Marie Force is Going To the Chapel (And she’s taking prizes with her!) Back to Blog
Update: Marie’s FATAL winner is…Lisa B. Congrats, Lisa! Thanks for sharing that horror story with us!
I know I’ve mentioned that I am a Marie Force fan girl. I am. She writes. I read. And I so enjoy her stories. Marie, thank you for joining us today!!! It is always a pleasure.
Going to the Chapel
Everyone loves a wedding, right? A fictional wedding is even better because you can attend from your home without getting dressed up or agonizing over a gift. The characters in my Fatal Series, Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Lt. Sam Holland and U.S. Senator Nick Cappuano, tie the knot in book 3.5 in the series, Fatal Destiny. The novella was released this week and it’s free! (As of this writing, we were still working out some kinks with the freebie on Amazon, but I hope that will be all set by the time you read this!)
The series, which began with Fatal Affair last June, continued earlier this year with Fatal Justice and this summer with Fatal Consequences and Fatal Destiny. Up next is Fatal Flaw in February 2012. Here’s a little more about the free novella:
With the week of their wedding finally upon them, Washington, D.C., Police Lieutenant Sam Holland and her fiancé, Senator Nick Cappuano, are at odds. In the aftermath of a tragic loss, they struggle to reconnect as the big day draws near, but their work keeps pulling them apart. When a new clue into a cold case surfaces, Nick asks Sam not to take any foolish chances before the wedding and to leave it alone for the time being. Sam agrees, but she can’t let it go entirely and winds up trapped in an explosive situation. Then an unwelcome visitor from her past threatens her future happiness… With trouble at every turn, will Sam survive long enough to walk down the aisle?
***
Today, I’m giving away PDF copies of the first three books in the Fatal Series to the respondent who shares the best wedding horror story. Thanks for coming over to say hello and best of luck to my friend Cynthia Eden on her double release day!
Tweet It
Oh man! I don’t have a wedding horror story:( Well I guess that’s a good thing too:)
yadkny@hotmail.com
Thanks to Marie for the free copy of “Fatal Destiny.” I don’t have a horror story either. The most unconventional one was my cousin’s wedding in Vegas.
I love a series set in my hometown. I’m headed to Amazon and I’d love to win one.
This looks great – thank you. Off to Amazon 🙂
I don’t have a wedding horror story, but I do have a honeymoon one. After being married for only two hours, my new husband’s girlfriend calls wanting to know why he suddenly moved out! Needless to say, we are now divorced.
Would love copies of the books!!!!
I don’t have a horror story, but the most exciting wedding that I’ve been to was one of my husband’s cousins. What made it exciting was that it was a Wiccan wedding and it thoroughly shocked and scandalized my husband’s whole family. It was also interesting because I had never been to a Wiccan wedding before.
I honestly don’t have any wedding horror stories. I myself have never been married but I’ve been engaged 3 times so far in my life. Came really close to actually tying the knot once but things just didn’t work out and we split up 3 months before we were to be wed.
The book sounds really great, hope I get a chance to read it sometime. =)
Have a great day!
Nothing happened on my wedding day but for my cousin’s we went early to take pictures in front of the beautiful lake they were getting married on. The pictures took so long guest started showing up and saw her before the ceremony started. She was very upset but everything worked out for the best!
Thanks for offering such a great giveaway, Marie!
I’ll be married next June 20 yrs and biggest issue at our wedding was the wedding party drinking to much before we got to the hall. Did i mention that several were not 21 either. I had to actually go to the bar at the hall and tell the bartenders no liquor for anyone in the bridal party til after dinner. My friend who was a bridesmaid ended up throwing up in the front seat of her car and my brother drove her home before the end of the night. Luckily most everyone else was ok once they ate.
My brothers first wedding ( he’s on #2) my husband was the best man and after the wedding they took a bus bar hopping and he did so on a empty stomach and nevous because he didn’t know anyone. ( i was on in the wedding party) and by the time he got to the hall he was sick as a dog. NEVER even made it into the building. Sat out in our car for a while and then i had to drive him to my parents house ( we lived out of state) Needless to say someone else had to give the best man toast. Luckily my brother was not mad he thought it was funny. I DID NOT think it was funny. lol
Lisa B
My wedding horror story, gouged a big chunk out of my leg the morning of the wedding, bit of a klutz, tripped and fell. Got bandaged up, no one the wiser.
