no wedding cake

She chose wedding colors I was not fond of. They seemed blah to me – tan, black and gray. Ugh! How pretty could the decorations be? Not very. What about the foods? I asked hopefully. What will you serve? Every table will have a fruit board. What is that? Fruit splayed out on a long board in the middle. No cake? I was horrified. No. What about drinks? Purified water, she told me, fresh from a spring. I was speechless. Did not want to attend. But she was my sister. Believe it or not the fruit board was a hit. We all went back to it over and over. Eating our fill of raspberries, bananas and strawberries. I just found an apricot! A tablemate said. I discovered a pineapple. It was better than cake. I think everyone at the table enjoyed it. And the wedding was pretty too. In spite of the blah colors.