand still while I pinned it all in the right places. I would need to either go see my cousin, aunt and further away friends to do the same or they would have to come here unless I fitted them perfectly a few weeks before the wedding when they arrived. It would be nice to get out of Italy again, if only for a few days, it would probably be safer anyway and it technically was my turn to travel to America. It was an eleven and a half hour flight, give or take a couple of minutes, it was my turn to take the long trip.

'They're here!' Jane shrieked about five weeks, rushing in with boxes piled up in her arms.

'Jane, let me help you,' I yelped leaping up from where I was sitting curled next to Alec in my room as a box began to topple dangerous.

Members of the guard followed her, each carrying so many boxes that it was good that Heidi wasn't "showing" any humans around at the moment.

Not really knowing what was in the boxes, I instructed to have them put into the office which was now becoming a storage space for anything to do with the wedding. The guard disappeared a vampire speed on they had place their boxes down.

Sharing a glance with Alec, we went into the office to find only Jane left, placing the last box on the floor. The room was now covered in boxes. The table was over flowing, the floor covered, and the shelves piled almost to the ceiling, if not touching it in some places.

I sat down on one of the few empty chairs left and reached for the closest box. When I saw what was inside, my confused frown disappeared to be replaced by a small smile.

'What are they?' Alec's voice came from the other side of one of the boxes.

'HRH Mr Aro Giuseppe Volturi requests the honour of the presences of Tanya, Kate, Irina, Carmen and Eleazar of the Denali Clan at the Wedding of his daughter,' I answered him my reading the piece of card in my hand which happened to be addressed to my friends in Denali, 'Principessa Isabella Maria to Mr Alec Thomas Talor -'

I heard Alec chuckle, having written it together we both knew the words of by heart

'Sunday, the sixteenth of July, 2027, 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Volturi Castle, Volterra, Italy,' Alec finished for me and I could hear his smile in his voice which was thickened with his English accent.

Our wedding invitations had arrived, and I suppose if I looked in the other boxes I would find the rest of the stationary, which meant I knew what the next few days would be filled of for me: me sitting in this room writing all the addresses and return addresses on the envelopes. Hopefully, it wouldn't take too long with my vampire speed.

'Can you find anything else?' I asked Jane who was peering in another box on the other side of the room.

'Response cards are here,' she called and I chucked a pen towards her.

'Here's the large seating chart,' Alec added, holding a large surfaced, thin box.

'Write it on there, would you?' I said, now chucking a pen to Alec as well. 'Find the boxes and write what they are.'

I grabbed a pen labelling the box closest to me and invitations. It didn't take us too long to find and label all of the boxes since we moved at vampire speed.

'These are so pretty, Izzy,' Jane smiled, flipping a response card over in her fingers as she opened a box to find out what was in it.

'Thanks,' I smiled as I characterised the last box, this one filled with little tent cards and small envelopes for the wishing well.

The response cards were an embossed shimmering golden card with a laser-cut swirl top that matched the edge of the invitation. We had changed the invitation so the wrap and ribbon were red and the invitation card were the shimmering golden. The reception cards were exactly same while the stationary set cards were folded over shimmering golden with our names on the front, in a font the stationer called "before the rain", with blank matching envelopes to match that people could write their names on so we knew who wrote what. The rest of our stationary matched in the same way as the response cards, on general, having the swirl pattern cut at the top and being golden.

'Alright,' I frowned at all the boxes, I could see the save-the-date cards over in the back corner, the invitations books scattered around the room and everything else in random places. 'Can you two pass me the Save-The-Date boxes; they'll be the first to go out so let's have them near the table.

'Then we can put the Invitations boxes by the Reception ones and Response ones because they'll all go out together and second.

'The boxes containing the Thank You Cards – which Alec, you and I are going to have to add more personal stuff on to after the honeymoon – then rest can go in the middle because it will be used on the day. Oh, and mind the dresses!'

A lot of shuffling around later we finally had everything in places, although I still had hardly any room to make the dresses in here but I could move it into my room.

