Title: My Sister’s Big Fat Irish Wedding
Rating: PG-13 to maybe the thin line of R: for sexual content and language and etc.
Plot: Elizabeth Shameson grew up in a large Irish Catholic family. When her younger sister, Katherine is getting married in the Bahamas in the Caribbean, it’s a whole extended family affair. Elizabeth, her crazy family, and some of her friends find more than they expected on this trip, each other and love.
Cast List:
Elizabeth Shameson- Me (Middle child, 24) Actress in NYC theater companies
Elijah Shameson- Elijah Wood (Twin Brother, 24) Actor in NYC TV shows and theaters, also plays guitar. Trying to get his own record company
Christian Shameson- Christian Bale (Eldest, 28) TV reporter for Chicago Daily
Christian’s Wife and family sister-in-law- Julianna Larson (~Jewelz~)writer for Chicago Daily (age 26)
Katherine Shameson-*bunny* (Youngest, 22) Fashion Weekly magazine editor
Ewan McGregor- himself, Katherine’s fiancé. Singer and writer in L.A.
Alexandria “Lexi” Landers- Allison Lippert (4everelijah) Elizabeth’s best friend, Writer for Fashion Weekly magazine located in NYC
Kate Saunders- Kate Sorgenfrie (Ibdasecretary) Elizabeth’s best friend, Model in NYC
Amber Wolfe- Herself (Ambrosia) Elizabeth’s best friend, Pharmacist
Orlando Bloom- Himself, local actor and waiter in the Bahamas
Dominic Monaghan- Himself, works at a music store and plays guitar in local band
Billy Boyd- Himself, works as a newspaper reporter and photographer
Cousin Eric Nightly- Gerard Butler (Age 30) Drama teacher in Mayburry, Minnesota Elementary school
Eric’s fiancé- Andie Coppola (White Andie) Marketing executive for music company (age 25)
Cousin Matthew Nightly- Matthew Fox (Age 28) Doctor in Mayburry Hospital
Matt’s girlfriend-Fiona Ni Dhomhnail (Felonz) Photographer (age 23)
Cousin Johnny Shameson- Johnny Depp (Age 27)Local actor in Mayburry and trying to get to L.A.
Johnny’s girlfriend- Rosalie Ryan (Jamie Girl) Actress in NYC with Elizabeth (age 24)
Cousin Hugh Shameson- Hugh Dancy (Age 26) Painter and Photographer living in Mayburry.
Hugh’s girlfriend- Antigone aka Anti Rovakis (Airefeaiel) Journalist (age 24)
Chapter 1~ Elizabeth (Friday May 7th, 2006)“We’re so pulling a Home Alone here! RUN!” I yelled as me, my twin brother Elijah, and my best friend Alexandria aka Lexi ran through JFK airport after just dropping our checked bags off. Our flight was leaving in 30 minutes and we had to run like Hell so my parents wouldn’t be pissed at us being late.
“We’re pulling a Home Alone except we have less people running with us, but we will have more once we reach the plane!” Elijah yelled as we pushed past a couple of kids as we ran by.
“How many relatives do you have?!” Lexi asked.
“Over 100. 27 aunts and uncles, each with at least 3 to 4 kids each and all of their kids are either married with 2 kids, engaged, or dating. Both of our parents had 6 other brothers and sisters.” I said as I held onto my messenger bag that kept falling.
“Over 100?!!?” Lexi yelled as she stopped shocked and dropped her messenger bag.
“LEXI!” Elijah and I yelled stopping for a second and turning to her.
“Sorry.” She said picking her bag up and we started running again.
“Yes, we have over 100 relatives.” Elijah said.
“But that’s because we are a very big Irish-Catholic family.” I said as we started to pick up our running pace.
“I’m Irish-Catholic too but my family isn’t that big!” Lexi yelled as she picked up the pace with us.
