It’s been two weeks of Charlie’s life invested in this wedding. When she’s not at work, she’s with Jess and the wedding planner. They’ve tasted like 50 cakes, looked at hundreds of potential designs, been to 12 flower shops looking at arrangements, they’ve been in store after store after store looking at wedding dresses. They’ve interviewed 7 DJs, been to several bridal showers and engagement parties thrown by friends of Jess’ and Scott’s, and basically planned the entire wedding in a week.
They’ve been at this for 4 hours, 32 minutes and 12 seconds and Charlie is a hundred percent done with this day.
Jess is trying on an apparently endless supply of princess style wedding gowns, while Charlie and Jess’ three model friends Mandy, Aubree and Nicole are trying on every style of pink dress in the entire store.
Charlie was feeling a little inadequate seeing how the three of them are fricking supermodels, and look fantastic in everything. She’s starting to regret the double cheeseburger she had for lunch.
She knows she is the reason the other forty seven dresses were unacceptable. Pink is not her color, it looks weird with her skin tone. She didn’t say anything because Jess really wants the bridesmaids in pink and it’s her big day, but 10 dresses later and finally Nicole took pity on her, making the announcement that pink was not her best color. Charlie shot her a thankful smile for taking the hit, because pink looks fantastic on Nicole’s pale white skin, and insulting herself was probably a hard thing for her to do.
“You look wonderful in everything NIcki, but you’re right Pink obviously isn’t working. Maybe a lime green or a yellow would be better?” she turned to the store clerk, who nodded and disappeared. Jessica sighed and ruffled with the huge skirt of her princess gown. The other three girls went back into their dressing rooms and Jess reached out for Charlie’s hand.
“Three weeks Charlie! I have three weeks to pick out the perfect dress!” she had a panicked look in her eyes.
“Almost everything else is done though Jess, you’ve been working hard, you’re doing good.” Seriously, Charlie’s never seen Jess put this much time and effort into anything before. It’s something to be proud of.
“I couldn’t have done this without you, Scott and I are both so grateful for all the work you took on”
“You’re my sister Jess, I’d do anything for you. You can repay me with at least 2 nieces or nephews to spoil”
“Children will ruin my career before it even starts! Can’t I just return the favor when you get married?”
“I might not ever get married Jess, besides, you know Kings won the maid of honor war in the ninth grade. You shook on it and everything, there’s nothing I can do.”
“You’ll get married Charlie, I know you will. You’re too amazing to be alone forever, besides, I’ve seen the way you and Jordan look at each other, there is some serious potential there!” Charlie blushed.
“Jordan flirts with everyone”
“Not like he flirts with you”
”You really think so?”
“We would be that set of twins that falls for brothers wouldn’t we” Jess said with a playful eye roll.
“To be fair, when we fell we didn’t know they were brothers” Charlie laughed.
“You look terrible in that dress Charlie” Jess said with a laugh, hugging her sister.
“You look like a snowman” she hugged her back.
“I know”
“I have a few selections her for you girls, in lime green and yellow” the store clerk said reentering the dressing room area, both her and her assistant holding stacks of dresses. Jess glanced through the piles and sighed
