Remembering Bunny’s Wedding

Sophie and Tiger

I’ve been going through my old journals again, and today I came across this little passage, about my sister Bunny’s wedding back in 2006, when Sophie was five and Jake was two:


Sunday, March 26, 2006

Sophie was so pretty as Bunny’s flower girl. Her dress was the color of a butter mint–a very, very pale creamy yellow. She had matching shoes and ruffled socks. The dress was moire taffeta with puff sleeves. It was long, with a sash around the waist. Sophie wore a crown woven of silk roses and real spirea picked in Mom’s yard. And she had a little white basket full of white rose petals. It was decorated with ribbon and pink silk roses. Mom spent days making the crown and trimming the basket.

Sophie came to the wedding carrying her little basket and wearing her crown. She was also holding her best friend, her little stuffed cat named Tiger. Tiger was all dressed up for the wedding too, with a little bracelet on his head for a crown, and a whole bunch of necklaces. He wore a ring on his tail. . . .

“Ow wow,” I said. “Tiger’s dressed up too!”

Bunny gave Sophie a special gift to thank her for being her flower girl. It was a fairy doll with violet eyes. The doll wore a sheer, opalescent gown, and she had sheer, shimmering wings. Her hair was yarn, and she wore a crown of flowers just like Sophie’s. Her shoes were little purple ballet slippers.

Sophie was so excited about her fairy doll and so excited about being a flower girl. She was being very sweet. She is so passionate, and she always tries. She tries so hard with everything. She really took her flower-girl duties to heart.

Jake wore a little light blue seersucker suit with short pants. He had tonic in his hair, which was carefully combed to the side. He was sick, with a hoarse voice. He would tell you he had a turtle in his throat.

“Jake, what’s wrong with your throat?” we’d ask. “What’s in it?”

“Turtle,” he would say, very sadly and seriously. I’m sure he believed there was actually a turtle in his throat; he obviously felt very sorry for himself.

Bunny’s bridal bouquet was the neatest thing–ornamental cabbage and spirea.

“It’s so cute,” I said to Matt. “Her bridal bouquet is basically a cabbage. . . .”

“Yep,” he said.