The rest of the planning just seemed to glide like butter on bread. There was this beautiful little park on the coastline, overlooking the water. There was a long pier there that was big enough to fit a decent size altar and wedding arch. There was even enough room for the all of the wedding party to fit on the pier. Denny could think of nothing more beautiful then joining in union with the love of his life side-by-side with nature. He had come so close to losing his life several times, and now, he wanted to celebrate life and take in as much as he could. This site was perfect for them.
Izzie decided that pale purple and pale green would blend marvelously in with the colors of the water. Orchids have always been her favorite flower. Maybe that was because when Izzie was a little girl, her grandfather would always take her to polka dances (yes, polka dances) with him. There was this one foxtrot called I Overlooked an Orchid, and the song always made her heart smile. I mean, the verse spoke for itself:
I overlooked an orchid.
While searching for a rose.
The orchid that I overlooked was you.
The rose that was searching for
Has proved to be untrue.
The orchid now I find, my dear, is you.
As weird as it may sound, Izzie found that to be a beautiful love song. She went into the surgical field determined to make herself known for something more miraculous than just being the 'dumb, pretty blonde girl'. She focused intently on her career for awhile there, just giving herself glimpses of happiness here and there. She now considered her career to be the rose. The orchid is the love and happiness she finds when she's with Denny. It's the love and happiness everyone deserves in life but she had been denying herself for so long. She had settled for roses her whole life: things that look beautiful but bear sharp thorns. She would settle no more. She found happiness, and she was going to stick with it. That is why she chose I Overlooked an Orchid to be their wedding song. Denny thought there couldn't be a song more appropriate if that was really the way Izzie felt out the song, and he told her it would be most fitting if she chose orchids as her flower to match that love and devotion in the song.
She actually left Meredith and Christina in charge of picking out the bridesmaid's dressing. The only requirement she had was that they be pale green. Nothing else really seemed to matter. Her dress was the one that really mattered. She found the most beautiful dress, too. It, of course, was white with just a touch of pale purple on the train. The train wasn't too long, of course, because that would just be inappropriate for an outdoors wedding. There was just simple beading around the bust to make the dress shimmer in the sunlight. She found the perfect jewelry to match, too! The pieces were lined with leaf shaped and studded with diamonds. She had chosen to not wear anything in her hair except for a single, white orchid mixed into a simple double braid. The simpler everything was, the better.
She had decided to make the wedding cake herself. She had always loved to back, and she thought that would make it just that much more special. Denny was impressed. He had never known someone so ambitious about baking before, and he counted his lucky stars to be marrying such a talented woman. Plus, since they weren't inviting more than one hundred people to the wedding, the cake didn't have to be that large: simple was the theme for the day. If everything around them was simplified, their love would be magnified. The day was to celebrate them, and they wanted nothing to overshadow that.
So, all the plans were made. The invitations were sent. The decorations ordered. The wedding dress altered. There was nothing left to do but bask in the love they had for each other and wait for their union as man and wife.