i have been reading this book and in it the girl is getting married. but the trick is that she has to choose between two different weddings. one is being planned by her mother and one is being planned by her future mother in law. neither one of them know that there is another wedding being planned. the wedding being planned by her mother-in-law in in new york. it is set at the plaza hotel with all the fixings of a fairy tale wedding. the gorgous dress, the orcrestra in the background, twinkling lights all aound, trees imported from swizterland, birds chirping above, flowers every where with rose petals falling from the celling, an emaculate cake that is eight teirs high with hand painted tulips, everything you would expect from a sleeping beauty wedding.
the wedding being planned by her mother is in oxshoot england, her home town. for this wedding she is wearing her mothers dress. the reception is in the back yard with a canopy and twinkling strands of lights. there is a homemade cake by the neighber next door, the flowers are from the local gardener, the ceromony is in the local church, and then pictures by the cherry tree that was planted when she was born. now the bride has to choose....does she go with her fairy tale wedding that is evrything you could have ever dreamed of or does she go with the wedding that her mother has always dreamed of for her only daughter, in her home town?......
while reading i started to think about what i would choose. would i want the fairy tale or the home town wedding? the big fancy dress or the one my mother wore when she got married? the big fancy designer cake or the one made by a neighber? the giltering dance hall with the live band and falling rose petals or the backyard canopy with the twinkling lights???? what would i want at my wedding? which one would i choose?
then i thought....does it really matter? does it really matter whether there where trees from switzerland or the flowers from the local gardener?...... just like all other girls i have thought about what i would want my wedding day to be like. i would want it to be pretty and to be fun, but when all is said and done does it really matter who made the cake? at the end of the day would i care? what would i really want? what really matters? at the end of the day what am i living for? am i living for the fairy tale? or am i living for the home town?
at the end of the day what i am living for is the people. they are what matters to me. the people that i care about. the people that i love. they are what counts. they are what matters in life. at the end of the day, when all is said and done, it is the people in my life that i live for. that being said, i would choose the wedding where the people i loved would be as well. i would want to celebrate that day with all of those i care about and that care about me in return. because at the end of the day it doesn't matter what dress i wore or who did my hair. all that matters is celebrating life and celebrating love with all those that i love...... everything else fades away, but a family lasts forever.
2 comments:
I love to read - what book is it? I wonder what the girl chooses. I agree with your thoughts. (Hmmm...maybe because my wedding was in my parents backyard and a neighbor did make my cake!) The important thing is the covenant you make with your hubby and the rest is all 'frosting on the cake' so to speak.
That is so true! And besides all that other stuff is just stressful to worry about! :)That book sounds really good. I hope you're doing okay with your new crazy, busy schedule!
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