Act I: Scene opens to a wedding, radiant bride and admiring groom in the most noteable performance of their lives standing in a pool of lit candles surpassing the likes of any ordinary genre-defying romantic comedy sci-fi thriller. Noticeable sniffling in the background.
“Can you tell I’m new at this?” the minister mumbles as he wipes his eyes. The bride, with an indelible grin so deeply engraved on her face, it would be unlikely she’d be able to erase it for days, takes the hanky she carries and hands it to the minister. He continues with the ceremony.
“Bethany, place your hands, palms facing up, into Christopher’s hands. He pauses a moment, observes, and admonishes, “Bethany, palms up. Now repeat after me, ‘I pledge my heart, my hands, and all my love.”
“What?” Bethany questions.
“She didn’t sign up for that,” Christopher quietly says, smile sneaking through a deadpan look.
Act II: Center stage. Ceremony nearing its end.
“I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride.” After a lingering kiss… couple improvises — after a couple of lingering kisses, the bride wipes red lipstick from the grooms face. Couple exits center stage to a standing crowd of fans.
Act III: The celebration. Couple is introduced to an auditorium of adoring family and friends. Curtain opens to festively decorated tables, each named for a noteable television series. (I wondered if the Reporter and I were assigned to the Grey’s Anatomy table because of our true hair color. After wandering past Glee, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, and other tables, it felt like we’d been assigned to Lost.)
In the words of Meredith Grey, “You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales? That fantasy of what your life would be. White dress, Prince Charming who’d carry you away to a castle on a hill… You’d lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming. They were so close you could taste them. But eventually you grow up. One day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is, it’s hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely ’cause almost everyone still has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they’ll open their eyes and it will all come true. At the end of the day, faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don’t really expect it. It’s like one day you realize that the fairy tale might be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And it’s not so important that it’s happy ever after, just that it’s happy right now. See, once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you. And once in a while, people may even take your breath away.”
Scenes fades with music in the background, couples dancing, shoes long gone.
Credits roll:
Hitched — a successful Keller & Fritchoff production. ”So say one, so say you all.” Congratulations, cousins!
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Loved it. so absolutely true.
I loved all of the wedding however, I couldn’t understand the weeping at the pulpit for quite sometime. After the information was given, I was good too go and opened up to a most delightful evening with my cousins.
No one can understand cousins, like cousins. We know all the wacky relatives, weird stories, and craziness that have taken place in our livetimes. Some can be repeated.
It gets really sad when you come to an event and realize that the loved ones that were here the year before are now gone. Our memories are what we have and I treasure them dearly. So here is to my precious cousisn Penny!! And so say all of us and so say all of us.
Love You Penny