Wedding Book for Anne and Simon

Once upon a time there was a family and a house fairy who lived together. The little kids have grown up and now the youngest girl is getting married. 

One evening the young lady was at home preparing for the wedding and remembered her old secret magical friends that she had forgotten as she grew up.
The memories of her old friends made her smile and just for fun she wrote out invitations for them.  Not expecting any answer, she left them on the table and went to bed.
The next day the cards had disappeared but the family were so busy no-one noticed.

The house fairy found his invitation and was very happy to be invited to the wedding.  Then he noticed the second invitation.
It was for a mermaid. And since the house fairy would do anything for the youngest girl, he went to the sea and asked the fish to call the mermaid.

The mermaid was delighted to receive the invitation and would have loved to come to her old friend's wedding. But although many years ago, when she was very small, she had dared to play with human children on land, mermaids are not supposed to venture out of the sea. 

"What should I do?" she asked the fish and the house fairy. It was a very difficult question.  "I heard about a witch," piped up a fish at last, "who can turn a mermaid into a human being.  But it's a bad idea to ask anything from a witch..."
"In that case," said the house fairy, "you could try wishing on a shooting star. A shooting star can make any wish come true but they're very hard to find..."

A seagull had been watching them from the sky with great interest. "I can help!" he cried, and called his friends to look for a shooting star. The house fairy climbed onto the back of one of the seagulls and flew up with them.

The mermaid was left behind looking longingly at her invitation. She wondered whether asking the witch might not be such a bad idea after all. Although the fish were suspicious of the witch, the mermaid hoped that she might be nice and that even if she couldn't turn her into a human she could suggest another idea. The mermaid swam to a part of the sea she had never been to before to meet the witch. 

The Witch of the Sea wasn't as bad as the fish had made out, but she had no idea how to turn a mermaid into a human. "Once a mermaid, always a mermaid!" explained the witch.  "I can't turn you into anything else. Forget about the wedding, you can still wish the couple happiness from under the sea. It doesn't mean you don't care about your old friend." The mermaid thought that, since everyone had been wrong about the witch, perhaps they were wrong about it being a bad idea to go on land.

Meanwhile, the house fairy and seagulls had spent many hours looking fruitlessly for a shooting star.  The house fairy was starting to despair that they would never have any luck when he caught sight of something shiny in a field below.  Hugely excited, they swooped down, but when they reached the ground they realized it was just a speck of dust that a shooting star had left behind – not enough to make a wish come true.  Nevertheless, the house fairy carefully gathered it up, just in case, and returned to the mermaid.

 Although the mermaid was disappointed that they hadn't found a star, all sorts of birds had joined the seagulls in their quest and together they had brought back the dust of many shooting stars.  The specks of dust were tiny, but when they were all collected together they shone so brightly they looked strong enough to grant a wish.  But the mermaid, remembering what the witch had said, told them to hold on to the dust because celebrating the marriage was more important than becoming a human.  The house fairy and the birds all thought she had given up but, with a smile, she produced a broomstick she had borrowed from the witch. 

The mermaid and the house fairy got on the broomstick and flew up into the sky.
 The wedding was held in the beautiful little city. The house fairy and the mermaid saw that the little girl they had watched grow up was now a beautiful bride, looking so happy with her family and the man who was going to be her new family next to her. They scattered the stardust from the roof of the cathedral, making the wishes of everyone inside come true.

Wishing you the best of life today and in the days to come.