Our Dream Wedding Lisa Summe One day in math class I plotted our dream wedding on a sheet of graph paper from my graph paper notebook. It was the first time I ever thought about getting married in my whole life. You had no idea that I wanted to marry you and maybe it was because we were just ten years old. I would say that’s too young for girls to be thinking about getting married but the truth is it isn’t. The church and the cross on top of the church were very easy to draw with all the squares and since I was a kid when I planned our dream wedding I still believed in church. That church was where everyone got married. What I liked about you was that you always shared your Dunkaroos with me. My mom never got Dunkaroos because she said they cost too much. You only liked the cookies so I got to have all the icing to myself which was good because there wasn’t very much of it. In the drawings both of us were rectangles. You were eleven squares tall and just right and I was only eight squares tall because I was really short as a kid. You had these beautiful curls in real life that I had to unfortunately straighten in our dream wedding because of the straight lines on the paper and my obsession with only drawing on the lines. It bothered me that on the page certain things didn’t look right. Like the flowers in your hand were just squares on sticks. I made up for things not looking right by drawing hearts all over to add to the romance of it but they ended up looking half like field goal posts and half like bad drawings of Ohio. Luckily holding hands on the page was easy besides the fact that we didn’t have fingers because having fingers on graph paper would look like monster claws which I didn’t like. I’d always wanted to hold your hand for about three weeks before our dream wedding and this was where it happened. What was dreamy about it was the palm trees next to the church. I know we were in Ohio but you need to understand that in a dream wedding anything can happen. The coconuts on the palm trees were square but you could tell what they were by using context clues. I wore a top hat because that was easy to draw and it just made more sense if one of us dressed like a boy. I liked to do boy things mostly so I thought maybe I could be the boy for you. The limousine ride was going to be the best part. It was a big rectangle that looked a lot like us but sideways. The wheels were square like everything else which is probably why this never went anywhere.
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