Date: 25 May 2015 10:28 Title: The Groom Awaits His Bride
Wow, you've really made the most of the small word allowance. So much description that I feel like I'm in the room!
Date: 23 May 2015 12:22 Title: The Groom Awaits His Bride
Yay, yay, yay. You're not going to have a Borg invasion here, right? Tell me it ends well!!!! :) I love the little nods to your characters - Icheb's awareness of the precise time, Maren's use of the stellar patterns on the dresses, JQ's little quip about Icheb not having been to many Earth weddings. And how great to see him stood at Icheb's side despite how he must feel. And all of this wrapped up in your usual wonderful prose! Great job.
Date: 21 May 2015 22:54 Title: The Groom Awaits His Bride
I love this. First, all the details of the persons involved, the whole entire exended family and the entire involvement of others in the planning and details of the wedding. Well it makes sense, since those two probably wanted no such thing but wanted their extended families to be happy (esp given that there would be some unease at the potential unhappiness and troubles they'd endure as a married couple for lots of reasons never mind Icheb's drone past. I think it conveyed very much the big family wedding vibe.
There's lots going on and in the midst of all that, Icheb and Maren, two soul mates who find and love one another do it anew on the aisle, and everything else falls away for them.
Also, the humour is perefect in this but not over egged and it is not over sentimental or romantic. Just they way it is.
[Report This]Date: 21 May 2015 12:06 Title: The Groom Awaits His Bride
I remember this moment from my own wedding (as I imagine you do, as well). It's a surreal moment. You're also looking at the world through veil netting, or at least I was. So everything is even more smoky and odd. It is right about that time that skeptics believe in magic.
I do believe Icheb and Maren do.
[Report This]Date: 21 May 2015 03:37 Title: The Groom Awaits His Bride
*Wild applause from Team I/M*
Imagining winning an Academy Award combined with the Nobel Peace Prize, and you basically have a third of the excitement and spectacular applause this inspired in my head. I clapped at the first step, I LOLed about the nephews and their throwing things (nice joke!), and I smiled when it was all said and done.
Loved. It.