When a wedding RSVP card bizarrely invites all women to wear white, one guest suspects a scheme. Turns out, the bride’s dramatic mother plans to wear her own white gown to steal the spotlight. But the bride has a bold plan to outsmart her…
and everyone’s in on it. I was sitting on the porch when my wife, Linda, found the wedding invitation in the mail. “It’s here!
David and Emily’s wedding invitation,” she announced, slitting the envelope open with her finger. Linda’s eyebrows shot up as she read the invitation. Then she flipped it over, and her expression shifted from curiosity to complete bewilderment.
“Okay, you need to see this.”
She handed me the RSVP card
At the bottom, scribbled in handwriting far too loopy and dramatic to belong to David, was the most outrageous statement I’ve ever seen on an invitation: “LADIES — PLEASE WEAR WHITE, WEDDING DRESSES WELCOME!”
I stared at the words like they might rearrange themselves into something sensible. “Is this a typo… or a dare?”
“That’s what I’m trying to figure out,” Linda said.
“I mean, everyone knows you don’t wear white to someone else’s wedding. It’s like, Wedding Guest 101.”
David was my old Coast Guard buddy. We’d served together for three years and stayed close ever since.
He was practical, straightforward, the kind of guy who wouldn’t pull a prank like this. But Emily? I’d only met her a few times, but she seemed equally sensible.
“I’m calling Chief,” I said, pulling out my phone. David’s old nickname had stuck long after we’d both left the service. The phone rang three times before David picked up.
“Hey, what’s up?”
“Chief, we just got your wedding invitation, and I have to ask — what’s with the white dress request? Are you planning some kind of themed wedding?”
There was a long pause. When David finally spoke, his voice carried a weight I hadn’t heard since our deployment days.
Not wedding-stressed tired, but something deeper. “It’s Emily’s mom,” he said, and I could almost hear him rubbing his temples. “Dorothy.
She’s… she’s planning to wear her old wedding dress to upstage Emily.”
“She’s what now?”
“You heard me right. She’s done it before.
She hijacked Emily’s bridal shower by showing up in a white cocktail dress, mocked Emily’s venue choice to anyone who’d listen, and even threatened to walk Emily down the aisle if her ex-husband didn’t ‘clean up his act’ for the ceremony.”
My jaw dropped. “That’s… that’s insane.”
“Yeah, well, welcome to Dorothy’s world.
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