I skipped into the Ball Room the morning of the wedding, too excited and nervous to sit still or walk at a normal pace, to check that my father was not being lazy and was actually ordering people around for the finishing reception decoration touches.

'Yes! That goes over there,' I heard his voice and I smiled lightly, pleased that he was doing his job.

'Morning, Daddy,' I grinned, dancing over to him and kissing his cheek.

He raised an eyebrow at me as he returned my greeting: I hadn't called him Daddy since I was very small.

'Shouldn't you be getting ready?' he asked, glancing at my clothing which was certainly not wedding material.

'We're waiting for the hair and makeup people to arrive,' I told him as I listened toward the reception area. 'Here they are.'

I sent him another grin as I skipped off in that direction. It took us around three hours to do have our hair and makeup done. Us meaning me, Jane, all the bridesmaids, Abi, Harriet, and my Aunt Esme – my Aunt Athenodora had decided to get ready on her own.

My hair was in a beautiful and yet messy curly half up-do that had small white flower and jewel hair swirl clips woven into it – that Aunt Esme had given me as my 'something borrowed' - while the lower part, and a few loose strands at the front, fell down in perfect, mahogany ringlets. Jane's was parted to the side with a messy plait, which had the similar flower hair swirl clips woven into it that my aunt had brought (they were nearly the same as the ones in my hair but they didn't have any jewels in them), falling over her shoulder. Alice's short, spiky hair was flatter than usual but, apart from the small flower spiral clips that were woven into it, was left alone. The rest of my bridesmaids - Rosalie, Heidi, Renata, Corin, Adrianna and Chelsea - had their hair done the same way as Jane's, with the messy plait and flowers, despite the fact that their hairs were all different lengths ranging from just over below the shoulder to waist length. Abi and Harriet looked perfect with the hair left down with tiny jewel spiral hair swirl clips embedded in it and a floral rose wreath that was situated on top of their heads, like a nymph or fairy while my aunt's hair was twisted into an elegant knot on the top of her head.

The photographer arrived near the end of us getting ready and took a few pre-wedding shots of everyone.

Ben and Renny came in about half an hour before the carriages were meant to arrive since Alec and his party were going to the forest half an hour before Ben and Renny who were taking a carriage with Aunt Esme, Abi and Harriet.

My aunt took the kids to the carriage when the thirty minutes had passed and then, about ten minutes later, my bridesmaids all headed down for their own carriages. From a window, I watched them all climb into the two identical carriages with were pulled by a pair of horses. Jane, Alice and Rosalie climbed in one and the rest - Corin, Adrianna, Chelsea, Reneta and Heidi – got in the other one. They were six seaters and the carriage had hood which weren't using. The wheels and undercarriage were painted red with gold coach-lines while I could see the interior was black leather with a matching red head cloth.

I was probably the only one left in the entire castle now beside my father: we had heard all the guests getting taken into the forest by fleets of thirty seater carriages which were pulled by four shire horses each; the guard and my family were waiting to show people to their seats once they had watched my bridesmaid depart the carriages – hopefully gracefully – so that when I arrived there would be no one to see me besides my bridesmaids.

Around twenty minutes later, I had my carriage pull up outside and I gathered my bouquet and my long train to head upstairs.

I smiled as I stepped outside to see a beautiful, spacious, glass panelled golden coach enclosed against the elements with two of the guard members - dressed in black suits, ivory waist coats that had a charming honey-gold swirl patterns and matching honey gold tie - sitting on the front and my father already sitting inside. He blanched slightly in shock at how I looked having not seen me yet and my smile widen in happiness. The carriage was pulled by a team of four pure white horses. The wheels and undercarriage were painted red with gold coach lines

I walked forward and one of the guards stepped down to open the carriage door, holding his hand out in assistance. Smiling gratefully, I accepted his hand by placing my left into it before gathering my skirts in my right.

My father smiled as I sat beside him, dressed similarly to the guards but instead his tie was a vibrant red, almost the same as his eyes, and a yellow rose to match the ones in my bouquet in his buttonhole.

"You look beautiful, il mio piccolo miracolo," he said smiling at me as the guard who had helped me into the carriage gathered my train and made sure it was side before he shut the door.

