Blaire by Jennifer Castle

Author:Jennifer Castle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2018-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

I’m so excited …” said Mrs. V. “I have goose bumps on my goose bumps!”

We were all sitting at a big table on the restaurant patio: Cat, Gabe, Dad, Mrs. V, and me. I propped up my tablet, and Dad had his laptop open with the budget spreadsheet he was working on.

I started with my ideas for the ceremony at the gazebo, swiping through photos on my online inspiration board. There were images of gazebos covered in a rainbow of colored tulle fabric, strung with twinkly lights and decorated with huge paper butterflies.

“What’s that?” Cat asked, pointing at a picture of a pinwheel.

“I thought we could line the path to the barn with pinwheels,” I explained. “They would look neat spinning in the sun.”

Cat opened her mouth to say something, but Mrs. V interrupted.

“That reminds me,” Mrs. V said. “I had a brainstorm when we were at the gazebo earlier. We need a red carpet down the aisle. Gabe’s father and I owned the Carpet Queen store chain, and we always put a red carpet out in the parking lot for grand openings. Everyone felt like royalty.”

Cat looked at Gabe.

“Um, Mom?” he said. “That’s great for a grand opening, but maybe not a wedding.”

“Fine, fine. Just an idea. Plenty more in here,” Mrs. V said, tapping the screen of my tablet. “But we must have a bubble machine. We always had them at our big sales at Carpet Queen—remember, Gabe? When you were little, you liked to eat the bubbles. Anyway, they were my husband’s favorite thing. A bubble machine will make it feel as if he’s here at the wedding, too.”

“Great idea,” I said, grinning at Mrs. V. “It would be so fun to walk through a cloud of bubbles!”

“Just as long as Gabe doesn’t eat them,” Cat teased.

“Okay, now the reception,” I said. I showed them more rainbow tulle, this time wrapped all the way up each of the barn’s wooden posts. The place cards would be origami fortune-tellers made out of “rustic” brown paper, and the wedding favors would be packets of seeds that read LET LOVE GROW! in shimmery ink. In the corner of the barn, on a stack of hay bales, we would put a chicken nesting box where people could put their cards for Cat and Gabe. “I’ll paint it sparkly lavender with ‘Gabe and Cat’s Nest Egg’ in gold letters on the top,” I explained. “The ‘nest egg’ part was Mrs. V’s idea.”

Mrs. V grinned.

I showed them my ideas for table decorations. “Check out these sparkly, floating gold candles I found,” I said to Cat. “We can put them on all the tables in bowls with stones and water from the creek, with more tulle and some twigs, and the wildflowers from the field that you like. What do you think?”

There was a long pause. Finally, Cat said, “Whoa.”

“Is that good?” I asked. “Do you love it?”

Cat glanced at Gabe, then leaned back heavily in her chair.

“Sprout,” she began. “You have so many fun ideas.

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