{"id":47707,"date":"2025-02-21T10:47:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=47707"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:47:31","slug":"my-grandmothers-are-the-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=47707","title":{"rendered":"MY GRANDMOTHERS ARE THE FLOWER>>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-764.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-764.png 512w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-764-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Weddings, I was quickly learning, bring out opinions from people you didn\u2019t even know had them. When my fianc\u00e9, Evan, and I started planning ours, I wanted it to feel personal. One thing became obvious\u2014there were no little kids in our families. No nieces, nephews, or baby cousins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of borrowing a child to be our flower girl, why not ask my grandmothers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grandma Helen and Grandma Marlene, both in their seventies, were full of life. They danced at family parties, gossiped over coffee, and still sent handwritten birthday cards. When I called to ask, Helen burst out laughing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou want two old ladies throwing petals?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cExactly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To my surprise, they agreed\u2014until my future mother-in-law found out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She pulled me aside. \u201cSweetheart, are you sure? It\u2019s\u2026 unconventional.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, just days before the wedding, she called my grandmothers, urging them to step down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helen scoffed. \u201cIf anything, I\u2019m throwing petals with more enthusiasm now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the ceremony, they stole the show. Laughter, applause\u2014even my mother-in-law smiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because weddings aren\u2019t about tradition. They\u2019re about love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=46777\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weddings, I was quickly learning, bring out opinions from people you didn\u2019t even know had them. When my fianc\u00e9, Evan, and I started planning ours, I wanted&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47715,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47707\/revisions\/47715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}