A/N: I apologize for the delay in getting this chapter to you… I went on vacation to see my brand new niece and when I got back into town I had more family here. So needless to say, life has been kind of crazy for me :) There is only one chapter left after this :)

Chapter 32 - I now pronounce you…

I was so grateful for the fact that I was a vampire while I was subjected to Alice and Rosalie's wedding day version of Bella Barbie. The girls were struggling with how to arrange my hair and makeup since I had a relatively short period between my wedding and Nessie's and I had to go from bride to mother of the bride. The idea of was somewhat daunting to me. To our human guests of course Nessie was Edward's cousin that I had befriended while I was living in Italy. The official story was that I had left home almost eleven years before and had never returned because I could not handle any reminders of Edward. Then, Edward had come to visit his cousin in Italy, not realizing that I was her roommate. We saw each other again while he was there and we ended up back together. Secretly, the family had a good laugh at the simplicity of the cover story, knowing how far off reality was from the fiction they would have to believe. I was concerned that the whole thing was a bit of a stretch, but Alice assured me that it would work without a hitch. Finally, the girls decided on a simple but classic updo that they could pull down quickly and brush into waves, then pin back in an appropriate mother of the bride look. Then they figured out a simple way to go from 'blushing' bride makeup to a look that would work with the dusky blue dress that I would wear for Nessie and Jacob's wedding. Finally, they finished getting my hair into place and pinning in my crystal trimmed veil before starting on my makeup. As they worked on my face, I allowed my eyes to drift closed and I started to imagine what Edward was going to look like in a perfectly fitted black tuxedo, and I smiled in spite of myself.

Alice snapped me out of it good-naturedly and said, "Bells, you'll get to see the real Edward soon enough, relax your face so I can finish your makeup."

I laughed slightly out of embarrassment, mentally reminding myself how glad I was that I could no longer blush and focused slightly on keeping a straight face. Just as the girls finished up, I heard Nessie's heart speed up slightly in the next room and I knew she must have been waking up.

Sure enough, about three seconds later, Alice barked out, "Ness, get your bridal butt in here so we can get your makeup and hair done."

I heard Ness groan something that sounded suspiciously like 'evil pixie of an aunt' and then I heard the sounds of her slowly crawling out of bed. I chuckled to myself and was reminded yet again, how much we were alike, not having been a morning person in my human life either.

Slowly, a blurry-eyed Nessie reluctantly made her appearance in Alice's gigantic bathroom, where she begrudgingly submitted to torture at the hands of her aunts. They pulled her hair this way and that, and somehow got it into the perfect bridesmaid look that would transfer easily to bridal. Then, they went to town on her makeup. I laughed as Nessie growled menacingly at Alice and Rose.

I whispered, "I thought you liked all this fashion stuff, my dear," as I shot an amused expression at my frustrated daughter.

Ness rolled her eyes at me and shot back, "I do when I'm fully awake to enjoy it. Trust my aunts to attack me first thing in the morning while I'm still all grouchy."

Ness shot another set of angry and frustrated looks at her fashion-crazed aunts.

Alice turned to me and mouthed, "Down, kitty."

I laughed again, knowing that in comparison to a full-fledged vampire, Ness did not have the strength to do anything besides look annoyed. I tried to slip out of the room to see if I could catch a glimpse of Edward but the moment I took a step towards the door, Alice had her arms wrapped around me holding me back. Stupid future-seeing vampire of a sister.

Alice laughed and said, "Now, Bella, you can hold out a few more hours. You'll see Edward soon enough."

I growled at Alice and looked at her with annoyance.

Suddenly, I heard the most perfect laugh echo through the house and my soon to be husband loudly say, "Love, I'd come rescue you, but Alice and Rose would rip me to pieces and I would rather be whole on our wedding day."

I smiled and shouted back, "I love you, Edward."

To that, I heard various groans throughout the house.

Then I heard right outside the door in a reverent whisper, "I love you, my beautiful Bella."

I smiled, sighed, and turned my attention back to my little one and her aunts.

The hours seemed to drag on endlessly. Even though there was plenty of activity going on around me, I couldn't seem to settle down. I missed Edward terribly. After over ten years without him, fourteen hours should be something easy to handle, but any separation from Edward was difficult now. Sporadically through the day, Edward would yell that he loved me and threatened numerous times to run upstairs and rescue me, his sisters be damned. The only thing keeping Edward at bay was the idea of being in pieces on our wedding day.

The only distractions I had all day were when Renee, Phil and Charlie showed up at the house and came to see Ness and I. Renee was consistently in tears at the idea of her baby and her granddaughter getting married. Charlie stood there saying little, his eyes communicating what he never could verbalize. Phil hung back, showing his support, but not wanting to intrude too much in a moment that he knew really belonged to Charlie and Renee. After some small talk and discussion over how we looked, Charlie and Renee grinned at each other like kids on Christmas morning.

I looked at them questioningly and finally Renee burst out, "We have something for both of you."

Wordlessly, Renee pulled out two small boxes and turned to Renesmee.

"Ness honey, this is for you. It was your great grandmother's," Renee said as she carefully pulled out a beautiful silver necklace with small sparkling diamonds that seemed to be woven right into the chain, and held it out for Ness to examine before carefully putting it around her neck.

Nessie teared up and with a voice thick with emotion said, "Grand- Renee, thank you so much. Grandpa, thank you!"

Both of my parents whispered their responses as Ness hugged them each in turn. Then my parents turned to me holding the remaining box.

