Maid Stumble Branch: use these three words

‘Why did you let Julie be your maid of honour? She’ll mess it up somehow, I know she will.’

Sue’s question buzzed in my ear. As my best friend since forever, she’d expected the role, but she was eight months through a difficult pregnancy and I hadn’t wanted to add pressure. Or be left with no one if she had to spend the last month with her feet up being waited on.

The daughter should understand. Sad, that she didn’t, given … Edith sighed and filled the kettle for a cup of tea.

So here was...