#15: The Wedding Present
Julie's choice was to get married on a gondola at the Venetian in Las Vegas. I was a little surprised she would choose to go back to Vegas after the years she spent as a working girl there, but as I thought about it I imagined she might have seen plenty of bridal parties there while she was working and felt some envy, not expecting that she might someday get married there herself. And it was about as romantic a wedding as you could imagine.
It was a very small wedding, as you might expect given Julie's past and the fact that I had spent a year living as a nomad with no name. Julie wanted her Aunt Betty to be matron of honor; Betty didn't want to accept at first, but when it was clear that that's who Julie really wanted, she agreed. Jenny (aka Kayla) also stood up. On my side I had my brother as my best man—"I didn't even know you were seeing someone," is what he said when I asked—and an old classmate from grad school. He was a good guy but not very smooth around women (like me before the mindreader, I suppose); he surely had never been near, much less touched, a woman anywhere near as hot as Jenny. He was also unlikely to pick up on subtle clues; he wouldn't figure out she was a prostitute unless she out and told him. I imagined he'd be dreaming about her for months.
Beyond the wedding party, Julie invited one of her stepbrothers and her mother, but only on the condition that she not bring her stepfather. Her mother resisted that condition for a long time, but eventually the marriage of her only daughter outweighed everything else. Just two days before the wedding we heard she was coming—her second husband was coming along to Vegas, but he would do other things while mom was with the wedding. We met them halfway and footed the bill; money was no longer an issue for us. But we put them up at the Riviera rather than the Venetian like the rest of the wedding; we wouldn't head down to that end of the strip, so there would be virtually no risk of running into him. My parents and just a handful of others comprised the entire guest list.
We flew in on Friday night; my brother had asked if there would be bachelor party. "When you see my bride," I told him, "you'll see that no bachelor party could ever hope complete. You're in Vegas, there's plenty of strip clubs and titty shows; make your own bachelor party if you want."
We met with the wedding planner the night before to work out final details. She had seen a thousand brides, but even she did a double-take at the size of the ring on Julie's dainty finger. We hosted a dinner at our favorite buffet, then let people do whatever suited their fancy for the evening. For Julie and I, that meant playing a Blackjack then going upstairs and having sex. I know some people stop having sex for a while before the wedding so that the wedding night is more "special," but Julie's feeling was there's other ways to make the wedding night special. That was fine by me. But after we made love that night, Julie went to spend the night in Aunt Betty's room; she did want to observe the old superstition about not seeing the bride the morning before the wedding. I'm pretty sure that superstition came from the days of arranged marriages, so that grooms of ugly brides wouldn't be tempted to flee until it was too late, and there was no danger of me getting cold feet. But if that's what she wanted to do, I wasn't going to stop her.
My groomsmen and I were standing at the gondola dock at 2:00. Julie and her bridesmaids came down from some hidden room to meet us. Julie was wearing an eggshell colored off-shoulder dress with a very delicate pattern, almost identical in color and thus only visible up close. It was tight-fitting and showed lovely décolletage; it then loosened at her waist and was free-flowing at its base, a couple of inches above the knee. Her hair was up, and she was wearing lovely white high-heeled sandals with the ankle straps we had bought on 5th Avenue. She was absolutely gorgeous—it was almost surreal that we were here to exchange vows with each other.
She and I got on a gondola with the gondolier/justice of the peace; the wedding party stood watching at the dock. A number of passers-by stopped to watch; it's pretty common for people to stop and watch the gondola weddings, mostly women who appreciate the romance. Once they saw my lovely Julie, I noticed that quite a few men were watching this wedding, too. There are a million gorgeous girls in Las Vegas, but even with so much beauty around Julie still stood out. We held each others' hands and looked into each other's eyes as we recited our vows of undying love to each other. When it was time to kiss the bride, we kissed so long wolf whistles started coming from the peanut gallery.
The gondolier then began singing in Italian in a trained tenor voice and began to push the boat forward. We sat down, and Julie cuddled up to me as we took our post-nuptial gondola ride. I loved the times, like this, when she felt like melted butter in my arms. "Oh honey," she said, turning her wide-eyed gaze to me, "I'm so happy. If you'd have told me when I was 22 and working these streets that I'd be coming back to marry a millionaire before I was 25, I'd have laughed in your face."
"Me either," I smiled. "I pinch myself every day; I can't believe that you're not just a dream—and now not only are you real, but you're actually my wife." I missed the rest of the ride, because I had my eyes closed, kissing my beautiful bride.
Our ride over, we rejoined our cheering wedding party. Julie and I led the way to the hall, where we had an open bar reception for two hours before dinner was served. Sure, some of the guests were plastered before the food got there, but hey—its Vegas. Its not like they had to drive home.
Julie and I made the rounds together, greeting and talking with all of our guests. A number of people on either side were meeting the new spouse for the first time. Servers came around with sushi and cold shrimp cocktails. After making our first rounds, we had a second to catch our breaths. I was on my second drink, but Julie had barely had a chance to sip her first. Suddenly she gave me a look and tugged on my arm; we ducked out into the service hallway and found, of all things, a linen closet. She pulled me into it and shut the door.
"What are we doing?" I asked, keeping an open mind.
She put her arms around me and kissed me. Then she said "we've been married for almost an hour and haven't had a chance to celebrate yet."
"You're right," I smiled, then kissed her, thinking she meant a chance to be alone and kiss. "I love you."
"I love you too," she answered, but then I felt a gentle breeze downstairs. In a flash, a gentle, expert hand was fondling my penis, while the other finished unencumbering it from my pants. That wasn't what she meant at all.
"What...here?" I stammered.
"Shh," she said with a sly look, then slid down the length of my body and swallowed my dick.
"Ohhh..." is all I could say. She sucked my dick lovingly, using her tongue to stroke the sensitive underside. She pulled her hands away for a second to pull her dress down a bit so her tits would pop out the top—she knew, of course, that I would enjoy looking at them while she sucked me off. And between those amazing tits and her pretty blonde head bobbing on my knob with purpose, it didn't take long before getting off is exactly what I did. Her lips pursed securely around me, not a single staining drop escaped.
She swallowed my load as she stood up, teasing "Mmm... my favorite appetizer. Now I'm ready for dinner."