Heather Thurmeier: Wedding mishaps and near disasters
Heather Thurmeier, author of The Wedding Hoax (out today!), shares some mishaps from her own wedding 14 years ago.
Heather: If there's anything that September makes me think of, it's weddings. In fact, I just celebrated my 14th anniversary at the beginning of the month. (Love you, babe!) I'm sure I'm not the only one who decided to wait until the weather turned a little cooler to get married. And I'm sure I can't be the only bride in history to have a moment (or two) where near disaster almost struck. I'm talking about those little mishaps that couldn't possibly be planned for. Or, maybe they could, but weren't! I can easily think of two that happened at my wedding, but I'm sure there are more.
The first happened during dinner. We had a buffet style dinner where the guests served themselves at a central serving station. There were all kinds of delicious food: carved turkey and ham, meatballs, pastas, salads, veggies! Yum. The head table was a little different. We had a family style meal where we passed dishes around… Can you see where I'm going with this? In hindsight, that should never have been an option. Red flag: distracted girl in the very white dress should not pass around a large dish of meatballs in gravy! If it hadn't been for my attentive maid of honor scooping the dish from my hands with lightning-fast reflexes, I would have been wearing gravy down the front of my dress for the rest of the night! That would've looked great in photos! LOL!
Oh and I can't forget the moment my dress almost fell off! Nothing says wedding like a wardrobe malfunction! Seems my seamstress thought I wanted to eat a lot at my wedding dinner—little did she know I'd basically skip it after the near-meatball-mess—and when she made my final dress alterations, she gave me a little extra room in the bodice. But not so much that it would be obvious. Oh no. That would be too easy. Instead, it was only off by just enough that through the course of moving, breathing, and dancing, the zipper would wiggle around and slowly inch its way down my back. Now I can't remember how I figured out this was happening. I suspect someone hugged me and made the discovery. Thank goodness it wasn't discovered because my dress fell to a puddle around my ankles! For the rest of the evening I casually checked my zipper and a couple of times, I caught it on the way down again!
Note for brides-to-be: Tighter is better! You're not going to eat anyway, so just snug that sucker up as much as you can so everything stays exactly where it's supposed to be! Really, who needs to eat or breathe on their wedding day? I'm kidding, of course… Sort of…
With Cole and Daisy in The Wedding Hoax, their entire engagement and wedding is one huge mishap! As ex-lovers, neither one wants to be engaged, even fake-engaged, but the investment deal they're offered is too good to pass up. What could go wrong when exes mix a fake relationship with a business investment, right? When playing the fake-fiancé part starts to rekindle very real feelings, neither one of them is willing to admit that maybe this hoax was nothing but a huge mistake.
If Cole and Daisy give in to their deepest desires, will they make the biggest blunder of all — and fall in love?
Find out more about Heather and her books at heatherthurmeier.com.