Cry-baby four
After High school
Making wedding plans
Cry-Baby and Allison decided they were going have their wedding on July 31st the last day of the month. The wedding ceremony would be conducted by the judge, in the large back garden at the Vernon-Williams residence. It was June 21st meaning they had just a little over a month to prepare.
Allison already had her wedding dress taken care of. She was going to wear the dress her mother had gotten married in. Allison loved it and as a little girl could often be found playing dress up in the lacy and silk white garment. Often pretending she was the bride walking down the isle to the man of her dreams. And finally her girlhood fantasy was to become reality.
The dress consisted of a strapless bodice made completely of the finest French lace, beaded with tiny pearls, with a flowing floor length skirt made of the purest white silk. It was the first time she had tried it on since she was thirteen years old.
It was also the first time she had the assets required to wear her mothers wedding dress, without the bodice appearing as if were going to swallow her adolescent flat chest, and she was going to trip over the hem of the long flowing skirt.
The dress was over twenty years old, her mother had only been her age when she had married Allison's father. They had both died in their late twenties. At least it was old enough that it took care of the something old tradition.
The engagement party had been held in the finest drape style at turkey point. While the actual wedding ceremony and reception would have an upper class theme, but would not be stuffy and over bearing. Over bearing like Cry-Baby expected Baldwin and Lenora's wedding had been when they'd married a fortnight just past.
Cry-Baby refused point blank to be married in the same style as a square, and Allison had agreed not to subject him to such torture. They agreed that the ceremony would not be very religious.
They also agreed that the first half of the reception would consist of a string quartet backing a female singer. But the evening would have some of the music both Cry-Baby and Allison liked.
Cry-baby and his best man Milton were going insane over what Allison was making them wear to the wedding. She insisted if they both refused to wear a white jacket, then they would instead be wearing a black tux with a white shirt and black bow tie.
In the end Cry-Baby reluctantly cracked and agreed to wear the black tux, but no way in hell was he wearing the white one. It sounded like something Baldwin would have worn. And he had unknowingly been right as well.
Pepper as Alison's matron of honour, matron because she was no longer a maid seeing as she was already married with children. She was going to be wearing a silk crimson strapless dress and matching elbow length dress gloves. Wanda and Hatchet were going to wear the same as the bride's maids.
Suzy Q would be wearing a dress in the same colour but she would have short puffed sleeves and no gloves. She was going to be tossing rose petals onto the floor as she walked along. Sara, Pepper's two year old daughter was going to carry the wedding rings, or at least fake ones on a little pillow. She was going to wear a dress identical to Suzy's her older sisters. While Snare-Drum would be a page boy, seeing as he was far too old to be a ring barer.
The night before the wedding Allison was going crazy with nerves. She and the girls and Ramona and Mrs. Vernon-Williams were sitting in her bed room in their night wear with facial masks on. They were painting each others finger and toe nails.
Each girl or in Ramona and Mrs. Vernon-Williams case woman, had their hair put in rollers which were being secured by an elastic netting. Their conversations were full of laughter and retelling of embarrassing stories. They ate pound after pound of the finest chocolate. Suzy Q and Sara were a sleep in one of the guest rooms, oblivious to the miniature party taking place only a few doors down the hall.
Meanwhile at turkey point Cry-baby and his uncle and the other drapes were having a party of their own. They were drinking god knows what, and playing poker, and telling embarrassing stories of past events.
Snare-Drum had been put to bed, seeing as his father did not want him seeing the stripper performing that would be arriving later on that night. It was Cry-Baby's last night as a bachelor, and free unshackled man of leisure.
What the others did not know and would never know if Cry-Baby had anything to say about it. He was not interested in any stripper; he was missing Allison even if it had only been a matter of hours since he'd last seen her.
When the stripper arrived it was evident he was only paying hardly half of his attention to the sexy lacy suspender clad red head parading and swaying about seductively in front of him.
Cry-Baby barely managed to smirk when she had sat in his lap and grinded against him, not even earning a raise out of him, before she stripped down to her G string panties; and had threw her bra at Cry-Baby who held it from his left middle finger smirking half heartedly.
The stripper's time was not wasted mind you. So she didn't manage to ensnare the groom to be. The other male drapes had been drooling and wolf whistling like a pack of dogs on heat.