Besides being a fab author, Lisa Wingate is one of my fellow Belles over on SouthernBelleView. Love blogging and associating with this woman.About her wedding dress, Lisa writes:One of the neatest things about our wedding was that my dress was remade from my mother’s dress. She is an incredible seamstress, and may hours of tender loving care went into creating …
Beautiful Brides: Cara Putman
Cara Putman is a romantic suspense author, a lawyer and one of the most energetic women I know! She’s great fun.Of her wedding, Cara writes:We’ve all heard about the groom being late to the wedding. In an effort to avoid that with mine, my mom told my groom to arrive at the church at a certain time for pictures.The morning …
Beautiful Brides: Susan Meissner
Susan Meissner is a talented, award winning author and a good friend. Love hanging with Sooz whenever I can.She writes:I married my best friend one month shy of my twentieth birthday, which seems incredibly young to me now, but the thing is, Bob’s still the guy I would chose to spend my life with.My dress was frothing with Chantilly lace and a …
Beautiful Brides: Denise Hunter
Denise Hunter is a friend, a popular romance author and a girl drummer!!She writes of her wedding:You can tell it was the 80s by the peach color scheme and big hair. But that’s love shining in our eyes, and true love never goes out of style. 🙂 I was on a tight budget, so I bought my gown for $120.00 at a …
Beautiful Brides: Mary Connealy
Many of you love Mary Connealy’s sweet, funny, historicals! Here’s how charming her own romance turned out! Mary writes: Ivan and I met in eighth grade at a country school track meet. We both attended one-room country schools (different ones) through eighth grade, then went to high school together. We were friends in high school and ran around in a …
Beautiful Brides: Tamera Alexander
Tamera Alexander is one of the sweetest women I know. But she also possesses a sharp, funny wit. Here’s some great pictures from her wedding day. Isn’t she gorgeous? Tammy writes: Hey friends, Let me start off by saying: Arranged marriages still work! I met my sweet mother-in-law, Claudette Harris Alexander, before I ever met my husband, Joe. Here’s where that went… …
Beautiful Brides: Robin Lee Hatcher
Continuing the tour of beautiful brides… Here’s Robin Lee Hatcher in ’89! Doesn’t she look great? Robin writes: First a note about my wedding dress. It was purchased for and worn first by my 5′ 10″ eldest daughter. Two years later, I wore it (as I am under 5′ 6″ it had to be shortened plus I used a belled …
Beautiful Brides: Deborah Raney
Being as I wrote a book about four brides and a wedding dress, I asked some author friends to share their wedding pictures and stories with me. Now I’m sharing them with you! First up, the beautiful Deborah Raney! “When I met Ken Raney and it was almost love at first sight. We dated all summer, but in the fall, …
The Wedding Dress Releases Tomorrow
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On Being Selfish and Selfless
One of the things I love about being a writer is digging deep to give wisdom and meaning to my characters in dialog and action that’s not trite or expressly something I would say or do. While I’m pro life, I had to write convincing pro choice dialog for the book The Sweet By and By when my heroine was …