If you’re rolling your eyes because it’s another wedding post, just stick with me. Because this one isn’t your average wedding post.
Sure, there’s a bride and groom. But I’m more focused on the ones standing to either side of them. Who? The best man and maid-of-honor, of course.
You see, if they’re not married at the time of the wedding, and they happened to have spent A LOT of time together in the time up to the wedding, AND now they’re standing across the stage from each other, watching a very romantic ceremony … well, could something happen between them too?
In my next release, Window of the Heart (August 1st), Ty Dunne and Lennox Malone are the best man and maid-of-honor to Sara Beth and Brian. They don’t exactly hit it off in the best way, though. Great. Off on the wrong foot and now they have to be thrown together over and over for the next six months. This should be nothing but miserable, right?
Ty is intrigued by Lennox. She is a lot of fun to pick at and rile up, with her fiery red-headed temper, after all. And she’s unlike anyone he’s ever met before.
Lennox thinks Ty can’t take anything seriously, including what time he should arrive at events. And why won’t he get a haircut? How is he possibly the one Sara Beth trusts to get the chapel repaired in time for the ceremony.
But each time they see each other, a new fact comes to light. And by the time the wedding happens, well, there’s not quite as much animosity floating around. Though Lennox might not be quite ready to admit it yet.
Still, can you imagine? What if you are standing to each side of the bride and groom, watching them bind their lives together? What if you look across and catch the other looking back? What if you tuck your arm in his to walk back down the aisle at the end and maybe like it there?
There are so many possibilities, right?
I know I had fun playing with it.
Have you read other books focused on the maid-of-honor and best man instead of the bride and groom? Are you tired of wedding books or do you love reading about weddings and all to do with them?
Ty is determined to find a way past Lennox’s walls–even if it’s through a window.
Lennox Malone may not believe in love, but she’s determined to do the best job she can as her friend Sara Beth’s maid of honor. Problem is, the man in charge of fixing up the chapel doesn’t match her determination. Fighting against preconceived notions, a past that catches up to her, and an attraction she wants nothing to do with, this wedding is turning into more than she can handle.
Ty Dunne might be laid back and easy-going, but he’s determined to make sure the chapel is ready for his cousin’s wedding. Not only is it his duty as best man, but he wants to preserve the family’s history in the building. If only he could live up to his family’s other expectations—or those of Lennox Malone, the fiery redhead he can’t stop thinking about. Before he can go any further with her, though, he has to convince her that love is real and worth the risk.
Lennox has built her walls high and sturdy, but Ty is determined to find a way in—even if it’s a window. Maybe the history of the chapel itself along with the romance of a wedding will help.
Amy R Anguish grew up a preacher's kid, and in spite of having lived in seven different states that are all south of the Mason Dixon line, she is not a football fan. Currently, she resides in Tennessee with her husband, daughter, and son, and usually a bossy cat or two. Amy has an English degree from Freed-Hardeman University that she intends to use to glorify God, and she wants her stories to show that while Christians face real struggles, it can still work out for good.
I don’t have to have weddings in books to be happy! It’s enough for me to know that they are heading that way! However, I certainly won’t complain if the author throws a wedding in there! An author friend has told me that one of her readers has to have a wedding in every book or she’s not that happy, and let’s the author know!
I’m with you. I don’t have to have a wedding, but they sure are fun!
I agree, there doesn’t have to be a wedding but I love reading about them so it’s nice when there is.
I love the book’s cover, it’s really beautiful and striking.
Hi Amy! Don’t recall any CCR stories with romantic sparks between best man and maid of honor. So often romances stop at the engagement. There are several Hallmark movies with romances between best man and maid of honor. Often they are friends helping plan or help with wedding their best friends. So many different ways to approach a romance. Best wishes. Enjoy you summer.
Valerie Comer has a good romance about bridal attendants – Team Bride in her Riverbend series. It was hilarious in places! I hear what you’re saying, though. Most bridal attendants’ romance stories happen in the story following the one with the wedding that introduced them.
You know I agree weddings are fun! And thank you so much! I am very pleased with my cover.
Thanks for stopping by, Renate!
It’s such a fun concept! Thanks for commenting.
I love your cover. I enjoy reading about weddings and all that go into planning and decorating. I am not sure if I have read one about the best man and maid of honor. Thanks so much for sharing. God bless you.
Thanks for commenting Debra! One of my early readers said all the wedding plans in my book made her want to renew her vows. Made me feel like I did something right. ;)
What a beautiful cover, Amy, and this sounds like a great story. I always enjoy books about weddings, and ones featuring the best man/maid of honor (a tried-and-true trope) are fun. My book, Eight Cats of Christmas, features those two characters meeting and bonding over a caper involving hiding the groom’s getaway car. It was fun to write.
Erin, that sounds like so much fun! I’ll definitely have to check that one out.
In one of my short stories, there was an international wedding happening in Bristol, UK – a foreign rugby player taken to the local team a few months ago married his high school sweetheart. They had a lot of attendants, because the bride was the eldest of 4 sisters, so the other 3 were bridesmaids, one of her highschool friends who succeeded to come was a bridesmaid too, and two British girls, the girlfriends of two of the best men (fellow rugby players). Well, the groom’s cousin got to be in the bridal party too, but she befriended the highschool friend in the airport, coming to the wedding.
Accordingly, the groom had in the party a male cousin, a friend from childhood and the others new friends from the rugby team.
And yes, after the days they had to spend together in preparing the wedding… two of the bridesmaids and two of the best men got together. International relationships, both! One of the bride’s sister befriended a British rugby player from Bristol and the groom’s childhood friend, the groom’s female cousin (from another country, of course).
But it is generally known that a wedding means, often, the making of another soon… so I guess I had such scenes in some novels too. I remember one happening in a newly founded village across St. Louis, or actually there were 4 weddings celebrated together… There were the new villagers, a convoy of Venetian immigrants (it was 1803, Italy was not yet united) and some of the French from St Louis (as 2 of the grooms were from there). And while dancing those kind of folk dances (both the Venetians and the French had some) where everybody ends dancing with everybody, and joking around the table… new pairs formed, the Venetian sister of one of the grooms falling in love (and later marrying) the cousin of the 2 twin French grooms…)
Wow! Those stories sound like so much fun!