Always the Wedding Planner, Never the Bride (Emma Rae Creations, #2)

Always the Wedding Planner, Never the Bride (Emma Rae Creations #2)

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As a wedding planner, you'd thinkshe would have the perfect wedding experience...

SherilynCaine has left Chicago behind to marry Andrew Drummond IV, an Atlanta native with a family name that tops all the social registers. Landing the job as The Tanglewood’s wedding planner is a piece of cake for someone with a Type A personality; she’s the perfect fit for a wedding destina

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Paperback, 331 pages
Published October 1st 2011 by Abingdon Press
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Trish
Fiction; Christian/Romance
5 stars


Every time I finish a book like this one, I ask myself why I don't read more of them. Though considered part of the christian fiction genre, this book has all the great characteristics of a PG rated chick lit novel. It is delightful and romantic with that certain fun-loving quality, humorous tone typical of chick lit type books.

Sherilyn Caine and Emma Rae Travis have been friends since their college days. With virtually no family of her own, Sherilyn quickly gets...more
Monica Korgerud
100% in agreement with another reader, Amanda´s, review, so instead of trying to find ways to explain myself I´d rather just copy hers; "I think maybe you need to be obsessed with weddings to really enjoy this. There were some good parts in this book, but most of it was kind of bland. Not so bad that I wanted to quit reading, but enough that I wished it would have gone faster. I didn't feel any chemisty between the main couple. It seemed like the author kept telling me they were in love without...more
Danica
It is possible that I didn't do this book justice when I was reading it. I was speed-devouring it. If I bolted a slice of cake this way, I don't know if I'd be able to comment on its nuances and quality, so take that with a... grain of salt. Sorry. Mixed food metaphor.

Let's take it as read (sorry, sorry again) that it had many of the same sterling qualities as the first book in the series. It's light-hearted, funny, and has a lot of luscious food descriptions.

Here's why it got knocked down a s...more
Susan
This is the second in a series of what I am affectionately calling "Always the (fill in the blank here), Never the Bride" by Sandra D. Bricker. This time around we meet Sherilyn Caine who has just landed the perfect fiance and the dream job of a lifetime.

Anyway, the soon to be Mr. & Mrs. Deliriously Happy are on the way back to Atlanta and Sherilyn is headed to The Tanglewood Inn to start her new job. Good thing she is friends with Emma because she's going to need her as she settles into her...more
Amanda
I think maybe you need to be obsessed with weddings to really enjoy this. There were some good parts in this book, but most of it was kind of bland. Not so bad that I wanted to quit reading, but enough that I wished it would have gone faster. I didn't feel any chemisty between the main couple. It seemed like the author kept telling me they were in love without really making me believe it. Most of the "drama" came from a lack of communication, which also detracted from them being a great couple....more
Brenda Rupp
This was the second book in this series and I enjoyed this book just as much as I did the first. I'm looking forward to reading the third in the series. The Tanglewood Hotel was a dream of a woman's who had died, her husband bought the hotel and with his sisters made the hotel into a destination hotel for brides to have all of their events their and use the hotel rooms as well everything they needed their to plan their wedding. This book shows them placing a gal moving back to Atlanta with her f...more
Paula  Phillips
In the first book of the Emma Rae Travis series , we met well Emma Rae Travis of course :) , the title Always the Baker, Never the Bride. Emma has always dreamt of opening her own shop and in Book #1 she is offered a job as a Wedding Cake designer and Menu Creator , Emma also finds romance and love with the Tanglewood Inn owner Jackson.
Are you fans of Wedding Films like "The Wedding Planner" starring Jennifer Lopez ? Monster-In-Law also starring Jennifer Lopez , what about 27 Dresses with Kathe...more
Iola
Wedding planner Sherilyn Keyes has left Chicago behind to marry Andrew Drummond IV, an Atlanta native with a family name that tops all the social registers. She joins Emma, her old college roommate and baker, in working at the Tanglewood Inn, a destination wedding hotel. But Sherilyn faces a series of challenges to her relationship and her faith as she and Andrew settle into their new jobs and begin planning their own wedding.

This is the second book in Sandra Bricker’s Never the bride series, fo...more
Kim
Sherilyn Caine is the perfect wedding planner - she knows what needs to be done when and where and how. She is currently engaged to a man she has known less than a year and has recently moved from Chicago to Georgia, where she found the perfect job working with her best friend, Emma Rae Travis. Sherilyn should be an expert at planning weddings but when there are problems finding her dress and problems with ex-partners, will Andrew Drummond IV and Sherilyn be able to tie the knot? Will Andrew's m...more
Karen
"ALWAYS" a winner!

