\u201cWe are not postponing our lives for people who can\u2019t see how incredible you are. Our wedding will be perfect because we\u2019ll be there, promising to love each other forever. That\u2019s all that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was right, but it didn\u2019t dull the sting. I\u2019d dreamed of this day since I was little, and in every version, my parents were beaming. Instead, they were probably at their country club, gossiping about my unfortunate life choices.<\/p>\n
I threw myself into preparations. If my parents wanted to miss the happiest day of my life, that was their loss. I altered my grandmother\u2019s vintage lace dress, practiced my vows until I could recite them without crying.<\/p>\n
Mason\u2019s family arrived two days before, and I was genuinely shocked by how normal they were. Robert, Mason\u2019s dad, was a kind, broad\u2011shouldered man\u2014an older version of Mason\u2014with hands that had clearly seen hard work. Susan, his mom, petite and energetic, hugged me like we were old friends.<\/p>\n
\u201cFinally,\u201d she beamed. \u201cMason has told us so much about you. I feel like we\u2019re old friends already.\u201d<\/p>\n
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