The next day, Harry awoke with Hermione in his arms, and their children sleeping, just feet away, in the next room. He couldn't imagine feeling any happier than he did, right at that moment.
With their return to Hogwarts only a month away, Harry knew there was no way that he could be separated from his family again.
As Hermione started to stir, Harry gave her a squeeze, signaling that he was awake. "Good morning," Hermione said with a sleepy smile.
"Let's get married," was Harry's reply.
"I already said yes, you big goof." Hermione said, not awake enough to catch what Harry meant.
"No, I meant before we go back to Hogwarts. I don't want anyone telling me when I can see my kids and when I can see you." He replied, holding her close to his chest.
Hermione began to realize what Harry meant, and scooted into a sitting position on the bed. "How soon do you want this to happen?" she asked, considering the possibilities.
"As soon as we can get it all arranged." Harry said with a grin, knowing that she was agreeing.
They sat in bed and talked of the size, location, cake and other things until the twins began to stir, and Harry went to get them out of their cribs, while Hermione had a moment to herself, before feeding them, and beginning to get ready for the day.
Once the twins had their breakfast and everyone was downstairs and enjoying their breakfasts, Harry brought up the wedding to his dads.
"That's great kids. It'll make everything a lot easier on both of you." Remus said sensibly.
"Oh Moony, you always think of the boring reasons to do things. Weddings are great!" Sirius practically danced in his seat.
Remus mock-glared at Sirius. "When do you kids want to have it?"
"We talked this morning and we think given that we can use magic on pretty much everything, the fifteenth of this month should give us plenty of time to get it all taken care of," Hermione explained.
"Perfect!" Sirius said, actually bouncing in his seat this time. "Floo your mum and have her come over after breakfast, you guys can go girly shopping while I take Harry shopping for new wedding robes, then you can tell us what else to do when you're done girly shopping."
Hermione laughed at her soon to be father in law's excitement, but couldn't help but admit to herself that she was even more excited that he was. Finally marrying the love of her life, and the father to her two beautiful children was the most exciting feeling that she had ever felt. Even more exciting than finding out she was a witch and was going away to school to learn to be a better witch.
Hermione's mum was nearly as excited as Sirius and came through the floo within minutes of being called. They all took off on their shopping trips while Remus set the house elves to work cleaning and replanting the back gardens, all five of them agreeing to meet for lunch in the afternoon.
Hermione chose to go with a muggle wedding dress and so she and her mother headed for a muggle dress shop in London. She tried on long dresses, short dresses and everything in between. Hermione had grown tired of looking at dresses and being dressed up like a Barbie doll, when her mother stepped out from behind a rack of dresses with the most beautiful dress that she had ever laid her eyes on.
The dress was a strapless floor length gown with an open backed corset top with silken laces, and crystal decorating the front, a full princess style skirt with sparkled down the skirt as well.
Hermione tried it on and it fit like it was made for her. her mother found the sales clerk, who brought out the matching veil and Hermione looked every bit the princess bride she had always dreamed of being.
While Hermione was finding her Princess dress, Sirius was busy ribbing Harry over the different styles of wedding robes, and asking him if he wanted to be the "princess groom" at his wedding.
In spite of all the teasing and jokes that went back and forth between father and son, they managed to pick out a lovely set of wedding robes with the appropriate clothes to go underneath them, in a respectable amount of time.
They headed to the cafe where they agreed to meet the other three, and found Remus already sitting there, Branwen in his arms with a bottle and Ardin asleep in the stroller, but no sign of Hermione or her mum anywhere. "They're probably tied up in dress shopping," Remus reminded them. "Dresses are a bit harder to shop for, than men's robes."
They order drinks and sat around talking for a half hour before Hermione and her mum showed up, both absolutely beaming with excitement. Harry rose from his chair and kissed his fiancé on the cheek. "Found the one, I take it?" he asked.
"Yes," Hermione gushed. "But it'll stay at the dress shop until the day before the wedding, so no chance of you boys peeking!"
Sirius laughed and Remus couldn't help but chuckle at the perplexed look on Harry face, before their son just shrugged and sat back down at the table, his soon to be wife, at his side, his son and daughter both now asleep in their stroller.