Renee looked at me lovingly and said, "These were your grandmother's Bella. We replaced the paste stones with real sapphires."

Then Renee pulled out two beautiful hair combs and handed them to me. I held them in my hands for a moment watching the stones sparkle in the light. Then Alice took them from me and gently put them in my hair where she must have planned for them to go all along. Wordlessly, I carefully threw my granite arms around my parents and hugged them with as much force as I could without hurting them.

Then, I whispered, "Thank you. I love you both."

Charlie and Renee held onto me for a long pregnant moment before letting go and walking out as Carlisle and Esme walked in.

Carlisle smiled warmly at Nessie and I, then turned to Alice and Rose, and said, "Girls, do you mind giving us a moment?"

Alice and Rose smiled as they ducked out of the bathroom we were still trapped in. Esme and Carlisle looked at us both and then Carlisle reached towards Esme for something. Esme opened a small bag she had been carrying and pulled out two velvet sacks.

"Bella, you have been a member of this family for so long. We have been holding onto this for you since your eighteenth birthday where we had planned to give it to you. Today seemed like a fitting day for that," Carlisle said as he pulled open the drawstring on one of the bags and lifted out a silver bracelet.

The bracelet was a round wide bangle with small crests placed into it at even intervals. If I had been able to cry, I would have in that moment. Esme smiled at me, recognizing the expression on my face and what it meant. Then, together, Esme and Carlisle slipped the bracelet onto my hand that signified my official status as a member of their family.

I hugged them both and brokenly whispered, "thank you," and, "I love you," into their ears.

Suddenly, with a shrill tone I heard Alice screech across the house, "Edward, don't you dare look into their thoughts - be glad you're being allowed to hear it at all!"

Carlisle chuckled and said, "Edward, I'll do a replay for you later, son."

Esme giggled slightly and then handed the other bag to her husband.

Carlisle turned and smiled at Nessie and said, "Ness, you've been part of this family since the day you were born. I think I knew way back when I met you that you were meant to be part of this family. I just had no idea that you were already a more important part than I could ever guess. We have something for you as well, dear one."

With that, Carlisle opened the other bag gently and turned it over, allowing a small ring to fall out of the bag. The crest was in the center of the ring and the band was connected on opposite ends of the oval crest, creating a beautiful wave-like effect. Nessie smiled as hand over hand Carlisle and Esme placed it on her ring finger of her right hand.

Nessie breathed in with tears glistening in her eyes as she whispered, "Grandma, Grandpa, I-"

Then my little one threw her arms around her grandparents, hugging them with all the strength she could muster.

Alice burst into the room, kicking Carlisle out and ordering Esme to sit. Esme groaned theatrically as she sunk into the vanity chair, allowing Alice to begin working on her. A few moments later, a done up Rosalie dragged my mother in again and started working on her. Ness and I looked at each other conspiringly and started to move towards the exit.

Alice turned, rolled her eyes at us and said, "You two have to help each other dress. Ness, you are in charge of keeping her in the room and away from Edward. I will come in and intervene if necessary."

I growled at Alice in annoyance as I stalked from the room. Ness laughed behind me and followed me into the next room.

Somehow, a changing screen had been installed in Alice and Jasper's bedroom and everything we needed besides my gown was laid out on the bed. I grabbed what I needed and slipped behind the screen. Once I was in all the undergarments I stepped out to have Ness help me step into the dress. Ness deftly spread the dress out across the floor, picked me up, and placed me in the center without touching an inch of the fabric.

I raised an eyebrow at her and she rolled her eyes and said, "Aunt Alice made me practice."

I laughed and shouted loudly, "Alice, you made her practice helping me into my gown?"

Alice shouted back in retort, "Yes, I didn't know if she was as clumsy as you and since I couldn't see - I made her practice."

I laughed again and then pulled the dress up around me. Ness got behind me and started fastening the extremely long row of tiny buttons as fast as her little fingers could fly. I had kept my eyes closed at every fitting and just as Ness finished, all of the girls burst into the room. I slowly turned and looked straight into the mirror and for once in my life, I felt as beautiful as Edward always said I was. Before I could turn the girl in the mirror back into myself, I turned to get my new family's reactions. Everyone was speechless.

Alice looked at me and said, "I had a vision, but even in my vision it wasn't this perfect Bella. Edward is going to flip!"

I smiled and watched my mom's jaw drop. Apparently, we had forgotten to tell her about Alice's little gift.

One gigantic freak out and explanation later, we hurried to get Esme and Renee dressed while Alice grumbled almost continuously about Ness blocking her abilities some of the time. Esme and my mother were wearing two dark blue dresses. My mother in the dressiest and most feminine skirt and jacket combination I had ever seen and Esme in a dress that seemed like it had grown on her, it fit her so perfectly.

Then, all of the sudden, time went into fast forward. Alice and Rose left to put on their dresses for the weddings, dusky blue, and I heard the guests start to arrive. If I was still human, I knew my heart would have been beating out of my chest. I heard Edward speaking to the minister and heard their voices shift as they took their places outside. Then Jasper, Emmett, Jacob and Charlie came to join us and it was suddenly time for me to become a Cullen. I was already Edward's forever.

I know, I'm a giant tease ;) I promise that the actual wedding is in the last chapter :)

Okay, bad news- it has been brought to my attention that a couple of key scenes are not within this site's guidelines- I will be changing them on THIS SITE ONLY. They will remain intact on Twilighted. I apologize if you are coming from over there to get ahead. Certain scenes have been altered here…

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