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“Ellie, it’s time to put your dress on.”

Oh wow……this was it. I was putting on the dress that the four of us spent days searching for. We ended up finding it at the last bridal store we went to in Austin. I was so sick of trying on dresses I was ready to give up. I told Ari I was trying on one more dress and that was it.

When I looked at myself in the mirror before stepping out to show the girls I almost cried. MaryBeth, the bridal consultant who had been helping me try on dress after dress, leaned over and said, “That’s the one. When you look in the mirror and want to cry…..then that’s the dress meant for you.”

I looked over at her as I felt the tears roll down my face. I didn’t even bother wiping them away. I had to show the girls that very second.

I stepped out and heard three gasps at the same time.

“HOLY HELL!” Amanda said.

“Oh my Ellie it’s perfect honey!” Heather said.

“JESUS, MARY and JOSEPH, holy fucking shit…...that dress is beautiful!” Ari screamed out as she jumped up. MaryBeth helped me up onto the platform and spread the train all out. Oh my god it was beautiful.

MaryBeth started to tell us about the dress as I stared at myself in the mirror.

“Ladies, this is a Jim Hjelm wedding dress. It is a Silk Satin faced Organza A-line dress with a strapless embroidered bodice with crystals and hand-cut Silk Organza, Chiffon and Charmeuse. The natural waist is accented with a Platinum moire ribbon and has a bias cut asymmetrical ruffle skirt with a chapel train.”

All three of them just stared at poor MaryBeth. “Yeah……. whatever the hell all that means…...Ellie it’s beautiful! Just perfect! Get it…….Gu

I let out laugh as I thought about that day. I stood up and walked over to the curtain. Je

Je

Amanda and Heather both let out a gasp and Heather started to cry.

“Don’t make her cry! Damn you Heather, you’re such a fucking sap!” I looked over at Ari and she was the one starting to cry!

Je

“Okay, they are here.”

Gu

Amanda and Heather put their cowboy hats on and walked out first. The photographer had been there ever since we started to get ready and she had been snapping away. Then Ari, Lauren and Matt walked out. Je

A carriage?

Fuck me…...I looked over and was shocked to see another one! Ari was helping Lauren and Matthew climb up into a pink carriage….a carriage for Christ sakes! My future crazy romantic husband had carriages picking us up. I had to laugh.

Oh…..…I was so going to give him a blow job tonight for this!

Je

“Hello my sweet darling girl! Oh my holy hell……if you ain’t the most beautiful bride I have ever laid eyes on! And don’t you be going and telling Emma I told you that!”

“OH MY GOSH Garrett! What’re you doing here?” I reached over and hugged him.

“Well sweet girl, your brother really wanted to be able to walk you down the aisle but seeing as he is the best man, he asked me to do the honor for him.”

Okay…...now I might cry.

“Don’t you dare…...Ellie…...don’t you cry.” Garrett said.

I started to laugh.

“Okay, I won’t!”

Once they got my train all in Je

We pulled up a little ways away from our tree. The first thing I saw was all of the people sitting on the hay bales. I still had not met Gu

Amanda, Heather and Ari had pulled ahead of us on the way over so they were the first to get out. Amanda and Heather helped Lauren and Matthew get ready to walk down the aisle. I was watching them and my heart just melted. I was too afraid to look up and see Gu

“Ells, breathe sweets. Deep breaths in and out.”

I smiled at her. I really was feeling rather calm……which was strange.

“How does he look?”

Ari smiled. “He looks so handsome Ellie and he has the biggest goddamn smile on his face I’ve ever seen!”

”Ari, Ellie, Garrett……are you ready?”

We started to walk and stopped right behind a horse. Je

Ari leaned over and gave me a kiss.

“Here we go sweets…...” She winked at me and took off.

Garrett looked over at me and smiled.

“Are you ready sweetheart?”

I had to smile at his choice of words. The fact that he called me sweetheart made my heart just start beating a mile a minute. I smiled and nodded. He took my arm in his and we started to walk.

We came around and stopped at the very begi

I looked up and looked right at Gu