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“Getthe ridiculously placed zipper toward her “Can I at least see the wedding dress?”

“I ordered it special on the Internet!” she squealed as she ran into the back room

“Still need help with the zipper!” I called after her I turned and caught a look at myself in a mirror “Gah!”

Seriously, how does a veteran seaet ar its tail I heard shuffling and giggling as Jolene tried on her wedding dress

She e rooown And despite the universal laws of wedding dress ordering, the standard size four actually fit her perfectly The cut elass silhouette EveryHer skin seereen

“I hate you You’re co even more dumpy in my half-basted peach death shroud

“Thanks” She sighed dreamily

“Meanwhile, I’lance at my watch

“The engageot!”

“Well, that’s probably just your brain’s protective response to the prospect of seeing Maer,” I said as she dashed off

“Hey, I’!” I yelled after her

You know that feeling you get when you walk into a roo would have been welcoement fete

Clai all of the prewedding revelry, Maether a last-eenerally thrown by swankier families at the Half-Moon Hollow Country Club and Catfish Farer pulled a fast one when she listed the venue address on the invitations Since few of us spent a lot of time at Eddie Mac’s, where local rednecks went to find their future former spouses, ere not faer had special access to the back rooue

It was a surprise party, as in “Surprise! You’re wearing three-inch heels, but your party’s being held at a place where the table linens come from wall-mounted dispensers”

I should have suspected soed us to “dress up” ThisDate Change A week after the wedding invitations were sent out, Mah Apparently, her open distaste for the bride didn’t preclude Maht to invite every person she’d ever hbor who sold stationery out of the back of her dad’s gas station to help Ma a Precious Moer sent it out to another 150 distant relatives and passing acquaintances, so that instead of assuers to their far their secret to 250 people even Manize face-to-face or sober