Chapter 14

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From This Moment

I do swear that I'll always be there.

I'd give anything and everything and I will always care.

Through weakness and strength, happiness and sorrow,

For better or worse, I will love you with every beat of my heart

From this moment life has begun

From this moment you are the one

Right beside you where I belong

From this moment on

From this moment I have been blessed

I live for your happiness

And for your love I'd give my last breath

From this moment on

I give my hand to you with all my heart

Can't wait to live my life with you, can't wait to start

You and I will never be apart

My dreams came true because of you

From this moment as long as I live

I will love you, I promise you this

There is nothing I wouldn't give

From this moment on

You're the reason I believe in love

And you're the answer to my prayers from above

All we need is just the two of us

My dreams came true because of you

From this moment as long as I live

I will love you, I promise you this there is nothing I wouldn't give

From this moment on

For the next few months everything was crazy for Hermione and Draco. With all the wedding plans Hermione had to take time away from work to finish getting all the preparations in order. They decided that they would have the wedding at the manor in the gardens. Once that was announced the house elves started tending to the flowers to make sure they would be in full bloom. Hermione wanted to have it at Hogwarts but since Dumbledore was still hanging in there she didn't want to cause chaos around there.

Once the location was figured out they started to discuss the guest list. Draco said that he wanted only close family and friends but knew that the press would want to be in on the wedding.

"Draco even if the press is there it will not matter, all that matters is that we are going to be getting married becoming husband and wife." Hermione told him grabbing his hand.

"Good point love. Ok so if we have to have the press there then they will be restricted to sit in the back during the ceremony saving the seats in the front for our friends and family. How does that sound?"

"Perfect. Ok so Blaise is going to be your best man and you said Harry and Nathan were going to be groomsmen?" She asked him.

"Yeah, I already asked Harry and he said he would do it since Gin is going to be in the wedding party also. I left a message for Nathan to call me back but he hasn't. If he doesn't respond back to me soon I am going to have to choose someone else. I was thinking to ask Sirius but you already asked him to walk you down the aisle."

"If Nathan doesn't call or send you an owl then I will give Sirius up to you. He won't mind since he will still be included in the wedding party." She said to him.

"Alright, that works. What else do we need to do tonight?" He asked her

"What kind of cake do you want? I have tons of pictures of cakes that you can look at in these books. Lavendar and I were looking through earlier and I found a few that I thought you might like." She told him as she handed him a book.

"Babe, I don't care what kind of cake we have at the wedding. They style you want is just fine." He told her as he put the book down.

"Draco, I want us to do this together. It is our wedding, not just mine so please help me."

"Alright, alright, I like this one." He said as he pointed to one in the book.

The cake that he pointed to just happen to be the one that was Hermione's favorite. It was a three layered cake with vanilla frosting. It was designed with roses that were orange and yellow. They had stems and vines wrapping all around the cake. The cake was chocolate with a banana and strawberry filling.

"You sure?" Hermione asked him.

"Yes, I am sure. What you don't like it?"

"No, it isn't that. It's actually my favorite one."

"Well then it's settled. We will get this cake. Are we done for the night?" He asked her hopeful.

"One last thing and I promise you, we will spend some time together. What color scheme do you want?"

"You already know the answer to that question. I always say green, black or silver. I know black is going to be a for sure color I am just not sure what other color you want?"

"Green is good. I've always liked the color green. Oh wait, we need to figure out what kind of flowers to have." She told him writing down everything that they had talked about so far.

"I would say roses to go along with the cake theme and I have a feeling you're going to want to talk about what kind of food to have at the wedding and the seating arrangement. I think we should have lemon pepper chicken with penne pasta and steamed veggies. As for the seating arrangement I think we should just let people sit where they want. Just so we won't have to hear them complain if we put people who don't like each other at the same table. Now I beg of you, please can we go spend some quality time together. We haven't really spent time with each other for the last few months. I've been busy with work and don't get home till late and you're always gone before I get up in the morning to work on wedding plans with Lav and Gin."

Hermione took a minute to look at Draco and saw the look on his face. It was comical to her. He looked so pathetic. She decided that she would have mercy on him and put aside the rest of the plans for tomorrow. She had to admit that she was missing him. Not going to work with him everyday cut back on their time together.

"Alright, I guess I can take care of the rest myself tomorrow. They only thing left to really do is get my dress and dresses for the girls. What time do you have to be at work in the morning?" she asked him as she got up and pulled him to his feet and led him up stairs.

"I've got an early meeting with the Dean but if you're going to tell me that I need to go to sleep early I will not listen to you. I plan to spend the night with you." Draco told her pulling her in for a kiss.

"I wouldn't dream of telling you to go to sleep, what fun would that be for me?"

The next morning Hermione got up with Draco to go meet with Gin and Lav so that they could go find her a wedding dress. They started in Diagon Alley but after 3 hours of no luck decided to go to Hogsmead for lunch and then continue to look. 2 hours later she still hadn't any luck. Hermione was starting to give up when she spotted a little shop hidden in the back. She had never seen the store before but didn't question that. As they walked toward the shop Hermione noticed that it was a wedding dress shop.

