The morning of my wedding, Catherine came over to help me get ready. She started putting my makeup on. I said, “Don’t put it so heavy.” She said, “Do you think that I would make you look terrible for your wedding day?”
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The flowers came. My mother was a little woman, and she looked at her corsage and said, “I’m not wearing that. It’s too big for me.” So she took the whole corsage apart, and she made it smaller and put it on her coat.
When Vince finally got to the church with the cross, the priest says, “Are you getting married today, son?”
Vince was in uniform. He was a PFC. Ma’s friend, Mrs. Carr, had a son in the navy. He was a lieutenant, and he was in uniform too. His mother says, “Son, roll that carpet down the aisle.” So there he is practically on his knees in front of this army private rolling the carpet down the aisle.
