Shopaholic Ties the Knot FROM OUR EDITORS
Becky Bloomwood, the fashion-minded heroine of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, is back -- and she's wearing an engagement ring! But Becky's hopes for a picture-perfect wedding evaporate as the prospective mothers-in-law face off with conflicting plans. Luke's high-society mother insists on an upscale event at the Plaza, while Becky's mom yearns for a simple, nostalgic nuptial service in her own backyard. To please all the folks, Bloomwood has to move heaven, earth, and Bloomingdale's.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
There's never been a better excuse to buy a new dress...or two.
Shopaholic Ties the Knot
The irresistible heroine of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan is back!--in a hilarious tale of mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, and one blushing bride who just can't say no to saying ﾽI do.ﾽ
Life has been good for Becky Bloomwood: She's become the best personal shopper at Barneys, she and her successful entrepreneurial boyfriend, Luke, are living happily in Manhattan's West Village, and her new next door neighbor is a fashion designer! But with her best friend, Suze, engaged, how can Becky fail to notice that her own ring finger is bare? Not that she's been thinking of marriage (or diamonds) or anything...
Then Luke proposes! Bridal registries dance in Becky's head. Problem is, two other people are planning her wedding: Becky's overjoyed mother has been waiting forever to host a backyard wedding, with the bride resplendent in Mum's frilly old gown. While Luke's high-society mother is insisting on a glamorous, all-expenses-paid affair at the Plaza. Both weddings for the same day. And Becky can't seem to turn down either one. Can everyone's favorite shopaholic tie the knot before everything unravels?
From the Trade Paperback edition.
SYNOPSIS
There's never been a better excuse to buy a new dress...or two.
Shopaholic Ties the Knot
The irresistible heroine of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan is back!--in a hilarious tale of mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, and one blushing bride who just can't say no to saying ﾽI do.
FROM THE CRITICS
USA Today
In the latest novel, readers are treated to images of how nuptials get planned on both side of the pond: Robyn de Bendern, the headset-encaged American wedding planner who schedules breakfast meetings in Becky's apartment vs. Jane Bloomwood, the doting mum who plants pansies in the garden that spell "Becky and Luke." In America, characters include Becky's aspiring designer friend Danny Kovitz; in Britain, we meet chaps with marvelously crusty names like Tarquin Cleath-Stuart. — Olivia Barker
Kirkus Reviews
Third time's the charm (Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, 2001, etc.). Since her bank won't keep a "little secret" and send separate his-'n-hers statements on a joint account, Becky will just have to make a clean breast of it (in a La Perla bra, of course) and admit her overspending to Luke Brandon, her live-in love. Lucky that he's rolling in it, because her extremely cool job as a personal shopper at Barneys isn't going to cover the bills. But two can live as expensively as one, if the one is named Becky Bloomwood. No matter what, Luke loves her. He just proposed! Ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod-Becky finds out that brides-to-be are allowed, no, encouraged-to register at fancy stores for whatever they need or want, and well-meaning friends and family will actually buy the stuff for them. What a marvelous idea. Now, where to have the wedding . . . . Her mum is hoping she'll hop the puddle and come home to tie the knot; she's put up new wallpaper and planted a flowerbed that will spell out "Luke and Becky" in pansies next to the striped marquee in case it rains. And it will rain, Becky is sure. Luke's social-climbing mother would prefer weatherproof, absolutely fabulous New York-style nuptials at the Plaza. Enter the wedding planner, who makes things even more complicated. Becky can't say no to anything, as usual, and so she eventually arranges for two different weddings on the same day in two different continents. First to roll: the Plaza ceremony, featuring an enchanted make-believe birch forest and talking bouquet to cue the nervous bride. Don't tell a soul it's not a real wedding. Well, the free-flying turtledoves anointing the guests with white goo are certainly real, and the despotic weddingplanner might even get paid, but there isn't any ring and the so-called minister is mumbling dreadfully. Man and wife? Not until Becky and Luke get back to England at last. Funny, funny, funny.
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