This saga starts a few night ago..Sunday night, to be exact.
Let us follow our heroine, as she leaps from the shower to grab the ringing phone.
“Hello?” she gasps, and only then realizes whose number was on the caller ID.
*scary music plays*
“Hi alli! This is your mother…why arent you answering your phone?”
“Because I didnt want to get electrocuted and die.”
“What?”
“I was in the shower, Mom.”
“Oh. Well, I think we need to talk about The Wedding.”
A vague feeling of dread overcomes our heroine, and a shiver runs up her back. Part of the shiver is from the fact she has no clothes on, but most of it involves the dread she always feels when her mother wants to Talk About The Wedding.
“I think we might have a problem with the location.”
“Why? I thought we already had the Farm booked for the night. Doesnt that include downstairs for the ceremony?”
“Well..Im just not happy with it.”
alia’s eyes begain to cross in frustration, as this is a familer conversation..she begins to tune out..
“I’m not sleeping well…I wake up at night and cant get back to sleep because Im so stressed out over The Wedding..The Farm might be pretty, but the Church is so much prettier…your dress deserves to have a setting that really shows it off…we can get candles for the alter..I went to a wedding at the Church last week and they did…What if it rains at the Farm?..We dont have a tent..and everyone Ive talked to says that tents are a big hassle..*sniffs, gets choked up* Im just trying to make this wonderful for you…I would be so much more comfortable if we did this at the Church…”
alia gives in. the guilt trip has spoken.
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2 Nights later, alia calls back. by this point, she has discussed the problem with both sisters, the fiancee, and the best friend. varying advice is given..from saying “NO!” to sweet talking.
No one could have predicted what came next.
all alia wants to do is relax and watch Finding Nemo..Brandus insists on her calling her mother..
filled with terror, she calls…and…..her father answers.
Mom isnt home.
Daddy understands.
Daddy thinks the Farm would be pretty.
Daddy will talk to Mom for Alia.
Alia is filled with relief..even knowing that the father, in all his infinite wisdom, might have no effect on the stubborn mother.
Whew.