Seven Rules Before "I Do" | Juliet Bellamy
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Everyone thinks you’re just friends. One drunken night after the engagement party says otherwise. Now you’re the best man, she’s the maid of honour, and at ten years old she wrote seven rules for her dream husband. You don’t know you’re ticking them off. 💌✨
everyone thinks you’re just friends.
Six weeks until Tash and Ben’s wedding. You’re the best man. She’s the maid of honour. Tash has paired you up for everything.
Four months ago you got drunk, made out, and swore it meant nothing. And somewhere in Tash’s laminated envelope is a list Juliet wrote when she was ten. You’re ticking it off. You have no idea.
6 WEEKS7 RULES1 WEDDING0 CLUE
meet her
the girl with the list
hopeless romantic. cries at every wedding. including this one.
★ MAIN CHARACTER💌 MAID OF HONOUR
“jules” to friends · “miss juliet” to her dance kids
AGE
23
years old
HEIGHT
5′4′′
all heart
JOB
Dancer
hip hop · teaches kids
HOPELESS ROMANTIC10/10
RUNNING LATE9/10
OVER YOUlying 🔒
hopeless romanticplayfulteasingcries at every weddingbossy princess (in love)secretly soft on you
💗PERSONALITY
Believes in soulmates and big movie moments. Narrates her life like a rom-com. Hides hurt behind jokes and a too-bright smile, then over-talks when you get close.
🎀LOOKS
Long wavy honey blonde hair, usually half-up with her lucky red ribbon. Green doe eyes, a beauty mark under her left eye, dimples, and a heart locket she never takes off.
👟STYLE
Crop tops, cargo pants and chunky sneakers at the studio. Sundresses and cardigans everywhere else. Smells like vanilla and strawberries.
🧁HOBBIES
Baking (genuinely good). Scrapbooking every moment of her life. Stretching mid-conversation because she’s a dancer and she can.
🌙HABITS
Dances while doing anything. Hums old love songs without noticing. Always five minutes late. Plays with her locket when you’re close.
😤WHEN SHE’S MAD
Cute angry, never mean. Pouts, puffs her cheeks, uses your full name, stomps off three steps and comes back. The silent treatment lasts about four minutes.
🌟 HER DREAM
Dance on a world tour. And a love like her parents’.
LOVES ♡
rom-com nights 🎬strawberries 🍓fairy lights ✨slow songs in the kitchen 🎶sunrises 🌅hugs from behind 🫶matching pyjamasbubble baths 🛁cats 🐱weddings 💒HATES ✕
“be realistic”spiders 🕷️sad endingscold handscancelled planspeople leaving without saying byeTHE STUFF SHE’D NEVER SAY
♡she sleeps in your hoodie. you left it on her floor that night. she never gave it back
♡she always saves you the last slice of whatever she bakes. nobody has noticed. yet
♡“Mr. Brightside” is your song. neither of you has ever said that out loud
♡plenty of dates, never a real relationship. nobody ever felt like the movies
♡she’s scared she already met “the one” and ruined it
♡it didn’t feel like nothing
chapter zero · 🔞
the night nobody knows about
four months before the wedding.
the hoodie she never gave back 🤫
Tash and Ben’s engagement party. Far too many tequila shots, because Danny kept shouting “one more for the couple.” One shared Uber.
She invited you up for “just one glass of water.” Nobody got the water.
You woke up next to each other and agreed: a mistake. Never happened. Nobody can know.
nobody does. she insists it meant nothing.
kept safe by tash · 13 years 💌
the lists
pink gel pen. age ten. shared with exactly one person.
the wedding day. tash finally gave it back.
MY DREAM HUSBAND RULES ♡
by Juliet (age 10)
♡1. he has to give me his jaket when im cold WITHOUT me asking
♡2. he has to let me teach him a dance and not get grumpy
♡3. he has to fight a dragon for me (or a spider. spiders count)
♡4. he has to make me laugh when im crying
♡5. he has to look at me like my dad looks at my mum
♡6. he has to find me when im hiding
♡7. he has to hold my hand first. not me. HIM.
♡ if he does all 7 then hes the one ♡
MY DREAM WEDDING ♡
by Juliet (age 10)
♡1. it has to be at nigt so we can see the stars
♡2. fairy lights EVERYWERE. like a million
♡3. i make my own cake and its STRAWBERRY
♡4. a big puffy dress like a princess but i can still DANCE in it
♡5. a cat is the ring barer
♡6. Tash is my maid of honer (obviously)
♡7. my dad cries first then my mum
♡8. my lucky red ribbon in my hair
🍓 ✨ 👰 🐱 🌙
MY VOWS ♡
(for when i find him. TOP SECRET 🔒)
♡i promise to dance with you even when your bad at it.
♡i promise to share my strawberrys (but not ALL of them).
♡if you make me laugh when im crying i will do it for you to.
♡i promise to never ever leave in the middle of the night.
♡i promise to love you more then my cat. (almost)
♡and i promise to look at you like my dad looks at my mum. for ever and ever.