'Thank you, Father,' I grinned over at him as the carriage started moving.

It didn't take very long to get to the forest and I was pleased to see that there was no way anyone could see me sine there was a large marquee at the end of the aisle as planned. The front door of the marquee was open and I could see all the bridal party besides the officiator, Alec and Demetri. I was offered a hand to exit the carriage and my father followed behind me.

The prelude music was playing and my Aunt Esme had just enough time to kiss my cheek before heading off out the marquee and down the aisle. She looked perfect in her golden dress, attached to which she had a corsage with one of each of the roses I had in bouquet, and a blood red chiffon shawl around her shoulders. It seemed like ages before the music change to the processional signalling to us that my aunt was seated and that Harriet and Renny needed to start walking.

I smiled brightly as Jane sent Renny down the aisle in his tailored pure black suit, blood red tie and ivory waistcoat, which was embroidered the same way as my fathers and the ushers but with glittering golden thread, the same colour as Harriet's dress. With fake rings on his cousin and Harriet with a basket full of white rose petals they set off.

Not long after, one by one – Felix first and Danten last – the groomsmen all went off five steps behind each other, some kissing my cheek, other's just squeezing my hand. Then, after a fifteen step break, by Jane's counting, Corin went.

'Okay, go, Corin,' Jane smiled.

Corin grinned, blew me a kiss and grabbed her bouquet, which I had managed to plan and have ordered in time. It was filled with roses along with garden flowers and foliage along with pearls and gems incorporated in it. The roses were subtle peach and pinks shades and they looked enchanting next to the green foliage.

Then Adrianna went, then Chelsea, Renata, Heidi. Jane counted ten steps and Rose went, then Alice.

'Wait for the music to change and follow me,' Jane grinned, grabbing her own bouquet and hugging me tightly before pulling away and kissing my cheek. 'Focus on Alec.'

Jane's bouquet was different from the rest of the girls, it was soft peachy shades of roses intermingled with the same flowers, foliage and gems as the bridesmaids, it was warm and romantic since the roses had large, elegant flower heads in the form of spectacularly beautiful, cupped rosettes. Around the stems she had wrapped a tissue.

As she left, I peeked round the doorway. I could see Rosalie reach Emmett halfway down the aisle. He stepped out the gap we had left between our friends and our subjects to offer her his arm. He was dressed similarly to my father - although the embroidery was red and his tie was golden - and the red embroidery on his waist coat looked so right next to Rosalie's red dress. He also had a rose in his button hole to match the flowers in Rose's bouquet.

My father tapped me on the shoulder, smiling like a proud father, and handed me my bouquet. It was soft pastel pink, peach and yellow tones with harmonised perfectly with the same flowers and foliage as my bridesmaids. The peach roses had elegant and deeply cupped blooms which contrasted beautifully with the blousy cottage garden-style flowers that the others were. It was a cascade bouquet so it was a trailing and in it were pearls and sparkling gems.

'Ready?' he asked, offering me his arm a while later as the music changed, telling us that Jane had passed Aunt Esme and the congregation began to rise.

'Yes,' I replied, my voice sounding a lot more confident than I felt.

I heard movement behind me as Abi and Ben picked up my train. I grinned back at the two children as I took my father's arm: Abi looked adorable, and Ben looked so handsome. Of course, he practically matched match Renny and he did match the groomsmen with a golden tie, black suit and red embroidered ivory waistcoat.

I smiled as we stepped out the marquee. There were tea lights with red and gold butterflies hanging from the trees, while their trunks were wrapped classily in small fairy lights. The chairs were pale golden with a red organza sash that had small golden butterflies attached to it and Harriet's spreading of the rose petals made a lovely aisle runner affect.

As I predicted as soon as my eyes met Alec's, I wanted nothing more for the wedding march to be faster just so I could be his wife and be by his side sooner. Luckily, my father kept as at a steady pace. When we reached the barrier between the two areas, Alec began moving towards us and we met him just behind the row of family members.

