Chapter 9: Preparations
At a bridal store Lovey was, getting fitted for her wedding dress. Looking at her reflection in a mirror, Lovey smiled. "So who's the lucky guy?" asked a lady gourd who was the seamstress. "Archibald." she said. "Wait," the seamstress. "Archibald Asparagus?" "Yes." Lovey replied. "We worked together several years ago. Why do you ask?" "Well my kids are big VeggieTales fans." the seamstress said. Lovey smiled. "I'm serious, they love that show." she said. "Watch it religiously, if you'll pardon the pun." Lovey giggled.
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Meanwhile, across town at a men's fashion store specializing in formal wear, Archie stared at the tuxedoes available for rent, wondering which one he should use. His buddy and best man Khalil was there with him. "What do you think, black or gray?" Archie asked. "I'd say black vegetable buddy." Khalil said. "Thanks." he said, picking a traditional looking one with a black bowtie. "Oooh, that will look great on you." said Khalil. "You really think so?" asked Archie. Khalil nodded. "It's perfect." Archie smiled. "But what are you going to do for your suit?" he asked. "Don't you worry about that." said Khalil. "I've got something back at home." Archie smiled. "I wonder what Lovey is doing?" he thought to himself.
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In a bakery, Oscar the Polish caterer was working on the wedding cake. He sang an old Polish folk song as he worked, delicately crafting lovely flowers from frosting. It was a marble cake. (white/chocolate swirl) "Ah, first three tiers done." he said. "Just one more." he added, his voice thick with a Polish accent. He got on a stepladder to finish the last tier. When he finished, he climbed back down from the ladder to get the cake topper. Two small plastic doves sitting in a heart. Oscar set the topper down on the top of the cake. As he was climbing down the ladder, he lost his "footing" and fell on a tube of icing, shooting some up in the air which landed on his face. "Oh man, I have no luck with ladders." he said. He wiped the icing off of his face just in time to see Bob and Larry come in to check on the cake. "How's it goin' Oscar?" Larry asked. "Wonderful, thank you." Oscar said. "You here for the cake?" "Just to check on it." said Bob. Oscar led the two to the kitchen. "There it is." he said with a smile. "Wow." Larry said. "That's mighty big." "It is my best cake yet." said Oscar. "I can tell." said Larry. "Great job Oscar."
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At a local church, decorations were being put into place for the big day. Several young ladies hung flowered ribbons from the walls of the chapel, while others decorated the pews with ribbon. A small band was rehearsing.
The band members tuned their instruments, which mainly consisted of violins and other assorted string instruments. The violinist who would be playing the solos tuned his instrument to the perfect pitch and tested his violin .It sounded excellent. "Perfect." he said. "You remember which parts you got." another musician asked him. "Oh yeah." said the lead violist. "Down to the last note."
In another part of town, Junior Asparagus and his friend Annie Scallion were practicing their parts in Junior's backyard. They were to be the ring bearer and the flower girl. "You doin' ok Annie?" Junior asked. "I'm doing fine." said Annie. "Whoops!" He said, saving himself from falling and dropping the rings. The rings were simple gold and silver bands. Archie's name was engraved with calligraphic script across the gold ring, and Lovey's the same way on the silver. Both the rings were on chains due to the fact that there would be no fingers to put them on. Both were tucked into the cushion, a gold one for Archie's and a silver for Lovey's
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Back with Lovey, she was back at her home writing her wedding vows ."Hmm." She thought. "What would be something sweet I could say." Lovey thought hard. She then glanced at a picture of her and Archie she had sitting next to her. Just looking at that photograph filled her heart with warmth. A flash of inspiration came to Lovey. She took her pencil, put the graphite tip to the paper she had and started writing.
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Archie was at his house trying on his wedding tuxedo. He took a look at himself in his mirror. He smiled. "Looks good." He thought to himself. Archie smiled contentedly. As he was feeling good about himself, he had a sudden idea. "I think I should write my wedding vows out." he said. "What should I say? I need to make them special." Archibald thought hard. "Special, so everyone will know what she means to me." he said. "But simple at the same time, and I need to stop talking to myself." Archie racked his brain for a few moments. Then, in a moment of meditation, he had his inspiration. He smiled and locked the words to came to his mind in his heart."Lovey will love this." he said. Archibald smiled, knowingly he would be wowing everyone with his declaration of love.