The reason we were running was to catch a plane to the Bahamas for my younger sister Katherine’s and my wedding. It was our version of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, except we were Irish and it was two weddings. We had our whole family and my few friends just filling up one plane. See this all started when my sister got engaged last Thanksgiving and she came home at Christmas to tell us and we were all happy. I soon followed suit getting engaged on my birthday in January. My parents were at first planning on having the wedding small and just our family and the groom’s family and some of our friends in our local Mayburry (our hometown), Minnesota Catholic Church and the reception in our backyard. We were going to do this for both of our weddings, hers was in June, mine was in May.
But no, that all changed when the Ewan's, aka Katherine's groom, side of the family, which was just as big as ours decided to shell out some cash and then my side of the family decided to shell out a good amount of cash too, so the lovebirds could have their romantic beach wedding. Then my parents got the idea to make it a double wedding in June, Katherine gets marreid the day before my wedding. The guest list for this wedding the last time I checked 2 months ago was close to 500 people and I’m sure it has grown some more. Since both of our family and both of the groom’s family is big and Katherine and Ewan and my groom Joe, decided to invite every friend they had since Elementary school! So, this was going to be a very big, noisy, and long vacation. Oh, and the cherry on top of this whole trip of craziness was the wedding wasn’t for another month! We were going to the Caribbean a whole month early! And when I saw we, I mean WE, the whole family on both sides of the wedding party, friends, and more!
We finally reached the gate and came to a screeching halt in front of my parents.
“You’re late.” Mom and dad said sternly in unison.
“Sorry.” Elijah and I said in unison.
“Why are you late?” Mom asked with her hands on her hips.
Elijah and I looked at each other. We couldn’t tell her the real reason we were late, she would be really pissed.
“Alarm clock didn’t go off and Elijah was staying with me this week, remember mom.” I said covering up our real reason. The real reason we were late was because we saw a video game and DVD one day sale at “Entertainment Central”, plus they were giving away free ice cream! Who can’t resist free ice cream?
“Fine, but you two need to take more responsibility. Hello, Lexi sweetie.” Mom said to me and Elijah and then turning on her charm when she saw Lexi.
“Hello Mrs. Shameson.” She said smiling and then my mom walked off with dad to go help Grandma and Grandpa Nightly, my mom’s parents.
“That was close.” Elijah said to me and then all 3 of us collapsed in some chairs and dropped our messenger bags. I decided to pull my shoulder length dark brown hair back now that my neck was sweaty from running and I noticed next to me that Elijah’s blue eyes began to close shut in a little cat nap before the flight and Lexi pushed her long shoulder length light brown hair behind her ears and put her MP3 player headphones in waiting for the flight.
“Elizabeth! There you are.” Kate said running over to me with her blonde hair bouncing in it’s ponytail and her green eyes sparkling with excitement when she saw me.
“Kate, you came! Great, that’s two down. The only person we’re missing now is Amber and our gang shall be complete, well except for my family.” I said standing up and hugging my friend Kate. She had been living in L.A. for the last couple of weeks for work and I noticed some paparazzi following behind her when she came in and then running off once they got pictures of her hugging me. Kate then hugged Lexi and then I heard a noise that made me shiver.
“LIZZIE!” I heard 2 voices yell from across the room and Elijah sat up.
“Oh shit.” I said under my breath.
“What?” Lexi and Kate said looking at me.
“Run Liz, run for your life!” Elijah said sarcastically.
“LIZZIE!!” I heard them yell again and the next thing I knew I was rugby tackled to the ground by my two cousins Hugh and Johnny.
“AHHHHH!!” I screamed as I was tackled to the ground into a hug by the 2 guys.
“Lizzie! We’ve missed you!” Hugh said. He and Johnny were brothers and two of my favorite cousins on my dad’s side of the family.
“Guys, you know how I hate to be called Lizzie. And please get off me I can’t breathe!” I yelled and they jumped up and helped me off the ground, “Thanks.” I said getting up. We stood there for a moment and then I attacked them in a hug, “I’ve missed you guys. Even though you are annoying.” I said as I hugged them.
“But that’s why you love us, because we are annoying but so irresistible.” Johnny said as they pulled away and then he and Hugh noticed Elijah and tackled him into a hug.
