The Importance of Being Different
The Big Day

Try as she might, Anne barley slept a week all night. Not because of nightmares, she hadn’t had a nightmare in four months, she was just so nervous.

“Sweetheart?” said Remus knocking on her door at half past seven that morning.

Remus came in carrying a breakfast tray with toast with strawberry jam and a dish of strawberries.

Anne rolled over in bed where she had been struggling to get some sleep.

“You look terrible,” said Remus sitting down next to her.

“I’m fine,” she sighed as she sat up in bed.

“Here,” said Remus passing her a bottle of anti-nausea potion.

Anne grimaced at the bottle.

“You’ve got to eat sweetheart,” said Remus, “you’ve got a big day.”

“Alright,” she muttered downing the potion and eating her breakfast quickly before getting out of bed.

It was already eight o’clock but she needed to wash her hair before the wedding.

She quickly grabbed a jumper and a pair of jeans and got in the bath that Remus had already run for her.

She washed her hair and cast a quick assicio charm on her hair which dried it almost instantly. She pulled her hair into a quick ponytail, brushed her teeth and got dressed at top speed before legging it downstairs to the entranceway with her two bags.

“We’ll follow you lot down later,” said Sirius as Anne, Tonks and Olivia checked they had everything. Olivia had to come early because she was part of the bridal party and Tonks was helping get everyone ready.

Tonks handed Hope to Remus, and they walked to the front steps of the house.

Tonks side apparated with Olivia, and then Anne followed with her two bags.

They arrived at Scamander Hollow at eight thirty exactly. The wedding wasn’t until one o’clock, but the garden was already being transformed. Newt and Averett were halfway through stringing the trees with fairy lights. Landon and Rolf were trying to build an archway at the end of the garden and there was hundreds of chairs waiting to be put out. Anne was quite sure that she could see Irwin pacing frantically in the distance over by the lake.

“Come on,” urged Tonks pulling her towards the house, “he can’t see you before the wedding its bad luck.”

Olivia skipped up the pathway to the house followed by Anne and Tonks. They went in through the front door and found everyone in the kitchen.

Mrs Weasley, Ginny, Luna, Hermione and Fleur were helping make canopies whilst Gwen was trying to put the final touches to the cake.

“Do you want some help?” asked Anne as she sat down at the kitchen table to help prepare the smoked salmon.

“What?” asked Gwen looking up from the cake, “no no, you don’t need to help.”

“But I want to,” said Anne as she started to help Hermione.

“You need to get ready dear,” chuckled Mrs Weasley.

Tonks took Anne’s place at the table, Anne was ushered upstairs before Irwin saw her along with Luna, Aislynn, Olivia and Fleur. Fleur was going to be helping with the hair and make-up.

Everything was already set up in the room that had originally been Anne’s when she visited, before she had started to share with Irwin. There were three light blue dresses laid out on the bed as well as Anne’s wedding dress.

The bridesmaid dresses were a very pale blue floaty material with light bronze sashes. Aislynn and Olivia’s skirts were fuller and more had more petticoats. Luna’s dress was the same material as the younger girls but was longer and didn’t have as many petticoats on the skirt, but she still had a light bronze sash.

“It’s so pretty,” said Olivia rushing over to stroke the material of her dress.

“Livi, Arete,” said Fleur who didn’t want her to ruin the dress before the wedding.

There was also flowers on the bed, mostly baby’s breath and occasional tiny light pink rose buds.

“Ok who’s first?” asked Fleur with her hands on her hips getting the hairbrush ready.

Anne sat down on the floor in her jeans and jumper and pulled her knees into her chest, she just wanted all this to be over.

Eventually, Luna did Olivia’s hair, whilst Fleur did Aislynn’s. The both had hair that reached just below the shoulders, Olivia’s was mousy brown and Aislynn’s was jet black like Averett and Gwen’s.

They helped the girls change into their dresses and then had them sit patiently whilst they did the hair. They braided the Olivia’s and Aislynn’s hair into an intricate plait, before placing bronzed rose hair grips, so that the hair would stay in place all day.

“Close your eyes,” said Fleur as she pulled out the hairspray.

Olivia and Aislynn closed their eyes firmly before Fleur attacked their hair with the hair spray.

Then Luna and Fleur did their makeup, very light pink lipstick and a very pale bronze eyeshadow.

The outfits were tied together with a bronze heart necklace for both girls.

“I look like Cinderella!” said Olivia spinning about in front of the mirror.

