I Switched the Bride at My Own Wedding

The moment I walked out of the wedding planner dressing room, I found the wedding's head planner.

"Could you swap out all the photos and the boards at the entrance for me?"

He glanced at me, puzzled, in the middle of running through the program.

When he heard the request, he set the program sheet down in his hands.

I took it from him.

"Miss Harding, this... there's really no precedent for it. Maybe we should think it over?"

"If we change everything now, the quality won't match what's already done."

I shook my head, smiling.

"It's fine. Their love is solid as gold. They won't care about little things like that."

Then I lowered my head and scrolled through the photos in my album.

It's almost funny. Brian and I had been together three years.

And the photos that filled my phone the most were of Brian and Judy together.

Because I don't like having my picture taken, I'd become the two of them's personal photographer.

I picked one at random and handed it to the planner.

"Change the bride's name to Judy too."

His face turned uncomfortable.

"This... Miss Harding, a wedding is a once-in-a-lifetime thing."

"You spent more than half a year preparing for this one. Changing it all of a sudden, that doesn't seem right."

I didn't answer. I just kept my head down over the program sheet.

I took a marker and changed every part that had been about me into Judy's name.

Every single item on that program I'd designed and planned myself, so I knew it all by heart.

When I finished, I handed the sheet back to him.

"It's fine. We'll pay you the balance the same as before."

"Just keep things moving."

He studied me for a long moment, making sure I wasn't joking or acting out of spite.

In the end he nodded.

He picked up his walkie-talkie, stood, and went back to running through the program with the crew.

But it was right then that a message came through on my phone.

A screenshot from Brian.

[Cleared out your shopping cart, babe!]

And it was right then, too.

A post popped up on Judy's feed.

When I tapped it open, the first thing I saw was a photo from behind.

Judy, wearing the veil I'd chosen so carefully, using my makeup artist.

And the photo, clearly, had been taken by Brian himself.

The caption read: [It's not my wedding, but I still want to be a bride just once!]