“LIJ!!!” They yelled.
“Johnny! Hugh!” He said jumping up and into a group hug with the guys. I laughed at them while they did their little secret handshake and Kate and Lexi looked on scared and confused.
“Well, isn’t this touching?” I heard someone say behind me and I turned around to see my other brother.
“Christian!” I yelled as I attacked him into a hug. I saw his newlywed wife Julianna, walking over to us as I hugged him. Christian, luckily got married last year in a small wedding in Mayburry. Thank God for his stubbornness like me!
“How’s everything Liz?” He asked as he pulled away and Julianna came over.
“Good, you?” I asked looking at him and Julianna holding hands.
“Great.” He said smiling at his wife and she smiled back and he lightly kissed her on the lips.
“CHRIS!!” Hugh, Johnny, and Elijah yelled and they then tackled Chris into a group hug and then they hugged Julianna.
“I’m beginning to regret saying I’d come on this trip.” Lexi said and Kate laughed at her.
“The only reason you came on this trip was to be with my newly single twin.” I said grinning at her.
“Am not. I like weddings and the Bahamas.” Lexi said as her eye twitched and her eye only twitches when she is lying.
“Right.” I said and then I noticed the rest of the family showed up. The Shameson side and the Nightly side.
“Should we run?” Hugh asked.
“Yeah, but one should stay.” Chris said.
“I vote Elizabeth. All in favor of Elizabeth staying run away.” Johnny said and him and the rest left dragging Lexi, Kate, and Julianna along. I turned around to see the traitors gone and then I was bombarded.
“Oh, look there’s Elizabeth!” My aunt Sharon yelled and then everyone came over to me and began hugging, kissing, pinching, and asking the evil question, “So are you excited about getting married?” After about 10 minutes of this torture I told them all that I had to use the bathroom and I left toward that area. As soon as I turned the corner toward the bathrooms I found the traitors standing there.
“Hi Lizzie.” Hugh said smirking.
“YOU BOYS ARE SO DEAD!” I yelled and then I took my converse tennis shoe off and chased Hugh, Johnny, Chris, and Elijah around our gate area.
“ELIZABETH ANN MARIE SHAMESON!! ELIJAH JORDAN SHAMESON!! CHRISTIAN JAMES SHAMESON!! HUGH FRANCIS SHAMESON!! AND JOHNATHAN DAVID SHAMESON!!” Mom yelled and we froze dead in our tracks.
“Get over here and act your ages!” Dad yelled and we walked over to them.
“Hugh, Johnny, your mother will take care of you.” Mom said and she led them over to Aunt Mary.
“You 3 need to act your ages since you are the eldest in our family.” Dad said.
“Actually, Grandpa Shameson is the eldest.” Elijah said and Dad glared at him and he pursed his lips together in embarrassment at his joke, “Sorry.” He mumbled.
“You 3 need to act responsible in front of your younger cousins and respectful in front of the whole family. Christian, you are married, so don’t act like you students that you teach. Elijah, you need to act your age if you want to get anywhere as an actor or in the music business. And Elizabeth, you are the Maid of honor and you also need to act your age if you want to get anywhere in the acting business. You 3 need to defiantly behave in front of the family on this vacation, got it?” Dad said sternly.
“Yes, sir.” We all 3 said in unison and then he walked away and I took the opportunity to hit Chris and Elijah upside the head with my shoe.
“OWWW!” They both said at the same time.
“Paybacks a pain in the ass ain’t it?” I said grinning and I went to go sit with Lexi, Kate, and Julianna as we waited for the plane and Amber to arrive and a few other people to show up.
“This is going to be a long vacation.” I said to myself as I put my Maroon 5 CD in my CD player and relaxed for a little bit before the very long flight.
A/N: this is for everyone to get a taste of what the story is like and please leave replies. I probably won't have the 2nd chapter up for awhile and Jamie Girl is working on the banners for me. Ok guys, leave replies. :hug:
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~Kit-Kat~