The wedding preparations were done is a matter of days.
"Money makes things happen faster," said Sabrina and Elisio smiled at her and said "I am rubbing off on you" and kissed her lips.
Julia decided to showcase her whole collection at Ermanno's wedding.
All the women were going to wear her dresses and the showstopper was obviously Sabrina.
Sabrina was in tears when Julia said she would not be eating anything for one week.
Sabrina could never say no to anyone and loved all the kids way too much to break their hearts.
Rose went shopping with Cindy, Sabrina, Julia, Ambryl and Sarah for the wedding dress.
Rose couldn't hold back her tears and Cindy broke down crying too.
Sabrina and rest of the women couldn't stop their tears too.
Tomorrow was the rehearsal dinner and everyone decided to wear Julia's dresses on rehearsal dinner and for the wedding, they would wear something lighter. Because Julia's dresses were all heavy with beads, pearls and stones.
And the press with all the guests would be present only then.
Right now Rose was standing in Sofia's room and looking around.
"What are you doing here," asked Cindy standing at the doorway of the room.
Rose turned around with tears in her eyes and said "I miss her. We had promised to be each other's bridesmaids" and broke down crying.
Cindy went close to Rose and held her and made her sit on the bed.
"We all miss her. And I want to apologise for our behaviour towards you. We were grieving and we were so angry for losing her that we were not thinking rationally. We wanted to feel a little less pain and wanted to remove our anger on someone and I guess you were the easy target. I am sorry" said Cindy.
"Oh, mummy" cried, Rose.
"Your father and I were excited when Sofia was dating Ermanno. We both had tried very hard to reach the status we are now. And when we got a chance to reach higher by being related to the Devonte family we were ecstatic. But all went down the drain when Sofia died. We were so engulfed in ourselves that we ignored to feel the pain of losing our children. Sending you away was like losing you and now that we are going to be related to the Devonte family. All of it just feels so hollow." Said Cindy and then looked at Rose and said "if you can find it in your heart please forgive us and be happy Rose"
Both mother and daughter hugged eachother and cried their hearts out.
Rose was seated in her living room discussing the wedding with her mother when she heard a very loud Italian. Martina Russo.
"Aaahh. I can't believe you already are getting married." Screamed Martina.
"Hahaha. I missed your loud voice." Laughed Rose and then looked at Cindy and introduced them with eachother.
Cindy smiled at her and went off to give them some privacy.
"Where are papa and mama?" Asked Rose.
"I didn't tell them you are getting married or else the whole neighbourhood would have come," said Martina.
Rose laughed at her and they talked about the wedding, Ermanno and why she agreed to the wedding.
Ermanno decided to have one maid of honour and one best man.
EJ was Ermanno's best man and Martina was Rose's maid of honour.
"Didn't you say you are our uncle when I asked you to be one of my groomsmen?" Asked Julius to EJ who had just come back from his honeymoon.
"He asked nicely," said EJ.
Julius just shook his head on EJ.
All the Devonte women were sparking in Julia's sparkling collection.
The dresses were full of sequences, pearls and stones. Which everyone thought would be very heavy but to their utter shock was manageable.
Ambriel and Sarah together had started jewellery stores in New York. They supplied jewellery to all the women to complete their look.
Once they got together and started spending time together they both came to know they had a lot in common which included the love for jewellery.
"Looks like you have a type dad" teased Elisio to Zeke.
"I am your father. You are not supposed to tease me with what my type is" said, Zeke.
Elisio laughed and hugged his dad from the side and said "you are my best friend dad"
Zeke smiled and kissed his forehead.
Pictures were taken and the press was going crazy seeing everyone so glamourous in one place.
Ambriel, Sabina, Ella, Sarah, Lily, Ruby, Sasha and Sabrina walked the carpet with their spouses.
Julia included Mia and Marina in dressing them up to and walked in the venue with Aria.
Everyone gave a standing ovation to Julia for her designs and how beautiful all the women were looking.
Julia was shy with so much attention and she hugged Thomas who was standing beside her.
Thomas smiled wide at her and told her how proud he was of her.
Nevio saw their interaction and smiled at Lily who was standing beside her.
Rose walked in with her father, mother and Martina. She was blinking too much.
"Stop blinking so much. It looks weird" said Martina.
"I can't help it. You know I don't like wearing contacts. I get so conscious that I am wearing it." Said Rose.
"We'll deal with it for a few days. Those huge ugly glasses that you hide behind won't look nice with this super expensive dress" said Martina.
"It's too tight and short," said Rose pulling the dress down a little.
"Aww.. look at you having rich people problems." Mocked Martina.
Rose looked at her irritated and walked in the venue.
The first to welcome them was Sabrina.
Sabrina hugged Rose and told her how beautiful she was looking for.
Rose was wearing a short golden dress which of course Julia designed.
Sabrina called Ermanno and told him to go out and take pictures with Rose.
Ermanno looked up and down at Rose and didn't say a word.
Rose was waiting for him to compliment her but he took her out and posed for the cameras.
Ermanno looked at Rose and asked, "where are your glasses?"
"I didn't wear them today," said Rose.
"So you could not wear them and yet you wear them to look ugly," said Ermanno smiling at the photographers holding Rose by her waist.
Rose was a little hurt when he called her ugly but she just looked away from him and did her best to not cry in front of the photographers.