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Norma waited until late afternoon to sit at the kitchen table with Alex and go over early, but extremely overdue wedding plans. It had only been a few weeks since their engagement but Norma felt it was ready to delve into ideas for the ceremony, reception, and of course the honeymoon. She wanted this to be perfect, with bells, whistles, and well thought out organization. Alex agreed, the large majority of him wanted to just support her decisions and not get involved too much.
Neither Dylan or Norman knew about the engagement yet, the couple wanted them to find out in good time. Now, Norma sat with pen in hand, tapping it on the notepad as Alex cracked open a fresh can of Bud. The word Location was the first written on the lined paper.
Norma didn't want anything she'd already done before. With John, it was a quick courthouse ceremony, two signed papers, a certificate, and they were out. Then again, she was eight months along with her brothers child, making the whole "ceremony" incredibly unenjoyable. When Sam proposed, he told her it was to be a proper church wedding, family and a priest with no exceptions. That coming from the man who skipped church every Sunday morning for sports and booze.
Alex thought and sipped his drink, "So, where do you wanna get married? You want a traditional church wedding?". Though he wasn't religious, he still brought it up. He know for a fact Norma wasn't highly into religion, as most things that had happened to her were ungodly.
She was incredibly quick to shake her head and blow of his askings, "No way. I've done the church thing before, it was far to serious for me. I kinda want to do something fun? I guess now that I'm older, I don't care about doing stuff the right way anymore," a laugh left her lips as she let her mind race with possible ideas.
"Fun, huh? Like something completely unorthodox or just unique? And who are we going to invite, where will the reception be?" he asked, getting stressed over the details. Alex was a tense man, he didn't like to do things that conflicted with his routine. Work and the wedding was bound to take up all his time.
"Sweetheart, you are getting too far ahead of the list. Let's just focus on a good location, okay?," Norma was starting to fret but soon the right place hit her mind, "What would you say to getting married on the beach?".
He ran her idea over in his head. A beach. Serene, peacefully, fairly quiet, all things he liked. "That's a good idea. And plus we could have a small crowd without it looking to weird."
"Okay, so we've agreed on a beach," she reiterated, jotting the word down on her paper. "Now we can talk about that small group of guests. I was just thinking about Dylan, Norman, Emma, and plus each of them will bring a date. What about you? Who do you want to come?".
"You know me. I don't have a lot of family. But I'm sure my aunt and uncle will want to be there. And uh, I have some friends from the station who I can invite," he offered, knowing it wasn't a lot of people. It mattered that he was trying, that was all he could do. It hurt that he didn't have parents or siblings that would be there, but at least he had Norma, she was all he needed.
"That's is a really small amount of guests, but it doesn't matter. It's cheaper and easier to manage," she smiled, writing the names of suggested attendees on the list. "Now I assume if we are getting married on the beach, our reception should be there too? What do you think?".
"Alright. We could do something casual if you want to. Like maybe an outdoor barbecue and some picnic benches? I don't want anything fancy, I just want people to have a good time, you know?".
She clasped her hand in his and smiled, happy to see him take an interest and come up with good ideas, "Yeah, I know what you mean. I want this to be fun too. Fancy is boring and overdone. I like that idea, I'm sure people will like it."
"How about this," he started, taking a swing of his beer and moving his hand to set on her forearm, his thumb coming up to brush her skin lightly, "You, me, and a bottle of wine. We can go somewhere like an island, where the water is as crystal blue as your eyes, and some big Hawaiian man can help us elope." The joking smile on his lips grew larger as he imagined the sight, nothing keeping them apart but warm sand and palm trees.
She laughed, "I wish getting married was that easy. But I have bad news for you, there is a lot of planning that goes into a wedding if you want it to be perfect and I don't know about you but I want our wedding to be better than that, I want it to be extraordinary. At least we decided on a location and what we want our reception to look like."
"Yeah, I'm happy with what we got done," he smiled, looking at their small list of improvements, "Anything else you wanted to get down? Do we have to do things like catering and uh- flowers so soon?".
"No, no, not at all. Rome wasn't built in a day, this whole thing can't be planned so soon. This is going to take a few months of planning and coordinating for it to be completely perfect. But, um...I really wanted to go dress shopping soon. I know it's super early, I'm just eager to look for something simplistic and beautiful."
A chuckle left the back of his throat as he shook his head, "Norma, you don't need to go all out with your dress. You could wear sweatpants and a tee shirt and you'll still look great. I don't want you to stress over a wedding dress."
"Trust me, the only time you'll see me in my sweatpants in when I don't wanna have sex," she laughed, her mind racing with ideas of a beautiful wedding dress that she would call her own, she wanted Alex to be completely wowed. He would never guess but she had been staying up for the past few nights, a wedding magazine in her lap, searching for the perfect piece of attire. All she wanted was something vintage and adorable that would fit her like a glove. "Would you want to come and look for dresses with me?".
"Sure, I wouldn't mind that at all but isn't there some myth about a man not being able to see his wife in her dress before they get married? I think they say it's bad luck for your marriage or something."
"Alex Romero, you better knock on wood, I don't want to hear the words bad luck and marriage in the same sentence. Not for the next few months that is. But I get what you mean. maybe I'll just ask Dylan or Norman to come with me and hunt for dresses," she thought, laughing in her own mind as she imagined her sons seated in front of a dressing room with various gowns draped over their shoulders.
He was quick to shake his head and banish her idea, "No. Believe me when I say they would hate that. There are two places in this world that you never bring a man. The tampon section of the grocery store and any establishment where they sell clothing. Why don't you just bring Emma with you? I can tell she wants to be apart of the family anyway, I think she'd be really happy if you invited her to search with you."
She thought for a moment and looked back to him, "Well, if I ask her to help me look for wedding dresses, she'll know we are getting married. Should I tell her about the engagement? I mean, I really wanted to keep it secret from Norman and Dylan for a little while, they are my sons and they've seen me go through this twice, I don't want them to worry and think we are rushing into this. I know if I tell Emma about us it'll slip out somehow."
"Well, what if we do something special to let them all in on our engagement. Like a dinner party or something? We could cook a special dinner and sit them all down and maybe break the news to them, you could show off your ring and they'll all see how happy we are."
She smiled wide at the thought of Alex;s sentiment, "That is so sweet, Alex. What a great idea. We could make it really nice and relaxing like our wedding idea and then we should break it to them in some kind of clever way. I'm really excited to tell them now, I'm sure everyone will be really happy."
"They will, Norma. I'm 100% sure that they will all be incredibly supportive, you have to believe that. As long as you have me and your son's and Emma behind you, this wedding will be amazing. You know what I mean?".
"I do."
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