weddingdraft1

"but i WANTED pink!!"the brides face pouted as she looked down at me from her six in loubiton heels.
"look, i'm sorry but this is what they sent me. if you want me to change it now we will have to postpone the wedding. You could have come yesterday to look at the decorations like i had recommended. but now exchanging 6 thousand red roses for pink ones will take a pretty long time."
Almost over, it was almost over. I liked being a wedding planner most of the time but it was dealing with frantic brides that i absolutely could not take.
"i mean, look at the bright side. now the decorations will match you, well the bottoms of your shoes anyway...and your dress is a nice contrast!"
she glared at me and then turned back to the makeup artist who was listening with a bored expression on her face..almost like mine.
"so i was thinking of my hair in a sort of twist with a few strands braided right here..."
If i could only wait a few more hours, it would all be over and i could crawl back to my appartment and watch a few movies. i sighed and walked out of the room to check on the food and see if the musicians had arrived to set up for tonight.

As i turned the corner i ran straight into someone. I couldnt tell who it was but they smelled of chanel perfume. i stepped back and slowly raised my head to meet the eyes of the maid of honor. She had stick-straight brown hair that fell around her face limply and i could see that she had been crying because of the mascara lines running down her face.
"oh sorry. Is everything alright?"
"uhh..well no. But ill be ok. How did you..?"
"darling you have some trouble with your makeup. Here follow me and ill help you"
"oh right, thanks"
i led the poor girl to the bathroom and grabbed my bag that was full of anything and everything and could fix just about anything that could go wrong.
"here let me get that.."
i took a wet towel and wiped of the mascara that left gray streaks on the white plush towels that hung from the wall.
"what happened?"
"oh, don't worry about it , you probably don't care anyway."
But even as she said it i could tell she was about to tell me everything.
"its just. Have you ever felt like you never win..like you couldn't get your life to be better then someone else s no matter how hard you try?"
of course i did. everyone felt this way at one point or another.
"well im going out with this guy--the grooms brother..and my best friend, shes getting married now at this wedding..i just..i just am worried that it wont ever happen to me!"
"Of course it will.. just not yet." As many issues that had come up as long as i had been a wedding planner, this was one of the most normal problems that the maids of honor had.i continued my rehearsed speech--
"Maybe you aren't at the right stage of your relationship yet, but trust me your time will come. Why shouldn't he be in love with you? Look, your gorgeous and smart and funny. Trust me. it will happen at some point. soon."
She looked a little comforted and tried a smile.
"haha thanks."
I wiped of the last of her blurry makeup and washed off the towel, wringing the water out of it into the sink.
"your all done. Better go get that dress on!"
"thank you so much."
i nodded and hurried out to the kitchen to check on the entrees.
A couple hours later i was sitting on the back porch, a coke in my hand. I couldn't stop thinking about the girl with the mascara running down her face. i couldn't help wishing that things would work out with her. i leaned back against the porch railing. The groom walked out of the house, followed by another man, about his age.
"oh hello Caroline"
"Luc this is our amazing wedding planner, Caroline, this is my brother Luc"
"nice to meet you" i smiled warmly thinking, this guy is the male counterpart of the woman i met before. They even looked like they would get along, i thought.
"Caroline, my brother here has a question for you......Luc?"
"Yeah, umm so i was wondering....well its just....well i need...o god, i cant even say it...ok i'm just going to go for it..i haven't told anyone yet, i'm going to ask my girlfriend to marry me."
i grinned. it WAS going to work out!
"ooooook..." i said
"so i was wondering if you know, you could help out a little?"
"well what would you like me to do?"
"umm well my brother really wants me to propose at the reception..even though i TOLD him that it was HIS wedding..but it would probably be perfect. Its SO pretty out here...could you maybe find me a boat?"
"a boat?"
"yeah, id like to propose out on the lake, at night...don't worry i know how to drive one..."
"Yes of course, there's a boat rental over down the road. i can go right now actually...i'm free for until the wedding starts, then i have to take pictures. Ill get it over behind those trees, she'll never know! good luck!!!"
"thank you SO much.. here.."
he handed me a blank check with his signature at the bottom.
"...im trusting you" he grinned.
When everything was set, the boat behind the trees, the guests arriving, the music playing... had my camera in hand snapping pictures one after another. The groom, the groom and the bride, the bride and her mother, the bride and her friends, the random guests who nobody knew, everyone. The band was playing loudly and everyone was dancing. This is why im a wedding planner, i thought..i took a glass of water from the bar and continued snapping away. out of the corner of my eye, i say Luc talking to the girl from before...he grabbed he hand and they started walking out towards the trees---where i had the boat. He looked back and i caught his eye and gave him a thumbs up. he grinned nervously and turned back to his soon-to-be-wife.
i smiled and snapped a picture of them walking towards the sunset.