My new release from Entangled Publishing is called WEDDING DATE
FOR HIRE and (if you can't guess from the title), centers around a wedding.
My poor heroine, Maddie, thinks she's cursed in the relationship department and
wants the focus of attention off her love life and on her sister,
who is the one getting married. So Maddie decides to hire a wedding date to
save face. You see, Maddie doesn't want to cause any problems and just wants to
have the wedding be perfect for her sister.
That's something relatable. In real life, everyone wants a perfect wedding or a
perfect wedding for a friend or relative, but then life happens. :)
My own personal wedding was a little less than perfect, unfortunately. During
the rehearsal, my hubby and I realized something was a little "off" with our
priest that night: he couldn't remember our names no matter how often we
reminded him! He kept calling us "John and Martha", which were names written in
his ceremony program. Granted, he was a little elderly and near retirement, but
still, "Jennifer" is a pretty common name (and easy to remember!). I even
gently reminded him that it might be a good idea to practice with our real
names since it was a rehearsal, but he assured us it was no big deal. To his
credit, I think he only flubbed the names once during the actual ceremony but
then he kept forgetting what the next step in the ceremony was and I had to
keep whispering what to do.
Talk about STRESS. Sheesh!
Anyhew, once we made it out of the church (with my blood pressure at an even
state), things definitely looked up and we managed to have an awesome time. And
in the big scheme of things, all ended well because my hubby and I just
celebrated out 20th anniversary this past summer. Whew!
How about you? Are you married? Do you have a wedding blooper of your own or
someone else's to share?
Jennifer Shirk has a bachelor degree in pharmacy-which has in NO WAY at
all helped her with her writing career. But she likes to point it out, since it
shows romantic-at-hearts come in all shapes, sizes, and mind-numbing
educations.
She writes sweet (and sometimes even funny) romances for Samhain Publishing,
Avalon Books/Montlake Romance and now Entangled Publishing. She won third place
in the RWA 2006 NYC's Kathryn Hayes Love and Laughter Contest with her first
book, THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME. Recently, her novel SUNNY DAYS FOR SAM won the
2013 Golden Quill Published Authors Contest for Best Traditional Romance.
Lately she's been on a serious exercise kick. But don't hold that against her.
Maddie McCarthy is single, between jobs, and (oh, the shame) lives with her
mother. To make matters worse, she's the maid of honor for her sister's
wedding, and desperately needs a date. Then she sees her salvation-Match Made
Easy, a service for women in Maddie's exact position. If she can't find a
boyfriend, she'll do the next best thing...
Hire one.
Trent Montgomery isn't actually part of Match Made Easy. He's just doing a
favor for his cousin, but one look at the blonde who hired him, and he's
totally hooked. Now Maddie thinks that the attraction sizzling between them is
just "part of the package." And Trent is running out of time to prove to her
that her date-for- hire might just be her happily-ever-after...
Oh boy, do I have a story for you... The minister who was supposed to marry my husband and me had a stroke after our wedding rehearsal, the night before our wedding. His replacement had no idea who we were or what we'd rehearsed when we showed up at the church the next day. We were concerned for the minister who'd fallen ill, and worried about our ceremony. To make matters worse, it snowed that day and the heater broke in the car we were driving to the airport to begin our honeymoon. Nothing seemed to go right--and yet, everything turned out beautifully. We've been married 27 wonderful years, despite wedding day mayhem!
On my 1st marriage, I was ready, but my Husband-to-be wasn't ready to cut the cord from his Mother. His older Sister was in the wedding party, and was a witch, all because she was late in getting to my house before the ceremony, causing me grief, and giving me second thoughts. The Best Man had a car accident on the way to my house as well. He was fine, but the car was a little messed up. I also asked a friend of mine, who is a Mortician, if he would sing for my wedding, and he said yes. He sings like an angel!! Before I walked down the aisle, my Father looked at me and said that I didn't have to go through with it. That totally floored me!! I thought my Parents liked him after all those years!! At the reception, all of the friends of my Husbands were mad that they weren't served steak!! This was a Polish wedding for 400 people at a hall, not a steak house!! It's just a good thing I found out that fact later, and not at the hall, or I would have lost a gasket!! Needless to say that I am no longer with Mama's boy, and am remarried to the person that I should have married in the first place. We have been married for 33+ years now. He's a bit older, and my Parents weren't thrilled with my choice, and yes, not all of these years were easy, but that's what made us stronger as a couple. He's retired now, and now we are starting a new phase of life. (Peggy Roberson 3:47pm October 17, 2015)
I knew when I walked down the aisle with my first husband but went through with it anyway because he was the only man my parents liked. Five years of alcoholism and abuse from him later, I left. Subsequently met my late husband whom my parents did NOT like(at first) and were wed 42+ years until his untimely demise. BTW, my parents became so fond of him, I accused them of liking him better! (Kathleen Bylsma 9:15pm October 17, 2015)
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