A Fabulously Unconventional Wedding Story

Once upon a time, in the early evening on the 21^st of September, there was the most fabulously unconventional wedding on a private beach in Costa Rica.  It came about in the most impromptu manner.  Two m00n sisters had met up at their favorite coffee shop on the m00n to chat and sketch and laugh over fabulously ridiculous things, as they often did. 

 

 

One sister set down her charcoal pencil and said to the other: “you know, I totally like, love you to this place and back, and shit.”  The other sister smiled and nodded and said “yes, we should just get married already.” The first sister agreed and said “oh yes, let’s do it now!” and they slid down their secret m00nbeam that took them straight to the one sister’s home in Costa Rica, because of course they would have their own secret m00nbeam because that’s just how they rolled.

Once they touched down, things moved quite quickly.  They stayed at the house only long enough to change – one into a multi-colored beautiful bohemian dress with large skinny hoop earrings, and the other into a black knee-length flowy dress with a giant skull appliqué in the back.  Then they skipped and giggled their way down the few short blocks to a secluded section of beach.  They looked around and deemed it the perfect location; they needed only their friends to make it a perfect celebration.  They used their special beachside Lobster Telephone to connect them with all their friends at once with just one call. 

 

 

Their friends were super excited and were all like “omg! wtf?! Of course we’ll be right there!” because they all coincidentally happened to be vacationing in Costa Rica at the same time (what were the odds, right?)

Within minutes, all of their friends were on the beach with them, each bringing something clever to contribute to the celebration.  One friend brought a boombox that played everything but country music. 

 

 

Another friend decided bubbles would be a whimsical feature, and brought bottles of bubbles with skull-shaped wands so there were small iridescent skulls floating about. 

 

 

And instead of a wedding cake, another friend passed out dark chocolate candy bars bigger than the one sister’s head.  

 

 

 

 Then to toast to the magical evening, one of the sister’s poured everyone a fancy glass of their signature wedding drink – a White Lightning (a concoction she made up using Costa Rican espresso, a shot of vodka and a sprinkling of edible glitter.  Sounds weird, but since no one was the boss of her, she made what she wanted.  Besides, that drink really put the “Bazinga” in you).  It was a smash.  Or maybe it was that everyone was smashed.  The details are a little fuzzy now.

 

 

But fuzzy details aside, what has remained steadfast in all the repeatings of this story was the love they shared – the love the sisters had for each other and the love all their friends shared with each other.  Oh, and their ridiculousness.  Those sisters never could be serious for very long.  In fact, the only thing they managed to be serious about was that everyone had to have a good time and just dance.

Come to think of it, actually the dancing was a little ridiculous as well.  But what’s a little ridiculous dancing between friends?

 

 

© Dahlia Ramone: June 24, 2016

 

 

This was written for Blogophilia

Week 18.9 Topic: “White Lightning”

Bonus:

Hard (2 pts): Mention a Salvador Dali work of art

(Lobster Telephone)

Easy (1 pt): Include something having to do with a wedding