The standard traditions for good luck at weddings include the bride not being
seen by the groom on the wedding day before the wedding ceremony. Then there is
the bride wearing something old, something new, something borrowed and something
blue. We throw rice to bring the marriage good luck and as a sign of fertility.
Then there is the cutting of the wedding cake and the happy couple feeding each
other. Keeping the top layer of the cake to be eaten on your first anniversary.
So many traditions. All as a way to honor the bride and groom and to bring two
families together as one.
On my brotherβs wedding day we could not decorate the church because there was a
funeral scheduled before the wedding. They barely got the casket out and the
funeral procession gone before people started showing up for the ceremony. WE
went in and quickly changed the flowers from funeral to wedding. People
whispered it was bad luck. But my brother is still happily married for over
thrity years. My mother said it rained on her wedding day- also a sign of bad
luck for the couple. And yet my parents are still together after 56 years.
In the
NEWLYWED DEAD,
Pepper deals with a death at her sisterβs reception. She vows to capture the
real killer before the whispers that her sisterβs marriage is doomed reach
Felicityβs ears. That gives her two weeks to figure out why the bartender died
and most importantly who wanted her dead.
Does your family have good luck or bad luck wedding day traditions?
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In the new Perfect Proposals mystery from the author of Bodice
of Evidence and Engaged in Murder, a country
club wedding reception becomes the scene of a baffling crime.
The wedding for Pepper Pomeroyβs sister Felicity starts with dearly beloved
but it ends with dearly departed when Ashley, the bartender Pepper befriended
earlier in the evening, drops dead from a lethal nightcap. Authorities think
itβs just a tragic accident. After all, whoβd want to kill a virtual stranger at
a country club wedding reception? Thatβs what Pepper wants to know.
A search into Ashleyβs past reveals a twisty path of secret sororities,
well-connected enemies, and an unsolved slaying still shadowing members of high
societyβincluding a filthy-rich battle-ax whose demands for the services of
Pepperβs Perfect Proposals are starting to sound more like veiled threats.
Pepperβs business may be booming but continued success means outsmarting a
mysterious culprit whoβs still wedded to the idea of murder.
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