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lining the edges of the dress. There is white sheer veil fabric covering the royal blue middle sections that match the veil draping her head from a single brass crown. As Marnina glides down the aisle on a cloud of air, she pretends that she was a princess. Zebedeo’s jaw drops as he gazes at his new bride. Frederick gently closes Zebedeo's jaw and tells him that he is such a child when it comes to Marnina. Marnina takes her place next to Zebedeo. The music stops to let the wedding begin.
    Pastor Horus greets Marnina and Zebedeo as he goes into the opening prayer and then the definition of marriage. Marnina and Zebedeo exchange vows as they giggle and beam with happiness. They exchange their wedding rings that Frederick and Vartouhi bought for them as an early wedding gift. Vartouhi comes forward to read a poem dedicated to the bride and groom.
    Pastor Horus tells everyone declaration of marriage and ends with “I now present to you Mr. and Mrs. Lardeo.”
    Everyone seated stands up and starts clapping, cheering, and whistling for the new couple as they walk down the aisle together.
    The party started right afterwards with the cutting of the cake and lots of dancing, singing, and food to be eaten. People took turns dancing with the bride and groom. Gale dances with the pretty young lady that he met earlier as Dave dances with one of her friends that she drug to the wedding. Sara meets a charming younger gentleman that sweeps her off her feet. Joanne sits in the corner with the rest of the children laughing and playing games when a stranger asks her for a dance. David, Markus, and Wendi are puzzled; why did Joanne leave with that stranger? They are all to young to understand true love and what it can do to people that are seeking it. Night comes and people leave saying good-bye and best wishes to the bride and groom. David, Markus, and Wendi all turn in for the night.
    As night turns into day, the sun peeks through a couple of clouds greeting everyone that is still at the party. Zebedeo and Marnina announce to everyone that it is time to go home and thanks for everything. David, Markus, and Wendi wake up to watch people stumble down the road to town to go to their homes.
    Zebedeo kisses Marnina’s hand, then her lips, and says to her, “I think that we could clean this up later.”
    She replies “I think I hear the bed calling me to it.”
    Dave, Gale, Joanne, and Sara are nowhere to be found. Frederick and Vartouhi tell Zebedeo and Marnina to go to bed, and they will clean up all the mess with the kid’s help. Zebedeo and Marnina thank them and head off to bed. Frederick, Vartouhi, David, Markus, and Wendi spend the rest of the morning and afternoon cleaning up from the wedding and reception. After this big event, their lives have gone back to the same uninteresting and tiresome pattern as the years pass.
     
    Five years pass before David, Markus, and Wendi hear from their sisters and brothers since the wedding. They finally receive a long letter from all of their brothers and sisters one hot summer day. Dave wrote about each one of the brothers and sisters in a letter telling what has been happening to them.
     
    Dear David, Markus, and Wendi,
    How have you been doing? We all have been doing fantastic, and a lot has been happening in our lives. It all has been happening so fast that we all have not had much time to write back to you three. We are truly sorry that you have been keeping up on sending us updated information, and we have not. So here we go.
    Gale has met a kind and generous young lady that has swept him off his feet. Do you remember the young lady that was at Zebedeo and Marnina wedding he could not stop dancing with? Well, this is that girl. Her name is Victoria, and they are going to be getting married May 5.
    Sara is married now, but she is living a couple of towns away and is planning to visit you some day. She is working on a family of her own. Sara and her husband are trying to have a baby of their