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REVIEW: Somebody is going to die if Lilly Beth doesn’t catch that bouquet by Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays

Ladies,

Somebody is Going to Die If Lilly Beth Doesn\'t Catch That Bouquet: The Official Southern Ladies\' Guide to Hosting the Perfect WeddingThank you for that hilarious trip down memory lane. I’m a born and bred Southerner and have attended Dixie weddings my whole life (starting when I was a darling four year old flower girl and got to wear my first long dress - yellow silk with lace trim- and sashay down the aisle. I decided I wanted to keep some of those lovely smelling rose petals for myself so I stopped dropping them at the between the pews and the alter!). This book brought to mind a lot of them. Well, maybe not so much the entire wedding parties getting smashing drunk as most of us in my family are Methodists and we don’t do that. At least we don’t do that when the receptions are held at the Church. But I did hear tell of one wedding rehearsal that got a bit out of control thanks to some bottles of Wild Turkey that required all the groomsmen and most of the bridesmaids to wear sun glasses on The …