Toss the Bouquet by Ruth Logan Herne

Author:Ruth Logan Herne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2016-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

“If you would use your brain, you might be able to come up with a better idea. One that hasn’t been used by every bride since 1964.”

For the third time today, April refrained from chucking something heavy at her sister’s head. Her sister, who April considered to be her best friend on occasion. Her confidante. Her go-to-gal when everyone else left her all alone. Now April wanted to do the leaving, but of course she was stuck nine feet in the air, propped on a ladder, hanging white and cream paper lanterns from the reception hall’s black ceilings. She knew the effect would be beautiful, but frankly, she wouldn’t mind gathering all this paper crap in a pile and lighting it on fire.

“What is wrong with Christmas lights?” She hooked the lantern onto a nail and descended a few steps to take in the effect. “White lights are beautiful and will only enhance the planet and stars effect you seem to be going for.”

Kristin sighed again. The sound had been so frequent all morning, April was beginning to suspect carbon dioxide was the only element left to breathe in this room. “Christmas lights are so overdone. They scream I’m not original. Frankly, they also scream cheap. I thought you were better than that, April.”

It was all she could do to keep her mouth shut. April was so tired of that word being used to describe her. “They aren’t cheap, especially if you get the LED white kind.”

“I didn’t mean—” Kristin made an impatient noise. “Just . . . I like the lanterns, but not the lights. Think of something else. Something no one has done before. Something people will be talking about for years and years to come.”

“You could hang live snakes from the rafters. That would get people talking.”

“That isn’t funny, April.”

She hadn’t been kidding. At this point, she would do anything to move past decorating for this stupid wedding, even letting a snake bite her over and over and over. Because maybe it would be poisonous and maybe she would be admitted to the hospital and maybe she would have to stay there for days and days and days while someone else served her food and fixed her hair and gave her massages—all the things she’d watched Kristin enjoy all week.

She didn’t exactly know if they offered free massages in hospitals, but that wasn’t the point.

April was sick of being in charge; that was the point.

“Okay, then tell me your bright ideas. Because I’m having trouble coming up with anything else, and furthermore—” April froze, felt that weird sensation when your stomach drops into your toes and then bounces straight back up into your esophagus, and swallowed. “Oh dear God, they’re here.”

Below her, Kristin reached for her throat and cleared it—as if that one small act could dissipate the tension that had just swooped in and added a grayish pall to their day of wedding decorating.

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