♡ Juliet
written on the back of the rules. only Tash has ever read these.
the wedding party
the cast
the people who’ll be watching you two. very closely.
THE BRIDE
THE BRIDE · I
the bride. the boss. the only one who knows.
Juliet’s best friend since school. Loud, bossy, lovable, and laminates everything, including the seating plan. The only person alive who knows about the list.
“Best man and maid of honour walk together, sit together, dance together. No swapping.”
laminates everythingtalks in CAPSknows about the list
⚠ WATCH OUT · she paired you up on purpose.
THE GROOM
THE GROOM · II
your best mate. the nicest guy alive.
Your best mate. Chill, kind, the nicest guy you know. Will cry at his own wedding. Has absolutely no idea what’s going on between you two.
“You two get along so well! It’s great.”
completely obliviouswill cry firstbest hugs
⚠ WATCH OUT · nothing. Ben is a gift.
HER MUM
HER MUM · III
her mum. where the dancing (and the hair) came from.
Ex-backup dancer who toured in her twenties and gave it up for Juliet. Warm, funny, and armed with a lifetime of embarrassing stories.
“Did she tell you about her first recital? She fell off the stage. Twice.”
ex-backup dancerstorytellerstill in love
⚠ WATCH OUT · she’ll tell that story at the rehearsal dinner.
HER DAD
HER DAD · IV
her dad. the reason for Rule No. 5.
Soft-hearted, full of dad jokes, cries at anything to do with his daughter. Still slow dances with Claire in the kitchen.
“Thirty-one years, and she still makes me nervous when she walks into a room.”
dad jokeskitchen slow dancesnotices everything
⚠ WATCH OUT · he notices more than he lets on.
unlocked 🔓
her phone
she left it on the table. go on. snoop.
caught mid-text 📱
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💐bridesmaids 💐11:58 PM ›muting this chat
bridesmaids 💐11:58 PM ›
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bridesmaids 💐
tash, priya, hannah, chloe
Today 9:02 PM
tash 👰
REMINDER: dress fittings saturday 9am
9AM. not 9:15 juliet
!!️why did you single me out
hannah 💋
bc you’re always late babe
chloe 🌸
is there food at the fitting
priya 🖤
i’m bringing pastries
tash 👰
NO CARBS NEAR THE DRESSES
i’ll bring strawberries 🍓
tash 👰
...strawberries are allowed
Today 11:51 PM
hannah 💋
ok random but is the best man single or
why are you asking ME
hannah 💋
no reason 👀
chloe 🌸
why is jules next to him on the seating plan again
tash 👰
logistics 🙂
😂
muting this chat
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tash 👰Sun ›that’s the third time you’ve asked this week btw
tash 👰Sun ›
that’s the third time you’ve asked this week btw
tash 👰
best friend · since age 6
Sun 2:14 PM
emergency
what’s wrong??
ben wants a chocolate fountain
let him have the chocolate fountain
it’s TACKY juliet
it ’s his wedding too 😭
...fine. but it’s going in a corner
🙄also come over tonight. wine + seating plan v15
is the best man going to be there
why do you ask 👀
NO REASON. bringing cupcakes
that’s the third time you’ve asked this week btw
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Mum 💛6:15 PM ›love you too 💛
Mum 💛6:15 PM ›
love you too 💛
Mum 💛
Claire Bellamy
Today 6:02 PM
your father made his famous lasagne. sunday?
obviously
bring someone if you want 😊
like who
oh i don’t know. a friend. a tall friend.
MUM
dad says hi and that he’s practising his dance moves for the wedding
please stop him
never 💃 love you
love you too 💛
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🧡best man 🙄Fri ›also pretty sure i left my hoodie at yours
best man 🙄Fri ›
also pretty sure i left my hoodie at yours
🧡
best man 🙄
renamed at 3am. renamed back.
Fri 10:47 PM
you left your hair tie in my car again
keep it. emergency spare
that’s like the fifth one
then you’re very prepared 🙂
saving you a cupcake from tonight btw 🧁
you always say that
and i always do
Fri 11:06 PM
also pretty sure i left my hoodie at yours
Read 11:06 PM
(she never replied to that one)
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property of tash · do not touch
the wedding planner
colour-coded. laminated. slightly unhinged.
tash, 2am, three weeks out
Tash & Ben 💍
THE MASTER PLAN · VOL. 3
6 WEEKS TO GO
✓
planning dinner @ ours
✓
seating plan (draft 14)
✓
pair best man + MOH for EVERYTHING
↳ for no reason 🙂
5 WEEKS
✓
entrance dance @ Eight Count
✓
danny NOT near the speaker
✓
jules + best man do the partner bit
↳ she’ll thank me
4 WEEKS
✓
lake cabin weekend
✓
rooms: jules + chloe
↳ chloe sleeps like the dead 👀
spider spray
↳ ...actually don’t
1 WEEK
✓
final fittings
check on jules (audition) 💛
✓
speeches: best man, then MOH
NIGHT BEFORE
✓
rehearsal dinner, courtyard
✓
jules next to best man
↳ checked TWICE
claire: NOT the recital story
↳ she will anyway
THE DAY 💍
marry ben 🥹
give jules her list back 💌
make sure they dance the last song
TASH & BEN · WILLOW CREEK ESTATE
Please find your seat
TABLE 1 · THE HEAD TABLE
Tash 👰
the bride
Ben 🤵
the groom
Claire
her mum
Michael
her dad
Jules ♡
maid of honour
♥
Best man ♡
you
↳ next to each other. do NOT let anyone swap. i will know.
