Wedding Inspiration
A book of stories for engaged couples.
Clear Your Calendar!
You are invited to share in Diamond and Slate's wedding day.
Reliving the Unexpected
Imagine a wedding plan put to the test by personalities, relationships, traditions, spontaneous moments, and random chance that shape just about every wedding day.
Diamond and Slate are engaged and planning their wedding for the first time in their lives, unaware of how life sometimes tests even the most beautiful plan by refusing to behave like a Hollywood script.
Cheer for Diamond and Slate behind the scenes as they successfully relive and overcome dozens of surprises. Will they ultimately discover “The Secret” of a perfect wedding day?
You can rest assured that Diamond and Slate won’t ever be defeated on their wedding day. Even though the unexpected catches them off guard during their first try, they will always have a second try to relive the moment differently.
A Taste of the Stories
"Embracing the Possibilities"
Diamond paced. “How will we ever decide?”
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Brainstorming ideas for their wedding is fun, until Slate realizes they have too many. Slate spreads the ideas on a table. “It’s exciting but all of these ideas are a bit overwhelming. Let’s start with our reception. So far we have a DIY dessert bar, classic black-and-white movies, love for vintage themes, popcorn, unusual decorations, trivia, a dove release, and a competition.”
Diamond looks at the ideas. “Some of these seem similar. I wonder if a DIY dessert bar, vintage themes, popcorn, and trivia could represent one larger group.”
Slate’s eyes light up. “Imagine the setup! For our reception, we could decorate a DIY dessert bar to look like a retro movie concession stand.”
“Yes!” Diamond jumps up. “We like watching black-and-white movies! How about we make everything on the DIY bar in black-and-white — no color — even the popcorn package could be black-and-white, like you’d see in an old black-and-white movie! Everything! The floor, the cabinets, everything!”
Slate begins pacing. “Oh yes! And all of the desserts should be black and white! We could have black and white cake, vanilla ice cream, coconut shavings, white chocolate pretzel bites, miniature marshmallows, vanilla bean pastry cream, and more!”
“Awesome! What if we gave each table numbered tickets with old movie trivia questions on the back?” Diamond adds. “The guests drop their tickets into a black-and-white ticket box. The winning table gets a ‘movie night kit’ with popcorn and black-and-white candy! Now we have a competition!”
Excited by the possibilities, Diamond and Slate call Thulite, their videographer, and learn that he would be able to create a video of their ceremony in the style of an old black-and-white 1930s film with scratchy effects and a 1930s music track playing in the background. It would be finished in time to be shown behind the DIY dessert bar.
“I’m so happy I could scream!” Diamond shouts. “I’m going to call Nana and ask her about ideas for the movie’s background music — maybe something she danced to during her reception!”
“Oh my gosh, this will be such a conversation starter!” Slate smiles. “Now we can table other ideas like the dove release!”
Inside the Book
- Go behind the scenes with Diamond and Slate starring as our engaged couple
- Fictional stories inspired by hundreds of weddings
- The greatest ideas and plans are sometimes only the beginning of a beautiful wedding day
- Created, written, and illustrated without artificial intelligence
About the Author
Robert Winton worked for thirteen years as a professional wedding photographer, capturing priceless moments at hundreds of beautiful weddings. He now draws on that experience to imagine Diamond and Slate’s walk down the aisle.
Hardcover $27 00
Paperback $18 95
Ebook $5 99
Current Edition: November 2026
Hardcover ISBN: 979-8-234-24880-0
Paperback ISBN: 979-8-1799-1149-4
Ebook ASIN: B0HR4QC49N
62 Chapters
127 Stories
198 Pages