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2. The Big Wedding
Ann and Bob were in love. They were
to get married next year. They had known
other since they were in the third grade.
were both 20 years old. True love was
that Ann and Bob knew everything about. There
hardly anything they disagreed about. Even when they
, they settled the disagreement in such a way
both were totally happy. This was truly a
made in heaven.
They had already made plans
the wedding. It was going to be a
wedding. Every relative from both families had already
notified about the date. All their friends knew
the big day. The invitations were already printed.
priest, the church, the reception hall, and the
service were ready to go.
Nothing was being
to chance. This was going to be the
day of their lives. Ann had gone to
wedding web sites for ideas and help. Of
, she had also consulted her mother, grandmothers, aunts,
married friends about how to plan the perfect
.
Each one of them tried to tell her
there was no such thing as a perfect
. There was always at least one thing, or
usually one person, that made the wedding a
disaster at the time. But of course, like
disaster that happens on your vacation, that incident
person would be what makes the wedding more
.
“Oh, you should have been at my wedding,”
Aunt Mabel to Ann. “My brother James was
charge of the rings that Kyle and I
going to exchange. On the wedding day, James
the ring to Kyle, who put it on
finger. An hour later at the reception, I
the ring off to admire it and read
inscription. I gasped. The jeweler had spelled my
‘Mable’ as in table. My name, as you
, dear, is spelled Mabel as in label. So
went to the ladies’ room and cried for
half an hour. No one could console me.”
“
, the moral of the story, my dear,” chimed
Aunt Prudence, “is to make sure that Uncle
isn’t in charge of getting your rings engraved.
that you would have a problem. How could
misspell your name—it only has three letters, and
of them are the same.”
“Aunt Prudence, you
that isn’t true,” said Ann. “Half the people
know spell my name with an ‘e.’ But,
James is not in charge of our rings,
I’m not worried.”
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