Not my wedding story someone I know. Girl I know was getting married. Her mother had been having some dry eye issues. About 10 minutes before the wedding mom went to get eye drops and put them in her eyes. Only to realize after she did this that she did not grab the eyedrops she grabbed super glue. She was sent to the hospital missed her daughters wedding. And quite a few years later the marriage ended very badly. I guess it was an omen.
ok, I can roll with this 🙂 My husband and I planned our wedding and paid for most of it ourselves. We were new parents, just bought our first house, were doing ok, but we had a small budget. My husbands parents took over planning the reception for us and planned it at a local bar, neglecting the fact that on our wedding day, I would be 2 months shy of being 21. Trying to cut corners, my best friend and bridesmaid told me her aunt does photography on the side. He aunt said she would take our pics, so great one less thing to worry about 🙂 We got married in a very small town where my husband grew up and the minister there was a friend of the family, so he married us and the ceremony was in his church, orange shag carpet and all 🙂 Showed up at the reception and tried to have drinks and enjoy myself with everyone else, just to have the passing waitress come up to me, steal my drink and threaten to kick me out. Wonderful, sober evening for me 🙂 Due to the fact that I was sober, it was fun watching everyone else get their party on, oops, maybe a little too much. Everyone was so drunk at our reception that no one was able to watch our one year old son, who ended up having to come back to the hotel with us on our wedding night. He was jazzed up from the cake and dancing that he didn’t go to sleep to the wee hours of the morning which equaled no wedding night for us. Fast forward three days to getting my pictures from my friends aunt, all pictures came back blurry, and out of focused. I got better pics at the reception from the disposable cameras we layed out. That was my wedding, though it wasn’t horrible, I more than made up for it two months later at my sister’s wedding 🙂 and yes, I was 21 by then lol
Not sure if this is horror enough. Hubby and I did everything for our wedding. I used photoshop (things I learned in college) to make my wedding invites.
Well I spent months designing the wedding programs. Everything I had planned to do never happened. I wanted to be taken to my grandmother’s grave site but no one wanted to take me. Then my father calls and the printer messed up, so he couldn’t get all the programs printed.
Though, this is not exactly the horror part but the ultimate cute part. Hubby and I’s son (my oldest) was nine months old and the ring bearer. My baby brother carried him down with the pillow.
His outfit was made especially for him out of the same material as my wedding dress. Since it was close to Easter we found these cute slip on dress shoes for him. All during the ceremony he kept kicking off his shoe. Baby brother picked it up once. Brother in law did the second time, and the third my other brother picked it up and pocketed the shoe.
So many amazing (and crazy) stories! I love them all! Thanks for sharing. The husband’s girlfriend calling takes the wedding cake so far! I gasped out loud and would like dibs on using that scenario in a book. 🙂 Keep the stories coming!
I dont really have a wedding horror story. I do know that my cousin’s brother showed up to HIS wedding completely dressed up in a skirt, high heels, and full make up. Needless to say my cousin wasn’t really too happy his little brother showed up to his wedding dressed like a girl lol…
Ashley A
ash_app@hotmail.com
These books look so good. My only wedding horror story actulally involves blood! My son was ring bearer for my nephew’s wedding and just hours before the wedding I decided he needed a little hair trim around the ears. Just as I am saying “don’t move” he turns his head into the scissors! I just nipped the earlobe but the blood would not stop for an hour! We made it but he will never let me forget!
A friend of mine married a man whose identical twin brother was the best man. The wedding videographer followed the *best man* throughout the reception. How the guy made that mistake is beyond me. Yes, they were identical twins but only one of them was with the *bride* the whole time.
Then there was the wedding photographer who had a bit too much fun during the reception of another friend’s wedding. This wouldn’t have been a big deal if the photos didn’t turn out looking like snapshots (I think the photos the bride’s brother took turned out better).
Well, it’s not my wedding horror story, thank goodness. My wedding has its share of unexpected surprises like guests showing up when they already declined, guests getting too drunk and my photographer hitting on the single woman at the wedding but at least my husband and I were happy for the most part of the wedding day.
It’s my sister’s actually. My grandparents were mad at my parents for some stupid reasons that day and didn’t show up for the ceremony until 1.5 hour late… My grandparents were part of the ceremony originally so we had to find my aunt and uncle to step in last minute since the church had another wedding scheduled after my sister’s…. My sister was FURIOUS.
Hi Marie, I hope you have more special events like the one you held for your character’s wedding. It’s such a unique and fun way to interact with characters. I haven’t been to a lot of weddings and the ones I’ve been to as a child, I remember them being formal. I have attended many fun or outrageous weddings in books, though. I also have a guilty pleasure of reading about other people’s horror stories. There’s a site called Etiquette Hell, go to “stories archives” and it will take you to horror/tacky/embarassing stories-gallore (all about weddings!).