“Now then,” said Fleur firmly pointing towards the sofa, “you two sit there and watch. Don’t move a muscle!”

Olivia and Aislynn both still bare foot rushed over to the sofa and sat down giggling.

Then Fleur did Luna’s makeup. She had a brighter pink lipstick than the younger girls but had the same bronze eye shadow.

She then helped Luna into her dress and then did Luna’s hair. Luna’s hair was much longer than either Aislynn or Olivia’s, so there was a lot more to play with. Fleur pinned Luna’s hair into a half up crown around her head with the same bronzed flower hair grips she had used on the other two.

Anne got up from where she had been leaning against the bed and pulled something out of her jeans pocket.

She passed Luna a box which contained a bronze heart shaped locket with a sapphire flower on the front.

“You are the best friend I could have asked for Luna,” said Anne as she did up the necklace on Luna.

“I’m sorry Persephone couldn’t have been here too Anne,” said Luna as she gave Anne a hug.

“I know,” muttered Anne as she stared out the window.

“We have no time for being sentimental,” said Fleur checking her watch, “you are getting married in an hour and a half.”

Anne took a deep breath and sat down in the chair opposite the dressing table.

Luna started on Anne’s make up whilst Fleur entertained the younger girls who were starting to get bored. Fleur was currently trying to teach how to walk up the aisle properly.

Luna did Anne’s eye shadow in a very soft pink with white in the corners. Anne’s lipstick was also in a soft pink. Anne didn’t need any other make up because she had a naturally good complexion and Irwin loved her freckles.

As Anne quite so much hair, Luna had to help Anne into the dress and do up the corset before Fleur could help with the hair.

Anne’s dress was three quarter length so she wasn’t going to trip over it on the way down the aisle and was a light cream lace with light pink velvet ribbons on the corset.

Fleur pulled Anne’s hair out of the ponytail and started to brush it out carefully.

“If you girls think you’ve seen magic before,” said Luna as she brought over the flowers, “you are sorely wrong.”

“Hair grips?” asked Fleur holding out a hand as she started to plait half of Anne’s dark red hair into a crown, leaving the rest trailing down her back.

Luna handed her a box which contained one hundred invisible hair grips, once they had been put into the hair they couldn’t be seen.

Fleur started to carefully plait the flowers into Anne’s hair crown securing the flowers using the hair grips. It was mostly baby’s breath with the occasional light pink rose bud to match the velvet ribbons on the corset.

The Fleur attacked the rest of Anne’s long hair which she was wearing loose down her back, and Fleur started to place the flowers randomly in Anne’s hair, securing them with the invisible hair grips.

Fleur checked her watch; they still had half an hour to spare.

Olivia, Aislynn, and Luna all put on their bronze ballerina slippers whilst Fleur dashed away to go and get ready herself.

Anne looked out the window into the garden as she saw the guests beginning to arrive, there were so many people out there.

Ginny and Hermione knocked on the door a few minutes later, they were both wearing their dresses and were carrying the bouquets of flowers. They were the same flowers as in Anne’s hair, light pink roses and baby’s breath.

“You look beautiful Anne,” breathed Ginny as she looked at Anne who was still looking nervously out the window and biting her lip.

“You not getting cold feet, are you?” asked Hermione.

“You and Irwin are made for each other,” assured Ginny.

“No, its not that,” Anne muttered, “there are so many people out there.”

“There’s only one person out there who actually matters though,” said Luna.

“Irwin,” Anne sighed smiling.

A few hours of being the centre of attention and she and Irwin would be bound together for life. She could put up with a few hours of anything to be with Irwin.

“We need to go get some seats,” said Hermione giving Anne a hug.

“Good luck,” said Ginny before they both left.

Aislynn and Olivia were twirling around the room, their skirts spinning out like mad.

“If you two don’t stop spinning you’re going to get dizzy,” said Anne shaking her head and walking away from the window.

“Do you think Irwin’s going to like me in my dress?” asked Olivia as she looked at herself in the mirror.

“All three of you look beautiful,” beamed Anne, as she gave Olivia, Aislynn and Luna hugs.

“You look the most beautiful though Anne,” said Aislynn.

“As she should be,” said Luna as she straightened the ribbons on Anne’s corset, “she is the bride after all.”

“Are we all ready in here?” asked Remus poking his head around the door.

Remus was wearing a pair of navy blue dress robes with a matching bow tie

The sun came shining in through the window which Anne was standing by as Luna straightened her dress.

Remus stood in the doorway his mouth slightly open with shock.