Always the Wedding Planner, Never The Bride is the second in Sandra D. Becker's wedding themed series that began with Always the Baker, Never the Bridesmaid. Luckily for readers of Bricker's newest, we catch up with Emma Rae Creation's college roommate, Sherilyn Crane, as she returns home to Atlanta, where she encounters an oddball cast of friends, a soon to be mother-in-law who are all plopped down in goofy predicaments.


Always the Wedding Planner, Never the Bride is just a lot...more
Judy & Marianne from Long and Short Reviews
Originally posted at: http://longandshortreviews.blogspot.c...

Always the Wedding Planner, Never the Bride, is the second book in the Emma Rae Creation series, but stands alone well if you haven’t read the first book of the series. This is not a fast paced read...in fact at times it is a bit slow.

Don’t take me wrong, I enjoyed this book, because I was in the mood to be carried along with the light-hearted read.

Initially, there are a few too many occasions when I was catapulted out of the story w...more
Nora St Laurent
I became aware of Sandra’s novel when it won the ACFW’s Book Club pick for December. I was thankful for the review copy and can’t wait for the discussion on the ACFW book club loop. The cover of this book says fun, fun, fun. I wasn’t disappointed.

Sandra has Emma Rae Travis and Sherilyn Carrie meet in college and then go separate ways because of career choices. The girls hoped that they’d work together someday in the future.

But life happens and things aren’t as they expected. Then the girls get...more
Amy (Books, College, and Other Random Things)
I am reviewing this book for Net Galley.

Always the Wedding Planner, Never the Bride by Sandra Bricker tells the story of Sherilyn Caine, a wedding planner, and her fiancé, Andrew Drummond IV, an orthopedic specialist. Sherilyn moves from Chicago to join Andy in Atlanta, Andy’s birthplace, and to interview for a position of wedding planner at The Tanglewood. Sherilyn’s best friend, Emma, is engaged to the owner of The Tanglewood and both women are thrilled to be reunited again, especially when Sh...more
Whitney
Always the Wedding Planner Never the Bride
Sandra Bricker
Never the Bride, Book 2
4 out of 5


With this second installment in the series we meet Emma Rae’s college roommate, Sherilyn Caine. Sherilyn has just moved to Atlanta from Chicago to marry handsome doctor Andy. Sherilyn becomes the Wedding and Event Planner at the Tanglewood Inn where she and Emma work together to bring magic to each person’s special event.


Just as Emma Rae was introduced to “After care” in the first book, Sherilyn is introduce...more
Casey
I love me a quirky romance. You know the kind that never seems to go the way it should? Or the kind that always throws out a bit of a surprise to the characters without seeming cheesy? I think this new novel fits the bill nicely.

When I first read the title, I thought it was going to be about a wedding planner unlucky in love, when it was really about a wedding planner and her fiancée that keep getting stalled on the way to the altar. Missing wedding dresses, a motion sickness-prone dog and aller...more
Nicole
Wedding planner Sherilyn Caine has moved from Chicago to Atlanta to marry Andrew Drummond IV, an Atlanta native with a family name that tops all the social registers. Sherilyn joins her best friend and old college roommate Emma, the hotel's baker, in working at The Tanglewood, a destination wedding hotel.
Sherilyn and Andy have only known each other a short time, but they know they're destined to be married. But then why do all their wedding plans keep falling apart?

Cute, light read. The characte...more
Mercedes Cordero
More like 3 1/2 stars

Not as predictable as I expected: the characters' journeys had some very nice twists and turns and, although the ending is pretty much same old, same old, it was still cute and romantic. There are some pretty ridiculous things (Sherilyn possibly allergic to her fiance... seriously?), but it is well written. The author does a great job of being funny without overdoing it, which I think is a great skill.

As a Christian novel, with Christian main characters, it was strange how t...more
Jilly
Another great installment.

Now we are reading about Emma's (the Baker) best friend from childhood, Sherilyn and her fiance Andy. They've barely dated and yet they are engaged and moving to town to buy a house and start new jobs. You'd think the lesson in this story is that they don't know each other that well but the truth is that they do and they love each other for exactly who they are.

Both Sherilyn and Andy have a flash from the past in the form of exes. For Andy it is his ex-girlfriend who fe...more
Trisha  Wilson
Apr 12, 2012 Trisha Wilson rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Anyone who loves Romance
Mrs. Bricker done it again! I read this in one sitting and I absolutely fell in love with the characters & the story-line.

I had to feel sorry for poor Sherilyn though - anything that could go wrong planning for a wedding, it seemed to happen to her. I loved Andy, too. He was a stand-up guy. He had his moments, though, but they were very understandable, knowing the length of time they'd actually known each other before getting engaged.

