An envisioning. 2017, and an early morning in June at the house on Cranberry Isle.
Oh to be here.
Up in New Hampshire until whenever or however long it takes Cousin Betsy’s nerves to finish needing a rest.
A morning diving in from the dock while she lies down back at the house, blinds closed and a sleep mask from some airport duty-free shop or other covering her face. Somewhere in Italy for sure, what with the leaning Tower of Pisa over one eye and the Colosseum over the other. Funny. In love with anything Italian but only wanting plain old baked beans and brown bread three times a day. A New Englander crossed with a gondolier’s girlfriend, wearing skirts with all the flounces, each with two rows of rickrack, and a cardigan sweater buttoned up.
All that dandy, but the big city and all that, and a need. Engaged with a jumbo diamond. The fun kind, what with wanting one the size of a door knob. Being able to get a lab-made one grown on a wee form with a hollow middle so your wrist doesn’t collapse from carpal tunnel the first time you blow a kiss.
Maybe yes or maybe never . . . a wedding, yes, but . . .
The town hall kind with a clerk behind a counter, a white dress from Target, and a handful of whatever is growing wild in the meadow if the supermarket ones don’t suit . . . that sort of all right but . . .
Mother having dreamt dreams of a wedding with a half-deck of cards’ worth of bridesmaids. A country club reception decorated with out-of-season orchids in garlands that adorn every surface, so many you can’t tell what color the walls are painted underneath. The grand uncle who was to pay for it all having lost his shirt betting on the wrong horse and then ending up in the gutter. Mother with a plastic ring and a beach cover-up kind of thing for a wedding dress, witnesses dragged in from somewhere, on a Florida beach . . .
Maybe yes, yet, to all of that, but the renderings of various ideas from the event planning team may have to do. Sigh.
Event space all decorated up at Pendry Natirar Hotels and Resorts in Peapack, New Jersey USA. 2025. American. Image under ©. David Mitchell Fine Event Design. David Mitchell is the Artistic Director of a colorful American event design company whose images I have been using in my Instagram/Facebook story feed for a few years as they are all beautiful. Especially this one. Taken from his Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/davidmitchellfineeventdesign/p/DNG_eRhR4gG/?hl=en