“Are you alright Remus?” asked Anne as she turned to face her godfather.

“What happened to my little girl?” he asked with tears in his eyes.

“I’m right here,” she said as she walked over to him and gave him a hug.

“No, you’re not,” said Remus shaking his head, “you’re not a little girl anymore.”

“That doesn’t mean I love you any less.”

“Please don’t start crying Anne,” said Luna, “your make up will run.”

“We ready to go?” asked Remus, looking at the four girls.

Anne nodded and they all headed out of the house into the garden

There were literally hundreds of people gathered in the garden.

The entire Weasley family were there, including Charlie who had come back from Romania especially for the wedding, and Percy who was sitting next to a young ministry witch he had started seeing, and George who was looking very lost without Fred.

There were a few muggles looking around interestedly at all the witches and wizards. Mr and Mrs Granger had come with Hermione, and Brenda had come with her Uncle Keith and Aunt Liz.

There was a large number of Ministry officials who were gathered at the back of the congregation, including Professor Marchbanks and Richard Boot. Kingsely Shaklebolt was there too but was sat towards the front.

Also, in the back row was a reporter with her notebook out and the photographer sitting next to her. They must have been from the Daily Prophet.

A lot of Anne and Irwin’s Professor’s from Hogwarts had been invited including Professor Flitwick, McGonagall, Trelawney and Sprout.

Julian was sat somewhere in the middle next to his mother, and his sister Morgana, there was also four other children with them. Morgana was now thirteen and was wearing a set of lilac dress robes, the other children weren’t old enough to be wearing dress robes but the girls were wearing dresses and the boys were wearing bow ties. They ranged between about ten and four.

Mrs Selwyn, Julian’s mother was looking around nervously at the other people at the wedding. She felt like she shouldn’t be here, half the people here had been fighting her husband not four months ago. Julian’s stepfather was a convicted Deatheater in Azkaban. But as neither Anne nor Irwin had a problem with Mrs Selwyn and they were both very close friends with Julian, Julian and his family had been invited.

The Longbottom’s were also there and were sitting with the Abbot’s. Mrs Longbottom was busy talking to Andromeda Tonks who was sitting next to her.

All of Anne and Irwin’s class mates from Ravenclaw had been invited and had brought their parents. The Patils were talking to the Broklehursts whilst Padma and Mandy gossiped and compared dress robes. The Turpins were sat next to the Finch Fletchleys, Lisa and Justin had come in matching sky-blue dress robes. The Boots were sitting next to the Corners, and Michael was pulling at his uncomfortable bowtie whilst Terry kept checking his watch hoping that they would get on with this soon.

Landon and Gwen were sat in the front row on the right side, with Newt and Averett, they had a spare seat for Aislynn.

On the left side front row sat Sirius, Harry, Jack, Tonks who was holding Hope, and Teddy, they had left two free seats for Remus and Olivia.

Irwin was standing in front of the wedding arch, with his back to Anne, pulling nervously at his bowtie which Rolf was trying to loosen for him. The wedding arch had been decorated with baby’s breath like Anne’s hair.

Luna arranged Olivia and Aislynn, so they were ready to walk down the aisle. Olivia went in front, then Aislynn, then Luna and then Remus with Anne.

When she was ready Luna gave a quick nod to Xenophilius who flicked his wand and music began to fill the air.

The congregation rose as one as Olivia started to walk up the aisle followed a few metres later by Aislynn.

Irwin was tugging at his bowtie until Rolf gave him a light nudge and they both turned around.

Irwin suddenly forgot about the bloody bowtie. He had always thought that Anne was a goddess but now everyone else could see it too. Her fairly simple wedding dress and flowers instead of a veil showed her natural beauty to everyone present.

Anne slowly walked to towards the wedding arch with Remus and then Olivia and Aislynn went to go sit down with their families.

“Who gives this girl in marriage?” asked the officiant.

“I do,” nodded Remus.

Remus then gave her one final quick hug before going to go and sit down next to Tonks.

Luna stood on Anne’s other side and Rolf did a quick double take. What had happened to Luna?

Rolf had only met her once or twice but hadn’t seen her in five years, since he had left school.

Luna didn’t notice that Rolf was staring at her though, she was twirling a lock of loose hair around her finger with a vacant expression on her face as she watched a bluebird build its nest.

“We are all gathered here to bond Anne Lily Potter and Irwin John Scamander together in marriage for life. Do we have any objections?”

Anne and Irwin waited nervously with bated breath as the officiant waited for any objections, but there weren’t any.

