The sun beats down on our foreheads, sparkling with the sweat that only happens at the peak of the day, in the peak of the summer, in an unshaded, unmowed, front lawn of a pseudo-rural Oklahoman housing edition. We drove thirty minutes out of town to get there, and parked up against a barbed wire fence surrounding a dusty acre of land inhabited by two horses. This parking arrangement immediately made me question my choice of a delicate floral sundress and strappy sandals, which I previously had assumed would be more than appropriate for an outdoor wedding in June. I didn’t know much about the bride, only that she was my best friend’s sister, that she had the same name as me, and that this was her third wedding, so she decided to have it in her front yard for the sake of convenience. The venue twinkled with recycled clear Christmas lights and
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We drove five hours to Kansas City, Missouri, to stay in a ritzy hotel that required us to pay for parking every time we left and came back. I immediately felt underdressed as I watched—from behind the shrubbery—three hundred very sober wedding guests get escorted in, looking like they had purchased the entire “Special Occasion” section of Von Maur. I didn’t know much about the bride, only that she came from old money, just finished her master’s degree in accounting, that she’s been planning this wedding since she was five, and that she used the rest of her wedding budget on her dress and flowers, so I was asked to play piano during the ceremony at a “family discount.” The aisle glowed with enormous pillar candles at the end of every pew, which held rows of perfectly organized Bibles, also draped with carnation pink ribbon and carefully picked
We drove five hours to Kansas City, Missouri, to stay in a ritzy hotel that required us to pay for parking every time we left and came back. I immediately felt underdressed as I watched—from behind the shrubbery—three hundred very sober wedding guests get escorted in, looking like they had purchased the entire “Special Occasion” section of Von Maur. I didn’t know much about the bride, only that she came from old money, just finished her master’s degree in accounting, that she’s been planning this wedding since she was five, and that she used the rest of her wedding budget on her dress and flowers, so I was asked to play piano during the ceremony at a “family discount.” The aisle glowed with enormous pillar candles at the end of every pew, which held rows of perfectly organized Bibles, also draped with carnation pink ribbon and carefully picked