A new face after the race
Chapter 68
The stretch of time allowed passed and they breathed easier as that moment of truth passed. The priest cleared his throat and continued again.
"May we have the rings?" The priest requested and Michael stepped on up, holding them on a soft pillow. Emily smiled, Lucky smiled as the priest started getting to the most important part of the ceremony.
"Mr. Spencer please repeat after me." The priest requested and started. ""I, Lucas,
take you, Emily, to be my wife; to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, In sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, 'Till death do us part."
Lucky echoed the priest's words and slipped the gold ring on Emily's ring finger. A few tears of joy fell down Emily's cheek as she watched him promise to dedicate his whole life to her, Lucky smiling all along the way, just as happy as her.
The sun shined off the gold ring on her finger and she looked up as the priest looked to her. "Emily, please do the same after I speak." He requested again and said, "I, Emily, take you, Lucas, to be my husband; to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, 'Till death do us part."
Emily repeated the words, shedding some unknown and subconscious tears but didn't swipe them away. Then she took the other gold wedding band and placed it on Lucky's ring finger.
Emily and Lucky's eyes met as they looked up at each other, after promising and vowing to love each other for the rest of their lives and making their marriage complete, in the physical way at least. Legally was a different story.
They were smiling and happy as they looked to the priest for the final blessing. "I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride." He announced to all and Lucky lifted Emily's veil.
He looked into her chocolate brown eyes, her into his clear sky blue ones and they kissed, to pull back and into reality, after getting lost in their own little fantasy.
He laughed as the crowd stood and clapped to the happy now married couple. Lucky reached for Emily's hand, his wife, he realized, really his wife after all they had gone though and conquered.
Emily was thinking much the same thing as they walked, ran slightly down the aisle. She finally got her happy ending she always dreamed about, as a child and as a teenager, now it was a reality.
At the reception there were plenty of congratulations to go around and blessings, from people who had meant so much to them, and still did.