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Wedding photographer Mackensie “Mac” Elliot is most at home behind the camera, but her focus is shattered moments before an important wedding rehearsal when she bumps into the bride-to-be’s brother…an encounter that has them both seeing stars. A stable, safe English teacher, Carter Maguire... read more
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We meet childhood friends Parker, Emma, Laurel and Mac - the founders of Vows, one of Connecticut's premier wedding planning companies.
After years of throwing make-believe weddings in the backyard, flowers, photography, desserts, and details are what these women do best: a guaranteed... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters edit
- Mackensie Elliot: (aka Mac) Wedding photographer for Vows, a wedding planning company started with her 3 best friends; Mac Photography at Vows
- Carter Maguire: PhD in English literature who teaches at private high school. Brother of Sherry, a client of Vows.
- Parker Brown: Mac's best friend, wedding planner for Vows; Director of Operations
- Laurel McBane: Mac's best friend, cake/pastry maker for Vows; Icings at Vows
- Emmaline Grant: (aka Emma) Mac's best friend, florist for Vows; Centerpiece at Vows.
- Linda Elliot Meyers Barrington: Mac's Mother
- Bob Tarkinson: Friend, colleague (Math teacher) and personal advisor to Carter
- Corrine Melton: Carter's former girlfriend
- Delaney Brown: (aka Del) Parker's older brother; attorney
- Jack Cooke: Architect and Delaney's best friend and a good friend of the quartet
- Sherry Maguire: Carter's younger sister, a Vows client
- Mitch: Man Mac meets in the New York club
- Ari: Linda's latest love
- Maureen "Mrs. G" Grady: Housekeeper at the Brown Estate
- Geoffrey Elliot: Mac's father
- Jessica Seaman: Bride-to-be
- Rod: Groom-to-be
- Martin Boggs: One of Mac's exes
- Dee: Waitress
- Nick: Sherrie Maguire's fiance
- Mike Maguire: Carter's dad
- Stephanie Gorden: Corrine's best friend; Brent's cousin
- Vince: Whitney's fiancé
- Mr. Fish: Feline best man
- Pam Maguire: Carter's mother
- Naomi Right: Bride-to-be
- Rosa: Emma's Mother's uncle's cousin-by-marriage's granddaughter
- Kate Seaman: Jessica's mother
- Diane: Carter's sister
- Roxanne Poulsen: Attractive blond
- Garrett: Student
- Stu Gibbons: Maureen's ex-husband
- Alison: Bride-to-be
- Greg: Mackensie's old boyfriend
- Julie: Student
- Whitney Folk: Bride-to-be
- Eloisa: Mackensie's half-sister
- Donny: Brother of a groom and his best man; Causes controversy by being caught cheating on Meg, the Maid of Honor, with his business partner, Roxanne
- Josh: Groom-to-be
- Roxanne Paulson: Business partner of Donny's; banned from the wedding
- Vicky Myers: Bride
Quotes edit
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“Look how cute you are in your smarty-pants.”
Mackensie Elliot -
“"You've still got no ass."Mac turned her head for an upside-down view of Delaney. "I had a feeling."”
Mac and Del -
“She heard the fridge open, then his aggrieved voice. "Mac, you have no ass. Why do you only have Diet Coke in here?""So people like you don't suck down all my supply."”
Del and Mac -
“"Shut up. Tell me.""Impossible to do both at once."”
Mac and Del -
“"Foreign chromosome," he called out.Parker opened the door "Perfect timing," she said and yanked him in.”
Jack and Parker -
“Women sat under protective cloaks while hairdressers plied their trade with implements that always made Carter vaguely uneasy. If hair was straight, here was a strange tool to curl it. if hair was curly, another tool would straighten it.Why was the question”
Carter -
“"You can't possibly concentrate with all that noise.""I teach teenagers.: Carter red-penciled some comments in the margin. "I can concentrate during thermonuclear war when necessary."”
Mac and Carter
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Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
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I love you. I love who we are together. I love who I think we might be. I’ll screw up. So will you, you’re not perfect. We’ll hurt each other, and make each other laugh. We’ll make love and we’ll fight. I want us to promise to try not to let each other go. Trying’s all we can do.”
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Love’s scary, and sometimes it’s transient. But it’s worth the risks and the nerves. It’s even worth the pain.”
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That’s what photographs were for—everything changes, so you can preserve what was. Before tomorrow took it all away.
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Moments came and went, she thought. It was love that bound them together into a life.
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Moments matter. I know that better than anyone, but I never let it apply to me. Not to me. People matter, how they feel, how they connect, who they are alone and together. All that matters, no matter how quickly the moment passes. Maybe because it passes.
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Movies, she thought—certainly about love and romance—should have happy endings. Because life, too often, didn’t. Love faded, or flipped over into loathing. Or settled somewhere in between into a kind of grinding detachment.
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“It doesn’t come with a guarantee. Why should it? It’s not a car or a computer. It’s life, and it’s messy, and it breaks down. It’s a promise, to try. I want to promise to try.
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“He pays attention. He listens, and he thinks about what I say. He makes me think.”
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Maybe happy ever after was bull, but she knew she wanted to take more pictures of moments that were happy. Because then they were ever after.
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Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
By the time she was eight, Mackensie Elliot had been married fourteen times.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue
Chapter 1-20
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 4 in Bride Quartet. (standard series)
Followed by Bed of Roses.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Nora Roberts (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: The Berkley Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: April 28, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-425-22751-0
Page Count: 343
Publisher: The Berkley Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: April 28, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-425-22751-0
Page Count: 343
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- Dewey: 813.54
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