Tied in Knots by Lisa Taggart
Your wedding - the moment you've been waiting for your whole life - is tomorrow. The invitations have been sent out, the caterer and florist are lined up and the bridesmaid dresses have all been exquisitely hand tailored. The location is spectacular and the officiant is your best friend. The weather is going to be great. There's only one fear: that something unplanned and unexpected will happen. With biting humour, twenty true stories share the side-splitting details of wedding mishaps and mistakes, embarrassing faux pas and disastrous outtakes. A momentous event for all, weddings bring together family and friends, photographers and DJs - people who don't know each other or know each other too well - to create an idealized vision of the grand occasion. But different cultural expectations, outpourings of emotion, jealous ex-lovers, stately rules of etiquette, and lots of champagne can often blur that vision, making for laugh-out-loud experiences no one ever expected, yet everyone can relate to. These funny women - brides, bridesmaids, guests, relatives, and strangers - know all too well that wedding gowns can fall apart, that chocolate shavings will melt under the sun, and that dirty dancing is not just a movie, as they capture the essence of bad luck, bad taste, and bad decisions surrounding the big day in witty, entertaining writing.