When Nicole asks her to take a step back, she does so.But on the big day, her mother shows up in a weddingdress after mysteriously receiving a call instructing her to.Nicole is left fuming when she discovers who has preyed on her mother’s feelings, ensuring she will destroy them. When Peter and I got engaged, I promised myself that the wedding planning would be smooth and easy. Growing up, I wasn’t like the other girls who spent their time daydreaming about their weddings. I just knew that it would eventually happen one day, and I would need cupcakes at my wedding reception. That was it. So, I always knew that when it came to the actual event, I would need my mother to guide me. My wedding was also going to be her chance at planning a wedding because my parents were not married. They were dating when they discovered that my mother was pregnant. Of course, my father promptly packed his bags and left before I was born. “But that’s just a thing of the past, Nicole,” my mother told me when we went shopping for wedding dresses. “And you’re happy now, with Anthony?” I asked her, watching her eye two dresses in particular. They were not to my taste, so I knew my mother was looking at herself in those dresses. She was in a happy long-term relationship with Anthony, and I knew that sometimes she dreamed about a wedding of her own