“Morgan’s gently humorous aesthetic will leave readers feeling optimistic and satisfied.” –Publishers Weekly on A Wedding in December In the snowy perfection of Aspen, the White family gathers for youngest daughter Rosie’s whirlwind Christmas wedding. First to arrive are the bride’s parents, Maggie and Nick. Their daughter’s marriage is a milestone they are determined to celebrate … celebrate wholeheartedly, but they are hiding a huge secret of their own: they are on the brink of divorce. After living apart for the last six months, the last thing they need is to be trapped together in an irresistibly romantic winter wonderland.
Rosie’s older sister, Katie, is also dreading the wedding. Worried that impulsive, sweet-hearted Rosie is making a mistake, Katie is determined to save her sister from herself! If only the irritatingly good-looking best man, Jordan, would stop interfering with her plans…
Bride-to-be Rosie loves her fiancé but is having serious second thoughts. Except everyone has arrived–how can she tell them she’s not sure? As the big day gets closer, and emotions run even higher, this is one White family Christmas none of them will ever forget!
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This book kind of drove me crazy with all the secrets everyone was keeping from each other and what happened when they started being revealed. Maggie is the mother of Rosie and Katie, she and their father Nick are keeping it a secret that they have been discussing getting a divorce and have been separated for several months. Maggie is also keeping a secret from all her family. Katie has been avoiding her family and trying not to come apart because of a traumatic event that happened to her at the hospital where she works, plus she is considering not being a doctor. Rosie has been sitting on her feelings for a long time because she does not like confrontations. It takes Rosie getting married in Colorado at Christmas in less than a month’s time to shake up her family enough to start them on a path to healing, but in the process Rosie might lose the man of her dreams. I loved the ending of this book as it was full of sage advice.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
A Wedding in December is a three-person point of view so cleverly written I felt like I was right there in person. A traditional British family gathering for a Christmas in Colorado. Maggie, the mother is secretly pretending to still be happily married to her husband Nick. Katie, the older sister is an England Emergency Department doctor secretly contemplating to continue being a doctor. Rosie, the Harvard Grad School girl secretly planning to get married to Dan on Christmas Day.
A wonderful Christmas setting with romance in the air. Rosie announces she getting married in three weeks. Katie being an over-protective big sister thinks Rosie is rushing to fast into marriage. Then all the family secrets start to unravel.
Page turns were filled with tears and laughter. Learning how these women overcome their insecurities by embracing their secrets while the family love holds them all together. What a Christmas delight!
Sarah Morgan’s voice is always magical as she weaves tales of love, family and ever afters … but give her a wedding and a winter wonderland to work with and she’s pure delight! Her latest brings to life a family filled with uncertainty, change and the unknown as a couple on the verge of divorce comes together for their youngest daughters wedding amid family revelations, rediscovery and unknowns.
The characters are mesmerizing from the start. Maggie and Nick have been married for decades but secretly living apart from each other for half a year without informing their daughters. Now their youngest has sprung a sudden wedding on them and they decide they have to get through the festivities before they can break their daughter’s hearts with their news. Oldest daughter Katie is a self-confident doctor who has everyone believing she’s in charge of her life when she’s secretly falling apart and doubting every aspect she thought she knew in life after an encounter no one knows anything about. Youngest daughter Rosie is madly in love and has stars in her eyes to marry the man of her dreams, but she’s always been non-committal and impetuous … is this relationship truly developed enough to last or is she still just flitting wholeheartedly into her present joy until the next big thing comes along? Her sister’s doubts have her starting to doubt herself!
I highly recommend this book to anyone enjoying a beautifully written rendition of the ups and downs of family, love and life. The characters are a joy to read, the scene is painted beautifully as they roam the gorgeous snow covered hills just during the Christmas season and the emotional pull of each story touches a readers heart.
“She felt strange- a combination of giddy teenager and anxious mother. She knew life did that- it dished out good and bad on the same plate and you were expected to eat it all up. She knew from experience that it was possible to smile and cry at the same time. To grieve and rejoice in the same breath.” Heartfelt and humorous, this is a novel about falling in love and finding love all over again. It’s about family and forgiveness, pushing through whatever life throws at you and being brave enough to take chances with relationships, careers, and life in general. I absolutely adore Sarah Morgan’s novels, they are a delightful combination of life, love, family and friendship. A Wedding in December is the perfect five-star warm and cozy read this fall!
Even with a Christmassy title, Sarah Morgan’s latest is not a Hallmark-style romance. More similar to One Summer in Paris also by Morgan, A Wedding in December pushes all of the soul-searching, dig-deep-story you expect from Morgan. The characters are well-developed and resonate on some level with everyone. This book needs a glass of wine and a fuzzy blanket.
I expected A Wedding in December to be a charming and fluffy romance with a misunderstanding between the happy couple that would lead to a beautiful, tearful reunion and wedding. I should have known better because while I definitely would say Sarah Morgan writes books with charm, they are so much more than merely fluffy.