I don’t think my wedding issues qualify after some of the stories I’ve read today. But here it goes.
First, one of my husband’s groomsmen cancelled the week before the wedding. His mother broke her arm and he needed to stay home with her. I never understood why someone else in the family didn’t take care of her. It wasn’t like she didn’t have a husband or other children at home. I was really pissed off because this guy was my husband’s best friend growing up and he bailed.
My husband and I grew up in different states, so for our wedding his family had to travel. We found a nice hotel for everyone to stay at that was close to the church and the reception hall. After the wedding at the church, we visited my family at my house and then went to the hotel to visit with his family. After all the visiting it was off to the reception, where we did the traditional receiving line for our guests. My in-laws never showed up the receiving line. They were 2 hours late to the reception. Happy hour started at the bar at the hotel and they decided to stay there. I guess free food at the hotel bar was more important then getting to their son’s wedding reception on time.
knitrix29@gmail.com
I don’t have any horror stories either. My wedding went relatively smoothly. Reception went well, although there were kids stealing my drink every time I put it down. Which was a lot because I was having a blast dancing the night away!
Mine isn’t too bad looking back. I was 20 years old and still living with my parents and a couple of my friends took me out for my “bachorlette party” (and I use that term very loosly since it was the lamest party ever) the week before my wedding. When I got home that night my parents had dissabled my water bed and I had to sleep on the couch.
I woke up the next day extremly sick. My throat, ears, pretty much my entire sinus cavity was covered in white gunk! I was so sick my parents went out and bought a cheep bed frame and mattress and I slept a week. I had to take slow antibiotics since I am allergic to PNC. I barely made it to my wedding. I wasn’t able to get gifts for my attendants, I had to skip my rehersal dinner. They had it without me. I just sat there during my reception and my honey moon was horrible because all I wanted to do was sleep. But I did get married…barely!
mmafsmith at gmail dot com
My husband & I were married at the chapel on a military base. There were several to choose from and we picked the one I considered the prettiest. We called a few days before the ceremony and found out the chaplain had forgotten about our wedding. The chapel we wanted (& the one on our invitations) was no longer available. So we opted for the smaller one which was cute but a little shabby. The chaplain was pissy the entire time for having to work a weekend. To add to my stress the best man and all the groomsmen were drunk BEFORE the ceremony. I think I threatened each of their lives several times.
The reception was about 20 minutes away & most of our guests didn’t make it. We gave them directions but the ones that didn’t follow us got lost & decided to just head home. Thankfully the reception had a margarita in a giant glass waiting for the stressed out bride. I quickly joined the drunk bridal party LOL
Now this isn’t my story but one of my in laws. On her wedding day when it was time for her to answer: I do! she passed out cold into the arms of the minister. We waited a few minutes till she was better and then the question came again, again she passed out cold; and we waited again. Third time is a charm and we had a winner! But her wedding was videotaped by a friend!!!
I can’t say I have a wedding horror story though I just got married on Saturday thankfully everything went extremely well. LOL 🙂 thoug I have to admit there are some really good stories. 🙂
Well on my wedding day I kept stressing to my to be hubby not to be late or else and of course it was me who was rushing to the Alter…raining and traffic…hubby never lets ME live it down…lol(not horrid but thats all I got)
We went to a wedding (hubby was a groomsman) and the bride was 6 months pregant. She was so stressed (bridezilla) that she ended up going into labor 1 1/2 hours before the wedding. There was no wedding that day. Bridezilla was beyond mad because she wanted the wedding before the baby but wouldn’t let anyone help out because ‘you all are uncultured idiots that wouldn’t know good taste if it hit you in the face’ was her reasoning. They are divorced now and we never have to see her again.
deslauree3 at aol dot com
I do love weddings (especially soap opera ones when I was a kid). There is only one wedding I went to that was a little bit crazy. My cousin got married and the bride was a little nervous & had a few too many cocktails. Anyway, some of the highlights included the bride coming to my table with the cake knife & insisting that the table get up to watch her cut the cake on the dance floor, even though our table was at the edge of the dance floor. The evening ended with the bride passing out on the dance floor and being taken out by EMT’s. The bride was fine – which I’m happy to report – although, apparently was upset that her dress got dirty at the hospital. That I heard second hand, though. They are still married 🙂 & I hope they don’t read this blog :-).