To Have and to Hold: Three Autumn Love Stories
By Betsy St. Amant, Katie Ganshert & Becky Wade
They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection.
Love Takes the Cake: A September Wedding Story by Betsy St. Amant
Charlotte Cantrell is always the baker; never the bride. When Will, a regular at Charlotte’s bakery, catches her attention, she can only hope that he is the reliable man this single mother has always hoped to find. The problem is that he’s regularly stopping in to buy cookies for another girl. But when Charlotte is hired to bake a host of wedding goodies for a difficult bride and finds out Will is the best man, she has the perfect opportunity to get to know him better—and find out how serious Will is about this other girl in his life.
The Perfect Arrangement: An October Wedding Story by Katie Ganshert
Amelia Woods is a small-town wallflower and the proud owner of Forget-Me-Nots, a quaint flower shop. Her love life has always been a bit lackluster—until she ends up in an embarrassing fender-bender with handsome Nate Gallagher. Meanwhile, Amelia’s younger brother, William, has proposed to his girlfriend. Amelia would be excited except she has evidence that the fiancée is not who she says she is. It seems Nate is the only one available for any advice-giving, and he’s good at it—and pretty fun to talk to, too. As Amelia works to craft the perfect flower arrangements for other people, she begins to wonder if real love is better than the dream. And if it is, will Nate still be interested when he learns who she is?
Love in the Details: A November Wedding Story by Becky Wade
When Josh returns to his hometown of Martinsburg, Texas, to help his best friend get married, he didn’t intend to run into church wedding coordinator—and ex-girlfriend—Holly. He can’t help but pine after the girl he never got over. Holly broke up with Josh years ago in an attempt to ensure his future success. But she loved him then and still loves him now. As she helps him plan his best friend’s wedding, she longs to be with Josh but doesn’t feel worthy of his big-time lifestyle when she is more comfortable in her small-town world. Will Josh and Holly be able to keep things as they are when their true feelings threaten to surface at every turn?
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Summary
Love takes the cake by Betsy Saint Amant. It's one book of three in the series collection. It's a very cute book that you can just sit back and relax and enjoy. Charlotte is the main character and she owns a bakery called The Dough Knot. She has a gorgeous man that comes in every week at 5:40. She looks forward to his arrival every week. They've started having Small talk and getting to know each other. She's under the assumption that he is engaged to "Melissa" who he buys the cookies for every week. However his story ends up being much more complicated and his relationship to Melissa also more complicated. Will is adorable. I love his character. I was rooting for him the entire time. Charlotte on the one hand seemed a tad psycho from her previous relationship history. Yes did I mention that Charlotte has a daughter from a previous relationship? I really like the relationship between Julie and Charlotte. And her daughter was an adorable addition to the story. I would have liked the wedding of at Adam and Brittany to have been canceled. So that Adam could get his own story and a nice girl.
The Perfect Arrangement Sept 29 is my favorite novella this year! Amelia is adorable. She owns a flower shop that used to belong to her mom in a small town where everyone knows everyone’s business. She is spying on her ex-boyfriend’s wedding when she rear ends a car that belongs to Nate. He appears to be a guest at the wedding. This is the catalyst for Amelia and Nate to communicate online. It reminded me of You’ve Got Mail or Goodnight Tweetheart. Their online communication was delightful. I understood Amelia’s concern that Nate would think she\'s not nearly as appealing in real life. I highly recommend The Perfect Arrangement if you like an adorable couple, sweet non-verbal communication and great chemistry.
Love in the details by Becky Wade. I really enjoyed this one. I felt like the plot was very realistic. Holly and Josh had been high school sweethearts. Josh is very intelligent and gets a full ride to MIT and Holly ends up breaking up with him to ensure his success at school. The story starts eight years later when they are both together for a mutual friend\'s wedding. Josh is now very successful with the technology company. I love that Holly was a young adult writer. I thought the storyline was realistic regarding the dilemma when they were in college and her dilemma with his success now. Very good chemistry between the Holly and Josh. I liked her friend, Sam and how they would go to restaurants to try all of them in her city. I recommend this book if you love a rekindling of a high school sweethearts romance.