At my wedding, my son and daughter-in-law deliberately tried to ᴇᴍbaʀʀaѕѕ my new husband in front of 400 guests: ‘This is my stepfather? Really can’t believe it.’ The whole hall burst out laughing. That was until my husband’s bodyguards showed up and everything completely changed.
It all started three hours earlier, when I, Eleanor—though everyone calls me Ellie—stood in the most magnificent event space I had ever seen, just outside Atlanta, Georgia. At sixty‑one years old, I was about to walk down the aisle again. Four hundred guests filled every seat upholstered in ivory velvet. Round tables shimmered beneath crystal…