The Bride Quartet

Vision In White
Bed Of Roses
Savor The Moment
Happy Ever After
by Nora Roberts

As sugary-sweet as wedding cake icing are The Bride Quartet books, a series about four friends in Conneticut who find their own happy endings while running a bridal business on the grounds of the Brown Estate.

Despite their predictable patterns, these lace-laden, rose-strewn, bliss-bringing books are a fun little indulgence and, for those of us who work in the wedding industry, a remarkably accurate portrayl of what goes on behind the scenes at an event (if not in our daily lives aside from the events. Seriously, they all -even the florist- routinely get up at 5 AM to exercise. Let me tell you, not in my case, baby.)

As Laurel, Mac, Emma and yes, even the Type-A, Tums-popping Chief Planner Parker find love in unexpected places, the lush wedding details of the various events they plan in the meantime are a guilty pleasure (and a wealth of inspiration!) for this florist.

And let's face it, Nora Roberts is really damn good at writing hot sex.

So there's that.

I was given the first two books by a former bride and purchased the third and fourth shortly thereafter, and though it is fun to read them all together, not neccessary to following the plot line. I would reccomend, however, reading them in chronological order as some of the longer events carry through all four books (i.e. a wedding they begin planning in book 1 actually takes place in book 4). You won't ruin the story if you don't, but you'll enhance it if you do.