Betrothed
“For two days she’d been sent from chapel to chapel, meeting with every clergy they could dredge from the nearby cities, each offering their blessings to her and their marriage. It would seem that the blessings did not extend to the prince, for he did not show at any of these ceremonies.
Court duties, someone would tell her and leave it at that.
Nor did she see the vizier, or her family. Instead, she was surrounded by a constant stream of women, all poking and prodding and measuring her limbs, h...er feet, her hands, for whatever they planned to dress her in. Every piece of clothing was blessed, every ring and necklace, even down to the small jeweled clips that would be placed in her hair.
And now as she paced her chamber, dressed in the sumptuous red brocade wedding dress mere minutes before the ceremony, her thoughts were in an uproar. She’d long since ceased to think about the maids as they swarmed about her, braiding her hair and stranding it with pearls and silver. She hadn’t even complained when they’d put her in a light corset and eight starchy petticoats to make the skirts of her wedding gown bell outward and fall in a waterfall of a train sixteen feet behind her.MoreLess
Court duties, someone would tell her and leave it at that.
Nor did she see the vizier, or her family. Instead, she was surrounded by a constant stream of women, all poking and prodding and measuring her limbs, h...er feet, her hands, for whatever they planned to dress her in. Every piece of clothing was blessed, every ring and necklace, even down to the small jeweled clips that would be placed in her hair.
And now as she paced her chamber, dressed in the sumptuous red brocade wedding dress mere minutes before the ceremony, her thoughts were in an uproar. She’d long since ceased to think about the maids as they swarmed about her, braiding her hair and stranding it with pearls and silver. She hadn’t even complained when they’d put her in a light corset and eight starchy petticoats to make the skirts of her wedding gown bell outward and fall in a waterfall of a train sixteen feet behind her.MoreLess
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