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Weddings, Inc. #2
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Keep you love for Eternity
For generations, couples have been coming to Eternity, Massachusetts, to exchange wedding vows. Legend has it that those married in Eternity's chapel are destined for a lifetime of happiness. And the townsfolk are more than willing to help keep the legend intact.
For generations, couples have been coming to Eternity, Massachusetts, to exchange wedding vows. Legend has it that those married in Eternity's chapel are destined for a lifetime of happiness. And the townsfolk are more than willing to help keep the legend intact.
Eternity…Where dreams come true.
After ten years of marriage, Geoff had walked out, and Marion still hadn't told anybody. But in three weeks, their separation would be a secret no longer. The news would turn her sister's wedding into a wake. It would also seriously undermine Eternity's future.
There was only one answer, Geoff would move back to the house—temporarily. But if she and Geoff were really finished, then why was she rejoicing over a three-week reprieve?
WEDDINGS, INC.
184 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 1, 1994
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October 20, 2018
Meh. Marriage in jeopardy due to a critical lack of communication, but these people don’t emote, so I couldn’t bring myself to care.
Here’s the set-up: the protagonists live in the town of Eternity, Massachusetts, which has a wedding chapel with a legend attached about how the couples married there live happily ever after or have super-enduring marriages or something. Our couple was married in the chapel ten years ago, but they just split up this week because the heroine caught her lawyer husband in a kissy clinch with a lovely lady corporate lawyer he’s been working with on a local property development project. The h hasn’t told anyone about the split yet, which is a good thing because her sister has just waltzed into her jewelry design studio to announce that she just got engaged to her boyfriend who is about to move out of town and they want to get married in the magic chapel right away and have the h and H as their attendants because the protagonists’ marriage is so perfect.
That’s plenty to be going on with, yes? We have a scheming OW lurking around and a quickie wedding to plan and the unhappy, estranged couple needs to pretend to be happy and together for the three weeks it’s going to take to get her little sister married. But wait, there’s more.
The wife is part of a community-based environmental organization that is directly opposed to the property development plans of the corporation her husband has been hired to represent. Also, our couple is childless, having gone through two miscarriages and years of fertility treatments to battle the effects of the wife’s endometriosis (thank you, Lucy Monroe, for educating me on that condition). They stopped treatments two years ago, at which point the wife threw herself into her jewelry design business, running her family’s jewelry store, and community activism. While her husband just worked a lot and didn’t say anything about how maybe he would like more time with his wife. Now he has an offer to join the corporation as an in-house lawyer, working on the west coast. [Note for the geographically challenged: Massachusetts is on the east coast, and the American continent is quite wide in the middle.]
Dang, I’m exhausted. I can see what all of these pieces are doing in the plot, but stuffing them all in a category romance has left the author no time to focus on emotions or how people might actually behave in these situations. As a result, this book is 180+ pages of the worst active listening exercise in history.
her: I saw you kissing the OW in your office. I am angry and jealous.
him: What I hear you saying is you’re tired of our marriage and will latch onto any excuse to split up.
him: Your negative reaction to my work for the land development corporation makes me feel judged.
her: What I hear you saying is that you’re a corporate shill who wants to raze our forests and wetlands. Also, you want to move across the country to continue working with the OW, who might be able to give you children when I can’t. Also, you think I’m dumb.
her: I didn’t tell you about my pregnancy because I expect to miscarry, plus I didn’t want guilt to keep you here when you have a fabulous career opportunity across the country.
him: What I hear you saying is you want me out of your life despite the amazing sex we had last night.
him: I love you and I now recognize the beautiful, brilliant corporate lawyer whose work I continue to respect and praise was scheming to come between us.
her: What I hear you saying is that we have reached the page limit and it’s time for our HEA.
Here’s the set-up: the protagonists live in the town of Eternity, Massachusetts, which has a wedding chapel with a legend attached about how the couples married there live happily ever after or have super-enduring marriages or something. Our couple was married in the chapel ten years ago, but they just split up this week because the heroine caught her lawyer husband in a kissy clinch with a lovely lady corporate lawyer he’s been working with on a local property development project. The h hasn’t told anyone about the split yet, which is a good thing because her sister has just waltzed into her jewelry design studio to announce that she just got engaged to her boyfriend who is about to move out of town and they want to get married in the magic chapel right away and have the h and H as their attendants because the protagonists’ marriage is so perfect.
That’s plenty to be going on with, yes? We have a scheming OW lurking around and a quickie wedding to plan and the unhappy, estranged couple needs to pretend to be happy and together for the three weeks it’s going to take to get her little sister married. But wait, there’s more.
