The final wedding day

I truly looked and felt like royalty today. After all, I was marrying my dark prince.  The brilliant power of the sun bloomed within my chest. Bright, joyous emotions flooded through me too fast to grasp them all at once.  Happiness, love and nerves mingled in my humming blood and racing heart. Each second that passed echoed in my head like the ticking of a bomb. I might explode into a million pieces before walking down the aisle. Either we were lucky to set a date at my dream venue or Aleksander knew the right strings to pull. It astounded me that I sat in the front of a mirror in the St Patrick Cathedral today. One of the dreamiest locations in the city to have a wedding and here I was. With towering gothic spires of white marble that touched the sky and brilliant stained glass windows, it felt like getting married in a fairytale castle. Outside of this cathedral, I had stopped to pray the night I met Aleksander. I had sent a silent prayer to the heavens to protect my loved ones abd