What Little Girls Are Made Of

I Do

I Do

Four months went by and I have been working with a wedding planner to help organize the wedding. I wanted to keep it as simple as possible.

The dress I picked out was simple but elegant. It reminded me of a dress that ‘Audrey Hepburn’ would have worn in one of her movies. It was a tea length, short sleeve ivory dress. I added a baby blue ribbon at the waist just to give it a little color. I don’t like colorless dresses and since you need something blue I thought that it would be perfect. The ribbon I found for the dress was tucked into my personal things. It used to belong to my mother. It was a ribbon that was on her prom dress. When I was little I found that dress in my uncle’s attic, I used to play dress up with the dress pretending I was at my wedding with the man I loved. When I got older I took the ribbon off of the dress and put it in my keep sake box.

When I first tried on my wedding dress I knew it was missing something the more I looked at it the more it came clear that my mother’s blue ribbon would complete the dress.

The ceremony will take place on the beach. It was our favorite place for Jack and me to take Ian. Before Ian came along I never went to the beach. It’s funny how a child can change the little things in your life.

The reception is going to be held at the beach club house just a few feet away from the ceremony. I left all the decorating details to the wedding planner Jessica. I showed her my dress and she said she could plan the whole look of the wedding around it. She said it would be fantastic. She loved the old fifty and sixty style movies and she said she had the perfect look for my wedding. I didn’t argue with her I didn’t want to waste what little time with Jack I had left by planning and organizing the wedding. I just left it all to Jessica even the details of the wedding invitations. Which had to be the most amazing invitations I have ever seen, when the guests received them it came in a box and in the box was lilies dried to perfection and sand from the beach we are to wed on. As the guest read the invitation they would open a flap and as they did a beautiful monarch butterfly would fly out. We go a lot of compliments on the invitations. I had to admit if Jessica had this great of an idea for the invitation I couldn’t wait to see what she had in store for the wedding itself.

Weeks went by and the wedding was coming fast. I talked Jack into early retirement. At first he hesitated he didn’t want to leave me with bills to pay after he would pass. I told him everything would be taken care of. I lied and I told him I had money put away from the death of my parents. He tried to tell me it wasn’t going to be enough but I came up with a story that my parents had an obscene amount of life insurance and I had never touched it so it was just sitting in the bank collecting interest and growing by the year. When I showed him my account his jaw dropped and finally agreed that spending all his time with me and Ian was far too precious to him and he put in for an early retirement I also put in my notice for leave of absents I wanted to spend as much time as I could with him.

The day of the wedding came and I was in a dressing room inside the beach club house getting ready with Kari’s help. I had asked Kari to be my maid of honor and she was happy to except. Out of all my friends she is the only one who didn’t push me away for having a child. My so called friends I had before were the partying type so when they found out I was pregnant they dropped me like a fly since I couldn’t party with them anymore. I handed Kari a box and asked if she could give it to Jack for me.

“What is it?” she asked with curiosity holding the box up to her ear and she gave it a little shake. I had to laugh she looked like a little kid on Christmas morning shaking their gifts trying to figure out what was inside.

“It’s my father and mother’s ring that I keep on my mother’s necklace. I had my father’s ring sized to fit his finger and had it inscribed. It now says ‘And two hearts shall become one’. We decided to use my parents’ wedding bands I just needed to make it a little bit of our own.” She cried after I told her that.