Wedding Girl

A dear friend is getting married next month and not only do I have the honour of being a bridesmaid but I am loaning her the veil from my own wedding seven years ago! Yesterday I dug it out of storage (e.g. off the hanger in my closet) to take over to her and of course my little lady spotted it on the bed and was in complete awe. Ever since I let her watch five minutes of Princess Kate walking down the aisle to William, she has been a girl entranced with weddings! She begged to be able to touch it and when I said she could try it on she was beside herself.... 'I look like a wedding girl!!!' she exclaimed while looking in the mirror.

I am not really the kind of mother who constantly envisions her daughter's wedding day, nor wants to march her towards that wedding day as if it was her sole purpose in life, the answer to all her problems or even a guarantee. And yet... ohhhh....seeing her in that gauzy ivory confection, I admit my breath caught in my throat at the sweetness and the very concept that one day she could be borrowing my veil for real! *stunned mother* I was in shock as I honestly don't think I'd ever really thought about it before! Am pretty sure a tear welled up in her doting father's eye when he came into the room and saw his little girl..

Oh, baby girl, I pray that if you do choose marriage one day, you will choose a man even half as loving, faithful and devoted as the man who married me.