Gather The Trouble With Weddings Developed By Sharon Owens Readable In Version

was a pretty fastpaced story, It does have an alternate title The Trouble with Weddings which I think is more fitting, but admittedly, I was mainly interested to see what the revenge would be and why it was needed.


On the surface, this book is kind of quirky and light, but there are some deep issues mentioned such as depression, neglect, and eating disorders, I like that the narrator is written as if she's talking directly to you that gave it a sense of familiarity and honestly that made it a little comical as well.


I liked that although the focus was really on the one big, disastrous wedding, there were some smaller storylines of interest as well, I can imagine the narrator being really frustrated with several of the characters I know I was!

I recommend this book if you're looking for a quick, lightbutnottoofluffy read.
I also think it would make a good book club read, There are some parts I'd like to discuss with others for sure, and I can imagine some interesting stories coming being shared too!

A nice read with a funny storyline wedding planners do a celebrity wedding.
A nice commentary on true love, fake love, and imagined love, Something about the narration of this book made me think of Monty Python skits in which they play old English biddies, I ran across a review that said the narrator "speaks in the kind of Nordie Mockney thats so reminiscent of transvestites in cosy cardies" the only word of that I understand is transvestite, but it sounds like basically the same idea.
Anyway, it was kind of funny but got too crazy for me, I have read one other of Sharon Owens books and really enjoyed it, however this was a disappointment, The storyline was pretty weak and the characters were just not likeable, I didn't like Mags, who was the character that was narrating she was a walkover and annoying and the none of the other characters were any better!

The title of the book did not seem relevant to the storyling and allinall reading it seemed a rather pointless exercise.
I really enjoyed this book it was a quick and easy read, Written in first peson and with great humour,

/Lovely sweet easy to read chick lit book, mainly about two characters and their lives whilst running a 'Dream Wedding' company I have a strange relationship with her, I mean I loved her but she also took me a long time to read.
Really enjoyed this one. Mags has got to be one of the most likable characters I think I've ever come across in a chicklit book, She's a funny but slightly crazy exgoth, who trys to do whats best for her and everyone around her but ends up making it worst, I thinkof the chick lit I read is set in Ireland, Synopsis:

Mags and Julie are partners at Dream Weddings, catering for the overthetop and sometimes downright bizarre requirements of Belfast's brides and grooms to be, They rub along well but are as different as chalk and cheese, Mags is married to the love of her life, has four kids and a complicated extended family, Julie is impossibly glamorous, and doesn't remotely believe in love or marriage,

When Julie embarks on a life crisis, running away from her livein lover and throwing herself in to a hairraisingly sexy fling with Jay, it is Mags who is left to pick up the pieces.


When Julie eventually comes back, she brings Jay with her, and that is where the real trouble starts, Add to the mix Dream Weddings' most highprofile celebrity clients yet, and the biggest, most ambitious wedding they have ever organised, and the fireworks really begin

This is the second Sharon Owen novel I have read and like The Teahouse on Mulberry Street, I enjoyed it and thought it was an OK chicklit book.
The narrator is Mags a woman who is happily married, a goth and an assistant wedding planner, Her associate/manager is Julie, who seems to be having a midlife crisis, Although this takes her

to South Ireland where she forgets about her boyfriend and hooks up with a worker at the spa, From there, she starts to lead a doublelife, leaving Mags to do most of the work in regards to a crazy celebrity wedding,

This is your basic chicklit novel, There is romance, a bit of a crisis and friendship, That said, this was a pleasant read, I found myself cringing in places, especially in regards to the weird vampirelike wedding at the end, The story was fairly predictable but that didn't ruin the read, If you like a quick, easy read this is for you,

I liked Mags however, She was a touch eccentric and I loved the idea of her with blue hair! She looked out for Julie and was happy in her marriage, which was a pleasant thing to read.
Her husband was great too very sensible and loving, I was indifferent to Julie, she seemed to go off the rails and act like a teenager, What I liked was reading what Mags thought about the events, as opposed to reading about Julie herself,