While our bride, Rosie, springs this engagement and Christmas wedding onto her parents and older sister, very unexpectedly, it not the only drake going on in the White family. Older sister Katie is dealing with fallout from her job as an ER (or emergency department, as the say in the U.K.) doctor. And their mother, Maggie has a very empty nest on her hands.
Told from each woman’s point of view, but not in 1st person dialogue, we see how each of them has been keeping secrets, and the inevitable fallout those secrets cause when revealed. Maggie’s husband Nick, Dan, Rosie’s fiance and his mom and best friend, Catherine and Jordan, respectively, round out our little cast of interesting, likable characters.
In my mind, this is family story, first and foremost, set at Christmas with an overriding theme of not only romance but forgiveness, love and new beginnings. Very easy to read, hard to put down and totally wonderful, A Wedding in December should be added to everyone’s reading list.
I received an ARC from Netgalley, which I voluntarily and honestly reviewed.
A whirlwind romance & Christmas? Yes please! The romance of the season mixed with the family drama kept the pages turning, and made it impossible to put down! It was my first Sarah Morgan book, but it definitely won’t be my last!
Family; the greatest treasure and sometimes, the biggest heartache in a person’s life.
This year, the White family is in for their most memorable Christmas. When the youngest daughter decides to get married in Colorado, her sister and parents travel to join her. They are all keeping secrets and lying to each other, but this holiday the truth will come out and change all of their lives.
I read an advanced copy of this book
I love books about families and sisters and this is what this book is about. When Maggie and Nick receive a call from their daughter Rosie letting them know she is getting married in a few weeks at Christmas they decide not to tell her that they are separated and heading for divorce. Rosie’s older sister, Katie, who is also hiding a secret, is sure her sister is making a mistake and vows to stop the wedding. When the family arrives in Aspen for the wedding they find Rosie is having doubts about the wedding. The magic of the Christmas season starts to work it’s magic and secrets are revealed, tears are shed, and in the end happiness is found. It’s a beautifully written story, set in the gorgeous wintery Aspen, about the love families share and the bond between sisters. I absolutely loved the book and hard a hard time putting it down. I highly recommend it!
This is a book that will stay with you for awhile. Ms. Morgan somehow comes up with complex characters and plots that take the reader deeper than normally expected of a Christmas book. A Wedding In December has a family that is so busy hiding things from each other and even from themselves that they really have no idea of what is going on in the lives of their loved ones.
The wedding of the youngest daughter should be a joyous occasion, yet they are all miserable. They have each protected flighty Rosie for so long that no one believes she could actually know her own mind or heart. Her parents are unhappy and hiding something from their daughters. Her sister, Katie, is unhappy and making everyone else apprehensive. Now the bride and groom aren’t seeing eye-to-eye. Will there be a wedding in December after all?
I was given a complimentary copy of this book. All thoughts are my own.
What a sweet book! I truly enjoyed everything about this book. The characters were so real & each had struggles they were working through. I enjoyed the snowy Colorado setting & having it be the Christmas holiday was just icing on the cake. What a wonderful book about friends, family & new beginnings!
Maggie receives a phone call in the middle of the night from her daughter, Rosie, who is attending school at Harvard in the United States. She informs her mom that she’s getting married at Christmas to a man she’s only been dating for a short time in Aspen Colorado.
Maggie and her husband Nick are separated with a divorce pending but haven’t told their daughters yet. They agree to wait until after the wedding to tell them and they agree to pretend to be together during the time period they are in the United States.
Their other daughter, Katie is a doctor who works in the ER in Oxford but is struggling after on the job incident. She also thinks her sister is making a mistake and is not flying to the US the attend the wedding, she’s flying their to make sure wedding doesn’t happen.
What I really liked about this book is that it seems like I was getting three stories in one. Possibly with three happy endings…..
Christmas books are my absolute favorite to read and this is a very well written and enjoyable book to read.
I loved everything about this heartwarming Christmas story! Winter in Colorado was the perfect setting, and all of the characters were wonderful. I especially liked Maggie.
I voluntarily read and reviewed a complimentary Advance Reader Copy.
No one writes a family Christmas story like Sarah Morgan. This latest installment finds Maggie, Katie and Rosie, the women of the White family, engulfed in all the drama that precedes a family wedding.
Maggie is on the brink of divorce from Nick, the girls’ father, and they have no idea. Now, with Rosie’s wedding taking place in a month far from home, it isn’t the best time to let them in on this big secret. Nick and Maggie make their way from England to the snowy hills of Aspen Colorado USA, ready to fake it til they make it. But will the ruse of a “second honeymoon” be just what they need to work through their problems?