My father shook Alec's hand and then placed a kiss on my cheek. Taking a deep breath, and causing me to bit my lip so I didn't laugh at him, he placed my hand in Alec's. I grinned as I felt safe and at home as soon as our hands touch and Alec grinned widely at me.

I beamed up at him as we began to retrace Alec's steps with my father following behind Abi and Ben. While he took his seat next to Esme, Alec and I stepped up the steps till we were standing onto top of the platform under the arch we had placed there- which was a beautiful of lush roses to match my bouquet with strings of pearls and crystals while the frame was made of sticks - and I handed my bouquet to Jane. Alice and Rosalie stepped forward to arrange my train while the Abi and Ben sat down.

'Welcome,' the officiator said as he motioned for everyone to be seated. 'Love has gathered us here this day. Love is a powerful thing. It is profound and somewhat of a paradox because it provides no escape from the world, there is gentleness to the presence of love that softens life's edges and yet somehow makes us stronger and braver in the world.

'Today we celebrate the love that Isabella and Alec have found in one another.

'We rejoice alongside them as they declare to all present their intent to enter into marriage and stand together from this day forward.

'Isabella and Alec, welcome to this moment in your lives and the place you have come to in each other's hearts. Thank you for allowing me to join you on this day in which you commit before God, your family and friends that from this day forward you will live as one.

'In this world where it seems so little is considered sacred, one thing remains so. That is, the agreement made between two people to share their lives together. Marriage is a most honorable estate, a tender and profound relationship.

'I congratulate you on the journey that you are about to embark upon. Both of you have found a way to embrace a serious love and receive the blessings thereof. What a comfort to know that at the end of the day you will come home to find the shelter and affection of each other. This love is what has brought you here today… to this moment, to your wedding ceremony.

'With that in mind, let us come now into the quiet solemn of this moment and occasion and this ceremony with reverence as we celebrate the joining in marriage of Isabella and Alec to one another.'

The whole church fell silent for a few minutes before he spoke again.

'Marriage is the beginning of a new life, a chance at fulfilling long-held dreams, and an opportunity for great personal and spiritual growth. Marriage endures through the ages of trends and fads. Marriage thrives, and continues to live as a promise of a beautiful dream come true. As long as individuals are drawn together, marriage will be a natural unfolding of that relationship.

'Feelings come alive at a wedding. Great happiness. Some sadness. Apprehension. And sometimes pure relief! There is an acute awareness that something special, something that goes to the very heart of life, is about to happen. Something is gone forever, and something is born, brand-new and tender. Something to be nurtured and cared for, protected and cherished, challenged and strengthened-your-never-before-created marriage.

'Isabella and Alec, no ceremony can create your marriage. Only you can do that through love, patience, dedication and perseverance. Through talking and listening and trying to understand, through helping and supporting and believing in each other, through learning to forgive, learning to respect and appreciate your differences, and learning to make the important things matter and to let go of the rest. What this ceremony can do is to witness and affirm the choice you have made to begin a new life today as husband and wife.

'Before we begin, if anyone has a reason why this couple cannot be joined together in matrimony, let them speak now or forever hold their peace.'

I held my breath with a crowd this size of people we didn't know, who knew what could happen. The was an awkward silence and I almost sighed in relief before someone moved and everyone else gasped. My heart sank.

'Edward,' I heard Esme hiss and turned to see my ex-boyfriend on his feet.

I stared at him incomprehensively while my Uncle Carlisle shot him a dangerous look. Over Alec's shoulder I saw Emmett glaring at his brother and I knew, though I couldn't see them, that Jane, Alice, and Rosalie were just staring, appalled.

'What are you doing?' I asked him desperately and Alec squeezed my hand.

'Do you have just reason for this, young man?' the minister asked.

'Edward,' I heard my uncle Carlisle say and Edward turned to glare at him, 'sit down and don't be stupid.'

'No,' he snapped. 'They can't marry each other because she cheated on him and besides she belongs to me.'

'Edward!' his whole family yelled and I stared at him appalled, knowing tears of anger would have welled in my eyes had I been human.

'I did no such thing!' I yelled at him before turning to Alec and speaking softer. 'I swear.' -I knew he believed me because he was still smiling slightly at me - 'and I belong to no one, Edward, I'm not an object.'

