Is there anything worse than getting jilted at the altar? How about being a wedding planner getting jilted at the altar for your own wedding...on a cruise already out at sea? When Las Vegas resident Dakota Halifax loses her fiance, she swears she's given up on love altogether. She pours her heart into her weekly wedding advice column and fills her days planning events to celebrate others' forever love. When her childhood best friend Brendan moves to Las Vegas and they reconnect, she starts to wonder if maybe love could find her again. But then her ex reappears, begging for another chance. Can someone once-burned and twice-shy ever find her way down the aisle again?
My Husband named our one dog Bandit, because she was a Dalmatian mix, with black spots around both eyes. As for other animals, mainly cats, I watch their mannerisms, and try to come up with a name that way. My current cats are named Sugar Ray and Gizmo. Sugar Ray was named Sugar originally by our Landlords' Wife, and I added the Ray, when we found out our mostly white cat was a male. I picked out Gizmo, because this cat is just "all over the place, and into everything." At the time, we had 8 kittens to name, along with the 2 mama cats, so you can imagine what we were up against. For reasons known only to my Husband and I, the names were Callie, Mia, Luke, and the others aren't coming to me this morning. It was a while ago, and unfortunately, we had to give them to a no-kill adoption shelter. We live in a small apartment, and were only able to keep 2 of them, which was a hard decision to make. Naming pets is a bit hard to do, and I think it's a bit harder to do when you get a dog, because when you have to call out their name, you don't want to sound stupid. I never would have thought of the name Cupid, but it fits the story line of your book, and I'm looking forward to reading your book!! (Peggy Roberson 10:51am July 23, 2014)
We've had all sorts of names for different dogs and cats -- sometimes the critter has lived up to their names (so think twice about names). We currently have Bounder a golden retriever who does indeed bound everywhere, and Bandit a torti cat who had a reverse bandit mask in light blonde over her eyes who is a little thief. We've got several other furry ones, but they don't do as good a job living up to their names. (Glenda Martillotti 10:52pm July 23, 2014)
I try and choose a name that suits the pet, something unique and fitting. For instance, out latest furry baby, a black kitten, is named Crook for the crook in the end of its tail. The name has turned out to be quite fitting as he has certainly stolen my husband's heart. One of our dogs we called Blue, short for Blueberry as he looked like a blueberry muffin cut in half, all blue-grayish and speckled. (Debbie Kelly 3:16pm July 24, 2014)
sadly, we haven't been very creative - we've had several cats named 'Kitty'; others came to us already named, thereby sparing themselves the indignity of yet another Kitty....My mother used the first initials of her children to name a dog or two, but as she points out, she would have named a boat the same contrived name! (Beth Fuller 4:36pm July 24, 2014)
It's interesting how animals seem to grow into their name. My daughter named her cat Fluffy when she was a little girl & it ended up being a boy, so my brother's decided to go with the German version of Fluffy because Flaumig sounds so much tougher. Lol (Cindi Madsen 9:00pm July 24, 2014)
Usually there's too much input on a name for the cat from all the prime or immediate relations. Jerold or Jerry had a few including Percival, but I have no idea where that came from. The dog thought any word that began with a "B" meant we were talking about him, go he'd give us this quizzical look since his name was Barney or Barnels. (Alyson Widen 5:58pm July 31, 2014)
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