The big day
This was it. The big day.
Holtzmann woke to the sunlight bright on her features. She woke Erin who groaned.
“Five more minutes…”
“Erin Gilbert, you are not going to sleep through our wedding.”
“Ya know, we could still just elope.”
“As much as I love the idea, we already have a damn good wedding planned out and I cannot wait to see you walk down that isle.” She gave Erin a gentle peck on the lips.
“Alright but just because you asked nicely.”
Holtzmann chuckled to herself.
“I’ll go make you a cup of coffee. Or an entire pot.”
“Love you, too.” Erin mumbled into her pillow.
Erin was accompanied by her mother and Abby. She had her hair in a beautiful do and her make up was done amazingly. She was nervous as hell and yet more exited and happy than ever.
This felt was exiting as their first ghost at the Aldridge Mansion. This felt as exiting as meeting Holtzmann for the first time. Kissing Holtzmann for the first time. I felt like the first time they said ‘I love you’ times a thousand.
It felt like there were butterflies or rather, fireworks in her gut and she felt like she could honestly fly.
Her mother was smiling proudly and Abby was constantly hugging her and making final adjustments with her hair.
She was wearing quite a simplistic yet beautiful dress. It was amethyst and strapless. Erin had decided against heels. Holtzmann, in response, had decided against shoes.
The engineer was currently in the other room with Patty and Kevin, her heart fluttering and skipping beats as well. She was anxious but it was the best damn anxiety she had felt in her life.
Her hair was down, in a loose braid on one side, the right one, and there was a beautiful flower crown decorating her head. She was wearing a black jacket with matching black pants, a turquoise shirt and a black bowtie with white dots on it. Patty had done her make up and done it perfectly. Erin had insisted she wear her hair down so she did.
“Ready to get married, Holtzy?”
“Hell yeah.”
And she was. She was ready to marry Erin, each and every side of the physicist. Every quirk and every single thing about her.
She was ready to call Erin her wife, in fact she was so thrilled she soon officially could.
She was ready to introduce herself was Holtz from now on, instead of the full Holtzmann.
She was ready to kiss Erin at the altar.
And she was nervous as hell, hoping she wouldn’t run away in the middle of their vows.
Holtz had taken her place at the make-shift altar, the officiant standing right behind her. Abby, Patty and Kev had taken their seats.
There were candles burning in the jars painted turquoise and amethyst, rose petals on the ground, white and blue and purple.
Holtz was holding her bouquet and Erin was holding hers, both similar but not identical.
There was a small white cake waiting on the table, the insides of which were layered in the colours of the rainbow, next to two bottles of champagne for later.
Patty was photographing everything, excluding Erin’s getting ready, the photoset of which wad provided by Abby instead.
The rooftop looked beautiful, the signs looked beautiful, the jars and the brides, the brides looked the most beautiful of all.
Erin was walked down the isle by her mother as soft music played in the background instead of the traditional wedding march.
Jillian couldn’t help but tear up at the sight of her bride, walking towards her, so very beautiful.
Erin’s mother sat down as Erin joined Holtz at the altar.
The officiant spoke up.
“Welcome, everyone, to the celebration of joining Jillian Holtzmann and Erin Gilbert, from now, Jillian and Erin Holtzbert in marriage. I believe you have prepared your own vows.”
Erin nodded. She looked at Holtz spoke up.
“Jillian, you are the love of my life. Each and every day that I spend with you is a wild adventure and I want to spend the rest of my life that way, I want to spend it next to you, I want to love and support you through everything there is to come and I want to share your happiness and laughter for all of eternity. There is nothing completely expected about you or us for that matter. This wedding, too, was completely unexpected but I wouldn’t have it any other way. It is not what I imagined. It is way, way better. I love you so much and I promise to never stop loving you.”
She took the simple ring and slid it onto Holtz’s finger, nodding and smiling.
“Erin… You are a ray of sunshine in my days. You make me happy even when I’m having a horrible day. You’re absolutely brilliant and badass and beautiful and not a day goes by without me being so very thankful for having someone like you, no, specifically you loving me. You are the most amazing person I have ever met and I promise if there’s ever a zombie apocalypse you will be the first person on my team and the first person I’ll be checking up on. I want to wake up next to you every morning and I want to spend all of my days to come loving you. And I promise to always love you.”
She took the other ring, and smiled, sliding it on Erin’s finger.
“Do you, Erin Gilbert, wish to take Jillian Holtzmann to be your lawfully wedded wife?”
“I do.”
“Do you, Jillian Holtzmann, wish to-”
“I do. Sorry.”
“Wish to take Erin Gilbert to be your lawfully wedded wife?”
“I do.”
“I now pronounce you wife and wife. You may now kiss the bride.”
And they both did kiss the bride, very passionately.