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“In that case,” Mia starts. “What style? You’re getting married on the beach, so do you want something breezy?”
“Yes!” I confirm. “I think it should definitely have color, but something pastel and light.”
“What about this one?” Bea asks, pulling a delicate pink halter-top gown from the racks.
It’s fitted around the torso but flows freely at my hips. It has specks of white peeking through, which adds to its beauty. Usually with my shorter stature, long dresses always mean alterations, but when I put it on, it fits like a glove.
“You’re lucky it’s a high-low cut,” Mia points out how the front of the dress is cut higher to my shins while the rest of the dress becomes lower to the ground, making a small train behind me.
“It’s perfect!” I say, jumping up and down and twirling like a little girl in the mirror. I can’t wait for Drew to see it. “Oh, what about a veil?”
“I already got that covered,” Mia says as she takes care of paying for my dress.
“You didn’t have to do that,” I insist.
“Call it your something new,” she says, as we head back to the cottage. “Mom’s veil can be your something borrowed.”
My heartstrings are pulled at Mia’s words and I fight back the tears that are dying to come out. The perfect dress with the perfect veil, trimmed with white lace.
“Now we need old and blue,” she says, and we start thinking of what could fill those spots.
***
It’s not until the week before the wedding that the nerves start to kick in. I try my best to hide it around Drew because I don’t want to scare him, but Mia’s antenna is always up when something’s going on with me. I suspect it’ll take Drew a bit longer to pick up on such things, but for now, it’s Mia who confronts me about what’s got me so jittery.
“I’m fine,” I try to wave her off as I’m returning the last dog from his evening walk for the day.
“You’re a terrible liar,” she says plainly. “Now what’s up with you? You’ve been quieter and more jumpy than usual.”
“I haven’t been jumpy,” I deny.
“Susan said hello to you today and you nearly jumped out of your skin,” she pointed out.
“In my defense, she came up from behind me and I jumped because I couldn’t see her,” I explains.
“Meg, stop playing. What’s going on with you?” she asks softly, pulling me into her back office.
With her tone changed and the door shut, I know she won’t let me out of this easily unless I just spit it out and tell her.
“I’m nervous about the wedding. That’s all,” I confess.
“I thought getting married in late June was too quick, and I knew Drew wanted all of his siblings to attend. I thought by booking the wedding in late August so Mona could have her baby and then fly out, I would buy myself some time to ease into the wedding planning.
“But now that it’s here, my nerves feel like they’re on overdrive, Mia.” “That’s perfectly normal,” she says, as she sits in her desk chair. “It’s a big day for both of you.”
“Yeah.” I nod but still hold back.
“Is there something else about the wedding has you feeling like this?” Mia has always been the one of us to push when she feels there is something I’m not saying.
“By the time Drew and I get married, we’ll have been together for only four months,” I say, and hearing it said out loud from my own mouth shocks me. “Am I rushing into this?”
Mia smiles and pats the folding chair next to her. When I take a seat, she shakes her head. “I don’t think you’re rushing it,” she says. “I think that what you’ve found in Drew is someone who’s perfectly fit for the kind of person you are and vice versa.”
“How do you know that?”
“Because I can see the way you guys look at each other.” She shrugs her shoulders like when she is trying to explain something to me.
“And how’s that?”
