Un-Bridaled
Chapter One: Chloe's Guide for the Runaway Bride
Sure, you can run out of the wedding days, or even weeks, before the actual event. You can spark a nationwide manhunt (womanhunt?) and cause giant bug-eyed photos of yourself to be plastered on billboards by pretending to have been abducted. But why put everyone to that kind of trouble? Be considerate. Run out on your groom right there in front of everybody, and let someone else alert the media.
"It is traditional, at this point in a Jewish wedding ceremony, for the bride and groom to share a glass of wine and then smash the glass." The rabbi smiled at Mark and me.
This was it. The final moment. We'd smash the glass, kiss. Then, presto finito, abracadabra, ta da! I'd be Mrs. Mark Hutchinson. My stomach flipped.
I looked up at Mark. He smiled back at me and gave my hand a squeeze of encouragement. I took a big deep breath. He hadn't wanted to smash the glass. I was glad he was being nice about it now, because Mark could really cop an attitude when he had to do something he didn't want to. I hadn't insisted on mu ... read full excerpt from Un-Bridaled ebook