Winoka- In a surprising turn of events from what was a very tumultuous week leading up to his wedding, Adam Kendall confirms that the weirdest part of his wedding day was when the Reverend’s voice suddenly changed.
“What a week this has been, huh?” Adam remarks. “First the Ingalls arrive in town and we’re all happy and excited, and wouldn’t you know it–they just couldn’t help themselves and had to share a story about how many times Mary ran away and scared them when she was a kid. They just had to get Mary overthinking, and that’s when the trouble all started.”
The newly minted Mrs. Kendall feared having a child with two blind parents, but as it turned out, that was just the beginning of a whirlwind week.
“Whirlwind–that’s a good way to put it,” Adam confirms. “We even called the wedding off at one point, but this really well-timed dust storm proved to us that if we can find Susan during that dust storm, we can do anything.”
Once the wedding was back on, Adam notes that things moved quickly.
“I knew that the quicker we did this, the better,” Adam comments. “We didn’t even bother cleaning up the dust or anything. We just had to get this over with before the Ingalls went and told some other story that would make us have to call it off again.”
While calling off the wedding, reuniting and redeclaring their intentions to marry during a dust storm, and then getting married while everyone was breathing dust particles into their lungs seems like one crazy week, Adam confirms that just led up to the weirdest part of the week.
“There we are, finally getting married, everything’s great,” Adam declares. “Then suddenly, the Reverend’s voice completely changes in the middle of it all. Now, as I now have learned, the Ingalls arranged to have their own Reverend Alden come and perform the wedding–bit of an overstep, by the way–and they thought it wasn’t going to happen because of the storm. Well, no one told me any of this because they wanted to surprise Mary. Well, you surprised me too–I’ve never met the guy, have no idea what his voice sounds like, and suddenly he just starts talking. I’m just standing there wondering what in the world happened that made the minister’s voice change like that, and I couldn’t figure out what was going on, but of course I didn’t want to disrupt the wedding so I just went along with it.
At press time, Charles Ingalls was hoping that the next time he had a daughter get married it would follow tumultuous events and be a similarly rushed ceremony where he could once again play a role in obtaining a minister.
