How to Say I Do by Tal Bauer

Author:Tal Bauer [Bauer, Tal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-09T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Noël

There were a million details that needed to be figured out at Wyatt’s ranch: site logistics, venue planning, guest arrangements. Parking. Lighting. Flowers. Menus. Did Wyatt have enough wine on hand to sate an entire A-list party? What about champagne? How many people were we talking about, anyway? How were we going to arrange for tasteful portable toilets?

Logistically, throwing a wedding at a virgin site—and a rural one, no less—was a nightmare. There were reasons we always turned to the same handful of super-luxurious venues.

But Wyatt’s ranch was apparently Tessa and Tyler’s dream come true. I’d planted the idea of the place, and now that they’d seen it, and—more importantly—had fallen equally in love with the ranch and with Wyatt, no other venue would do. They were going to get married at the Gran Cielo Viñedo. They shook on that promise with Wyatt before we left.

“Guess you and I are gonna be working together,” he said to me, after shaking hands with Tessa. His eyes were fixed on a faraway point.

“Guess so,” I said. “I’ll get started on the paperwork.”

And that was that.

Tessa, Tyler, and I boarded her private jet back to New York an hour later. They flew home on waves of Veuve Clicquot, and after three rounds of happy toasts, they drifted into a celebratory unconsciousness an hour out from Teterboro.

I spent the flight with my faux smile screwed on, all the while churning over Wyatt’s question. I hadn’t answered him out there. God, what could I have said? Tessa Yarborough will most likely be bringing me a guest list with a net worth valued higher than a dozen countries’ combined GDP. For the week of the wedding, every eye that follows celebrities will be fixed on your ranch. You’ll be the number-one trending topic on Insta, Twitter, and Snapchat.

None of that was going to reassure him.

I’d fucked up. Suggesting Wyatt’s winery—the mesmerizing place of my dreams, complete with that storybook, swept-away vibe, somewhere enthralling and secret and extraordinary—to Tessa had been a mistake.

I’d need to double the budget for security. Obviously, that was going to be a significant expense in itself, but I’d need to throw a lot more cash at securing Wyatt’s ranch, and not just to keep the photo rights exclusive for Elite. There were some retired Secret Service agents that ran executive protection for big billion-dollar CEOs who visited far-flung locales with high-risk quotients. If you were an executive who needed to shake hands with a cartel businessman and pass over a couple suitcases filled with cash, hiring men who’d spent their lives protecting the president were who you wanted. Maybe they’d also be up to the task of fending off the globe’s paparazzi.

As soon as we landed, Harrison started blowing up my phone with questions about how everything went, and if Tessa was pleased, and if she was, when would I get her to sign the multi-million-dollar contract with us. My phone’s calendar was going off with reminders about the radio spot

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