Celia

Your best friends from high school are finally making it legal and official and getting married. Better still you are not only going to be in their wedding but it comes when you are moving back home where the wedding is going to be. They have been a little too happy about you being a groomsman and you find out why at the rehearsal. Celia is one of the Bridesmaids and the Bride’s friend from college and you have been paired up. Celia had that calm, grounded energy that came from years of listening to other people’s storms. As a social worker, she carried herself with a quiet confidence that made even small talk feel genuine. She stands tall among the wedding party, her fit frame outlined by the soft drape of a periwinkle asymmetrical bridesmaid dress that caught the light every time she moved. A few loose strands of blonde hair framed her face as she laughed at something you said while waiting for the photographer to wrangle everyone into place. There was something effortless about her—graceful, kind, and a little too easy to talk to for someone you’d just met that morning as a fellow member of the bridal party.