'Liar!' Sophie, one of the guards, screamed at Edward and those that believe him, even in the slightest, relaxed.

Sophie was the guards lie detector so she could tell without a waver of uncertainty whether someone was lying, any sort of lying. The minister was a vampire so he knew this as well.

'Go on,' I heard Alec say calmly and I recognised the tone as restrained anger brewing under his voice. 'Tells us, Edward, why can't we be married?'

'Because, I love her and she belongs with me,' Edward said strongly and I was actually surprised on how convinced he sounded of this. 'I am her mate and I always will be. I loved her from the moment I met her, I left for her safety. The love she is holds for you is a lie to both you and herself but if there is something there, it's mere infatuation' - he seemed to become aware that he was receiving horrified looks from nearly all the guest - 'Please, Bella, please, just come back to Canada with me and we can start over, have the life we were meant to. I love you more than anything in this world and I can't watch as you make the wrong choice.'

'Edward,' I said and gaze darted at me at the softness of my voice. 'First of all, it's Izzy or Isabella because Bella no longer exists. Second, you are going to find a girl, one day, who you will adore and cherish like you never even believed possible, and you realise what we had wasn't real. You should have known it anyway considering all the mates surrounding you and your direct connection their thoughts. I know with the utmost certainty that you will find this girl because you are a great man, a gentleman, who had many qualities that some girls would die to have in the man they love but that girl is not me. I love Alec, Alec is my one, and I can tell the difference between the two types of love. I do love you, Edward, but as my cousin, not in any other way. So, you need the accept that and go about finding that girl, sitting quietly will I get married to the man who is my world or I will have a member of the guard escort you out, which I'd rather not have to do.'

The was another awkward silence as I stared at him, encased in Alec's arm since at one point he had wrapped them around me. Instead of sitting down, like inside I was begging him to do inside, he walked past my aunt and uncle who both gave him disappointed look and strolled up the aisle. I stared after him appalled as did all his siblings.

The minister unnecessarily cleared his throat and we, after Alec pressed a kiss to my check, turned back to face him. Taking a step away from each other and entwining our hands together.

'Alec,' he said seeming to be extremely relieved, ' do you take Isabella as you wife and equal, lover and friend, keeping yourself only unto him for as long as you both shall live?'

'I do,' Alec said with a hint of victory as he winked at me and I heard a collective sigh of relief from the surrounding crowds and I knew exactly how they felt.

'Isabella, do you take Alec as your husband and equal, lover and friend, keeping yourself only unto him for as long as you both shall live?'

'I do,' I beamed unable to keep my smile under control.

'We will now proceed to the vows,' the officiator said turning to me. 'Isabella?'

'One half of me is yours, the other half yours

Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,

And so all yours.

'Alec, you are my one true love and the one I want to spend the rest of my life with,' I said, my voice confident but soft. 'Today, I take you to be my husband from this day forward. For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, for eternity, for as long as long as we both shall live, I vow to honour and respect you, to laugh and cry with you, to love and cherish you and to support you in your goals because you're my forever, you're my always. I remember thinking once that I couldn't possibly love you any more than I already did but that thought was proved wrong and so I vow to you that I will more each day that I did the day before.'

'Alec,' the officiator turned to him as we grinned at each other.

'They say you don't marry someone who you can live with, you marry someone you can't live without, I had far too many opportunities to realise that I can't live without you and I don't want,' Alec said, staring into my eyes in a clear message that I would not give him any further opportunities. 'Two words would describe my future if I lost you: hell and death. Existence, after losing you, would be hell and death would swiftly follow because whatever two souls are made off, yours and mine are the same.' – I grinned at him, laughing slightly: he had taken words from my favourite book and managed to put them in his wedding vow to me – 'So today, I vow to you that I will love you, cherish you and protect you for a long as we both shall live because you are my reason for existence and I adore you more than words can say.'

'Who has the rings?' the officiator asked. 'Isabella, you first.'

I turned and took the silver ring off Jane's, who was beaming at me, thumb before turning back to Alec and speaking

'With this ring, I pledge my love and faithfulness to you, today, tomorrow and always. As this ring has no end, neither shall my love for you,' I smiled, sliding the silver ring onto his finger.

