Chapter Four:

Hermione tosses through the night, not accustomed to sleeping without Harry's arms. When morning dawns, she has barely slept more than two hours. Of course, this would be on the day of her wedding. Hermione stands from her bed and dons a set of grubby clothes, with one of Harry's button-downs. The girls and her bust their hinnies' to get the ceremony space together, while the guys set up the reception.

Luna ushers her in to get ready, quite forcibly. "Your eyes are so tired. Didn't get much sleep last night huh?" Her dreamy soft voice chides.

"No, I didn't. It was weird not sleeping next to Harry. I tossed all night. I should have taken the dreamless sleep potion that Uncle Severus suggested and be done with it." Hermione hums as Luna and the girls buzz around her.

The mothers come in, to get ready also. Emma and Rebecca walk over with tears streaming down their faces. "Our baby is getting married, Becca." Emma gushes. Both women bonded over the baby photos last night and Becca was welcomed to stay in touch. Enyo and Persephone promised to pass the messages along. "Mum, I have been married since November, really." Hermione chides.

Everyone is now waiting anxiously for Hermione to reveal the dresses. It was wizarding tradition that the bride picks out the females dresses and no one sees them until that day. Hermione stands and walks into her closet to gather the sixteen gowns. She couldn't wait to see their reactions. Hermione knew that she was going to drag this out. Smiling, she walks out with the ten bridesmaids gowns and hands them to her girls.

Together, Susan, Thalia, Pansy, Daphne, Annabeth, Claire, Jane, Reyna, Padma and Katie open their dress bags. They pull out the silver high-low halter gowns, made from crinkly chiffon.

All of them scream about how lovely the gowns are. They rush to don them and all ten look gorgeous. Then they all look on as Luna is holding her bag. With baited breath, she opens the zipper.

Inside is a strapless plum gown. It has a sweetheart neckline, a beaded waist and hits around Luna's knees. The girl lets out a un-Luna like squeal. "'Mione, it's beautiful." She runs into the other room to change. "I love it!" She exclaims as she dances back in the door.

Next up are the Mother of the Groom gowns, so they can go over with Harry. Enyo's dress is long, with an asymmetrical neckline, one shoulder with a detail on the cold shoulder side. It is beaded on the waist, has a mesh skirt and a side slit. Lily's dress is short, again it has one shoulder. It's made of charmuse, has chunky stone details at the shoulder and a flutter sleeve. There is a gather on the opposite side on the waist. Both dresses are silver like the bridesmaids' dresses. Both women thank her and excuse themselves to go to Harry.

Hermione floats her mothers, their dresses. Emma's is knee length and has a white satin and lace bodice with crystal beading, sequins, and a rhinestone pin. The dress' skirt was violet taffeta with a sash. Rebecca's gown is a long ball gown style. It has spaghetti straps, crisscross shirring on the bodice. The gold lace jacket has beading. The long skirt is plum and made of chiffon.

Everyone cooed over the elegant choices that Hermione made. Once Luna and Susan do everyone's hair, and then turn to do Hermione's. Susan's idea of an elegant French twist looks great with the addition of the Pendragon crown that Lily says her father wanted her to wear.

The time for Hermione's gown to be unveiled has come. She takes a deep breath and hangs the white bag up to unzip it. "Luna, Aunt Jane, Aunt Reyna, can you come help me with this?" Hermione calls out from her closet. The three girls help her lift the Oleg Cassini strapless ball gown over her head. The satin smooths over her lingerie. They gasp over the ombre beaded lace appliques all over the skirt and the chapel length train. The four girls walk out to more gasps. Her two mothers exclaim over Hermione's gown and start crying again.

All of their reactions are captured by Narcissa with her trusty camera. She was blown away by the dresses herself. She has never seen such beautiful gowns. Cissa snaps a few of 'Mione and her girls, the mothers, everyone applying their makeup, the girls' reactions to their maids' gifts of jewelry. The bride with her flowers. The only pictures left before the ceremony are the bride and her parents, both sets, and the groom with both sets of his parents.

Cissa captures the surprise on both fathers' faces, and one of the both of them kissing Hermione's cheek. When Remus turns around, Cissa is ready. She snaps a shot of his face at seeing Becca again.

Enyo was back by then, and sees her son's face also. By the look, she can tell that they are true mates.

"Remus, we need to talk tonight." She tells him in her "I'm your mother and you better listen to me" voice. The werewolf nods sheepishly.

