Save the Best for Last in Summer Reading…with Sharon Naylor's Début Novel; It's My Wedding Too

August 3rd, 2007 - Morristown, NJ - The top wedding websites call wedding expert Sharon Naylor’s debut novel It’s My Wedding Too “hilarious!” and “an unforgettable romp through the perils of planning a wedding with both the mothers.” In her comedic novel, Naylor tells the story of advertising genius Emilie Winchester’s attempts to ‘marry’ her upper-crust romance novelist mother’s style with her fiance’s middle-class, Italian-American old-world mother. One is Prada, the other is homemade pudding, and they clash over every wedding detail. These women hate each other, the rivals even going as far as changing the spelling of one’s name on the invitation, changing the color of the other’s shoe dye order, manipulatively altering the cake flavor and frosting. The Momzillas continue to attack, culminating in a taffeta and silk fight in a designer gown shop.

Caught in the middle is Emilie and her reformed mama’s boy fiancé Anthony, who keep a united front through all of their mothers’ dramas and diatribes. And in their corner as well is the heartbroken, feng shui-obsessed maid of honor Leah, whose own fiancé left her at the altar months ago. Leah throws oranges into the Hudson River on each full moon evening, following an ancient Chinese superstition that the launches will bring about a woman’s true love. She lights incense and candles, arranges the apartment into a shrine of Emilie and Anthony’s relationship, and in the end it turns out that her true love is not a man at all – she’s not ready for that – but a love of cooking and the ultimate establishment of her own dessert and champagne restaurant that turns into the #1 spot for marriage proposals in the city.

The mothers must face the why of their own animalistic behavior, exploring the deep wounds that this wedding has re-opened for them. Each reminds the other of the most painful episode in their lives. It isn’t about the wedding at all.

Unable to wait for their mothers’ epiphanies, Anthony surprises Emilie with an elopement to Bermuda, which Leah attends, and the happy union is freed from the mothers’ grips, therefore able to fulfill the in-love couple’s wedding wishes. They return home, keeping their marriage a secret, and they let the mothers continue to fight over the wedding plans. With emotions removed, Emilie finds great pleasure in co-planning a comically cliché shower that stuns her mother’s high-society friends. With the secret revealed, the mothers get a dose of reality and are forced to look into their pasts to see why they lost themselves now.

Author Jacqueline DeMontravel says that this novel is as ‘richly-layered and delicious as a Sylvia Weinstock cake!’ and brides will love to see their own mothers’ misbehavior magnified and comically handled by Sharon Naylor, who says that these characters are based “on the thousands and thousands of e-mails and letters I’ve received from brides who were despondent about their mothers’ and mothers-in-law’s shocking and selfish behavior. I just took what every bride wishes she could say and do to a drama mom and created a world for it. I relished the surprises, how these characters veered me away from stereotypical chick lit endings. I will do a sequel for Leah in the near future. She has more of a story to tell.”

Now that Harry Potter has flown off the shelves, brides-to-be can take this novel to the beach or the pool and – like the members of several national bridal book clubs like PashWeddings.com and iVillage Weddings – laugh their way through the pages, not being able to put it down. This quick, frothy read will be a summertime delight for the soon-to-marry, as well as a cautionary tale with a smile for all of their mothers.

Sharon Naylor is a national wedding authority with over 30 book titles on every aspect of the wedding planning process.

For more information on Ms. Naylor please visit www.SharonNaylor.net

Books may be purchased at Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com and www.SharonNaylor.net

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