Who: Anna and Elsa When: September 24 Where: Arendelle Household What: Wedding Planning! Rating/Warnings: Low/None Status: Complete
Anna headed to the house. She’d been to the store after work and picked up like, a dozen Wedding magazines. And some cake. Chocolate cake. She couldn’t help herself. She’d been a bit of a junkie lately, actually. Cake helped with her feels.
She rung the bell, carrying an armful of magazines and holding a box of cake. There was a bright grin on her lips.
Elsa moved to the door and opened it with a smile, “Anna, you know you can just come in” she said, moving back so her sister could enter the house. “Although you look like your hands are full” she added lightening her sisters load by taking the cake from her. “This looks gorgeous” she grinned.
Anna nodded. “Oh, I know, I just… wanted to give you warning in case you and Kate were… you know. Here. Together. Doing stuff.” She cleared her throat. “I know, doesn’t it? Can’t beat chocolate. I thought we should have a slice while we look through these magazines for ideas. You got any milk?”
Elsa giggled a little, wondering if her sister thought she and Kate just had sex around the house all the time. Though she couldn’t deny they had done in a lot of the rooms. But that wasn’t something her sister needed to know. “I have milk” she nodded, “And you know you have the best ideas Anna, that sounds like a great afternoon plan”
“Great! I mean, I cleared up my afternoon plans. You know. Dinner with the president, High Tea with the Queen… I canceled it all so we could do some wedding planning.” Anna moved through the kitchen to grab a cake server and some plates and forks, then moved to the dining room table and arranged everything. “Did you two pick a date?”
“I am completely honored that I come above the President and the Queen” Elsa grinned, watching Anna for a moment before she filled two glasses with milk and followed her sister into the dining room. “Not yet, I want to get an idea of scale and possible venues before we set our hearts on a date and find it isn’t available”
“Oh, yeah, that’s a good idea, too.” Anna said, nodding. “I don’t know if any of these have local venues in them, but we can start researching those, too. Are you thinking indoors or outdoors?” She settled at the table, then moved to cut the cake. She couldn’t wait to dig into the chocolatey goodness.
“Well we have the laptop and internet if we need help” Elsa said, she was pretty calm at this point though once they had a date decided she would probably start to worry more. “Outdoors maybe, I don’t know. Maybe a venue that has an indoors for the party but the actual ceremony in a courtyard or something”
Anna nodded. “That makes sense. Because like, if it’s gonna be a party where we all dance all night long, or whatever, it might get cold.” She hadn’t been to that many weddings, but she’d seen a lot of them on tv and in the movies. And it’s not like money was a problem for them. “Well, let’s take a look. I was thinking we could go through these magazines and like… tear out the pictures we like. Whatever category they fit in. Cakes, dresses, venues, decorations… you know what I mean?”
“Precisely what I was thinking” Elsa agreed with a smile before listening to her sister. She was so glad Anna was excited, it made everything just that little bit better. “Oh I know exactly what you mean” she said moving to the dresser in the dining room and pulling a book from a drawer, “I got this the other day and think it might be perfect for putting in pictures of things we like” she said placing an empty wedding scrapbook on the table.
“Oooh, that’s perfect! Okay. I’ll start with this stack of magazines, and you start with these?” Anna said, passing about five magazines over to her sister, while she took the other ones. “Then we can swap. Oh, and cake,” she added, pushing the plate over to Elsa. “Are you thinking more traditional? Or less traditional?”
Elsa smiled, “I couldn’t resist it” she admitted, “Okay” she nodded taking the magazines, “Oh yes cake. Hmm classy but not really traditional”
“Okay. Are you going to wear white?” Anna asked. That was the traditional thing. She assumed, anyway. Anna started to flip through the pages, slowly, looking at all the dresses. She saw a bunch of modern stuff, whites and blacks and solid colors… and flowers. Anna started to tear out anything that looked interesting, and sorted the ripped out pages into flowers, decorations, cakes, dresses, and venues.
“Maybe” Elsa said, “Or maybe a blue. Like the ice dress from the dreams” Something like that would be nice she thought, Elsa began flipping through the magazines too removing anything of interest.
“That dress was breathtaking,” Anna said, giving her sister a smile. “What do you want me to wear? Do you…” She hesitated. “Do you want me to stand up there with you?”
“It was pretty amazing wasn’t it?” Elsa grinned before reaching out to lay her hand over her sisters, “Of course I want you up there with me. You’re my sister and I love you. I always want you with me Anna. And I want you to have the most beautiful dress”
Anna let out a little breath of relief. She wasn’t sure why she was so nervous asking these kinds of things. She and Elsa were really close when they were little, and through the Dreams and everything, they were getting close again. But she was still awkward sometimes.
“Okay, good. Then we’ll find the best dress in the world. For each of us. We could have things specially made, if you want.” Anna suggested.
Before boarding school they’d been as close as could be and they were building that relationship up again, part of Elsa wondered if she should have held off on the engagement and wedding and focused her time instead on her sister. They were the only family they each had now.
“I considered that too” she admitted, “I think it might be the way we go. But we can get style ideas from these” she gestured to the pictures.
Anna had really had a shitty couple of months. Losing their parents, Elsa’s powers, Peeta not loving her in return then leaving, and meeting Hans, moving out on her own and now starting school... Everything in Anna’s life was different than it was just a couple of months ago. And she was reeling. As together as she pretended to be, Anna was struggling.
“That’s a good idea. And we can see what other people are doing. You could do like, a winter wedding? Sometime in December? With snowflakes and whatnot.” Anna said, breaking into a grin. It would suit her sister well.
Elsa was trying to help but she didn’t want to push, after all she’d been away for so long. It didn’t seem right and in all honesty she believed Anna when her sister said she was alright.
“Oh that sounds rather fitting doesn’t it” Elsa nodded, “At least that way we’d have over a year to get everything together”
Just being together was really helping Anna. She loved her sister so very much, it was weird for them trying to reconnect. But it was happening. Anna was falling back into the habit of worshipping her older sister. That’s what baby sisters did.
“If you’re planning for December 2015.” Anna said, softly. “You want to wait that long?”
While Elsa was working on being somebody her sister could look up to. She was trying to find that balance between friend and sister whilst handling all the responsibilities that had been left to her.
“Not really but December 2014 is only a couple of months away. A wedding can’t be planned that quickly. Can it?”
“I think so. With enough money and effort anything is possible.” Anna shrugged her shoulders. “It depends on how elaborate you want it to be. How many people do you want there? That sort of thing. I mean, if it’s gonna be small… I don’t think that would take much planning at all, right?”
“I don’t want anything massive” Elsa said quickly, “Just family and close friends” she added thinking, “Maybe it could work....”
“Well, it’s really up do you. I mean, if you’re talking about thirty people, there’s no reason we couldn’t throw a really fantastic party in a couple of months. If you want a hundred and thirty… it might take a little longer to put together. Right?” Anna said, breaking into a bright smile.
Elsa smiled brightly, “Right, I’ll speak to Kate and see what she thinks” she said, “I’m so glad I have you Anna, this would all be so much harder if I didn’t”
Anna beamed. “I’m here. Whatever you need.” She was glad that she could be there for her sister. It was probably a bit overwhelming--planning a wedding, she thought--and whatever she could do to help, she’d do it. It helped take her own mind off her own problems, too.