What is your most memorable wedding moment? I am thrilled to announce my new release, A Wedding in Springtime, which
coincidentally has to do with a wedding that, you guessed it, happens in
springtime. I know, crazy right? I am super excited because this is the
beginning of my new Marriage Mart series
of Regency romances. I don't want to
give too much away, but you can probably guess they all have a wedding.
Weddings are notorious for bringing out the best and worst
of humanity. I've been to a lot of
weddings and I think I've seen it all.
Beautiful touching moments that make you want to cry. Cringe-worthy moments that again, make you
want to cry. I mean who doesn't have an
Uncle Harry who got so plastered he threw up on the wedding cake. I'm not alone in that - right?
My most memorable wedding was my own (of course) but this
happened before the wedding even began.
The night before the wedding there was a horrible storm, and my
roommate's tabby cat, who hates rain with a passion, didn't come home. The next morning, still no cat. So I'm stressed because the cat is missing
and since it is my wedding day, times that by a billion.
So my future hubby comes over to help us search (never mind
the whole not see the bride before the wedding thing). No cat.
He drives around looking to see if she was hit by a car. No cat.
I ask the neighbors. No cat. He even goes to the local shelter. Still, no cat.
At this point my bridesmaids start arriving. We were all going to have lunch together and
then get ready at my house before going to the church. We sit around the table (it's a split level
so we are on the second floor) and my mom says grace. In that moment of quiet we hear a plaintive Meeeoooow.
As soon as mom says "amen" we all jump up, looking
for the darn cat. Finally, we see
her. She is in a tree about 50 feet up, looking
very wet and miserable. What to do? Someone actually calls the fire department
and are told that no, they don't do that anymore. Through our upper story window we can see the
cat and she can see us. She starts out
on a branch toward us, the branch wiggles, she comes further, the branch shakes,
we shout at her to go back down the trunk.
The branch breaks.
And that is apparently how you get a cat out of a tree on
your wedding day. I'm not sure how many
of her nine lives she used up that day but she survived the fall and lived
another 15 years. With us. Because my roommate gave her to my husband as
a wedding gift!
So what is your most memorable wedding moment? Comment for a chance to win A Wedding in Springtime ARC before it
comes out next week!!!
A Wedding in
Springtime - named one of the Best Books for Summer by Publisher's Weekly!
Five minutes into Miss Eugenia Talbot's presentation at
court, notorious rogue Mr. William Grant makes her laugh before the queen,
ruining her debut. To hush up the scandal, Genie needs to make a brilliant
marriage, and fast. Genie's aunt hires a matchmaker to find a
suitor—anyone except the infamous William Grant—but amiable Genie shows a
disturbing tendency to follow her heart. When a traitor creeps closer,
threatening to ruin more than just her reputation, Genie and Grant are drawn
into a dangerous world of deceit and intrigue, where losing their hearts could
mean their ultimate undoing.
