White Wedding

White Wedding

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It's the day they've always dreamed about. But will it turn out to be a nightmare … ?
Bel is in the midst of planning her perfect wedding when disaster strikes and everything she thought she knew is turned on its head. Can she hold it all together and, with the help of her friends, and a mysterious man she meets unexpectedly, turn disaster into triumph?
Bel's best friend,...more
ebook, 464 pages
Published April 26th 2012 by Simon and Schuster
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Sarah Broadhurst
Wedding season is definitely at the height of the season right now and this book is a great one to read during these months. However, a word of caution, if you are the bride, maybe read it after you have tied the knot!

The book follows three women, who are due to get married and the book is split into each of their individual story, although each women is in each others story, providing an intertwining story throughout the three forthcoming weddings. The three characters met in Freya's wedding sh...more
Shimali
I became a fan of Milly Johnson when I read A Spring Affair last year. The book had a wonderful feel-good quality to it, and the characters had been brought to life so well that I felt indignant, even angry, on behalf of the protagonist when she ran into trouble.

I expected to feel similar about White Wedding. While I didn't feel as connected to the characters in this book as I did in the previous, I did enjoy it enough that I found it difficult to stop turning the pages.

The book revolves around...more
Rea Sinfield
White Wedding by Milly Johnson follows three brides to be who all meet by chance in the White Wedding bridal shop and soon become great friends. Violet, Max and Bel are all very likeable characters but they are no way the perfect brides to be as they all have a hidden secret when it comes to their weddings and it is not just pre-wedding nerves!
Bel is due to marry first she is engaged to Richard but her hopes and dreams not only for her wedding but for her future with her new husband to be are s...more
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Violet, Max and Bel are three friends who are all linked by their weddings. When I first picked up this new Milly Johnson book I was really looking to reading it and I was surprised that I found myself stumbling over the first few chapters. Thankfully, I think it was just me as after the first few chapters I was seamlessly drawn alongside these individual women. As usual Milly Johnson has created characters that although not perfect, are very likeable.

The three prospective grooms are all very di...more
Chloe
I have read every single book Milly Johnson has written so far, and loved each and every one of them. The warmth in her writing is what makes it so readable, and each time you can't help but fall in love with the characters and be sad when you have to leave them behind when you have finished the book. Somehow, Milly is now releasing 2 books a year, and this is her first release of 2012, White Wedding, and will be followed in October with Winter Flame. The cover is in keeping with the other Milly...more
Hannah (Jaedia)
Originally posted at Once Upon A Time.

I went into White Wedding just knowing that I would love it and become a Milly Johnson fan. I wasn't wrong. White Wedding was my first foray into Milly Johnson's fiction and I am now working on getting hold of her other novels (3 out of 7 ain't bad). It is a true feel good chick lit that follows three very different women with three very different stories as they become friends and face their weddings together and the issues that come along with them and thu...more
Tali
I liked this book a lot, but I also ended up frustrated with it a lot too, and that's why I've only given it 3 stars rather than 4. The characters of Bel and Violet are great, with Violet's story being particularly touching and well-developed throughout the novel, but the third main character, Max and her fiance, Stuart, just hacked me off every time they appeared in the novel. Both of them are incredibly selfish and wilfully blind characters, and the way they behave is incredibly childish. I ha...more
Sharon Goodwin
In the Prologue of White Wedding, it’s February and the fifth time that Bel, Max and Violet have bumped into each other in the bridal shop White Wedding. Chapter One begins three months later and the women have all become friends.

Bel’s wedding is first and the reader intuits that during those three months something has happened – she’s not as excited and buzzing as she was in the Prologue. Leading up to her wedding (and throughout the book), the strands of Max and Violet’s lives are woven throug...more
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Have to say I love Milly Johnson and in this little gem this doesnt disappoint one little bit. Milly takes us on a journey with 3 ladies all in the throngs of getting wed. Have to say I related to Bel alot more than I did to Violet or Max, yet Bel is furthest from my life. Each girl lets the reader into their ideal wedding... all the working up to and the big day its self.
Have to say Milly does not spare any blushes and is comedy central on each page...she is also the first writer I have ever kn...more
Lydia Laceby
Originally reviewed at Novel Escapes

3.5 Star

Milly Johnson has definitely earned her best selling author title. Her novels are fun, feel-good, giggle worthy, romantic and fairy tale-like and White Wedding is no exception. The three women featured in this novel are about to go on an adventure in wedding land and they may not end up exactly where they predict they'll go and I enjoyed reading about their adventure.

I love the characters Milly Johnson creates. They're warm, lovely and you can't help...more
Kate
I really enjoyed all the previous Milly Johnson books that I’ve read so I was looking forward to reading this one which is her latest novel.

I loved the idea that these three women, who had never met before, came together in a bridal shop and ended up forging a really close, strong friendship. This friendship was very natural and, at times, comforting which made me feel that fate had brought them all together.

I really liked all the main characters, Max was so enthusiastic and I loved that because...more
Emma
Very very fluffy but very very enjoyable.

It takes a little while for the story to get started: at first the three main characters seemed a little bit 2-dimensional but the more I was reading the more I get to appreciate them (especially Bel).

Towards the end of the novel, there were a couples of twists I hadn't seen coming and it's rare enough in chick lit' to be mentioned.