Hermione walked in and saw the wonderful looking dresses. As they wondered through the aisles and looked at all the dresses Hermione was still not seeing one she liked. Just when she was about to give up hope Hermione happed to pull one more out. She couldn't believe her eyes. It was the exact dress that she had dreamed about her whole life.

The color was an egg shell white. The top of the dress was a halter top with a Celtic design. The bottom flowed out. Hermione just knew that it was her dress. She called the girls over once she got a dressing room to try it on.

It fit perfectly. Far as she could tell it didn't need to be altered. She walked out to show them causing them to go speechless.

"Mione…..you look stunning." Lavendar told her.

"It fits perfectly. I think I found my dress." Hermione told them looking at herself in the mirror.

Ginny walked over to Hermione to look at the tag and see how much it was.

"Oh my god Hermione, it's on sale to."

After she purchased her dress they went in search of dresses and shoes for Lav and Gin. Hermione thought that she would let them choose the style they each wanted. Ginny chose a strapless knee length hunter green dress. Lav chose one that had a halter top that was also knee length.

After a few more hours of spending time together Hermione decided to surprise Draco at the office. She also wanted to see how he was faring without her there. She felt bad that she had to take time off from work to plan the wedding but now since she had most everything done she figured that she could start back up with work for him.

She walked into the office and found her desk a complete mess. Papers were strewn all over. 'What had Draco been doing? I thought he had a temp.' Hermione thought to herself.

She started making her way to his office. As she got closer she could hear Draco arguing with someone on the phone.

"I don't care, just fix it before the end of the month or you'll regret it." He yelled hanging up on them.

He couldn't believe this. He had received word that the new brooms he was marketing were coming out with glitches. The designers didn't know what was wrong and didn't seem to be trying to figure out it was either. He couldn't believe this, the brooms were set to be released next week and they weren't going to be ready. He had already received orders for them.

"Well I can see that you aren't having a very good day then." Hermione said from the door way.

Draco looked up and saw the one person who could make his day better. He got up and walked over to Hermione pulling her into his arms and just holding her.

"I've been having the worst day but you just made it better."

"What happened today and where is the temp you were supposed to higher my desk is a complete disaster?"

"She was incompetent; I swear she didn't know her left hand from her damn ear. As for what happened is the designers on the new brooms messed up somehow and now just put it this way the brooms aren't going to come out next week like they were supposed to unless they get their asses moving and fix it."

"Ok first things first you could have gotten another person to take over for her when you fired her and second thing is it would have been better if you wouldn't have yelled at them, I know your mad but remember they're the ones who are making your equipment so be nicer to them."

"I didn't get another person because you've gotten me spoiled. I usually don't have to ask you to do anything because you've already done it and for your sake I will try to be nicer to my employees. What are you doing here anyways, aren't you supposed to be out with the girls doing wedding stuff?"

"We finished everything it taken care of and the dresses are being altered. I figured since I was done with all of that I would come and see how you have been fairing without me."

"Thank god you have."

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It was finally the day of the wedding. July 24. Hermione couldn't believe that she was going to spend the rest of her life with the man of her dreams. She hadn't slept at all last night which was mostly due to the fact that Draco had stayed the night at Blaise's house after the bachelor party because they had agreed that they shouldn't see each other the night before.

Hermione got out of bed around 7 that morning and started to get things going. She instructed the house elves as to where she wanted to place tables and chairs for the ceremony. Draco and her decided that they would set a huge tent up outside for dinner and dancing.

Just as Hermione was about to sit down and have some breakfast Ginny and Lavender came out running around yelling for her.

"What are you doing you need to start getting ready."Gin told her.

"I've still got hours before its going to be time to start." Hermione replied.

"Hermione, its noon and the wedding starts at 4. You only have 3 hours to get ready now start moving." Lav told her.

"Alright, I'll go start getting ready."

She then proceeded for the next 2hours to let them poke and prod her. They started with her hair. It took them 3 different styles until she said ok. Her hair was half up, half down with soft curls with little jewels pinned throughout it. While the girls started doing their hair Hermione started to do her makeup. She put green eye shadow on followed by a light brown to make her eyes look more honey colored. She then added brown lipstick. She then went about putting on her necklace that was a silver serpent. The eyes had emerald jewels for them. She then put on her emerald earrings that Draco had gotten her for their anniversary. She then magically did a French manicure on her finger and toe nails. It was only 2:30 so Hermione decided to just take a minute to just sit down. Today she would leave her old life behind her for good now. She was starting a new life full of love and happiness.

Draco was sitting in his study drinking a glass of firewhiskey. This was going to be the best day of his life or at least the being of the best days of his life. Hermione was truly going to be his for the rest of their lives.

"Shouldn't you be getting dressed it is 3:30 you're getting married in 30 minutes man. Stop thinking of all the positions you plan to try out with Hermione on the honeymoon and get moving." Blaise told him.

