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The First Wedding You Attend Alone — from The Hard Days Collection

The Hard Days Collection

The First Wedding You Attend Alone

Getting Through a Celebration That Isn’t About You

by William “Billy” Brown

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About the book

A quiet reckoning, written plainly

A wedding is public, dressed-up, and deliberately celebratory — which makes attending one solo, not long after your own marriage has ended, ask something considerable of you. A short, honest guide to the invitation, the day, and the permission to leave when you need to.

What readers will find inside

The invitation itself. Walking in without a plus-one. The specific toasts and traditions that can land harder than expected. And full permission to leave whenever you genuinely need to. Written plainly, for a day designed for someone else’s joy.

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Chapter One

From the opening pages

A wedding is public, dressed-up, and deliberately celebratory. Which makes attending one solo, not long after your own marriage has ended, ask something considerable of you — more than the invitation makes obvious, and more than most of the other guests will notice.

This short book covers the invitation itself, walking in without a plus-one, the specific toasts and traditions that can land harder than expected, and — importantly — full permission to leave whenever you genuinely need to.

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About the author

William “Billy” Brown

William “Billy” Brown
Billy, at home in Scotland

Billy is a Scottish engineer, author and musician who spent more than thirty years working around the world before he ever thought of himself as a writer.

He writes from lived experience rather than theory — about work, love, distance, and the quieter lessons a working life hands over.

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