“Yoing to look geous, Maria!” said Remmy, curling Maria’s hair. “Thanks for helping and allowing us to use your salon, auntie!”

  “No problem!” Remmy’s aunt replied.

  Maria was at the bridal salon along with Remmy ah, they looked excited seeing Maria getting ready for her wedding. Elena, Isabe and Mira came with the wedding dress. It was a nice white dress with a silky texture and decorated with flowers.

  “Woah! It looks amazing!” said Remmy.

  “My mother and brother are baking the wedding right now and you o try this dress,” said Elena.

  “Alright!” Maria replied. She tried on the dress and it fitted her.

  “It fits!” she said.

  “I gotta say, you really look elegant,” Beth plimented.

  “Stunning,” said Isabe with a smile.

  “Wonderful! I guess yoing to use this dress then,” Elena replied.

  “Now’s for your makeup, just stay still,” said Mira, grabbing the makeup kit.

  Noelia was with his friends while he was rehearsing his lines, Norris entered and brought the suits.

  “Hey guys, I brought the suits. There’s bck, dark blue and the ohat looked like the bakery’s wall color,” said Norris.

  “It’s called beige, did the left side of your brain follow along when you lost your left eye?” Manuel mocked.

  “Now is not the time for asking stupid questions, four eyes,” Norris replied.

  Noelia looked at the three suits, he couldn’t decide which to wear. Norris suggested dark blue while Manuel suggested staying traditional with the bck suit. Noelia grabbed the beige suit and saw fit in it. So, he decided to wear the beige suit.

  “Alright, that color it is. I guess I’ll be returning these two suits,” said Norris, exiting the pce.

  Noelia then turo Jay and Mark, asking them to be his groomsmen. As Noelia’s friends, they were willingly and gdly to accept the honor of being the groomsmen. Noelia was happy and was grateful to have such friends like them.

  Back at the bridal salon, Mira had finished with the makeup and Maria was now on her dress. All of them were awestruck by the enting dress mixed with Maria’s beauty. Maria was greatly grateful for their help. Maria looked as if she was going to cry.

  “Hey hey don’t cry, it’s going to ruin the makeup!” said Mira.

  “Oh yeah sorry but I’m not going to cry,” Maria replied.

  “The car’s here!” Beth called out.

  “Let’s get going, shall we?” said Elena.

  The womeered and the car was driven by Maria’s parents. They plimented her dress and were proud of her all grown up and was now about to experience her new life with Noelia. Maria thahem for all they did for her to be able to reach this point in her life. Maria’s heart ounding as she arrived in front of the church.

  Noelia was waiting at the altar, nervously sweating. “Hey rex man, don’t sweat or your suit would stink,” said Mark.

  “We’ll be right behind you, we got your back!” said Jay

  “Thanks guys,” said Noelia, smiling at his supportive friends.

  The atmosphere became quiet, church ans began to py and the church door opened. Maria stepped in and began walking towards the altar. The room was filled with joy and grace, Maria walked slowly to the altar with her father beside her.

  The wedding started with a mass as it started with a greeting song. The priest entered and began the mass with the sign of the cross then the collect. The priest first preached ahe word of God with the old testaments, Genesis 1:26-28 then two were from the estament which were 1 John 4:7-12 and Matthew 5:13-16. After the liturgy, the priest tinued with the homily and finally the decration of i.

  As the priest said, “Dearly beloved, you have e together into the house of the church so that in the presence of the church’s minister and the unity, your iion to enter inte may be strengthened by the Lord with a sacred seal."

  “Christ abundantly blesses the love that binds you. Through a special sacrament, he enriches and strehose he has already secrated by holy baptism, that you may be enriched with his blessing, so that you may have the strength to be faithful to each other forever, and assume all the responsibilities of married life. And so, in the presence of the church, I ask you to state your iions." the priest tinued.

  The priest looked at Noelia and Maria, he said, “Noelia and Maria have you e here to enter inte without coer, freely and wholeheartedly?”

  “Yes, I have,” said the two couples.

