" I’m going to marry him.”
“When we get back to Arizona,” Mel said. “Not here. Your parents would skin you alive and you know it.”
“But eloping is so romantic,” Angie protested. “We could go home as Mr. and Mrs. Tate Harper.”
“It won’t be romantic when your brothers string Tate up like a piñata and smack the candy out of him,” Mel said. “And you know they will. "

― Jenn McKinlay , Vanilla Beaned (Cupcake Bakery Mystery, #8)