Merry Mitchell (Mitchell/Healy Family #3.5) by Jennifer Foor

A Merry Mitchell Affair
    MITCHELL-HEALY Book 3.5
    The characters in this novella are part of the
    Mitchell –Healy Series, a spinoff of the Mitchell Family.
    All original titles are available for purchase.
     
    Written By: Jennifer Foor
    Edited By: Pamela Snyder
    My Fabulous Beta Readers:
    Catherine Roberts, Emma Clifton, Kayla Kennedy,
    Kristy Davidson, Julie Barley,
    Special thanks to: Danielle Sanchez & all of my Foor Players

     
    Chapter 1
    Shalan
    I didn’t mean to feel depressed, especially since I had so much to look forward to. There were certainly other things more important than a big wedding. Surely it was redundant to consider that everything would work out before the end of the year. We’d reached late November, and as the leaves on the trees turned autumn colors, I knew my hopes of becoming Mrs. Noah Mitchell before New Year’s was proving to be impossible.
    I ran my hands over the chiffon fabric. At first I wasn't sure if white was the right shade for me. It was the most popular of choices. I'd read somewhere that the color only became favored after a queen wanted to incorporate lace with her own wedding gown. How it stuck was beyond me. It was the least flattering color on a woman, yet practically everyone chose it.
    At least I was lucky enough to be blessed with a high metabolism and a cute figure, so I’ve been told. Don’t get me wrong, I love to eat. I prefer chips over vegetables and chocolate over pasta.
    Reason number forty why I shouldn’t wear white, I was a sloppy eater. If I put something in my mouth, half would end up on or between my boobs. It never failed, and I  constantly had to pack double the clothes because of it. Noah always teased me that he was going to bring out a bib for me to wear at every meal.
    I didn’t know why I was so worried about the color white anyway. My wedding had been postponed three times already, and once the holidays were over I'd leave the country to go back out on tour to promote my new album. By the time I got to wear this dress it would be out of style.
    As much as I'd cried over it, I knew there was nothing I could do. My fiancé Noah's family kept having one catastrophe after another. First his cousin Bella got pregnant, and didn’t want me to have to change the style of her dress. Besides, with that pregnancy came a whole bunch of unforeseen drama. It took the whole nine months for her to get things figured out.
    Since she’d become my closest friend, and obvious matron of honor, it was important that she was healthy, and less stressed to assist me in everything I needed help with.
    It was my first wedding, and I wanted it all to be perfect. What bride doesn’t? With the family I was marrying into, there was no telling what kind of prank that one of the cousins were going to pull. In order for me to keep as calm as possible I needed all of my details to be in check, so that if I needed to kick some ass, I’d be capable of doing it well.
    All jokes aside, I loved this beautiful family I was about to be a big part of. They’d showed me joy, brought me back to the lord, and given me back what I’d lost so long ago. I felt like I belonged, and my future mother-in-law treated me like I was her own daughter. I was in awe over them.
     
    After Noah’s cousin had her baby, Sarah, we’d rearranged all of the details and sent out the revised invites for our big day. Everything was in order; the venue, the caterers, the entertainment, and the guest list. Then Noah’s youngest sister Addy had to go into rehab for a drug addiction. She’d been in trouble since the first time I met her, but I couldn’t imagine it had  gotten so out of control. I don’t think anyone could. She came from a big loving family, and had no reason to take the path that she did. Anyway, once she was feeling more herself, I’d promised her that we’d wait until she was all better, so she could still participate as a bridesmaid.
    The second set of wedding postponement notices