"HELLO DELILAH!" Harry greeted Melissa's mother.
"Hello Harry and Louis, Melissa will be down in a few moments and then we shall proceed"
"Erm, your husband?" Louis asked
"He's watching football highlights from yesterday nights even though he had watched the match"
"WICKED. I couldn't catch the match, can i join your husband while Melissa takes her time?"
"Sure, he's in the living room"
Louis went into the living room and grabbed a beer from the cooler Melissa's dad had.
"So Bella will meet us at her office where we will decide the theme, from there will go to select invitation cards, then we will have lunch and then we'll go for the wedding dress." Said Harry.
"That sounds perfect" Melissa's mother said.
"But its like four months to the wedding. Do we have to do so much in one day?"
"Emily, its ONLY 4 months to your wedding. We have to finalize these things today or else the perfect venue amd the perfect dress and everything will be gone. Tomorrow, you and Melissa will go for the cake tasting. Everything else will be managed by us, don't you worry" said Harry.
"Yes, once the wedding date is finalized, time goes by in a snap" said Delilah.
"Hey" Melissa descended her stairs. Emily approached her with a smile before giving her a small peck on her lips.
"Hey honey"
"Where's dad?" Melissa asked.
"Watching football"
"Watching football" Harry and delilah said simultaneously before looking at each other and laughing.
"LOUIS COME ON. LET'S GO" Harry called out to his husband.
"YOU ALL GO. GAVIN IN INTERESTING AND THERE'S AN UPCOMING MATCH. I'LL BE BORED ANYWAYS" Louis yelled back.
Harry and Emily rolled their eyes as Melissa and her mother laughed as it was a daily routine for them.
"Let us go then" said Harry with a tired sigh.
Upon reaching Bella's office, the wedding planner, they quickly began to browse through the different themes.
"How about this one?" Melissa asked putting up a picture for Emily to see.
"Too cottage core" Emily and Delilah said at the same time.
"But its nice" said Harry grabbing the picture.
"Lets decide a venue and then decide the theme. Outdoor or indoor?" Delilah asked.
"Indoor" said Emily
"Outdoor" said Melissa.
They looked at each other and glared. So far they were NOT going along at ALL.
"Okay, outdoor wedding, indoor reception?" Harry suggested.
"Everything outdoor. Why must I adjust everytime?" Said Melissa crossing her arms.
"What? I just rejected your cottagecore idea. Its both our weddings. Outdoor wedding and indoor reception is fine"
"Then what theme are you suggesting?"
"I don't know, dusty rose?" Said Emily.
"Yuck. Too pink. Nope"
"You're just saying that cause I rejected yours. Please Melissa, we are getting married in a human civilization and not in the forests in front of a pack of wolves" Emily snapped.
"HEY! COTTAGE CORE IS BEAUTIFUL"
"Brides fighting?" Bella asked Harry as she entered the room.
"Yeah. Its the first time I've seen them fight" said Harry looking at the two of them bickering back and forth.
"Its only the first hour, how will we got through the rest of the planning?" Asked Delilah concerned.
"I'll handle them. Its happens in all couples." Said Bella befote intervening. "Girls? I think Harry is right, outdoor wedding and indoor reception and I know the perfect venue for that. Not as for theme, I will suggest a dusty blue theme with a hint of cottage core. Chairs will be white but decorated with flowers. The arch could be a square one with white flowers and a dusty blue tule. The bridesmaids dresses will be dusty blue off course and the best man's tuxedo will be black with a dusty blue shirt. Sound good?"
"Yeah. That actually sounds okay" said Emily.
"Erm are there any samples we could see"
"Well yours will be the first intersection of cottage core and dusty blue but we do this all the time. Come here and I will show you both cottage core and dusty blue themed weddings and then explain how it will come in order" said Bella calling the two girls into her private office.
She showed them how the aisle and the arch will be made and how the chairs will come in order. She showed them pictures and at the end of it they were quite satisfied.
"So to the cards now?" Asked Harry.
"No no Mr. Styles, they have chosen a card design already. God knows how much they fought" Bella chuckled while Emily and Melissa went a shade of red..
"You two should be banned from getting married. Acting like bloddy kids" Delilah scoled the two young girls.
"I guess we can do the wedding dress before the lunch then" said Harry.
They agreed and drove to the wedding shop. Melissa thought that she should get a black dress but her mother scolded her saying its a wedding and not a funeral. Emily laughed at thay and got a smack from Melissa.
Upon arriving at the store, the two girls went into two different changing rooms and got the store staff to set a barrier between the two mirrors so that meanwhile Harry and Delilah could see what both of them were wearing, theu bpth couldn't see what the pther one was wearing because it is bad luck.
Emily first picked up a simple gown with a slik top and a net skirt. It came. It had lesser frills but looked fine on her.
"DEFINITELY NO. EMILY YOU CAM BUY ANYTHING. ITS YOUR WEDDING DAY, DON'T YOU DARE THINK ABOUT MONEY RIGHT NOW. Go inside pumpkin, I'll get you are dress." Said harry send her back in. The dress was too simple for her.
"MELISSA YOU ARE NOT GOING TO AN OFFICE. DON'T WEAR THAT PANTSUIT. Even though it looks dashing. NO" Harry yelled before going to get Melissa a dress too.
"I thought it was my wedding" said Melissa in a small voice on seeing a panicked Harry.
"Me too but believe me, Papa's got amazing taste" Emily yelled through the changing room wall.
After 20 to 30 dresses later Melissa finally found the perfect dress. It was very plain, simple off shoulder silk gown with a long trail. Evem though it was simple, Melissa looked perfect in it. She looked so gorgeous that her mother was in tears when she stood in front of the mirror.
"Sweet and simple" said Harry smiling and his daughter in law.
It took 50 dresses for Emily to find the right dress. It was way more extravagant than Melissa's. A long embroidered white net covered the off white cloth inside. Full sleves with a lot of poof trailed down her body and fit her perfectly at the right places. The embroidery was large at the bottom of the dress but as it came towards the top, it became minutely shaped. Emily looked gorgeous in it.
"Fuck" cursed Harry as a few tears escaped his eyes. "You've gotten so big" he whispered.
"Awhh come here Papa" Emily embraced her overwhelmed father in a tight hug. It was the same warmth she had experienced years ago when she had given him the title 'papa' amd put of utter happiness, he had embraced her with all of his love. Nothing had changed. She was still his daughter and he was still his perfect father.
Harry quickly snapped a picture and semt it to Louis. Louis, who sat there watching a football match, got up when he saw her daughter in thay beautiful gown. His breath hitched and he excuse himself to the washroom where he kept staring at the picture and smiled happily at his gorgeous daughter. He could only image how much more beautiful Emily woild look on her wedding day. And how much more he will cry when she will move out to live with Melissa.
He will miss everything about her and even though they would be in the same city, he would miss her having breakfast with them. Or the cake batter fights. And her teasing him and Harry. It was only just that he realized that hsi little princess was a queen now and that in some way Melissa had replaced her. That was what he thought. He did not know that even though Emily had Melissa with her, when the thunder came she could only be calmed by the 4 strong arms that belonged to her fathers.
That when a problem was in front of her or when she was nervous, she would close her eyes, see her over excited dad cheering her on and her calm papa who would give out advice how to handle everything. That if it wasn't for Louis and Harry, she would probably never have been able so much.