Make Me Smile

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I never imagined I'd be a graceful bride.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I stained my wedding dress the second I tried it on. Connor even accidentally saw it in my camera roll. And worst yet? Our parents would rather attend our wedding via Zoom than spend an entire evening rubbing elbows with their arch nemesis.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Three years into our HEA and things just keep getting better except for this one little nagging area of our life. I want our marriage to form a truce between the Dalys and Cabanas but with us living so far away from Bayshore all we've been able to accomplish is a resentful stalemate.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But now that Connor and I are back in Bayshore for our extended wedding-and-beyond home-cation our to-do list includes not just finalizing floral arrangements but also getting our Moms and Dads to bury the hatchet.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Cocktail parties with ex-best friends? Check. Fishing trips with two frosty fathers? Agonizing check.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Connor and I are determined to forge a new future for our parents no matter how much we grimace through it.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But on my wedding day there's no doubt about it.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This man-and this life we've built-will do nothing but make me smile.</span></p><p><br></p>