A step-by-step guide for planning a wedding provides advice on every phase of the wedding process, from the engagement announcements to the wedding gift thank-yous, explaining how to personalize even the most traditional affair.

At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, seven former schoolmates gather to celebrate a wedding — a reunion that becomes the occasion of astonishing revelations as the friends collectively recall a long-ago night that indelibly marked each of their lives. Written with the fluent narrative artistry that distinguishes all of Anita Shreve's bestselling novels, A Wedding in December acutely probes the mysteries of the human heart and the endless...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Disaster—now a major motion picture—a gorgeously wrought novella that reveals how Abby Abernathy unexpectedly became Mrs. Maddox.
What do you really know about the marriage of Abby Abernathy and Travis Maddox?

Why did Abby pop the question?

What secrets were shared before the ceremony?

Where did they spend their wedding night?
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On the weekend of her wedding, Clare Hobbes meets an elderly woman named Edith Herron. During the course of a single conversation, Edith gives Clare the courage to do what she should have done months earlier: break off her engagement to her charming, yet overly possessive, fiancé. Three weeks later, Clare learns that Edith has died-- and has given her another gift. Nestled in crepe myrtle and hydrangea and perched at the marshy edge of a bay in...

"Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to begin a relationship with his lifelong best friend, Petra. And so that's how Daphne's story really begins: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan,...

When successful family law attorney Charlene Dugan announces that she plans to get remarried, chaos ensues as her maid of honor falls in love with a younger man, her daughter decides to reinvent herself, her fiance spends all his time with the wedding consultant, and her mind becomes preoccupied with thoughts about her ex-husband.

"The secret to planning a deeply personal and meaningful wedding has nothing to do with budget. It's about creating a celebration that reflects a couple's core values. Translating those values is the work of Modern Wedding, an information-filled guide with hundreds of creative ideas and beautiful, inspiring photographs for readers to look at and say, "This feels like us." The book unpacks every element of a wedding-stationery, attire, seating plans,...

"For fifteen years, the Wilcoxes have been a family in name only. Though never the picture of happiness, they had once been a seemingly close-knit Jewish clan from the Upper West Side. But in the early 2000s, two events ruptured the relationships among them. First, Naomi, who appeared to be white, revealed to her children that her biological father was actually Black. In the aftermath, college-age daughter Bering left home to become a radical peace...

Regina Beswick is content running a classic auto restoration shop in Tallahasee, but God's going to send her on a journey for which she isn't prepared. Tanner Burkhardt is the stoic Minister of Culture for the Grand Duchy of Hessenberg, tasked to retrieve the long-lost princess. He must overcome his fear of failure in order to secure his nation's future-- and his own. In the political shadows is a fierce opponent with sinister plans to abolish the...

While helping plan her father's wedding, senior Lara Jean struggles with choosing a college and questions how graduation is going to change her relationship with her boyfriend Peter.