Once I was invited to a wedding that took place on a Saturday. Prior to the wedding day, I visited the store to purchase my dress as I needed to look my best and didn’t want to wear any old dress. The new dress was costly but I bought it so I could wear it for other formal functions in mind. I tried to get all that I needed for the wedding and then finally, the big day arrived.
After getting dressed, I left for the church where the ceremony was being held. When I reached, I realized I was late and I knew so because all eyes that were not blind were busily staring at me. If you know you’re going to be late for a function, just make sure you’re ‘worthy’ to be looked at or you are properly attired. Latecomers are usually distractors so people tend to stare at them. Too many eyes attacked me that day so I didn’t choose any specific seat, Instead, I grabbed the nearest available one.
My seat was adjacent to a man who ravaged my clothed body with a stare. If stares could kill, he would be rotting in jail by this as he couldn’t take his eyes off me. I then heard, “I thought you were the bride when you stepped in.” I then wondered who he was trying to impress but said, ‘Really! I thought the bride normally walks with someone down the aisle’. He then laughed and told me I was beautiful and looked like a ‘bride material.’
Anyway, I didn’t say anything else, I pretended as though I had not heard him plus, there was no point of contact between our eyes as my focus was elsewhere. Though I was late, the bride was even later so we all waited. While waiting, I remembered what the gentleman said to me about ‘bride material’ and when I decided to look to see who the owner of the voice was, it seemed he had gotten up without me noticing. I then wondered what bride material looks like but based on his tone, it seemed it was a good material.
The bride finally came and her presence was something to talk about. Her face was covered so no one could see whether she was pleasant to look at or not but one thing I knew for sure, her dress was a ‘wow’. With all that excitement, the ceremony took place and they finally got married; there wasn’t anyone around to stop the union of those two love birds. Then again, it wasn’t a free-for-all function so they made sure they invited the right people.
After the wedding ceremony was over, we proceeded to the reception area where we were well treated. Everything was immaculate! The cake had an inexplicable design and the taste reflected the way it looked, tasty. The food had a scent that punished my salivary gland for a while but when it was time to eat the punishment was worth it. It was yummy!
After we ate and felt like we have had enough to eat, the married couple opened the dance floor. Shortly after, the others of us went to exercise our muscles as well. While on the dance floor, I heard the same voice that spoke to me earlier saying, “May I have a dance?”. When I looked around to see who it was, I was in total shock and instantly, my heart started racing like it was trying to beat Usain Bolt’s 100 m record.
In addition to that, it seemed I had a temporary ‘stroke’ in my eyes as they were too fixed on him. The man was tall, handsome, and just looked like a ‘bridegroom material’ and of such, the only ‘note’ my vocal cords could find was ‘yes’. We danced and danced and to the way I enjoyed myself, I thought I needed to be invited to more weddings. After dancing for a while, we felt tired and decided to sit and talk a bit.
While learning about each other, someone called me and by the time I could respond, I found myself in my bed. It was indeed a dream and the voice was that of my son who woke me to ask why I was grinning teeth in my sleep like Cheshire cat.