Katie is the oldest daughter, a doctor, and suffering from PTSD from a workplace incident a few months ago. She gets it in her head that her younger sister Rosie couldn’t possibly know what she is getting into with a wedding this fast. She makes it her mission to get to Aspen and stop with wedding. Love, pah, love is for suckers. She has no use for so called love, until she sees the best man Jordan.
Rosie is head over heals for Dan, yes it was fast but love knows no time frame. Using her parents as inspiration, she knows love can last. Suffering from debilitating asthma attacks when she was younger, has everyone treating her with kid gloves. But she is far from a child and can make her own choices for her future.
From start to finish the weaving of the 3 main women and their story lines was flawless. Maggie and Nick, Katie and Jordan, Rosie and Dan are each wonderful stories all by themselves but wound together, perfection. Even MIL to be Catherine is a great addition to the secondary characters. Another home run for Sarah Morgan, I voluntarily read and reviewed a copy provided by publisher. 5 wonderful snow covered stars!!!
Quaint, alluring, and evocative!
A Wedding in December is a delightfully amusing, heartfelt tale that sweeps you away to the beautiful winter wonderland of Aspen, Colorado and immerses you into the lives of the White family, especially three strong women, as they gather to celebrate, interrogate, support, heal, grow, communicate, repair relationships, take chances, and start anew.
The prose is vivid and expressive. The characters are genuine, reliable, and compassionate. And the plot, including all the subplots, intertwine and unravel effortlessly into a mesmerizing tale of life, love, friendship, self-reflection, determination, independence, happiness, humorous mishaps, romantic moments, and the special bonds between sisters.
Overall, A Wedding in December is another absorbing, uplifting, magical tale by Morgan that does a brilliant job of highlighting her exceptional ability to create relatable characters, idyllic places, and memorable storylines that thoroughly enchant from start to finish.
“A Wedding in December” is everything you expect of love and family. Reconnections, arguments and new love explains the novel. It is truly heartfelt. Sarah Morgan makes you happy, sad, and relieved all at the same time. Such wonderful work.
I recieved a copy in trade for a review.
A Wedding in December is a story of love in all it’s forms and the lengths one will go to protect their loved ones even when that protection isn’t needed. Set between England and Aspen, Colorado during the Christmas holidays, this story draws on many emotions and conflicts between the characters. Rosie was sickly as a child with severe asthma so everyone is overprotective of her. When she announces to her family that she is getting married at Christmas after a whirlwind relationship, Maggie and Katie are worried. Maggie is hiding the secret of her impending divorce from her two daughters and gets her husband, Nick, to agree to hide the truth until after the wedding. Katie has always been the protective, older sister who became a doctor but after facing a trauma at work, she is dealing with her own issues and projects her insecurities onto Rosie about the wedding. The amazing story that follows and the resolutions will have the reader experiencing a variety of emotions from tears to laughter. I thoroughly enjoyed this story and couldn’t put it down.
I received an advanced reader copy from the publisher but all thoughts and feelings are my own.
Whenever I pick up a book by this talented author, I know, without a doubt, that I will not only be enchanted but I will also be loving it as well. This one proved the point.
Yes, it’s a romance that is not rushed and one to be savored, but it’s more than that . It’s a story about the complexities, and dynamics of family and secrets that are being kept. In this case the White women, Maggie, Katie, and Rosie are the ones keeping the secrets . Each woman is filled with uncertainties about their futures.
Will Maggie, Katie and Rosie find happiness and peace in the season of hope and new beginnings?
A perfect holiday story filled with complex characters that are perfect in their imperfections.
I was entrusted a copy of this book. The opinions expressed are solely my own.
Another 5 star read from one of my favorite authors, Sarah Morgan.
Weddings are stressful anytime of the year. Have a wedding at Christmas? Quadruple the stress.
For bride to be Rosie White, the stress of her world-wind romance, of her older sister’s apparent disapproval of the wedding, and her parent’s unusual behavior makes her quickly planned Christmas wedding an angsty, asthma inducing time. Add in the fact her soon to be motherinlaw has taken charge of the affair, and you’ve got the beginnings of Christmas crisis.
For older sister Katie White, a gal who knows nothing about love and everything about medicine, and who is dealing with PSTD, this wedding is wrong on every level and she’s going to try an stop it at all costs.
Mom and Dad have their own problems, namely they are divorcing and haven’t yet told their daughters. But Mom Maggie is determined to cause her younger daughter the least amount of stress that she can so her husband Nick and she fake being madly in love and on their second honeymoon.
What happens when these three women’s issues clash and clamor together? A delightful, insightful, inspiring, lovely story about family, sacrifice, letting go and communication.
I simply adore the way Sarah Morgan’s characters pop of the page and into you hearts.
This isn’t a typical Christmas love story, but a story about family and sacrifice, love and commitment.
5 well deserved stars from me.
Thanks to Netgalley for a sneak peek for an honest opinion.
I loved how this story incorporated the whole White family and their journey through trust and relationships. A good reminder to all of us to communicate and listen!