“Katie Fisher is ecstatic. Pro basketball star Brady James has proposed, and she can't wait to start planning their life together. She's confident she'll make it down the aisle this time--but it still may be easier said than done. A high-society Houston bride has Katie and the Cosmopolitan Bridal team scrambling to get the perfect dress done in time for her spectacular wedding. Meanwhile, Katie finds herself bombarded with everyone's competing visions regarding her own special day--and she's beginning to worry that her own ideas will get lost in the crossfire. Will she ever manage to settle all of the details for "her" perfect day? Or will bridal shop chaos and overzealous friends and family make a mess of everything?
Series: The final book in the “Brides With Style” series. (Review of Book #1 Here! and Book #2 Here!)
Spiritual Content- A few Scriptures are mentioned, read, thought over, & remembered; Bible reading; Many prayers, Praising God, & Thanking God; Church going & a sermon; Many talks about God, Christ, & things happen in His time; ‘H’s are not capital when referring to God; Many mentions of God & things happen in His time; Many mentions of prayers, praying, Thanking and Praising God, blessings over food, & a prayer group; Many mentions of churches, church going, services, pastors/reverends, sermons, worship, & denominations (Baptists, Presbyterians, Charismatics, & Methodists); Mentions of worship music & a Christian radio station; Mentions of blessings & being Blessed; A few mentions of Bible reading; A few mentions of Heaven; A couple mentions of those in the Bible; A couple mentions of Sunday school & youth groups; A couple mentions of a godly man; A couple mentions of televangelists (when referring to a man’s hairstyle); A mention of a come-to-Jesus-meeting; A mention of mission work; A mention of Easter; A mention of VBS; A mention of a painting of Jesus;
*Note: A woman says she has the gift of “cake prophecy” (making cakes that have fulfill a prophecy) and Thanks Jesus (this conversation makes a reverend quirk a brow, but he doesn’t say anything); The phrase “the devil’s in the details” is said (once); A mention of a man looking like Adonis; A mention of someone thanking their lucky stars.
Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a ‘crummy’, a ‘dang’, an ‘ever-bloomin’’, a ‘hot as blue blazes’, a ‘oh my stars’, an ‘old fart’, a ‘shoot’, a ‘stinkin’, a ‘suckers’, a ‘the poop hit the fan’, a ‘where the heck’, two ‘ever-lovin’’s, two ‘for pity’s sake’s, two ‘for the love of all that’s holy’s, two ‘gosh’s, three ‘duh’s, three ‘stupid’s, and eight forms of ‘dumb’; A phrase is rewritten as “doomed if I do and doomed if I don’t” (Katie says this and Brady comments that that’s not exactly how the expression goes); A misunderstanding between “a pain in the...you know” (hemorrhoid) and someone being “a pain in the…you know”; Eye rolling & Sarcasm; Mentions of pain & injuries; Mentions of rumors & gossip; A few mentions of the death of a mother (cancer); A few mentions of potential car accidents & deaths; A few (teasing) mentions of murder; A few mentions of a robbery, stealing, & stolen items; A few mentions of not drinking & non-alcoholic champagne; A few mentions of a divorce & a wife leaving her husband (and him getting back at her by cutting everything they own in half); A couple mentions of vandalism; A couple mentions of jealousy; A mention of assaults; A mention of a gunfight; A mention of rehab; A mention of (not) lying; A mention of hunting; A mention of someone’s bodily functions; A mention of some people needing a “swift kick in the backside”;
*Note: Every chapter starts with a quote by Audrey Hepburn & the titles are songs by Martina McBride; Mentions of brand names & items (Disney, Tiffany & Co., Gucci, Formica, Skip-Bo, Oreo, & Calgon); Mentions of stores, restaurants, & other places (Dairy Queen, Brookshire Brothers, Disney, Six Flags, & McDonald’s); Mentions of celebrities, singers, & actresses (Loretta Lynn, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Martina McBride, Doris Day, Greta Garbo, Cheryl Tiegs, Jennifer Aniston, & Liberace); Mentions of movies & fictional characters (Gone with the Wind, the Wizard of Oz, South Pacific, & Mary Poppins); Mentions of social media sites & websites (Pinterest, Facebook, YouTube, Skype, & eBay); Mentions of sports teams (Mavericks & Rockets); A mention of a newspaper (Houston Chronicle); A mention of a father not being in a little girl’s life.
Sexual Content- Five cheek kisses, a nose kiss, two head/hair kisses, over ten barely-above-not-detailed kisses, and four boarder-line barely-above-not-detailed // semi-detailed kisses; Touches, Embraces, Dancing, Tingles, & Nearness (barely-above-not-detailed); Blushes, Winks, & Whistles; Noticing (barely-above-not-detailed); a ‘hussy’, a ‘babe’, two ‘baby’s, and three forms of ‘hunky’; A misunderstanding of someone thinking a baby was born before the parents were married (the person who misunderstood tells the couple that “it might’ve been an accident, but [the baby is] a blessing” and says that it will work out in the end); Many mentions of honeymoons, sharing a bed, & honeymoon babies (including a couple mentions of a husband going to have difficulty getting his wife’s corset dress off of her; no details on anything besides winks and blushes when discussed); Many mentions of kissing, kisses, & seeing other married, engaged & almost-engaged couples kissing and showing PDA (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of dates, dating, boyfriends, & exes; Mentions of a man giving his wife a ‘come hither look’ & acting frisky (including a couple mentions of him pinching and slapping his wife’s bottom, along with nibbling on her ear; Katie is grossed out to hear this about her parents); A few mentions of out-of-wedlock pregnancies; A couple mentions of a woman being labeled as “the other woman” in a break-up situation (misunderstanding); A mention of a speech about a honeymoon from a parent; A mention of a couple waiting until their actual wedding to live together; A mention of someone finding it awkward to be living with a newly married couple; A mention of a bachelor party (not the traditional kind); A mention of skinny dipping; A mention of a man asking a married woman to marry him (not said if teasing or serious); A mention of a couple producing gorgeous babies; Love, being in love & the emotions;
*Note: Katie is in the delivery room as her cousin gives birth (barely-above-not-detailed); Katie’s cousin suffers postpartum depression after giving birth (we see this on page, but it doesn’t last very long for her, up to semi-detailed); A misunderstanding between “a pain in the...you know” (hemorrhoid) and someone being “a pain in the…you know”; Mentions of pregnancy hormones & postpartum depression (up to semi-detailed); A few mentions of a hemorrhoid surgery; A few mentions of a temptress & a risqué actress; A few mentions of a woman’s waist & curves; A couple mentions of a woman’s jiggly arms; A couple mentions of a scantily clad Greek statue.
1st person P.O.V. of Katie
321 pages
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2023 reread: Because I needed some joyful reading and have been working on rereading this trilogy when I can, I decided to reread this final book and it was still such a fun book! The ending makes me teary-eyed every time, I swear! What is it about weddings that make you feel all the emotions? I was giggly, I felt like I wanted to cry, I could barely breathe in anticipation—it was so beautiful! I would say this series is better for ages 16/17+ because of some marital comments/hints, but those parts could easily go over the heads of younger readers.
*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.
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