Chapter 149: Wedding Day

Makeup brushes tickled her face as Emily tried to remember to breathe, waiting for her bridal look to be completed. She couldn't wait to open her eyes and look in the mirror.

"You look like a real lady!" Pam commented. "Not that you normally don't look like a lady." She burst into laughter, the champagne kicking in and making her even more giddy than usual.

Emily found herself laughing too, much to the annoyance of the makeup artist, who had to pause so as not to smear eyeliner all over her face. "You look like a real lady," too, she said to Pam, who was wearing a magnificent green dress with hoop skirts and a white lace trim.

"Sorry, I'll sit still now," Emily said to the woman who was doing her makeup, a professional artist who worked with fashion models.

She had woken up that day feeling different. It was a feeling like her life was going to change for the better. Even though weddings might not mean that much in the modern world when people usually lived together before getting