This book had none of that - just shallow consumerism. I suppose I was looking for nostalgia for those hours spent with her in her office sharpening candles, tying bows and cleaning wax off candelabra. My grandmother was a wedding planner for about a decade and came out of retirement to plan my own wedding. I read this book mostly for the promised wedding planning humor. Oh! Look it's a modern day Philadelphia Story without the good actors or witty writing. He doesn't fit in with her tidy view of things. Toss in Emily's own dissatisfaction with her fiance and all that is left is the naming of names, the topping one brand or designer with another.Ī third of the way in, Emily meets an off brand man. Except that books set among the upper crust, privileged New York set invariably seem to end up being about perfection through the consumption of high end, expensive, brands. She is not going to wallpaper her kitchen with wedding magazine tear sheets. Although shes crazy in love and has waited for this moment since she was a little girl, she is dead-set against becoming the Bride from Hell. Emily, it seems, has gotten herself engaged and she doesn't want to be one of those brides - the ones who do nothing but obsess over the ceremony, dress and reception at the cost of all other things. This is Emily Briggs mantra from the minute her boyfriend, Henry, proposes. Escape from Bridezilla by Jacqueline deMontravel is the sequel to The Fabulous Emily Briggs.
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