外教讲解地道美语 第221期:策划婚礼

A: Trina, will you marry me?

B: Yes! Yes! And yes! Jared ,of course I’ll marry you!

A: Oh， Babe, I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you! I can’t wait for all the adventures we’re  going to have, for all the fights and the laughter. I can’t wait to grow old and wrinkly with you.

B:  Oh, Jared!  I can’t wait for our wedding!  I hope you don’t mind, but I’ve already chosen a date! Six months from now in the summer! Melissa saw you buying the ring last month so I’ve had plenty of time to start planning!

A: She what?

B: Oh don’t worry, sweetie, I didn’t know when you were going to propose. It was still a nice surprise!  As I was saying, I’ve got it all planned out. There’s almost nothing left to do!  I wrote up our guest  list and we will have roughly four hundred guests attending.

A: Four hundred?

B: No need to sweat it. My parents agreed to pay for most of the wedding, which is going to be low-budget anyway. So roughly four hundred people, which means that the hall at Northwood Heights  will be our reception venue. I thought it would be nice if we had the wedding at your parents’ church and my uncle of course would be officiating. We’ll meet with him soon for some pre-wedding counseling. The music for the wedding ceremony was  a no-brainer. My step-sister and her string quartet will take care of that. My cousin will be the official photographer.  I thought it would also be nice if his daughter could sing a solo. Did you know that she’s going to be a professional opera singer?

A:  Ah...

B: And then of course the ladies at the church would love to be our caterers for the banquet and we’ll get the Youth Group to serve us.  I was thinking that your friend’s band could be our entertainment for the night.  though they might have to tone it down a bit.  Or we could hire a DJ. Your sister’s husband could get us a discount with that company that does the decor at weddings.   what’s their name again?  I was thinking that we could have an island paradise- themed wedding and our theme color would be a soothing blue like Aquamarine.   And there will be a huge seashell on the wall behind the podium where we’ll make our toasts!  What do you think of small packages of drink mixes for our wedding favors? Who else am I missing? Oh, your uncle could be our florist and his wife could make our wedding cake!

A: Wow.

B: See? It’s going to be wonderful! Oh this wedding  is going to be everything I ever dreamed of.

A: If I survive the next six months.