I’m glad you find the wedding stories in my novels funny! While some of them may be inspired by real locations, and things that maybe could have happened or almost happened, most of them are actually made up. As a writer, I like to close my eyes and imagine what could have happened on a particular wedding day, while, of course, I’m thrilled that it all went to plan. However, I do think that the best stories often have an ounce of truth in them, just let your imagination run wild and decide which bits you think are fact or fiction.

The venues are all real, and I’ve had permission from the wedding couples to write about a couple of the funnier stories—the ones that are actually true. For example, the wedding where it rained, and the venue was covered in mud, and everyone just danced the night away in the mud—that one was true. It was such fun, and I’ve never seen so many people just not care about anything except having fun, ourselves included.

The story of the boat going backwards and in circles was true. Not the wedding story that went along with it, with the drunken bride, which was my imagination, but the speed boat turning up and ‘rescuing’ us all, which kept us laughing for days, was very true.

The story of a photographer falling off the boat is, once again, very true. As per the previous stories, the whole wedding that tied in with it all just came to me as I typed, and very much came from my imagination, but the guy who fell in and lost his cameras was, unfortunately for him, true. I wasn’t on the boat myself, so I only have the wedding planner’s story to go on, but when the bride and groom came into the office to collect their wedding certificates, they gave us the full rundown.

If I think of any more true ones, I’ll pop them in a separate post.

Happy reading.

Gwen