  “Are you prepared, as you follow the path of marriage, to love and honor each other for as long as you both shall live?” the priest asked which the couple responded, "I am."

  “Damn…This is taking quite long,” said Norris quietly to Elena.

  “Be quiet, Norris!” Elena quietly replied.

  "Then it shall be your iion to ehe Holy Matrimony, join your hands together and decre your sent befod and his church!" said the priest.

  "I, Noelia, take you, Maria, to be my wife. I promise to be faithful to you, in good times and in bad, in siess and ih, to love you and to honor you all the days of my life," Noelia sincerely decred.

  Maria with full siy also decred, "I, Maria, take you, Noelia, to be my husband. I promise to be faithful to you, in good times and in bad, in siess and ih, to love you and to honor you all the days of my life."

  After the two decred their i and sent, the priest said, "May the Lord in his kindness strehe sent you have decred before the Churd graciously bring to fulfillment to his blessings within you. What God has joined, let no o asunder."

  "May the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God who joiogether our first parents in paradise, strength and bless in Christ the sent you have decred before the Church, so that what God joins together, no one may put asunder. Let us bless the Lord!” the priest tinued and everyone responded, “Thanks be to God!”

  The priest tinued with the blessings as he sprihe rings with holy water before handling them to the couple. The priest hahem the rings starting from the Noelia."Maria, receive this ring as a sign of my love and fidelity. In the name of the father, and the son, and the holy spirit." said Noelia, pg the ring onto Maria's finger.

  "Noelia, receive this ring as a sign of my love and fidelity. In the name of the father, and the son, and the holy spirit." said Maria, doing the same.

  “Now let us humbly invoke God’s blessing upon this bride and groom, that in his kindness he may favor with his help those on whom he has bestowed the Sacrament of Matrimony." said the priest.

  "In the sight of God and these witnesses, I now pronounce you husband and wife! You may now kiss!" the priest announced.

  Noelia and Maria pressed their lips together and the crowd cheered. "Go in peace to glorify the Lord with your life!" the priest decred and the crowd respohanks be to God!"

  The mass finally ended and everyoed the church. An outdoor party after the wedding was being held. Noelia sat down on a chair and breathed out as he was exhausted.

  “Well done, mijo! You did it! You made me and your father proud although he isn't here,” Rosa gratuted.

  “Thanks…ma…couldn’t dohout…your…help,” said Noelia while huffing.

  “Dude, that was awesome of you!” said Jay and Mark in unison. Noelia was too tired to answer so he gave them a thumbs up.

  Suddenly Sebastian asked his mother to talk privately with him. He had something to tell. Whewo were alone, Sebastian handed in an acceptater for a job from a well-known pany.

  Sebastian told her that he already got everything ready and all he o do was move out. The news made Rosa both happy and sad, her son was going to have a better job but she won't be able to see him again. Rosa also became worried about who would mahe bakery. Sebastian suggested Noelia to run the bakery, Rosa didn’t seem to be vinced but seeing no other choice, she decided to agree.

  “Hey Noelia, why don’t you ask your new wife for a dance?” Jay whispered. “Better than standing here doing nothing.”

  “I danced with her before but I fot how to now,” Noelia replied.

  “Just go with the flow,” said Jay, pushing Noelia and giving him a wink.

  Noelia was shy but he pulled his guts and fidently approached Maria and asked her for a dance. Maria happily accepted, Noelia told her that he fot how to dance. So, Maria offered to teach him again and this time just as Jay said, go with the flow.

  Maria grabbed Noelia's right hand then she grabbed his left hand and pced it over her waist. Maria slowly guided Noelia and he mao get the hang of it. The couple eheir dance, remembering the day they first danced with each other. Everyone looked at the couple dang as well as the musis who started pying a graceful song.

  After some time, the wedding had ended and the couple exited the location aered the car. They were driven to a hotel to stay in for a night. The room was already booked.

  “A newly wedded couple, are they going to do something?” the first receptionist asked.

  “Why do you keep asking weird questions to me?” the sed receptionist replied.

  Instead of being intimate with each other, they would just spend time and enjoy each other's pany.