"Yeah yeah I'm going." Draco said getting up and heading to one of the guest bedrooms.

Draco started putting on his suit. He wore black pants, a white button up shirt, green vest, black tie and black dress shoes. He then gelled and ran his fingers through his hair making him have messy spikes. Just as he was done Harry walked into the room.

"You ready to go get married?" He asked him.

"More then you know." Draco told him looking himself over in the mirror then walking out.

Draco walked out into the back yard to the area that they had set up for the ceremony. It was next to the pond and surrounded by all colored roses. There was a white carpet leading up to the altar and it was strewn with red rose pedals. Draco walked down towards the priest stopping occasionally to greet some of the guest. He finally made it to the front of the altar and turned to view the guest that had shown up for the wedding.

'This is it; I am getting married to the girl of my dreams.' He thought to himself as the music started and the guest all found seats.

Hermione was just putting on her veil when she heard the music start playing. She looked at the door and smiled. She started making her way to the doors just as Remus came walking in to get her and the rest of the girls.

"You ladies ready?" He asked the others.

They all responded then walked out of the room to meet up with the groomsmen they would walk with.

"Are you ready Hermione?" Remus asked her as he grabbed her arm.

"More then you will ever know. Thank you again Remus for walking me down the aisle. It means a lot to me." She told him kissing his cheek.

"I wouldn't miss the chance to do this. In my heart you are my daughter. Now let's go, he is waiting for you."

Draco was starting to get nervous as the bridesmaids and groomsmen starting walking down the aisle. He was hoping that she wouldn't all of a sudden change her mind about marrying him.

'What if she thinks she is just making a mistake? What if I was just some kind of rebound?'

Just as Draco's thoughts got any further the doors opened and he saw Hermione standing at the end of the aisle in the most stunning dress. She looked like an angel, his angel.

Hermione stood at the end of the aisle looking at Draco for a few minutes before her and Remus started their decent.

Right before the doors had opened Hermione started to get scared. 'What if he changed his mind and he isn't there when the doors open? What if he is just messing around with me and plans to tell me just that when I get to the altar? Wait, what am I thinking he wouldn't do that'

It seemed to take an eternity for Hermione to reach Draco. Neither one of them took their eyes off each other the whole time she was walking towards him.

Once they reached Draco, Remus kissed Hermione on the cheek then handed her over to Draco. The moment they joined hands all of their worries just washed away. Nothing could go wrong now that they had reached this moment.

They walked and took their positions in front of the minister. Since the moment she walked out they hadn't been able to take their eyes off of each other. It was as if nothing else in the world existed.

"Who gives this woman to wed?" The minister asked

"I do." Remus said as he sat down.

"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to join these two people in holy matrimony. If there is anyone who thinks that these two should not lawfully be wed speak now or forever hold your peace."

Hermione held her breath while she waited for the minister to continue. After what seemed an eternity he continued without any objections.

"As we all go through life we hope to find that someone that can love us till the end of time. We hope to find that person that will share in our joy and sadness. Love is a magical journey that everyone should experience as these two people have. Now, as I understand you have written your own vows? Draco you go first."

"Hermione, I have loved you since that fateful summer we were thrown together. I have wished for the day that I would be able to make you mine. These last few months have been the greatest of my life. You are one of the only people that I have ever been able to be my true self with. From this day forward I promise to cherish you till the day I die."

"Now you Hermione"

"Draco, I can honestly tell you that I never thought that I would be marrying you but I must say that I am glad that it is you. I felt a connection to you since 7th year but never thought that you would give me the time of day. Now here were are making a commitment to be together for the rest of time. I have never been happier and I can't wait to start the rest of our lives."

"The rings please, Draco repeat after me with this ring with this ring I thee wed."

"With this ring I thee wed" Draco said as he slipped the ring onto Hermiones finger.

"Hermione, repeat after me……"

"With this ring I thee wed."

"I now pronoucne you man and wife. You may now kiss the bride."

Draco grabbed Hermione and pulled her in for a long, passionate kiss. After a couple of mintues they pulled away from each other and everyone began to cheer. They grabbed each others hands and headed into the house so that they could change.

They went up to their bedroom to change. As Hermione was starting to unzip her dress she felt Draco slide his arms around her.

"Can't we just go straight to the honeymoon?"Draco asked as he started to kiss and suck on her neck.

"Oh Draco as much as I would love that we can't just abandon our guest." Hermione told him as she turned around to give him kiss.

"Do you know how happy I was to see you at the end of the aisle?" He asked her just hugging her.

"As happy as I was and still am."

"Lets change and get down there then. The faster we get done with our guest the faster I get to make love to my new wife." Draco said as he let her go to change.

They changed then proceded to go down to mingle with their guest.

Ok I know it isn't very long but I figured a short chapter was better then nothing at all. So sorry it took so long. I've been really busy with school but I am now a medical assisstant. I will try to update again soon but no promises.

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