Love In Unexpected Places ✓

Chapter Twenty-Eight

THREE WEEKS BEFORE THE WEDDING

My Mom drove up to New York from Kentucky.

Her, Nina, Belle, and I went to David's Bridal to let them try on dresses for the wedding. My mother would be wearing gold since she was the maid of honor, and the other three ladies would be wearing maroon.

My mother tried on a gold sequin v-neck dress with satin piping. It was the first dress she tried on and she fell in love with it, but she decided to look at other dresses.

Nina and Belle decided on a sleeveless long mesh dress with corded lace. After my mother saw the dress that Nina and Belle decided on, she decided to just get a dress like that instead so the style would match. So we ordered the dresses for everyone that came and I had Jean-Paul to text Celeste about her dress size so I could get hers ordered too.

For shoes, everyone had decided to wear silver or white heels.

After we finished up at the bridal store, I headed to an old retro wedding dress shop. I had caught my eye on a dress I found online years before and always wanted to wear that if I ever had the opportunity to get married.

When I walked into the retro wedding dress shop, I walked back to the 1950's dress part of the store. My eye caught the dress of my dreams-a princess lace, full-length wedding dress. It just so happened to be my size, so it was just meant to be.

"This is a beautiful choice," the cashier said, as she rang up the dress and softly placed it into a full-size dress bag.

"Thank you. It's the dress of my dreams," I responded as I took my debit card out of my wallet to pay for the dress.

"It will look beautiful on you. You will look like a true princess," she said as she flashed a smile in my direction and handed the dress to me."Have a nice day."

"Thank you, you too," I said as I returned the smile.

After buying the dresses, we had a meal together at a restaurant before going back to my apartment for the evening. My mother and I needed to give and send out invitations to the wedding.

We also decided to make bows to decorate the church pews, and the chairs and tables in the reception area. My mother soon left New-York to go back home to Kentucky.

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The day before the wedding Jean-Paul and I made a trip from New-York to Kentucky. We had decided to have a rehearsal for the wedding party so that when the day actually came, everyone would be familiar with how to walk down the aisle and who to walk with.

At the last minute, Jean-Paul's cousins' son and daughter became our flower girl and ringbearer. It was a good thing we had the rehearsal because the kids were so confused about where to go and where to stand. I had a feeling that we would have to do a quick rehearsal the next day before the wedding actually started.

When I walked down the aisle with my father, I tried not to cry. I had a feeling I would be an emotional wreck. when we would be going through the actual ceremony.

When he handed me to Jean-Paul, we pretended to say our vows. We had decided to write our own vows, but we wanted to keep them a secret until the actual ceremony. After we were pronounced man and wife, we exited the church auditorium and went into the kitchen. We decided to serve a little snack for everyone that came to the rehearsal.

After everyone left, my mother and I got the auditorium, pews, tables, and chairs in the kitchen all decorated, before turning the light off and leaving for the night.