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I remember once when my cousin’s wedding day was approaching. She is a real perfectionist. Everything had to be perfect and ‘just so’. The cake had to be decorated like she wanted, the flowers had to be absolutely perfect etc. With her rushing around and us in the middle, it was like being in the middle of a hurricane.

First she didn’t really who to put on her guest list and was leaving loads of people out. Then she didn’t have a clue what to put on her wedding list. She was going a bit overboard putting every tiny little thing down.

Then there were the people who phoned her up to tell her what they wanted to give her, so those things went on the list too. Her Great Aunt came round with a catalogue of quilt sets of all things. They sat there for a good afternoon looking at the different pictures and deciding on a good color scheme. As Aunty Bee said, she was shopping for two now, so she had to take her husband-to-be into consideration too. He had opinions too, she said.

Then my Mom said she wanted to get them something nice and memorable, because we have been best friends forever. So I took her to see the ‘giant pictures’ my friend always liked in the arcade, but my Mom said that she wasn’t going to buy them any photos of men riding horses in the sea. What did it all mean? My Mom said. So in the end, she got them a dining room set.

You know, everyone has to eat don’t they? We thought that every time they sat down to a romantic dinner together they could think of us. And they could invite us round too! So that settled that.

So anyway, the day before the big day came and we were looking at all the presents which had already arrived. Mom’s set was there, and my bracelet and tie pin and a load of other stuff. Most of the big bulky stuff was already there you know. But my friend was looking a bit puzzled like there was something missing.

On your special day, you can sit back and relax (almost!) if you have planned well and everything is as it should be. If you have done your job well, you should have the right number of presents of the sort you like, and only one quilt set!

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