Cold Feet

VIOLA

I hear Rick’s car start and heave a sigh of relief.

It’s been the morning I feared. Call after call from people threatening to sue me or just wanting to rant and blame the fact that they their marriages failed on me. Cancellation after cancellation has followed and I have watched my business being choked to death in a matter of hours.

I call an estate agent who regularly leaves pamphlets in my mailbox. The agency is proactive so I decide to get them in and explore having them list the house for sale.

They answer the phone promptly and I am soon put through to an agent who arranges to meet me at two pm. As I put the phone down, the doorbell rings. I wish I had a fence and gates in front of the property. Too late for that now, I think to myself as I open the door without checking who it is.

It’s the reporter from the television report.

She smiles superficially. I see the cameraman behind her. No doubt the camera is rolling already.

“Good morning Miss Hughes.”

“I’m Dana Rothschild,” she says. “Can we come in?”

pull the door closed behind me. “No, you can’t.

you wish. I assume you

I don’t reply.

your side of the story on the

think the video of the groom and bridesmaid says it all don’t you

using a

Wedding Whisperer is,” I say feigning ignorance for this term which I suspect Dana created and which has, much to my frustration gone viral. I have seen memes all over social media already with people making their own interpretation of a Wedding Whisperer. I just don’t want to give Dana the pleasure of feeling that she has created a title

into going ahead with the wedding despite their concerns or cold feet. I must admit it was a unique idea but it truly isn’t the

times has the

can say anything she continues, “And how many times have you used a Wedding Whisperer and the marriage has ended

don’t bother trying

still counting,” Dana smiles. “Calls are still coming in, and they are all, I repeat, all, crying for blood. The common thing they all tell us is that they never

say nothing as I stare

a greedy, gold digging, money hungry wedding planner only interested in making money and having a track record as one of

something I will cry and appear weak on national television. I don’t think that’s