Conclusion: Week Twelve

Okay, I've been too busy to journal much, because the daring heroics that we've been up to lately since Jayne joined the crew are... well, I'm not going to go into all of the details because I don't have enough time for THAT right now. But - we just landed on Beaumonde a few hours ago, and the day after tomorrow is Zoe and Wash's wedding day. Things are all being arranged rather last-minute, but still I'm excited.

Zoe picked me to be her 'peeress of honor,' mostly because she didn't really have anyone else that she felt at all comfortable with asking, One of Wash's cousins is also a peeress, and a woman who Mal and Zoe both served with in the war and made it out alive was supposed to round out her side of the wedding company, but we just found out this morning that she was bound by Alliance law on the other side of the planet, so Inara volunteered to fill in. Mal made some cracks about if she'd be charging Zoe for her time, but Zoe accepted fairly gratefully.

There's so many details to take care of, but I'm loving it. The bride's "last blast party", keeping track of the guests, not that this is a big shindig, but still... rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, and everything. The wedding is going to be outside, on a pleasant meadow overlooking a stream, with trees dotted here and there. We're going to be hanging cheap colored beads over the tree branches, and everybody will need to wear repellant cream, because there are bloodsucking bugs who sometimes swarm at this time of year if they catch the scent of people in large groups.

Zoe's father DID make it, or at least we've had word that his ship is in orbit and should clear Beaumonde customs inspection soon. Wash's family is here - we've already met up with them; in fact, he parked the ship on a corner of the country house's backyard. I've already mentioned that his cousin is a peeress, and his brother is the Best Peer. Mal's one of Wash's Peers too, though I don't think Wash is happy about that. Zoe probably insisted that Mal had to be p