'We'll you guys going to help me address the envelopes?' I asked hopefully.

'No, sorry you're father needs us,' Jane chuckled. 'He told me as I was coming up – and us does mean me and you, Alec. Let's go.'

'Great,' I sighed, flopping into a chair and reaching for the reaching for the first Save-the-Date card and unwrapped the plastic packaging around it, figuring that I should start even though these didn't need to be send out until December.

It was perfect, matching the invitations exactly and I smiled as I tied the ribbon together at the front before reaching over to grab a red pen, since the envelope was golden, from the draws at the edge of the room. The Denali's were invited to the reception so I slipped a reception card into the envelope along with the invitation itself and the response card, which was tucked in its own small golden envelope that had our address printed on.

Alec returned after an hour, placing a kiss on my head and flopping into a chair beside me, looking far too handsome than was fair. He watched me write for a while before speaking.

'I'd offer to help, as you asked earlier,' he said in his English accent, although I didn't look up being halfway through a coven title – I wasn't writing addresses for most of the guest since none of them had fixed residences, like the Cullen's and Denali's - 'but your handwriting is much nicer than mine.'

'Please,' I snorted, looking up. 'My handwritings clumsy even as a half vampire. I know it's not as bad but still, plus, I hope you know this isn't my normal handwriting.'

'I know,' he chuckled.

'I'm copying the letters from the inside,' I informed him, pulling the invitation I was looking at towards us.

In a normal but nice font is said: "Please save the date of the sixteenth of July, two-thousand and twenty-seven for the wedding of" but then in the fancy "Before the Rain" font is said my full name – including the Princess part – a normal "to" and then Alec's full name. So I had eight words to use a basis for the writing style I was trying to forge.

'I think you could do that, don't you?' I smiled at him, sweetly.

'It's debatable,' he laughed.

'Come on, Alec, I'm going insane here doing this by myself,' I whined. 'If you're not going to help, the least you can do is talk to me about something.'

'What about?' he asked, leaning back and stretching his arms out, cringing as they nudged a box dangerously. 'Wow, hardly even room to more in here.'

'Tell me about it,' I smiled going back to my envelope. 'What did my father want to talk to you about, anyway?'

'Victoria,' he practically growled.

'We haven't seen her for weeks,' I looked up confused as I reached for a response card. 'Not since –'

'She attacked you,' he finished for me and I could tell the even the mention of it made him angry. 'Thanks for the reminder.'

'Watch the tone, Mister,' I playfully scowled. 'So what about her?'

'Just tells us that Demetri's been tracking her and that she's in Romania again,' he shrugged. 'Then I had to go on patrol of the city for a while.'

'See anything interesting?'

'Apart from the norm,' Alec chuckled and I knew we meant people stumbling home drunk after a night in one of the cities pubs. 'Nothing really. There's not a vampire sent in the city that doesn't belong the guard.'

'What a fun life you lead,' I laughed lightly. 'How is Demetri anyway? I haven't seen him in a while.'

'Annoying, as always,' Alec replied. 'That guy will never change. Although, he's acting weird around Heidi for some reason.'

'What kind of weird?' I asked intrigued but continuing with my job.

'I don't know,' Alec shrugged. 'Just weird, it's rather amusing.'

'Maybe they kissed,' I suggested giggling, 'it would be about time. Those two have been making eyes at each other for as long as I've been alive.'

'They have?'

I looked up at him to see his confused expression and laughed, shaking my head. He could be so oblivious at time.

'Yes,' I laughed, leaning over to kiss him.

Okay so about halfway through this chapter I lost inspiration so sorry if it's absolutely terrible and I have a feeling the next update is going to take a lot longer because of the loss of inspiration so anything you would like to see just put it in a review – no promises it will actually be in the story since it has to fit with the rest of what I'm planning for the story but I'd love to know what you would like to see in this .

I'm such an idiot: I just had a panic. I have this whole wedding planned out – in way too much detail, I might add – and I just realised I hadn't done any bouquets, stupid I know, so that was fun realisation. Anyway, I hope you like this chapter, please review x