A Halloween Wedding: true love pops its head in
Amara from the underworld wed Headless Horseman on Friday, October 30, 2020. The reception took place at the brand new Haunted Garden. The Underworld Steed escorted the couple in the Haunted Carriage to their seaside honeymoon near the Haunted Stable.
"..." Amara said. Upon hearing this, Billy the Skelly agreed it was true love. "I knew when Headless objected at the previously scheduled wedding to what's-his-name that something was up ... besides his head ... which is always up, you know, on his hand."
Amara had been betrothed to a corpse, who was found to have been possessed by the spirit of a narcissist. Few suspected this, yet Skeleton Pirate knew and was going to object to the marriage if Headless hadn't done it first! Skeleton Pirate said, "Argh. I know something about eyes, ya see. When the left's blue and right's green- and they switch places- like that corpses' did- that there is not someone in possession of their own soul! Argh. If they got eyes to begin with, the eyes got to be in the same place all the time, ya see." The Ghostly Jester added, "That's why I tripped him with my juggling balls after the wedding got cancelled, Ha Ha, to pop out his eyeballs and cause the exorcism. Tee hee hee. He's all right now, eyes back in, et cetera, et cetera." Many said the Reaper Mutt was the hero of the day. The canine vanquished the narcissist spirit with one bark, what a reaping it was!
While possessed, the corpse had been wandering the realm with a vision of a friend who pandered for his affection. It was while he was wandering around that Amara got to know and love Headless Horseman, quite by accident, as they helped collect materials to upgrade the Haunted Chapel. "The ex-fiance had me convinced Asher-the-crAsher was really here!" the Ruler said. "I must have been standing on the Spell Circle because I had the impression that I needed to help him decide who to marry!" The Ruler also shared that since the exorcism, the corpse is now enrolled at the Wizards School in a Postmortem Women's Studies certificate program. "I woke up the next day and wanted to help the undead rise to the challenge of afterlife equity so we can face our demons!” said the corpse in a statement.
"I believe Amara would have gone through with that wedding out of a sense of duty," Duchess Winnifred said, "Dear girl. She felt it was her
obligation to marry what's-his-name. How hege(de)monic! That's when I knew I had to act!"
Duchess Winnifred first hid the wedding rings in the Spooky Tree to slow things down. Then, she organized the wedding's cocktail hour at her ballroom with a performance by the Dearly Departed Dancers. "Amara only had to see true love to know it was what she too deserved!"
"I think Amara was ready to be her own hero and did not need any knight in shining armor to save her," Corvidia the Raven Queen shared. "Little did I know a Horseman was about to make an entrance after all!"
The Horseman's dashing arrival through the Web Gates amidst pumpkin candlelight melted everyone's heart ... well, everyone who had a heart ... a heart that was still beating... All eyes or eye sockets shed a tear. In a surprising twist to a usual Headless Horseman entrance, these were tears of joy, not fear! As Amara smiled up at the Horseman, no words were needed to know the wedding to what’s-his-name was over.
Amara's best friend Asher arrived to the realm in real death, to serve as maid of honor in the wedding to Headless Horseman. "I am thrilled to be here with 'Mara today! I still can't believe what her ex-fiance concocted about me! I've been the first female President of Underworld for a few years now, and I guess my success troubled his spirit... I mean, spirits." She added, “Ruler and I had a good laugh about it! We are calling the whole thing an ‘I do over’ and trying to work out the economics of how I might dwell here long term.”
Headless and Amara’s wedding was a spectacular event that brought the whole kingdom together for All Hallows’ Eve festivities around the revitalized Haunted House area. It went off without a hitch.
When asked what their secret to true love is, Headless Horseman said "...", to which Amara replied, "..." And while we agree that speaking the same language is important, we also think these lovebirds have what it takes to last an eternity. They are truly a match made in ...
Congratulations!
The happy couple
Happy Halloween!
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