When Haley decides to FaceTime her fiancé, Chris, wanting to clarify a few wedding details, she sees a glimpse of another woman in his sunglasses. Suddenly, everything she thought about her wedding became a nightmare. Haley tracks his location, ready to catch Chris in the act—and when she does, drinks go flying, along with her engagement ring.
The day started like any other, with the mundane glow of morning light filtering through my blinds. It was meant to be just another day of ticking off tasks and counting down the last eight weeks to our wedding, a day like any other until it wasn’t.
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I needed to make the final decision on the flowers and I was going to our local florist at noon to make sure I was happy with the mock-ups.
On one hand, I felt like everything was going just fine. But on the other, I was a little nervous that Chris wasn’t taking any of the wedding planning seriously.
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He agreed to everything I wanted and barely gave his own input like he just wasn’t taking anything seriously.
I didn’t know how to feel about it, but I also knew that I was being sensitive about everything. I just wanted to have the perfect day.
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“Talk to him, Haley,” my best friend, Claudia, said when I confessed my feelings during a beach day. “Tell him why his input means so much to you.”
And I wanted to. I wanted to tell Chris that despite all odds, we were getting married. I was only 23, and my parents had been against the wedding from the beginning.
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“Come on, Haley,” my mother said. “What’s the rush? You’re still so young, and there’s an entire world for you to discover before settling down.”
“I love him,” I said, believing that it would be enough.
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“I’ll support you because you’re my daughter and I want you to be happy, but please, do not mistake my support for my blessing.”
I nodded at her. I knew that eventually, my mother would come around—she always did.
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But my father, on the other hand, refused to entertain the topic at all.
“I don’t have anything to say about this, Haley,” he said. “You are too young. And who is this boy? Chris is a few years older than you, but he’s still getting into his career. Can he support you?”
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That had been almost a year ago. Since then, my parents seemed to thaw. They accepted Chris, but they were still uncertain about our marriage.
I made myself some coffee and settled down into my home office, ready to tackle the day before heading to the florist.
