average american beauty

Because both bride Vivienne and groom Jason, and most of their friends, have to work during the week.And on Sunday morning, the church is only open for daily worship, and wedding registration and reservations cannot be made, so the two simply set the wedding date in the holiday after Christmas.

The wedding was held on this Friday morning, and Caroline and Anne were accompanying Vivienne in the preparation room at the moment.

"I just want you to know that you are the person I would most like to invite as a bridesmaid",

With a happy smile on her face, Vivienne took Caroline's hand and said, then quickly turned to the person who helped her arrange the skirt and said,

"Of course, Anne, you too."

Annie didn't take Vivienne's joke seriously, and gently arranged the corolla and veil that would be worn on her head in a while.Caroline held Vivian's hand back, and smiled apologetically,

"I know, sorry, I was too busy a while ago",

When Vivienne just decided on the wedding date, it was just in time for the busy period of Caroline's preferred store, and December was still the shopping season, so Caroline was not sure that she would have enough time then, after all, being a bridesmaid is a To help the bride prepare a lot, it is not just as simple as standing for a while before and after the wedding.

Vivian also knew how busy this friend was now, so she only asked symbolically at that time. She stretched out her right hand with a white satin glove, and blocked Caroline's mouth.

"Today is a good day, no sorry words are allowed. Besides, I can't be the most beautiful girl in the audience without you standing next to me in a dress!"

Counting past and present lives, this was actually the first wedding Caroline attended.Her parents had a cold relationship in the past, so when she was a child, she was never taken to a wedding by her parents like many children, let alone being someone else's flower girl.

After graduation, none of her acquainted colleagues and friends got married in those two years, so Caroline is not familiar with weddings, let alone weddings in this era.

She looked at the bride of the day, and together with Anne, helped her check again that everything was ready.

Vivienne was wearing a white multi-layered cake skirt, with the satin skirt dragging all the way to the floor.Around the waist is a light blue silk belt, which better outlines Vivienne's waist.Because there is a heater in the room and it is not too cold, Vivienne insists on not wearing a shawl or a coat.

Decades ago, Queen Victoria made white wedding dresses an indispensable fashion in high society weddings. In the past 30 or [-] years, white wedding dresses have become more and more common in ordinary people's weddings.

But a brand new satin cake wedding dress like Vivienne's is still a bit extravagant among ordinary people.

The wedding dress on her body is actually a "wedding gift". The fabric for the wedding dress was prepared by her fiancé Jason several months ago. Every time he buys the fabric, he will check to see if there is any wedding dress that can be made different fabrics, and choose the one that suits you best.

Although the style of this wedding dress is simple, Jason and his assistants personally completed the entire production process. He even embroidered the words "To Vivienne" into patterns on the skirt.

So when Jason brought the finished wedding dress to Vivienne, "I almost cried on the spot," Vivienne said.

"I also expected many kinds of 'romance', but I always felt that he is not the kind of person who understands romance. In the end, he moved me more than I imagined." Vivian looked in the direction of the door of the waiting room, eyes There is a radiant smile inside, as if through this door you can see the lover she prepared in another room,

"I know there are still many uncertainties in the future, but every bride is a little bit afraid, which is quite normal. At least every time I think about our present, I will remember this happiness."

Caroline wiped away Vivian's tears carefully, and the girls hugged each other, saving Vivian's last girlish moments.

After the other girls also opened the door and came in, everyone surrounded Vivienne in the center of the room together.

"New", the white and brand new wedding dress was worn by Vivienne;

"Old", the earrings sent by Vivian's brother and sister-in-law originally belonged to Vivian's mother, and she put them on carefully;

"There is a loan", the garter ring lent to her by Vivian's sister-in-law is hidden under the skirt, after all, she is the most pleasing woman Vivian knows after marriage;

"There is blue", the pearl hairpin with blue crushed gemstones is being pinned by Vivienne in her hair, it is a wedding gift from Caroline and several girls;

"And a silver sixpence. (1)"

Vivienne's high heels today are the same color as the wedding dress, and they are also satin, so it is not convenient to put things in them.

She looked at the decorative silver coin in her hand, curled her lips and said, "This thing feels so hard, I really don't want to put it in my shoe."

But she just said that, after changing the shoes, she still clamped them in the gap between the shoes and feet, and secretly laughed to herself for a long time.

Then she listened to the girls say together,

"Today, you are the luckiest bride."

……

Everything passed quickly after the wedding began. Caroline sat in the second row of pews in the church and watched a Western-style wedding from start to finish for the first time.

She listened to the music played by the organ, watched the bride being led by her brother, walked through the long passage to the altar, watched the two newlyweds clasping their hands and reading the oath, and watched the two brides under the guidance They exchanged gold rings engraved with each other's names, watched the groom kiss the bride, watched the newlyweds with sparkling eyes, and smiled happily together...

It turns out that a wedding with love can really make the onlookers shed tears.

After the party and activities, according to the custom should be carried out in the bride's home.But Vivienne and her family have always lived in an apartment, and the post-marital residence prepared by Jason and Jason is also an apartment, so the two originally rented a house with a garden nearby for the wedding.

Unfortunately, it was too cold outside. Before the party started, the couple took the lead and agreed to move indoors.

After the fireplace and charcoal stove were lit, everyone took off their coats and started celebrating the new couple Vivienne and Jason with a party.

The creamy wedding cake with sweet fruit sauce and icing sugar was cut up by Vivienne and Jason and distributed to everyone. A girl who ate the glass ring shyly listened to the blessings from her friends around her, and silently expected that she would be the next one. Such a happy bride.

Afterwards, there is a ball opened by the newlyweds.

Joanna and Annie Wu disappeared from the beginning of the meeting.

Originally, Caroline and Charlotte sat quietly in the corner holding the plate with the cake, wanting to enjoy the food until the end of the event.Unexpectedly, several young people on the second and third floors of Meisi Department Store, who seldom talk to Caroline on weekdays, would take turns to ask her to dance.

"Go, Caroline, they don't usually have this chance." Charlotte reached out and took the plate from Caroline's hand, and added after thinking,

"I don't even have the guts."

Caroline smiled and shook her head.She didn't dance very well, but everyone danced casually, and it didn't look like the dance party in the movie she remembered, with different dance steps for different music, changing formations and exchanging partners.

So Caroline danced a dance with everyone she knew who came forward and invited.After five or six dances in a row, I found an excuse and went back to my original seat.

Charlotte has been sitting here all the time, because she doesn't talk much and always looks very serious, so not many people come to talk to her, and occasionally someone invites her, but she directly refuses.

"Don't you want to dance?" Caroline rubbed her sore ankle and asked.

"No." Charlotte replied, and then spread her hands indifferently, "I've never been interested in these things."

"I've known you for so long, but I don't seem to have noticed that you're particularly interested in anything." Caroline said half-jokingly.

"Maybe it's true. If I have to find something I like, does it count as walking alone? Or eating?" Charlotte silently put a frosted chocolate ball into her mouth.

Caroline really smiled this time, and took a candy from the plate in Charlotte's hand and put it in her mouth. It was sweet, just like her friends.

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(1) Adapted from British wedding customs Somethingold, somethingnew, somethingborrowed, somethingblue, andasixpenceinhershoe.