All in all, it's a great book about friendship (much more about friendship than weddings/marriage in fact). And if you like t...more
CuteBadger
Three strangers meet in a bridal boutique while searching for their perfect wedding dresses and soon become fast friends. Wedding plans are rarely straightforward, however, and soon things which seemed certain become a little shaky.

This is the first book of Milly Johnson's I've read and I was lucky enough to win a signed copy from the publisher's website. I read quite a lot of chick lit, but don't like everything in the genre and find that some authors' books are too light and fluffy to be belie...more
Helen


I always love a milly Johnson book and look forward to the next fuzzy feeling inducing love story. Very much to type you warm and relate to the female characters bel, max and violet willing their tragic relationships to end for a more deserving one. I particularly enjoy these novels as they are set in my home county, my only disappointment was perhaps a lesser build up to the romantic trists that unfold in white wedding. Still a good read and will be picking up the next one (or borrowing it fro...more
Rachel
Wow!
I've just finished reading White Wedding by Milly Johnson, and I can honestly say I haven't read such a good book in a long time!!
It's fast paced and doesn't take long at all until you get into the book and storyline(s)!
The characters have so much depth and I really grew to love them.
Milly Johnson's style of writing is warm, funny and just lovely! Most of the chapters were short and this made it a great read as I'd always want to read that 'one more chapter' before putting book down.


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Karen Gooderham
I have read every book by Milly Johnson and this is my favorite. I just could not put this book down - even got to the stage where I would get everything done first because once I started I could not put it down.

White wedding is based on three young ladies who are all getting married and meet by chance in the 'White Wedding' Bridal Shop and strike up a very close frienship. Each girl is planning a different wedding. Each chapter is spilt into sections: Violet, Bel and Max (who are the three ladi...more
Camy
I am sad that this is the last book I have by Milly Johnson - I will be on the look out for more! I enjoyed this book about 3 weddings that were not...laughed about Maxine and the Big Fat Gypsy wedding theme...especially the references to Coronation street characters!! I could not believe how quickly I read this book because I found it easy to ready, perfect to read in bed after a tough day at work!! Very entertaining...I love Yorkshire!!!
Jane
I wanted thoughtless fanfic and I got it with this book. It's light, full of cliches, unrealistic, trying a little too hard to make you go 'aaaww' but still getting you to keep turning the pages. It's the literary equivalent of a bag of chips.

I might have rated it higher if it hadn't decided to write in a completely ridiculous re-hashing of 'Jane Eyre' into the plot. Utter blasphemy!
Lynne
Absolutely loved this book... A Sunday Times bestseller.... got it from the library and couldn't put it down. A real page turner for me. Kept me gripped and each time I had to stop reading, I couldn't wait to get back to the story. It's been a pleasure to read and I will look out for more of Milly Johnson books in the future.
Heidi
Gosh I'm just falling in love with Molly Johnson. Her stories. Her imagination. Her characters. I just love them all. I speed through these books and it makes me sad that our local library system only has three of hers. Guess I'm gonna have to hit up the old a,Aston not keep going. Yeah yeah yeah for e three women in this book
Amanda
Lovely summer read. Three friends who all meet whilst buying wedding dresses might sound a bit contrived but I can promise you that it isn't. All of Milly Johnnson's books contain characters that you wish you could meet and this one is no different. It's also good to read about northern women for a change!
Lian
My friend loaned this to me and I had it for a month before I picked it up as i'm not really into chick lit. I thought I would give it a go at least, but then I couldn't put it down and have borrowed a couple more off my friend since then, really love the style of writing by the author.
Marjorie Powls
kept me entertained all the way through love the gipsy wedding ideas, think maybe was a bit insensitive towards one of the to be husbands as agoraphobia is a mental illness but enjoyed the read non the less..
Marie Godley
following the lives and weddings of three women who met in the bridal shop and became friends. This book also gives some insight into the owner of the wedding shop who has appeared in other books.
Tracey
I really enjoyed this book. The three female characters Bel, Max & Violet all held the book together as their stories were told. Violet was my favourite character and Dan was my favourite male in the book.
I did find Max very selfish with her wedding ideas , though funny too.
The summary at the end of the book was good to.see as it is sometimes left to your imagination.
milly Johnson has written a lovely, funny and sad book. I felt so many emotions reading this book as i followed the ladies p...more
Theresa
I loved this book i liked all three womens story's would defiantly recommend this book to other people it was funny in places had me laughing out loud.
Clo
I was gutted when this finished! What a fab bloody book! Now considering what to read next!
Violet was my favourite by miles, but Bels cake revenge was blooming FANTASTIC!
Kelly
It was a good book,the first half was a bit slow for me though. But once it got going it was brill. I loved Nana.
Donna Irwin
Loved it! As usual, great characters, humour....all a bit daft...
but as MJ retweeted to me "Daft is good"
Aileen
I think I have read all Millys books, they are so funny always easy to read and follow, and this one was the same really enjoyed it, definetely recommend.
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Milly Johnson was born in Barnsley, raised in Barnsley and still lives in Barnsley - although she did study in Exeter for four years and emigrate to Haworth in West Yorkshire in the 1980s.

She trained as an actress, teacher, an accountant, a Customer Services and Suggestion Scheme Manager as well as working in a variety of administrative posts for companies dealing with anything from antique furnit...more
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