It is a dual timeline story, with both the present and the past being equally enthralling to me. The Wedding Shop absolutely grabbed hold of my heart! This novel easily ranks among my favorites of this year. The details of the wedding dresses and the shopping parties for the dress were lovely as well. I did like the descriptions of the town and the shop. So many little things that just made it an ok story that I finished and probably will forget about. But if you can just roll with it and read this on the beach or something. the ending was also something out of a soap opera. Honestly, eye roll worthy a couple times. the secrets of the characters were something out of a soap opera or telenovela. It just seemed like a superficial nod to Christianity to get it passed as a Christian fiction novel. but there's only so many metaphors to a wedding dress being white as snow with redemption I can repeatedly read. I didn't realize it was Christian fiction.

I won't recap the book because you can read the synopsis. Back and forth from the present day to the 1930's in Heart's Bend, Tennessee, it follows the path of a wedding dress shop and its owners. When Haley decides to reopen the romantic but abandoned wedding shop where she and Tammy played and dreamed as children, she begins a journey of courage, mystery, and love.Īs Cora’s and Haley’s stories intertwine through time in the shadow of the beloved wedding shop, they both discover the power of their own dreams and the magic of everyday love. After the devastating death of her best friend, Tammy, and discovering the truth about the man she loved, Haley is searching for her place in life. More than eighty years later, former Air Force Captain Haley Morgan has returned home to Heart’s Bend after finishing her commitment to military service. All the while, Birch Good continues to woo Cora and try to show her that while he is solid and dependable, he can sweep her off her feet. But days turn into months and months to years. Meanwhile, Cora is counting down the days until her own true love returns from the river to make her his bride. It’s the early 1930s, but Cora Scott is walking in stride as a career woman after having inherited her great aunt’s wedding shop in Heart’s Bend, Tennessee, where brides come from as far away as Birmingham to experience her famed bridal treatment.

Both set out to help others find their dreams when their own have crumbled.

The wedding chapel by rachel hauck