Blackening: a really dirty pre-wedding tradition

I Planned a Lavish Wedding for a Rich Bride, but When the Groom Arrived, My World Fell Apart === I had always loved weddings, the lights, the laughter, the careful orchestration of joy. As an event manager, I thrived in the chaos that came with them. The spreadsheets, the floral arrangements, the last-minute crises, all of it felt like a symphony that only I could conduct. So when a woman named Veronica Calloway contacted me to plan what she called “the most exquisite wedding our city has ever s