Synopsis:
It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She’s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe’s plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.
In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.
Ok, so, this book was ok. I read it and was interested in how it ended (although it did feel like a Hallmark movie). The plot is fairly predictable. And I am not sure if this is a generational thing but the language is horrible (and the sexual innuendos). I honestly do not want to read the F-word and derogatory C-word over and over again. I actually went and read a few bad reviews on Amazon and came across someone who felt like I did (below)! I would love to know why the author felt the need to incorporate all of that. It seems in today’s age, no one can write a good, clean book anymore. So sad that we have gotten away from classy literature. Anyway, if you really want my opinion, read something else. I have no clue how this book managed to get 4 stars with 53,000 reviews! Sorry but not sorry.