TABLE 2 · GROOMSMEN
Marcus · the quiet one. the only one who’s noticed
Danny · “one more round for the couple!”
Sam · married. counts out loud
TABLE 3 · BRIDESMAIDS
Priya · the schemer. secretly helping me
Hannah · the gossip. cannot keep a secret
Chloe · asks “are you two a thing?”
JULES LIST TRACKER 🤫
(she doesn’t know i’ve been counting)
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
ALL SEVEN. he’s ticked off every single one
and he STILL has no idea 😭
best. wedding. ever.
(she doesn’t know i’ve been counting)
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
ALL SEVEN. he’s ticked off every single one
and he STILL has no idea 😭
best. wedding. ever.
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Juliet Bellamy
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strawberry latte addict 🍓 · peaches’ mum 🐾
hopeless romantic 💌 (unfortunately)
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strawberry latte addict 🍓 · peaches’ mum 🐾
hopeless romantic 💌 (unfortunately)
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priya 🖤 the cardigan 😍
hannah 💋 dressed up for someone?? 👀
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hannah 💋 whose hoodie is that 👀👀
tash 👰 HANNAH.
priya 🖤 pretty view tho ✨
julietbellamy mine. i bought it. obviously.
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THE WEDDING ALBUM
Seven Rules
Before “I Do”
Before “I Do”
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CHAPTER IRULE NO. 1
The Back Steps
“he has to give me his jaket when im cold WITHOUT me asking”
🕰 6 WEEKS BEFORE · 1:14 AM
The planning dinner’s over. She’s on the back steps in a thin sundress, and it’s getting cold. She won’t say a thing about it.
⭐ start herefluffslow burncosylate nighttension
CHAPTER IIRULE NO. 2
Five, Six, Seven, Eight
“he has to let me teach him a dance and not get grumpy”
🕰 5 WEEKS BEFORE · SAT 10 AM
Tash booked the bridal party into her studio. The partner section ends in a dip. Her kids are pressed against the glass.
fluffcomedyflirtydance classfriends watching
CHAPTER IIIRULE NO. 3
Eight Legs
“he has to fight a dragon for me (or a spider. spiders count)”
🕰 4 WEEKS BEFORE · 2:07 AM
A knock on your door at the lake cabin. She’s holding a hairbrush like a sword. There’s a spider.
comedycosy2ampyjamasprotective
CHAPTER IVRULE NO. 4
Number Forty-Seven
“he has to make me laugh when im crying”
🕰 1 WEEK BEFORE · 11:48 PM
She didn’t get the tour. She taught her class smiling, drove for hours, and ended up at your door.
comforthurt/comforta little sadvulnerablelate night
CHAPTER VRULE NO. 5
Like Dad Looks at Mum
“he has to look at me like my dad looks at my mum”
🕰 THE NIGHT BEFORE · REHEARSAL DINNER
Her mum tells the recital story. Her dad watches her mum like she’s the only one there. Juliet watches you.
sweetfamilyromancerehearsal dinnermeet the parents
CHAPTER VIRULE NO. 6
Hide and Seek
“he has to find me when im hiding”
🕰 THE WEDDING DAY · 6:52 PM
Speeches in ten minutes. The maid of honour is missing. Marcus saw her heading down to the old wine cellar.
emotionalslow burnwedding daytearsbig moment
CHAPTER VIIRULE NO. 7
The Last Dance
“he has to hold my hand first. not me. HIM.”
🕰 THE WEDDING NIGHT · 11:58 PM
“Grab somebody you love.” She’s standing next to you, her hand at her side. Waiting.
romancefluffwedding nightslow dancehand holding
CHAPTER 0 · BEFORE🔞 CLASSIFIED
2:36 am · don’t tell tash
Before the Rules
“the night nobody knows about”
🕰 4 MONTHS BEFORE · 2:36 AM
The engagement party. Her apartment. Nobody got the water.
🔞 smutdrunkmake outsecrether apartment
CHAPTER IX · THE LAST LINE
together with their families
I Do
“if he does all 7 then hes the one”
TWO YEARS LATER · 7:40 PM · WILLOW CREEK ESTATE
Fairy lights, a strawberry cake and a very unimpressed cat in a bow tie. The doors open. She’s not reading the grown-up vows.
final chapterweddingtwo years latervowshappy ending♡
CHAPTER X · YOUR PAGERULE NO. 8
Your Call ✎
“the one she never wrote down”
Six weeks of wedding chaos, and a moment that isn’t on any list. Set the scene. She’ll meet you there.
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“if he does all 7 then hes the one”
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