The Makings of A Fairytale Wedding
The hair stylist I go to specializes in wedding hair and makeup for the bride and her attendants. From June through August it's difficult to get an appointment with her as she's booked solid every weekend. She's seen every kind of wedding production from the small and traditional to the huge and extravagant, but she's never seen one like this true fairytale wedding the Kansas Heckler has shared with me . . .
I have to share the sweetest, most adorable wedding of some wonderful folks I know. I'll call them John and Mary.
Mary showed me a photo of John the other day. He was wearing a white double-breasted suit with gold buttons, gold fringed epaulets, and a crown of the sort worn by princes, the gold band with points on top worn slightly above ears and eyebrows. She commented that the photo was from their wedding. They met as fully grown, previously married, trying to make it in life adults. They are just folks working average jobs, but living such a love! And the wedding. . . . it was themed "the Princess and the Frog." Just right for a fairytale romance.
For the wedding John had constructed a very large paper mache frog with movable, puppet-like features which he could run from inside the frog (it was going to be an inside job, know what I mean?) Mary floated down the aisle to the altar, where she stared at the frog and pronounced "I can't marry a frog!" The frog in turn insisted that if she kissed it she could marry a prince. Mary kissed the frog, AND WOW! The frog came apart in two pieces to the accompaniment of strobe lights, sound and smoke, and out stepped her prince John.
It sort of makes me want to cry. A year later they are still surprising each other with small treasures like two tickets to the movies in the middle of the week, love notes hidden in a pocket, etc. The whole thing reminds me that wonderful stuff like that happens to anyone who wants to allow it into their life. Fairytales aren't just for kids.
Reassuring, as we continually hear it's necessary to kiss a bunch of frogs to find a prince, but that actually finding one is an unrealistic fairytale . . .
Mmmmmmmmmmelinda
I have to share the sweetest, most adorable wedding of some wonderful folks I know. I'll call them John and Mary.
Mary showed me a photo of John the other day. He was wearing a white double-breasted suit with gold buttons, gold fringed epaulets, and a crown of the sort worn by princes, the gold band with points on top worn slightly above ears and eyebrows. She commented that the photo was from their wedding. They met as fully grown, previously married, trying to make it in life adults. They are just folks working average jobs, but living such a love! And the wedding. . . . it was themed "the Princess and the Frog." Just right for a fairytale romance.
For the wedding John had constructed a very large paper mache frog with movable, puppet-like features which he could run from inside the frog (it was going to be an inside job, know what I mean?) Mary floated down the aisle to the altar, where she stared at the frog and pronounced "I can't marry a frog!" The frog in turn insisted that if she kissed it she could marry a prince. Mary kissed the frog, AND WOW! The frog came apart in two pieces to the accompaniment of strobe lights, sound and smoke, and out stepped her prince John.
It sort of makes me want to cry. A year later they are still surprising each other with small treasures like two tickets to the movies in the middle of the week, love notes hidden in a pocket, etc. The whole thing reminds me that wonderful stuff like that happens to anyone who wants to allow it into their life. Fairytales aren't just for kids.
Reassuring, as we continually hear it's necessary to kiss a bunch of frogs to find a prince, but that actually finding one is an unrealistic fairytale . . .
Mmmmmmmmmmelinda
posted by MMMelinda at 9:03 AM
