Excellent Summer Reading Recommendations for Brides-to-Be
Hi Everybody!
Yep, I’m back already — pretty amazing! This is just a quick blog that I’ve been meaning to write for awhile. I’m a voracious reader. I’ll read anything… and I read fast. So living someplace we could theoretically lose power at any time (though it doesn’t happen often) means that I keep an enormous stash of reading material on hand at all times. Anyway, I’m reading a book now that has me in stitches — and it reminded me about another great book I read when we were in St. Croix a few weeks ago. And that reminded me of two other must-read books for stressed-out brides in the midst of planning their weddings — home and destination. After all, when you break it down, the way that we all behave when we get engaged and plan a wedding is a little silly when you take a step back and look at it from the outside. 
So in order to keep perspective, I recommend the following books to all of the brides out there — just buy ‘em and set them aside for that weekend at the beach or escape to the lake or afternoon when your fiance gets out of the house and you finally have some peace and quiet!
- My all-time favorite — Diary of a Mad Bride by Laura Wolf. My best friend’s mom gave me this one when I was planning my own wedding and I laughed so hard while I was reading it that my future husband insisted on reading it after me.
- Another great one — Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella. You can read this in order with the rest of the Shopaholic series, or you can read it as a stand-alone. The one after it is pretty freakin funny too.
- A new one I picked up a few weeks ago and loved — Vows by Nora Roberts. It’s the first in a four-part series and I really liked it. Although if the wedding planners in it really spend as much time on their own social lives and romances as indicated, they’re not real wedding planners. :) I can’t wait for the next one in the series to come out in December. And yes, we really do use those acronyms (and variations of them depending on the client) that they use throughout the book. We call it wedding planner secret code.
- I’m in the middle of a good one right now by an author I’ve enjoyed for years — Queen of Babble Gets Hitched by Meg Cabot. I haven’t read the preceding book Queen of Babble but it didn’t hurt my enjoyment of it. I’ll let you know how it turns out.
- And finally, a series of goofy wedding-based mysteries written by a real wedding planner in Washington, DC, Laura Durham. It’s the Annabelle Archer series and it consists of three books — Better Off Wed, To Love or To Perish, and For Better or Hearse. They cracked me up as a wedding planner. Of course, I’m fairly certain that if people started dropping dead around my weddings and events, I wouldn’t be in business much longer!
Enjoy!
Sandy