Wedding Belles: A Novel in Four Parts {Review}

Wedding Belles: A Novel in Four Parts
by Melanie Jacobson, Jenny Proctor, Becca Wilhite, and Brittany Larsen

Kindle Edition, 274 pages

Published October 16th 2018 by Four Petal Press 

Source: I received a copy. All opinions expressed are my own and were voluntarily given.

 

    

Harper is an event planner with dreams of taking over the Charleston wedding scene . . . until she meets the biggest Bridezilla of her career. She needs the job, but the only way to keep it is to hire a temperamental chef with big dreams of his own.

Janie is a classical cellist booked to play a posh Charleston wedding. She’s excited to have the lucrative gig until the groom’s brother, Emmett, shows up and asks her to help him play a song he wrote for the happy couple. The only trouble? Emmett is her unrequited high school crush.

Lily has been Dahlia's best friend, partner-in-crime, and now her maid of honor . . . until suddenly there's no wedding, and she's left to clean up Dahlia's biggest mess of all. She's been friends with Deacon, the jilted groom, for just as long, and it's up to her rescue him after Hurricane Dahlia blows through.

Sutton is a photographer running from her past. Only the pleas from her best friend to photograph her wedding could bring Sutton back to Charleston. Her plan is to get in and get out before her ex knows she and their daughter are in town. At least it’s the plan until she meets Max, who turns out to be the safe place she didn’t know she was looking for.

Can each of these couples trust their growing chemistry, or are they on the verge of new disasters?

My Review: 5 Stars 

What a fun idea! I loved having a collection of stories from favorite authors that tells different points-of-view revolving around the same event, and what better event to revolve around than a wedding in South Carolina!

We are first introduced to the wedding planner, Harper. I loved how her story meshed into the world of Korean food and Zac. Emmett, the groom's brother, has a potential second chance at romance with Janie, which leads us to the maid-of-honor, Lily, who has been friends with the groom, Deacon, for as long as she has the bride. Sutton, the photographer, is also a close friend of the bride's and this sentimental story has a lot to do with the groom's friend, Max. 

See? This book is so fabulously interconnected and each installment flows flawlessly into the next one, giving the reader a deeper glimpse inside this much anticipated event, while throwing swoon like the petals from the flower girl's basket. 

I have to admit that I was quite impressed with the way these authors gelled their voices together so well, yet gave unique perspectives to this special occasion. I smiled; I got a bit teary-eyed; I felt a little feisty; I fell in love; and I definitely swooned. I'm hoping for another collaboration in the near future!

Content: mild romance; some mild innuendo