`` Well , they 're splendid to amuse children with , '' said Diana . `` Fred and Small Anne look at the pictures by the hour . '' '' I amused ten children without the aid of Eaton 's catalogue , '' said Mrs. Rachel severely . `` Come , you two , do n't quarrel over Eaton 's catalogue , '' said Anne gaily . `` This is my day of days , you know . I 'm so happy I want every one else to be happy , too . '' `` I 'm sure I hope your happiness will last , child , '' sighed Mrs. Rachel . She did hope it truly , and believed it , but she was afraid it was in the nature of a challenge to Providence to flaunt your happiness too openly . Anne , for her own good , must be toned down a trifle . But it was a happy and beautiful bride who came down the old , homespun-carpeted stairs that September noon -- the first bride of Green Gables , slender and shining-eyed , in the mist of her maiden veil , with her arms full of roses . Gilbert , waiting for her in the hall below , looked up at her with adoring eyes . She was his at last , this evasive , long-sought Anne , won after years of patient waiting . It was to him she was coming in the sweet surrender of the bride . Was he worthy of her ? Could he make her as happy as he hoped ? If he failed her -- if he could not measure up to her standard of manhood -- then , as she held out her hand , their eyes met and all doubt was swept away in a glad certainty . They belonged to each other ; and , no matter what life might hold for them , it could never alter that . Their happiness was in each other 's keeping and both were unafraid . They were married in the sunshine of the old orchard , circled by the loving and kindly faces of long-familiar friends . Mr. Allan married them , and the Reverend Jo made what Mrs. Rachel Lynde afterwards pronounced to be the `` most beautiful wedding prayer '' she had ever heard .
Birds do not often sing in XXXXX , but one sang sweetly from some hidden bough while Gilbert and Anne repeated their deathless vows .
September arms catalogue hour orchard pictures roses sunshine surrender unafraid