Irwin let out a sigh of relief and smiled at Anne standing next to him.

“Having magical powers is a very special talent,” continued the officiant, “do you two promise to help each other grow in their magical potential?”

“I do,” said Anne.

“I do,” said Irwin.

“Do you two promise to care and support for each other. Through the good and the bad, sickness and health?”

“I do,” said Irwin.

“I do,” said Anne.

“I believe you have both written vows?”

“Um yeah,” said Irwin as he started looking in his pockets for the piece of parchment, he had been up all night working on.

“Irwin,” said Rolf chuckling slightly as he passed his brother the parchment from his own pocket.

“Thanks,” stammered Irwin.

“Anne,” Irwin started, “we’ve been through a lot together, philosophers stone, basilisks, werewolves, your camping trip last year, and if anything, instead of those problems pulling us apart they’ve brought us closer.”

“Oh for Merlins sake,” he muttered giving the parchment back to Rolf.

“What I’m trying to say Annie, my beautiful auburn locked goddess is that I love you, and I want to spend every day with you. If we can defeat Voldemort and come out the other side, then I’m there’s no problems that marriage can throw our way that we can’t handle between us.”

There was a smattering of laughter from throughout the congregation.

“I love you Annie,” said Irwin taking her hands, “and I cannot imagine my life without you in it.”

Anne had tears running down her cheeks.

“Anne?” asked the officiant as Irwin finished.

Anne unlike Irwin hadn’t written vows, she had tried to write it down, but nothing had seemed right.

“Irwin,” Anne started, “you know that I haven’t had the most normal family in the world.”

Sirius gave a bark of laughter from the front row.

“But even though we weren’t all related, we were happy which is what really matters. Facing basilisks and killing werewolves, and defeating Tom is one thing, but they just a series of adventures.”

“But they’ve been leading up to the biggest adventure, which is marrying you. I suppose the one thing I hope for is however children we have, whether its seven or whether we only ever have Livi, I just want us to be happy.”

“I’ve spent my whole life running, running from Tom, I started running when I was only sixteen months old. I want to stop running Irwin, the only adventure and excitement I want now is being married to you and having a normal family life.”

“I will do anything to keep you and our family safe,” said Irwin as he took a tighter grip on her hands, tears running down his cheeks now too.

“I love you,” they said simultaneously, looking into each other’s faces as the tears ran down their faces.

“Do you have the rings?” asked the officiant as they finished.

Rolf fished the rings out of his robe pocket and handed the first one to Anne.

She placed a plain gold band on Irwin’s right hand.

Rolf then passed the second ring to Irwin.

He took her right hand in his own and took of Anne’s engagement ring which he handed back to Rolf.

He then placed the ring on Anne’s finger. Irwin had spent weeks trying to trawl jewellers both muggle and magical but had eventually seen a ring in the window of a muggle antique shop when he was doing some shopping for his mum in town.

It was a vintage silver ring with a floral design, in the middle of the ring instead of a diamond was a moonstone. The moonstone was the exact same shade of blue as Anne’s eyes. He had seen so many diamond rings but none of them had seemed special or unique enough for his beautiful goddess.

Anne looked down at the beautiful ring and Irwin didn’t know which shined more, the stone or Anne’s eyes.

“If you would please join hands?” asked the officiant.

Anne and Irwin joined hands and the officiant pointed his wand. Rose pink streams of light began to move down her bare arms, and gold streams of light were moving down Irwin’s arms. The pink and gold streams of light met in the middle and the gold spiralled up Anne’s arms joining the pink, the Anne’s pink beams spiralled up Irwin’s arms joining his gold.

The pink and gold streams of light spiralled with each other for a few moments before the officiant put away his wand.

“You have accepted each other’s magic,” said the officiant, “I now pronounce you bonded for life.”

The officiant disapparated and was immediately replaced by a troupe of waiters. Everyone rose from their chairs which were vanished so that the tables could start to be set up.

“Well done little bro,” said Rolf shaking Irwin’s hand.

“I guess you’re my sister now,” said Rolf giving her a hug.

“Thanks Rolf,” Irwin beamed.

“Congratulations Anne,” said Luna, who was still slightly distracted by the bird.

“Thank you, Luna,” said Anne giving her a hug, “and thank you for being here!”

Olivia came racing over to where Anne and Irwin were standing.

“Are we a family now?” she asked looking up at Irwin.

“I thought we were a family to begin with, my little fairy princess,” said Irwin as he lifted Olivia up and put her on his hip.

