The day of the wedding we had breakfast with the sisters. The ceremony would take place in the afternoon out on Jessie's farm and the reception was to take place in the barn. “Who has heard of getting married outside? On a farm?” Mrs Andersen huffed. “It’s only proper to have the ceremony in the church.” “Honestly Amanda, you sound like a bitter old prune. You need to get with the times. People are getting married in all kinds of exciting places nowadays. I read about a couple who did it in a hot-air balloon,” Mrs Jones told her sister. “Heathens the lot of them,” Mrs Andersen said. Martin and I listened while the sisters continued their bickering. ‘I wonder what she would think about our mating ceremonies,’ Martin mindlinked me. I almost choked on my coffee picturing Mrs Andersen in h

