**Chapter 28: Growing Pains**
Wedding planning, Mara quickly discovered, came with its own particular set of challenges — not the romantic kind, but the logistical, exhausting kind that tested patience in unexpected ways.
"She wants two hundred and fifty guests," Mara said, staring at her laptop screen in disbelief during a video call with Jonah, who was still at his office finishing a late meeting. "Two hundred and fifty, Jonah. We don't even know two hundred and fifty people combined."
"Your mom's side of the family is enormous, though. And Dad's side isn't exactly small either, once you factor in the extended cousins and their plus-ones."
"I know, but this is starting to feel like it's becoming her wedding instead of ours." Mara rubbed her temples, the accumulated stress of the past