The wife is part of a community-based environmental organization that is directly opposed to the property development plans of the corporation her husband has been hired to represent. Also, our couple is childless, having gone through two miscarriages and years of fertility treatments to battle the effects of the wife’s endometriosis (thank you, Lucy Monroe, for educating me on that condition). They stopped treatments two years ago, at which point the wife threw herself into her jewelry design business, running her family’s jewelry store, and community activism. While her husband just worked a lot and didn’t say anything about how maybe he would like more time with his wife. Now he has an offer to join the corporation as an in-house lawyer, working on the west coast. [Note for the geographically challenged: Massachusetts is on the east coast, and the American continent is quite wide in the middle.]
Dang, I’m exhausted. I can see what all of these pieces are doing in the plot, but stuffing them all in a category romance has left the author no time to focus on emotions or how people might actually behave in these situations. As a result, this book is 180+ pages of the worst active listening exercise in history.
her: I saw you kissing the OW in your office. I am angry and jealous.
him: What I hear you saying is you’re tired of our marriage and will latch onto any excuse to split up.
him: Your negative reaction to my work for the land development corporation makes me feel judged.
her: What I hear you saying is that you’re a corporate shill who wants to raze our forests and wetlands. Also, you want to move across the country to continue working with the OW, who might be able to give you children when I can’t. Also, you think I’m dumb.
her: I didn’t tell you about my pregnancy because I expect to miscarry, plus I didn’t want guilt to keep you here when you have a fabulous career opportunity across the country.
him: What I hear you saying is you want me out of your life despite the amazing sex we had last night.
him: I love you and I now recognize the beautiful, brilliant corporate lawyer whose work I continue to respect and praise was scheming to come between us.
her: What I hear you saying is that we have reached the page limit and it’s time for our HEA.
June 16, 2024
I would recommend this book to those of you who love married couples' stories. But I must warn you it's quite a heavy read. Marion and Geoff shared a very heavy loss (even 2), which led to communication difficulties & at the end, it almost ended their marriage.
June 11, 2011
Notes again to myself: This would have been more angsty if we didn't get to hear the hero's point of view. But in every miscommunication or misunderstanding of an event, we heard his interpretation of it and it was very clear that he loved her very much even after 11 years of marriage, infertility problems and evil machinations of colleague. He was just as confused as she was. Him: successful small-town lawyer hired to represent big real estate developer. Her: successful jewelry designer in a small-town shop. What a welcome change from the dumb alpha greek/italian billionaire and dumb doormats.
Background story: Heroine witnessed a kiss between OW/H set-up by OW/colleague and she threw him out. A week later -- and this is where the story begins -- heroine's younger sis asks her to be the matron of honor and the estranged hero to be the best man because they were the couple she looks up to. H/h then were forced to live together again and assume an appearance of a contented couple so as not to ruin young sis's wedding.
The wedding sermon was a one-hanky because it was something the couple had to hear; the wedding reception was a very good lead into the seduction scene afterwards. No over-the-top, angry sex, bitch-calling scenes. Just one very much in-love couple finding their way back together again.
Background story: Heroine witnessed a kiss between OW/H set-up by OW/colleague and she threw him out. A week later -- and this is where the story begins -- heroine's younger sis asks her to be the matron of honor and the estranged hero to be the best man because they were the couple she looks up to. H/h then were forced to live together again and assume an appearance of a contented couple so as not to ruin young sis's wedding.
The wedding sermon was a one-hanky because it was something the couple had to hear; the wedding reception was a very good lead into the seduction scene afterwards. No over-the-top, angry sex, bitch-calling scenes. Just one very much in-love couple finding their way back together again.
August 18, 2023
The last like 20 pages of sappy love story makes up for the 3/4 of the book of miscommunication.
It’s my first harlequin romance… and I must say super disappointed, I though there would be more love, more lust… more… “oh my gawd you’re reading a harlequin romance?!” But it was the cleanest, most wholesome, no burn, minimal flirting, no kissing romance I’ve read in a while.
It’s my first harlequin romance… and I must say super disappointed, I though there would be more love, more lust… more… “oh my gawd you’re reading a harlequin romance?!” But it was the cleanest, most wholesome, no burn, minimal flirting, no kissing romance I’ve read in a while.
January 7, 2024
Funny thing, my dinner check came to me inside this book after dining, while sipping on my coffee I decided to Read a few pages of this Book"Expectations"/bill holder...and fell in love with the Characters in (Weddings, Inc) , now I'm hoping thier story and others of Eternity, Massachusetts continues 😊 p.s I asked the Waitress to borrow the book , and bring it back after finishing it.
December 6, 2022
Was ok. Didn't get good until the last 40 pages or so. Was mostly boring but ended ok.
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