“Are you and Annie going to go on your honeymoon now?” asked Olivia.

“No sweetheart,” said Anne, “we have to have the meal and the party first.”

“Will there be dancing, and cake?”

“When is a party a party without dancing or cake?” asked Sirius as he came over to congratulate them.

“Congratulations little sis,” beamed Harry as he came over with Sirius.

“Thanks Harry,” she said as the hugged.

“You’d better make her happy,” warned Sirius, as he put an arm around Harry, “or you’ll have to deal with us.”

“What about Remus?” asked Irwin as he struggled not to laugh.

“He’ll be too busy drying her tears,” supplied Rolf.

“Congratulations Anne, Irwin,” said Aislynn as she pulled them both into a hug.

“Thank you Ais, you look beautiful my little flower fairy,” he said kissing his little sister on the head.

“I thought I was your fairy,” protested Olivia as she stood next to Irwin.

“Ais is my flower fairy, you’re my fairy princess,” said Irwin.

“Oh,” said Olivia nodding.

“I’m so proud of you both,” said Gwen as she gave them both a hug.

“Well done son,” said Landon patting him on the back.

This went on for a while, everyone wanted to congratulate them.

The Weasleys came up as one large group, and Arthur spent a long time talking to Anne, whilst the others went off about their own devices.

“Thank you for recommending for the Muggle Studies Professor position, I’m so excited!”

“And Mrs Weasley doesn’t mind?” asked Anne.

“No actually she doesn’t, she’s pleased I’ve found a job that I’m happy in, where I get the respect that I deserve as she puts it.”

“Are you going to be commuting?” asked Anne.

“Yes,” nodded Mr Weasley, “I’m going to be apparating every morning and evening. Coincidentally,” said Arthur as he pulled out a piece of parchment from his robes, “do you know anything about, cellular phone, desktop computers or something called the world wide web?”

“No im afraid I don’t,” chuckled Anne, “but you could try talking to Lisa’s parents the Turpins, her fathers in electronics.”

“Which one’s he?” asked Arthur excitedly.

“The man with the blonde hair in the navy muggle suit looking confusedly at the levitating tray of champagne,” said Irwin who had just come back from talking to Terry’s family.

“Thank you, Irwin,” said Arthur, “and congratulations again,” he added shaking both their hands before rushing off to talk to Mr Turpin, who was looking very nervously at this red headed wizard who seemed to be heading his way.

The last of the guests to come thank them was Professor Flitwick.

“Hello Professor,” beamed Irwin.

“Irwin, I am no longer your Professor, please call me Filius” said Flitwick.

“You are two of the most promising students I have had the pleasure to teach in a long time, and I’m sure that you will be very happy together.”

“Thank you sir,” beamed Anne before they were dragged off for the photographs.

There wanst just one photographer but two, one was the one they had hired, and the other was from the Daily Prophet

There were pictures for the bride’s family, and then the groom’s family and then the two families together.

Several photos were taken of Anne and Irwin, and then a few with Olivia as well.

Then they wanted pictures of the bridesmaids.

And finally, they wanted a picture of the maid of honour with the best man.

Rolf had to pose with his hand holding onto Luna’s waist. It somehow felt like the most natural thing in the world.

Then Luna had to look into Rolfs eyes. Rolf was transfixed by those beautiful grey blue eyes. There was a dreamlike quality to her expression as though she was thinking about something else whilst posing for the photographs with him. But she had a smile that was so genuine that it carried through to her eyes that sparkled like bright jewels.

“That’s the lot,” called the photographer as he finished.

Luna skipped off her waist length dirty blonde hair trailing behind her as she left. Rolf found himself just staring transfixed as she disappeared into the crowd of weding guests.

“You ok Rolf?” asked Irwin concernedly as Anne, Irwin, and Rolf headed back over to join the rest of the guests.

“Um Anne,” Rolf muttered, “your friend Luna, shes really nice isn’t she?”

“Yes,” nodded Anne, “we’ve been best friends since we were two, what about it?”

“Do you know if she’s seeing anyone?” asked Rolf.

“Luna?” asked Irwin his face breaking into a huge grin.

“No she’s not seeing anyone,” said Anne.

“Most boys are a bit put off by her to be honest,” said Irwin, “they usually think she’s a bit crazy.”

“Irwin!” glared Anne.

“I mean we know shes not crazy, shes our friend, but no guys ever really been intrested in her,” shrugged Irwin.

