My Family Chose My Sister’s Baby Shower Over My Wedding and the Next Morning They Wouldn’t Stop Calling Me

different from the last. I thought briefly of Colette’s wedding five years earlier, three hundred guests and gold-foil stationery and a twelve-piece band, and then I thought about our invitations and loved them completely. They were ours.

The call from Aunt Patricia came three weeks before the wedding. Patricia was my mother’s older sister and the family’s continue reading …