by Marina Ford
Harry throws his head back and laughs.
“Oh God,” he says. “If this is the first day of our marriage, Joe, I can’t wait to see what the rest of them are going to be like.”
“Come to bed, husband,” I say with a grin. “I’ll show you.”
How to get married in eight easy-peasy steps:
Meet a guy you hate.
Sleep with the guy on a whim.
Lose the guy to his ex.
Take him to Dublin.
Shave your head and scare the bejeezus out of his cousins.
Propose to him anyway.
Tell his father to stop being a fuckweasel or else.
Marry him.
How to get married in eight easy-peasy steps, as revised by Harry:
At the lowest point in your life, and at the worst possible moment, meet a real-life, twenty-first-century pirate and rogue.
Ignore all your better instincts. Fall inexplicably in love with him.
Dump everything and roll the dice on your inexplicable attraction to twenty-first-century pirate and rogue.
Ruin his career by threatening to sue the entirety of the Dublin art world for imagined harm done to your very own twenty-first-century pirate and rogue.
Accept proposal from him. Naturally.
Track down his birth parents in attempt to be cute.
Return with barely any time to spare, only to find that regardless of how much you fucked up, your very own twenty-first-century pirate and rogue wants you anyway.
Marry him.
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Ten years ago, when my husband took me for a surprise visit to Ireland with the intention of proposing to me, everything went wrong: security at the airport stopped to search his bag, because he accidentally forgot to take out a pair of scissors, nearly exposing the ring he had hidden there (a shout-out to the security people at Leeds Bradford airport who handled this without laughing at my husband though they so clearly wanted to); we’d left for Dublin at four in the morning, so during the traditional Irish dancing performance at the lovely pub he took me to later that day, I fell asleep. When we got to the truly romantic Ha’penny Bridge, it was raining, and when finally he conquered his nerves, he decided to go down on one knee in front of a group of tourists he didn’t even notice. I want to thank my ridiculous, disorganised chaos prince of a husband for planning something for the first time in his life. And for every single day since. This, and everything else I do, is for you.
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Marina Ford is a thirty-three-year-old book addict, who would, if permitted, spend all of her time in bookstores, libraries, or in her own bed with stacks and stacks of books. Luckily, she has a husband and a dog, who force her to interact with humans of planet Earth from time to time. In fact, she so enjoyed falling in love with her husband that she can’t resist evoking those same feelings in the love stories she writes. She does not believe in love at first sight—but she does believe in the happy ever after, though it must be earned. She likes her stories to be light, since real life can be miserable enough without making up more of it in fiction.
She lives in England, loves rain (gives one an excuse to stay at home and read books, right?), long walks (when it doesn’t rain), history, Jane Austen, the theatre, languages, and dogs. It is her dream to one day possess an enormous country house in which each room is a library (okay, maybe except for the kitchen), and in which there are more dogs than people. A smaller and perhaps more realistic dream is to make people smile with the things she writes.
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