Private message to Barty

[alt_daphne]

I promise that I'm not put out.

Even impromptu, I can put together something meaningful and memorable, and yet not so much so that it detracts from Our Lord's presence.

All that matter is we'll be together. At last.

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[alt_crouch_jr]

No doubts about that.

I trust your instincts for presentation entirely.

And I'll be as pleased as can be to have the binding complete. No complaints from me that we aren't obliged to wait out a long engagement.

[alt_daphne]

Now, do you think this castle will conjure up an amazing honeymoon suite for us? If I don't spend tonight in your arms then I really shall be put out!

And honestly, now is as good a time as any to adjust myself to Our Lord's penchant for doing things on his own schedule. As your wife it will be the way of things, after all.

I'm going to make sure that I look especially beautiful for you. (A friend of mine suggested 'comfortable shoes;' I nearly grew ill at the thought!)

[alt_crouch_jr]

If not for beauty, for what should one suffer? (Mother used to say. Odd that anything of hers should rise to mind now. The power of weddings, I suppose.)

And listen here, Mrs Crouch (to be): if you think I'll allow you to spend your wedding night at Hogwarts castle, you don't know me properly yet. (Have conspired with Tosha and OL on that matter, and I promise you will not be disappointed.)

The thought of how beautiful you will look tonight... makes the time between then and now seem interminable.

Until then, enjoy the flurry of your preparations and your last hours with your girlfriends. After tonight, everything you've known will be transformed.

[alt_daphne]

Oh! I'd hoped we'd be able to leave, but I didn't want to count on it. Where are you taking me? Of course, you'll mean it to be a surprise. But I'll have so much fun spending the rest of the afternoon trying to guess.

I know that your own handsomeness shall take my breath away, my Mr Crouch. And I can't wait to be your Mrs Crouch....but a few hours from now!

Thank you for seeing me home that night after Sophia's party, back in August. I don't think we'd be where we are today if it weren't for that one particular evening. And now you have all my love, always.