The Opening Act (H.S) {Completed - Editing}

Wedding Discussions

"So," Harry sighs as he sits down next to me. "My lovely fiancée, when are we supposed to start planning?"

I pause the TV and continue to pet Charm as Harry swings his arms around my shoulders. I lean into him, smiling slightly as he kisses my temple. "Well that depends. When do we want to get married?"

"I was looking online and researching the best times of year in Vancouver. Autumn seems to be quite lovely. Specifically October."

"Harry... that's only like six months away. We would have to start planning like, now. Unless we wait until the next October."

"Let's get to work then, yeah?"

"Are you sure? It's gonna be super stressful."

"If you're okay with October, then I say we go for it," he nods. "We can do a lot today, really. Invite list, find invites... we can reserve tables and chairs and all that once we have the invite list done. I can have my mum find us a good wedding planner if you want, she's really good at that."

"I'm good with October," I smile, nodding in agreement. "I love fall, you know that. And as for a wedding planner, I don't actually know if we'll need one. With our mothers, everything will be taken care of. Before we start, I wanna show you a video though."

He nods, waiting on the couch while I go and get my laptop from our bedroom. I pull up the video once I'm sitting with him again, then I set it in his lap. Before I hit play, I explain to him my idea.

"So like, since we're keeping it private we talked about announcing it afterwards, yeah? And I was thinking that instead of just doing something quick on social media or an appearance, we could do a wedding video and post it. The reason we're together is kinda because of YouTube, so I thought it was a good idea. This is Colleen and Joshua Evans' video, and I could call Colleen and have her give me the info of the people who helped them with it if you like the idea. Before you can decide though, I want you to watch the full thing."

I watch the video with him and he shuts my laptop once it's over. "We're doing that, one hundred percent. I loved that."

"Sweet, I'll call Colleen tonight. But for right now, we need to work on an invite list. Do we wanna bother with save the dates?"

"If we can get them out like this week than sure, but otherwise probably not."

I take my laptop from his lap, opening it back up and opening up a blank document. We work on our guest list, coming up with a good list of family and close friends. Once we get a good idea of about how many people we plan to invite, I get onto Pinterest and search save the dates. It takes awhile, but once we find one we like we order some. Of course when we go to order some, we realize that we didn't actually pick a date, just a month.

"Shall we do a Saturday?"

"Yeah... how about the fifteenth? Right in the middle to avoid the colder weather towards the end of the month," I suggest. He agrees, which helps me to finish the last information for the save the dates. I submit the order and then take a deep breath.

"Alright. First step done. Now we need to contact people for flowers, tables and chairs, catering, and we should probably figure out where everybody can stay for the weekend. Also we should probably figure our colours, for the florist and stuff."

"And for cake," he comments. "We can't forget about the cake."

"Here I am going into full planning mode and all you're thinking about is cake," I laugh.

"How could you not be thinking about cake?"

//

After spending nearly the entire day planning, Harry decided I needed to get out of the house. I called Grace, asking her if her and Chester wanted to grab some dinner with us. She agreed quickly, throwing out the idea of going to some moroccan place.

Harry and I headed to the restaurant, going in to find them sitting in one of the back rooms. The place has such a cool feel to it; the decorations were beautiful and wherever you sat, you were sitting on some sort of cushion or pillow. It was very comfortable. Once Harry and I were comfortable and drinks and food were ordered, Grace looked over at us with a smile.

"I'm so glad we we're finally able to do this," she comments. "It's also kind of weird that I'm like... out. But not at a bar with Hannah and Mamrie."

"S'cause she's not legal here, otherwise she probably would have planned that with you instead," Harry jokes. I roll my eyes and shove him a little, which he just chuckles at. "What? It's true."

"Anyway... how are you guys?" Grace asks, laughing a little.

"We're great, how are-"

"We're getting married," Harry interrupts, a huge smile on his face. My eyes widen as I glance over at him while he just shrugs his shoulders. "What? I know you're gonna invite them anyway, they might as well know."

"Wait, are you serious?! Oh my god, that's so amazing! Congrats," Grace says. Chester nods, also congratulating us.

"You can't tell anybody," I tell them. "It's kind of top secret... all of it."

"I really think that you're still together because of me, you know," Grace jokes, flipping her hair over her shoulder sassily. "My advice when you two took a break was astounding, really. So you're totally welcome."

"Ah yes, thank you Grace for being our savior and solving every problem we've ever had," I joke back. "Now, as I was trying to ask before I was interrupted, how are you guys?"

"Doing pretty good," Chester nods.

"Same with me. Everything is about to get crazy in the next few months with Dirty 30 and Not too Deep, but I'm excited."

"I'm so excited for Dirty 30, I know you guys worked so hard on it. I genuinely can't wait."

"I'm sorry, what are we talking about?" Harry asks, looking between Grace and I. "I'm quite out of the loop."

"Dirty 30 is a movie that myself and my two friends Mamrie and Hannah produced and star in. It comes out in a few months, towards the end of September. Chester's in it, too."

"Ah," he nods. "That's cool."

"You two should totally come to the premiere," Chester suggests. I look over at Harry, who nods.

"Well we can't really promise anything with our schedules, but you can defiantly text me all the info and we'll try to be there."

"Sweet," Grace smiles. "Maybe if you're there people will actually come!"

I roll my eyes at her. "Oh would you stop. People are gonna come to see it and they're gonna buy it and they're gonna love it."

"You know, I really hope you're right. Now enough about the movie, I wanna start talking about the wedding again. Have you started planning yet? Tell me everything."

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@ gracehelbig: Went to dinner with some good humans tonight and while I was in the bathroom apparently they took my phone. Even with bad lighting/quality they're so F*CKING BEAUTIFUL and it's not fair. Anyway... dinner was an average time. (Via IG using picture attached)

comment: @MissAvaMae: ahaha I'm so glad you like what we left for you. I love having average times with you! Tonight was so fun. Love you G💓