“She’s beautiful,” muttered Rolf as he looked over to Luna who was talking to Ginny and Hermione on the edge of the sea of guests.

“Come here,” chuckled Anne taking Rolf’s hand.

Anne walked over to Luna purposefully with Rolf in tow. Irwin was watching from a safe distance in case it went wrong.

“Luna,” Anne said gently when they reached Luna, “this is Rolf Scamander, Irwin’s older brother.”

“We’ve met before,” said Luna smiling dreamily, “you sat in my compartment with Irwin one time when I was in second year.”

“Rolf works for the department for the regulation and control of magical creatures at the ministry.”

“I’ve been promoted actually, I’m a bit like a magical vet, people call in if their pet is sick and I get sent round to treat them.”

“Sounds fascinating,” beamed Luna, “I’m thinking of going into magizooligy myself, trying to replace a crumple horned sorcack.”

“Actually,” said Rolf, “I spent a few months in Norway last year and couldn’t replace any sign of its existence.”

Luna looked slightly crestfallen.

“But whilst I was there, I went around a mistletoe farm and it was absolutely infested with nargles.”

“You can see nargles?” asked Luna her eyes wild with excitement.

“Of course, they’re a nightmare.”

“Especially at Christmas time,” finished Luna.

Anne decided to leave Luna and Rolf to get better acquainted.

The chairs had been replaced by ten large tables which all had about twenty chairs around them.

Anne and Irwin sat at the head table, with the wedding party and their families. the waiters had been passing around vol le vents for the last hour or so instead of starters.

For the main they had the choice between roast chicken, salmon or a filo wrapped vegetable parcel served with herb roasted potatoes and seasonal vegetables.

Anne had the chicken and Irwin had the salmon, but the best part came next. The rest of the food had been catered for by a company, but Gwen had made a huge five-layer wedding cake.

Each layer was decorated by a different type of fruit, one had strawberries, another raspberries, another blueberries, one had blackberries and the final layer had cherries. Each of the layers had chopped fruit mixed into the whipped cream between the sponges.

Anne and Irwin stood up at the centre of the table where everyone could see them.

“You ready Annie?” asked Irwin as they held the knife between them.

Anne nodded, and they cut the first slice from the top layer of the cake together.

Anne had a slice of cake with strawberry in the middle with some chocolate dipped strawberries on the side. Irwin had a slice with blueberries.

“This has got to be the best cake I’ve ever tasted,” said Anne as she ate her first forkful of cake.

“Thank you, Anne,” beamed Gwen who was sitting a few seats away.

After they had finished the cake, the table also disappeared, and music began to fill the air.

Michael and Terry had been consulting with Irwin about what music Anne liked over the last few weeks, as they had been creating the playlist for the wedding.

By now the sun was beginning to set and the lights on the trees began to light up.

The opening dance for Anne and Irwin was The Way You Look Tonight by Frank Sinatra.

Irwin knew that Anne liked Frank Sinatra so had been listening to some of his records to try to replace the perfect opening dance number.

Anne had never been so happy in her life. Irwin was holding her close as they span around to Frank Sinatra.

She could see Luna and Rolf dancing together on the edge of the dance floor. Luna looked like she was trying to bat off some nargles, Rolf was doing the same.

As they finished off their opening dance, Harry walked over to them with Olivia.

Olivia tugged at Irwin’s dress robe.

“Yes Livi,” he chuckled.

“I was wondering if I could have a dance with the bride,” said Harry.

“And I suppose you, young lady want to dance with me?” asked Irwin.

Olivia nodded enthusiastically.

Harry took Anne in his arms and they danced, as Irwin lifted Olivia to stand on his shoes and they danced together.

“I’m going to miss you little sis,” said Harry as they danced together.

“I’m moving to Wales, not the moon,” she chuckled.

“I know but we’ve always lived together,” said Harry, “look Anne, I know you love Irwin and I’m sure he’ll make you very happy, but if you ever need me.”

“I can just ring you?”

“You got it!” said Harry as the song came to an end.

Anne and Irwin danced until their feet were sore, eventually at eight o’clock they had to head back into the house to get changed and grab their suitcases.

“Are you going to tell me where we’re going now?” asked Anne as she changed into her jeans and jumper.

“Nope,” said Irwin.

“When are you going to tell me?”

“When we get to the gate?” he suggested as he picked up both bags.

“Fair enough,” muttered Anne as she and Irwin headed back out to the garden.

Everyone waved Anne and Irwin away and then they apparated to Heathrow airport.