This is easy reading, a fun, quick read if you like chicklit,


this was one of the very few books that i just couldnt finish, i got probablypages in and was just too bored, it doesnt relate to the title, Mags and Julie are partners at Dream Weddings, catering for the overthetop and sometimes downright bizarre requirements of Belfast's brides and grooms to be, They rub along well but are as different as chalk and cheese, Mags is married to the love of her life, has four kids and a complicated extended family, Julie is impossibly glamorous, and doesn't remotely believe in love or marriage, When Julie embarks on a life crisis, running away from her livein lover and throwing herself in to a hairraisingly sexy fling with Jay, it is Mags who is left to pick up the pieces.
When Julie eventually comes back, she brings Jay with her, and that is where the real trouble starts, Add to the mix Dream Weddings' most highprofile celebrity clients yet, and the biggest, most ambitious wedding they have ever organised, and the fireworks really begin, . . It was OK. The title didn't go with the book, I wouldn't read the book again but it was a quick easy read,
I didn't connect with any of the characters so may be that's why I didn't fully enjoy it, I enjoyed Sharon Owens' first three books, set in different streets of Belfast, very much they are all written with a lovely light touch and full of quirky, unusual characters.


This comic novel about two friends who work as wedding planners is again set in Belfast, but I don't think it works as well it's a strange mixture of farce, jetblack humour and satire and the sort of cosyish humour in the first three books, and to me it doesn't all really gel.
I'll still read more by Sharon Owens in the future, though, and it's interesting to see her doing something different, "Revenge of the Wedding Planner" was a rather quick, and in parts also amusing book, although some characters were just plainly unlikeable Julie, Alexander, Emma!!!, It was quite refreshing to read about asomething lady, who is at times not able to hold things together as good as she wants to, because these kinds of stories mostly feature the complicated and messy lives ofsomething girls and are getting a bit worn out anyway, at least for my taste.
I really enjoyed this book, . . I read it whilst on my holiday and i found it so hard to put down, . . My only complaint would be that the story dragged in places, A fun and light read, Sharon Owens has a very funny writing style and I find her books good to read after a heavier novel,

I laughed out loud many times during this book! Several annoying characters but an alright read, It was ok 'Revenge of the Wedding Planner' is the story of Mags Grimsdale, asomething woman who works at Dream Weddings, a small wedding planning business run by her best friend Julia Sultana.
But Mags isn't your averagesomething mother of four she's a goth with long black hair, has gargoyles in her house and is keeping a secret or two, Julia sends Mags' life into disarray when she dumps her latest boyfriend, can Mags keep it all together her family, friendship and of course, Dream Weddings

The plot sounded pretty interesting to me, and was pretty good to start with.
Mags was quite a fun character to read, and her first person narrative made very pleasant reading, which stumbled along, describing well Mags' life and her thoughts as well.
However, that's really where the good things about this book ended for me, All of the other character in the book perhaps apart from Mags' husband Bill were all hideous they were whiny, selfish, rude and generally not very nice people! Julia was the worst offender, and you have to wonder why Mags' would still stay friends with someone who treats her like that! She was very selfish and quite a user towards Mags.
Her background is explained quite extensively I must add by Mags early on in the book, but this didn't make me any more sympathetic to her, quite the opposite actually.
I think it was supposed to evoke sympathy from the reader, but just didn't from me,

We also get to meetof Mags' children, Alexander and AliciaRose, Her daughter leaves the book a little way through not through death! so we don't see much of her but Alexander on the other hand, seems to be the son from hell.
I feel Owens has rather exaggerated with his character, to the point of being so incredibly annoying I found myself wanting to skip his parts because he was so irritating to me! Other characters through the book included Mags' sisters, Jay Julia's boyfriend, and the odd wedding couple.


Now, the awful characters isn't my biggest gripe with the book, I had a real problem with the amount of narrative in the book! Usually when I read a book, I expect to have an equal amount of dialogue and narrative from the author, but this book was so heavy with the narrative, it became very hard going after a while.
I found myself checking how many pages there were until the end so that I could move onto another book because reading it at times was a real chore, and I was just bored with it.
Dialogue betwen the characters was quite rare, and when it did occur, it was pretty short, and it soon launched back into its pages and pages of Mags' narrative once more.
Owens' writing style itself is pleasant enough, Mags being quite funny to read, but the long narrative just wasn't sustainable from the characters and just went on far too long for me, and therefore really dented my enjoyment of the book overall.


The story was pleasant enough, with a couple of twists and turns throughout, not to mention a quite explosive ending, but it just didn't really do it for me unfortunately.
I felt it was a little bland, far too narrationheavy, and the title didn't really make much sense for me where was Mags' revenge! I couldn't see it anyway.
I was really looking forward to this book but I was actually relieved when it was finished, I hate reading a book when it feels like a chore, and that is what this was for me, Very disappointing, I'm quite unsure about trying any more of her work after reading this,

PLEASE NOTE: This book was published in Ireland under the title of The Trouble With Weddings, so don't read both!,