This was it...

The night they had been waiting a whole year of engagement for. A night he had been waiting all of twenty-one years for.

Muggles weren't the only ones with the tradition of 'waiting until marriage'. A useless one, if you asked him, but he respected her wish all the same.

He stood by his big four poster bed. The elves had seen to the immaculate tidiness of his room specifically for this night. Not that his room wasn't always clean, but today they went out of their way to make sure all the linens and curtains were brand new and absolutely splendid. All around him were various rich...