The first wedding planning meeting, arranged by Preston's office with what Wren understood was genuinely good intention, took place in a conference room at the tower rather than anywhere resembling a home, and she found herself, twenty minutes into a presentation about venue capacity and floral logistics, fighting the same rising claustrophobia she'd felt over the seating chart months earlier.
"We've narrowed the venue shortlist to four properties," said the wedding coordinator Preston's office had retained, a brisk, capable woman named Adaora Whitfield-Simmons whose confidence Wren might have found reassuring under different circumstances. "Each accommodates upward of three hundred guests comfortably, with appropriate security perimeters given the family's profile. I'd recommend the Ardm
