This Wedding is Doomed! by Stephanie Draven

Author:Stephanie Draven
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-04-23T16:00:00+00:00

The Bride: Love on the Run

Jeannie Lin

This is dedicated to my dear husband. Despite minor similarities to our wedding in this story, let it be known that I never considered running off with the caterer. She wasn’t my type.

Chapter One

Twenty minutes until ceremony

This wedding is doomed.

Tessa twisted the elegant bouquet, a fairy tale in cream and blue, around in her hands. It was nearly the zero hour, and she was standing here alone in Briarwood Manor, holding on to her flowers for dear life.

A set of double doors led out to the garden. Tessa could see the blurred outlines of her guests through the wavy glass and she started to run a nervous hand through her curls before remembering what a pain it had been to get it pinned into the fancy updo.

This was going to be okay. She paced to the end of the hall and back. Totally okay, even though Mom had just run off to search for her sister, Renata, who for some reason wasn’t answering her phone for the last hour.

Everything seemed to be going perfectly up until this morning. She had spent months with the wedding planner, working out the details. The flowers arrived on time, deep blue irises and white roses, exactly what she wanted. Even her Medusa-like head of brown curls was somewhat behaving with an army of little silver pins stuck into it to keep it in place. Her hair never behaved.

Yet this dark pit in her stomach was telling her everything was not okay. And not just today. This nagging, gnawing feeling had been growing inside of her for a while now, but she had just kept herself too busy to have to think about it.

Until now, when there was nothing to do but wait.

Oh, she was being ridiculous. Blowing things out of proportion, as Graham would say.

All brides get nervous. That’s what everyone kept telling her for the last month. Anytime she even started to bring up her reservations that maybe, just maybe, it was too soon for her and Graham to settle down.

“It’s totally normal to have wedding jitters,” yet another well-meaning friend would assure her, followed by, “Oh my God, I’m SO excited for you!”

Tessa never even had the chance to say the next part. Deep down inside, she wasn’t thinking of postponing the wedding. She was thinking maybe there should be no wedding.

She and Graham had been going through a rough patch lately. This, too, was par for the course, everyone assured her. It was normal to question whether they were ready for a lifelong commitment, especially as the big day drew nearer. The problem was she was questioning not whether they were ready, but whether Graham was ready.

Whatever fears she had obviously couldn’t be that big of a deal because here she was, dressed in an off-the-shoulder satin gown with her best friends waiting for her to walk down the aisle. She just had to remember to keep calm and remember to say “I do.”

Julie, wedding planner and superwoman, swept across the foyer toward her.

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