Page 49 of So Wrong It's Right

I shake my head. “Go find a groomsman. They all have flasks. She’s going to need that more.”

“It’s eight o’clock in the morning.”

Megan makes a noise that could open a portal into hell, and Miranda nods quickly. “All the flasks. I’m going to collect all of them.”

“Good idea.”

Megan hangs up the phone, and I pull her onto a bench. “Sit.”

“I can’t sit. There’s so much to do.”

“If your head blows off, we will never get our cleaning deposit back. Sit.”

She slumps onto the bench. “I can’t believe he did this. He left his bachelor party last night and dragged Dixie off to Vegas on a redeye. They were married by an Elvis impersonator an hour ago.”

That rat bastard stole my wedding plans.

“Megan...” How do I tell her that I’m pretty sure he rescued his bride from a wedding neither of them wanted?

“Poor Dixie. She lost her beautiful, once-in-a-lifetime dream wedding all because my stupid brother didn’t want to wear a cummerbund.” She buries her face in her hands. “Now what are we going to do?”

A man’s voice rings across the vestibule. “We’ll get married instead.”

We both look up to see her boyfriend Brad striding across the room with a ring in his hand.

“Brad?” my sister and I say in unison.

“I’ve had this ring in my pocket since February, but then Leo asked Dixie first, and you were planning their wedding and I thought I needed to wait because you couldn’t plan two weddings at the same time.”

Has he not met my sister? She could plan two weddings and the Olympics at the same time.

Her eyes are huge as she stares at the ring. “I... we...we can’t get married today. This is Dixie’s dream wedding. I can’t just...”

He gets on one knee and takes her hand. “You know I love you more than anything in this world, so I say this with love, but you know, deep in your heart, this is not Dixie’s dream wedding.”

“It’s not?” She watches him shake his head. “It’s not. It’smydream wedding, isn’t it?”

He slides the ring on her finger. “I’m sorry I didn’t ask you sooner. I felt like such a jerk watching you plan all this knowing it was what you wanted. But I knew you wouldn’t want to share this with another bride, so I was going to wait until they were back from their honeymoon.”

She stares at the huge rock on her hand. “But the license.”

“We’ll get the legal part done next week.”

“I’m just supposed to wear her dress?”

I intervene here. “Mom can do some quick alterations if you need it. You and Dixie are about the same size.”

I notice the vestibule is filling up with family as we all witness Saltine Brad really come out of his shell. “Megan Marie Stone, will you marry me? Today?”

She looks at me for an answer for the first time in our entire lives. I nod my agreement. She swallows hard and looks back at Brad. “Sure.”

Sure?

I nudge her with my elbow.

“Yes!” she laughs and launches onto the floor with him and into his arms. “Yes, I will marry you today.”

It’s not for hours that I finally feel done with this day and can relax and have fun at the reception. Megan and Brad got hitched without a hitch.

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