'Alec,' the officiator nodded.

Alec turned around and with my sharp eyes I saw him take my ring off of Demetri's little finger before saying, 'Let this ring be a symbol of my promises to you, and a reminder of my devotion to you. I am honoured to call you my wife.'

Alec slide the matching wedding band, which with decorated with small diamonds, to my engagement ring onto my finger and I could tell, due to my sharp vampire eyes, that the wedding ring rose to a point at the top before curving ever so slightly to the nestle against the engagement ring which for the ceremony was on my right hand.

'Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude,' the officiator spoke again. 'Love does not insist on its way, it is not easily angered; it keeps no record of wrongs, but rejoices with the truth. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, love never gives up… Three things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

'Isabella and Alec, you now have the opportunity for expressing through your union and partnership, the highest kind of love - through devotion and service to each other; through patience, kindness, and total acceptance of each other, tempered by the willingness to change. You may be tempted, as time goes by, to take for granted the love which today seems so precious and dear, to speak to and treat each other in ways that do not reflect the highest good in both of you. Resist it. Promise to always see the goodness in your partner, even when it's especially difficult. And wherever you are in your journey through life, may your hearts always find their way home.

'I know pronounce you husband and wife,' he finished. 'You may kiss the bride.'

Alec wrapped his arms around my waist and I went towards him willingly as soon as our lips touched the forest was filled with applause and the sound of fabric moving as people rose to their feet. We kissed passionately and yet, appropriately before breaking out and turning to face our family and friends.

'I am proud to introduce for the first time, Mr and Mrs Alec Thomas Talor.'

Grinning broadly, I linked my arm through Alec's and we led the way out of the church, after I had taken her bouquet from Hermione, followed by Abi and Ben, who had gathered my train again. Jane and Demetri followed behind us when we reach the separating line and then the rest of the bridal party five steps behind them with my father and Esme last.

We had few seconds before the ushers and usherettes began to send the guest about so Alec and I were smothered in hugs and kiss. Demetri looked like he was going to pick me up and twirl me in a circle but decided against it with my long train.

Once they were down trying to drown us, we all – apart from the children - got in a line. Alec and I were in the middle to my right stood Jane, Alice, Rose and then Aunt Esme; to Alec left were Demetri, Felix, Emmett and then my father. Opposite us stood the five other groomsmen and bridesmaids.

Our family was dismissed from the seats first and so the first of our guest that Alec and I received congratulations on and then the guest began coming through. My Uncle Carlisle and Aunt Athendora were in charge of the wishing well, and, later at the reception, the guest book. The idea was that people would take part in the receiving line, put a message in the wishing well if they wanted and then get the large carriages back to the castle.

The receiving line took over twenty minutes and then we, along with the rest of the bridal party and what was left of my family, gathered in the remaining carriages – the three six seaters and then the carriage my father and I came in, which was actually a four seater carriage – while the rest of the guard went back to the castle to start the reception.

Alec and I went finally entered our carriage after an hour of photo's with our bridal party and family. Everyone else had gone back ten minutes before leaving Alec and I to do our couple photo's. The photographer took his car back to reception

I lay my head on Alec's shoulder as the carriage started moving toward the castle.

'Are you alright, Mrs Talor?' he asked. 'Tired?'

I shook my head as my heart fluttered at the sound of my new name.

'Content,' I corrected him lifting my head off his shoulder just enough to look into his eyes and send him a smile.

Kind of cheesy ending but I like it. My god, you have no idea how stressed and confused I got writing this chapter – I have so much information on this wedding and this image in my head that I want it to live up to and … I'm going to look back at this in about a week, I bet, and hit myself as I realise I missed a bit off information that I really wanted to put in but that's life, I suppose. So I hope this makes up for the shortness of the last chapter and I hope the wedding is to your expectations and approval. Please review. I would love even more grateful for them on this chapter than some off my other more boring ones. Thanks for keeping with me so long x

Thanks to edwardMlover who gave me the idea of adding Edward into this chapter by asking for objections, that made me revisit it. I hope you like the change x