As an added bonus, there was Henry. I love dogs, and Henry...more
Tamera Westhoff
It was a good read, but I'm not likely to want to read it again. The beginning/prologue was fine, but I felt thrown into the next chapter! Sherilyn seriously has problems with her weight gain, which happens because she eats whatever she wants and after the BIG secret happened she changed and gained weight. Seriously? And she doesn't realize it until she resolves it. Okay. Luckily she happens to get a hottie who loves her and doesn't at all mind her "extra" weight. The whole story is spent on the...more
Laura
Sherilyn just landed a job as the wedding coordinator for The Tanglewood, a destination hotel where her best friend from college is the baker (Always the Baker, Never the Bride). It's the perfect job and the perfect place to have her own wedding. Will her past come back to ruin her dream wedding?



Most romance novels begin when the girl meets the guy. This one starts with the Sherilyn and Andy already engaged. This change of set-up is refreshing and creates a story of getting to know the in-laws,...more
Amanda
As one of her oldest friends Emma is excited to have Sherilyn back in Atlanta and even better working in the same destination wedding hotel as she does. Sherilyn is following her fiance back to Atlanta. There she'll meet his mother, start a new job and try to plan her wedding. The only problem is she has doubt about a few things. She bought a wedding dress in Chicago before she moved back and it was lost in the shipping. The other just disappeared. Andy seems to going back and forth on when they...more
Ellen
Another adorable read in the Sandra D. Bricker, Always the ____, Never the Bride series, I found myself chuckling my way through Sherlyn's story. Unlike some readers, I did not find this second book to be a mere copy of the first. I do think that these books would be an absolute lark for anyone going through wedding planning though. The wedding ideas interspersed between chapters would have been more meaningful for me several years ago, but they do add to the unique character of the book. Sherly...more
Cheeyee
Review At: I Read, I Think, I Share

Review Date: 28 Dec 2011

Review URL: http://littlemermybooks.blogspot.com/2011/12/always-wedding-planner-never-bride-by.html


This is a rather sweet story. As Sherilyn and Andrew do not get to know each others for long before they are engaged, they knew they are right for each other, but they are unsure if the other party are ready to settle down. Moreover they are moving to another town, starting the new life there. In this story, we see how they work out those i...more
Kaitlin
I received this book in exchange for an honest review.

For more reviews check out www.bookstothesky.com

Honestly, this book was a little too religious for me. There was a lot of praying and references to God. They even went to Andy's massive childhood church. There were others, but I don't want to give anything away with too much detail. (I'm sure the first book was like this too but it had been a little while since I've read it.)

Underneath all of that though, it was a cute love story. They had th...more
Elisa Nuckle
I'm not one for this type of novel, normally. And I admit I read it to get in a light, fluffy story after finishing up a very, very heavy and intense book. The characters are witty, the dialogue is humorous, but everything felt a little bit like a cardboard cut-out happy ending. Not that that's a bad thing, since that's pretty much what I read this book for. I'm not used to it is all.

For people not normally reading this genre, also be warned that it's a Christian book. I didn't know that when I...more
Skeeter Jorgensen
A very sweet romance. I liked the book, no bad words, and now sex scenes, my kind of book. Always the Wedding Planner is a great romantic read! It is a perfect book to take a break with. You will laugh out loud as Sherilyn faces every disaster before her wedding.

Sherilyn Caine is a wedding planner at The Tanglewood, a wedding destination hotel in Atlanta, but she's so busy putting together other brides' big days that she's not quite getting her own planned. But while everything else is going al...more
Julie Graves
More weddings are being planned at the Tanglewood hotel. This time around Sherilyn(Emma Rae's best friend from college) has been hired as the new wedding planner for the hotel.

Sherilyn and her fiance Andy have moved back to Atlanta, both with new jobs. They soon find the house of their dreams but has Andy gotten cold feet about marrying Sherilyn? And what's up with Sherilyn losing two wedding dresses?!

This second installment of the Emma Rae creation series was just as much fun as the first one A...more
BkGurl
Another cute, romantic story by Ms. Bricker! I enjoyed this one more than the first, Always the Baker Never the Bride. Sandra Bricker has a knack for making her characters believable and relatable to readers. Sherilyn and Andy's story was heartfelt and sweet...made me laugh and tear up a little too. All the supporting characters, even Henry the dog, were as lovable as the H/h. For a book in the Christian literature genre, I didn't feel like the religious overtones were overbearing at all....just...more
Books to the Sky
We received this book in exchange for an honest review.

For more reviews check out www.bookstothesky.com

Honestly, this book was a little too religious for me. There was a lot of praying and references to God. They even went to Andy's massive childhood church. There were others, but I don't want to give anything away with too much detail. (I'm sure the first book was like this too but it had been a little while since I've read it.)

Underneath all of that though, it was a cute love story. They had t...more
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