Free Write - On the Church Steps

The photo for this week's prompt. was taken in Girona, Spain where Game of Thrones, was often filmed. We were on a tour showing where scenes had been shot and then how things like major water was added or streets were changed when Rick spotted this photo opportunity.

Rick's Free Write 

For two people who had been up all night, they looked remarkably fresh. But why the red rose? The white dress?

They couldn’t have been at a wedding – you don’t wear white in competition with the bride.

Maybe a company dinner, very upscale, celebrating sales success. Worth a suit and tie and fancy dress, but not too fancy.

The setting was semi-romantic, the huge colonnade which framed the church doors in Girona. And served for a grand scene – albeit enhanced with computer imagery – in the Game of Thrones, with the sea lapping the bottom of the seemingly endless steps.

As they explored in the early morning, they caught the eye of an enterprising photographer, who asked if she could shoot them. Still tipsy, how could they resist?

The couple was not a ‘couple,’ merely co-workers sharing a drink… or four… in the dark little bars in the hilly streets. They had told each other too many personal secrets through the night, so they would avoid each other at work for the next several days.

Until they noticed their photo on the front page of the photographer’s website.

D-L's Free Write

Photographer: Smile

Bride standing on the church steps: I won't vomit. I should have eaten a cracker.

Groom: This is the decent thing to do, but my life as I imagined it is over.

Bride: I always dreamed of a flowing white wedding dress.

Photographer: Now Mr. Groom, lean against the pillar, hands in pocket. Look relaxed.

Groom: Relaxed. Hah!

Bride: Look at him. Pretend you love him. I can act this. I can. At least my mom's happy I'm getting married. She'll be over the moon when she hears she'll be a grandma.

Groom: I offered her money for an abortion. Never thought I'd do that. I did wear a condom. Maybe get a DNA test after the kid is born.

Photographer: Just  a couple more. Interesting between the smiley shots, they don't look happy. So many couple whose weddings I've shot are divorced. Too bad it's not a tradition to take photos as the leave a divorce court.

Julia's Free Write

Ah, at least this day was going well.

It had been a long time and a lot of hard work.

They had met – just aged 15 – but were inseparable from that day on.

Once through high school, she had followed family tradition and become a teacher whereas he had returned to the family farm.

They had kept in touch for awhile then it all petered out as there was too much against them – in particular both families.  For hers he wasn’t “good enough,” lacking a university degree, for his, she was too “highfalutin’” and would have ideas about his station.

They both dated others, but none of either’s relationships went anywhere.

At a chance high school reunion (theirs had been a very tightly knitted class) they had re-kindled their friendship and the relationship deepened into something more.

About a year later, they both snuck off to Europe not telling anyone and got married.

Weren’t their family and friends going to be surprised when they got his photo and announcement of the happy event, via WhatsApp!

About the writers 

Rick Adams is an aviation journalist and publisher of www.aviationvoices.com, a weekly newsletter reporting the top stories about the airline industry. He is the author of The Robot in the Simulator. AI in Aviation Training.  

Visit D-L.'s website  https://dlnelsonwriter.com, is the author of 15 fiction and three non fiction books. Her 300 Unsung Women, bios of women who battled gender limitations, can be purchased  at https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/300-unsung-women-d-l-nelson/1147305797?ean=9798990385504 

Visit Julia's blog. She has written and taken photos and loves syncing up with friends.  Her blog can be found: https://viewsfromeverywhere.blogspot.com/