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Beautiful Day by Elin Hilderbrand
4.0

I really enjoyed this light fluffy bit of Chick Lit. Hilderbrand throws together all the catastrophes that can happen in a large family wedding and organizes it all with an instructional wedding notebook written for the bride by her dying mother. While this sounds constricting, it was a clever way to ground some of the zany moments during the weekend on Nantucket.
Many, many laugh out loud moments...like the mother of the groom, distressed that her husbands ex wife shows up at the ceremony in a bright fuchsia dress then creates a scene, comments that the woman is a hot pink poker up her a$$. Okay, it loses something in the telling but rolled into the story it was very entertaining.
If I have one complaint it would be that the constant references to The Notebook kept me thinking of Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdam. :)