"Becca, is that really you?" He asks out of breath from the shock of seeing his deceased love again.

"Yes, Remy. Your grandparents let me come for our daughter's wedding. Hades' words were "I can't let my great granddaughter down." He was proud to boast of her and Harry's achievements." Becca smiles at the father of her little girl. He is as handsome as he was the day they met.

Remus briskly walks over to her and embraces her. Their lips are drawn to each other and a soft glow envelopes them. The years lift out of Remus' eyes and he hugs Becca. "I have missed you so." He tells her.

Aside from knowing that Hermione will show, Harry was a nervous wreck. His pacing was beginning to become comical. "Potter, you're already married to the bird, calm down." Theo calls out, laughing at his fairly new friend.

"Thanks Nott." He stops walking and looks around.

All the guys do agree that you can't fault Mrs. Potter Jr. for her organizational skills and excellent taste. The groomsmen/ ushers are decked out with cutaway coats, custom made plum vests with gold and silver plaid, black and white shoes, black socks, white and gold cufflinks, silver neckties and pocket silks. Draco's best man's tux has a silver vest, with purple plaid, silver striped tie and a plum pocket silk. The four fathers had two button- notch lapel tuxedo coats, black shoes, silver vests, plum ties and silver pocket silks.

"Harry, where did you find the tuxes? I have never seen any like these." Bill asks, in fact none of the magicals had seen clothes like this before. They were stylish and more comfortable than they would be in stuffy dress robes.

"'Mione borrowed her mum's laptop for the weekend so we could choose them. We bought them from an American company called Men's Warehouse. You guys get to keep them." Harry laughs at the shocked magical faces. "Yes, guys they are Muggle and so are all the ladies' dresses." He goes into the open bathroom to dress.

The men open their boutonnieres; they all have a single cream colored Calla lily.

"Ok, little brother let's see yours." Alec calls out. Harry walks out of the bathroom. He's wearing the same tux as the groomsmen, but with an ivory tie and pocket silk. Harry's boutonniere is a purple rose.

Narcissa comes in with Lily and Enyo, for the groom's side of photos. She takes one of him and his mothers, one of him and his fathers. "Okay brothers; Alec, Nico, Draco, Frank and Harry."

One with the Weasley boys, One with Neville, Orion and Theo, One with Percy and Jason. She shoots one of the two sets of parents together. One of Harry, Sirius, Emmett, Rose, and Alice.

"Lady Malfoy, how are the others doing?"

Cissa smiles at him, knowing where he was going with the question. "Don't worry Harry, she is holding up well. No meltdowns." Harry is visibly relieved.

Emma has Luna float in the flower container. She opens the crate and starts to hand out the preserved arrangements. First, the bridesmaids are handed their bouquets. The beautiful arrangements have Bachelor's button, lilacs, violet scabisoa with silver lace and baby's breath as accents. The girls marvel at the flowers.

Next is Luna's maid of honor bouquet. Hers has blue rimmed lisianthus, burgundy cornflowers, denim petunias with scarlet green coleus and baby's breath. "It's gorgeous 'Mione."

"Honey, here is yours." Emma hands her bouquet to her. The cascade shaped bouquet is overflowing with flowers; cream Calla lilies, Stargazer lilies, purple roses, and plum hued tulips. Interspersed amongst the flowers are purple basil, lavender, eucalyptus, and baby's breath. "Oh Merlin, that is beautiful." Susan gasps.

"Thank you." Emma murmurs. The girls all turn to her. Hermione laughs at their faces. "Mum is an amateur florist." She tells them.

Remus and Dan come back and smile as they walk up to Hermione. "Well, your old and new are used up by the crown and the gown. I wanted to give you your something blue."

Dan holds out a black velvet jewelry case. When she opens it, Hermione finds a blue sapphire choker. "Daddy, it is beautiful." She hugs him with tears in her eyes.

"Hey Mr. G. you are messing up my masterpiece, making her cry." Katie yells over to them. "Here you go Hermione, I want this back before you leave tonight." Thalia hands her a dainty silver bracelet. "My big brother made it for me." Hermione understood that she meant Uncle Hephaestus.

A/N: Hey everyone! I am going to open this up to some suggestions. I am starting to run out of ideas to keep these weddings different. I still need ideas for the double wedding of Ginny/Greg and Astoria / Vincent and Pansy/Leo. I will consider all themes. I can't promise that I will use it, but I appreciate the help. - Thank you in advance, Krys