by SusanSchneider (Author)
Once a lowly wedding writer, Leigh Lucky Quinn is thrust into power as Your Wedding magazine's new Editor-in-Chief on the same day that two of the magazine's major competitors fold. It's the Big Day for Lucky and Your Wedding, as well as for the deposed EIC, Grace Ralston, who has been at Your Wedding's helm from day one, and had taken Lucky under her wing. While the formidable Grace faces the humiliation of sudden failure and being forcibly removed from her office (and a future that looms as emptily as an unemployed, pre-cocktail-hour afternoon), Lucky must face the confusion and disappointment of her new staff, especially Felice and Sara, the Art and Fashion directors leftover from Grace's regime. In the wake of Lucky's ascension, for better or for worse, each woman confronts her past and deals with her hectic present in this juicy tale about work, love, loss and the world of bridal weddings.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: Original
Publisher: St Martin's Griffin
Published: 07 Jul 2011
ISBN 10: 0312676603
ISBN 13: 9780312676605
Schneider, a bridal-magazine editor and writer, gives readers a good view of what life is like in the world of tulle, taffeta and the quest for a fairy-tale wedding. --Kirkus
In this Devil Wears Prada-like send-up of the bridal magazine industry, a former executive editor of Modern Bride and Elegant Bride takes readers behind the scenes of the fictional Your Wedding... The workplace drama is enhanced with fantastic fashion, tawdry affairs, secrets, and revelations. Schneider certainly writes from experience, and readers will be interested in what's behind all those frothy covers on the newsstand. --Booklist
A juicy combination of bridal fashion, love and cutthroat drama set in the greatest city in the world! --David Tutera, star of WEtv's My Fair Wedding
A juicy, scandalous page-turning novel with a true window into the world of weddings in New York City and all the colorful characters who are part of it. --Colin Cowie, Wedding Designer and Producer
Call it The Devil Wears Vera Wang or Alex Witchel Channels Jane Austen, Schneider's roman clef about the Big Business of Bridal is as sharp as her protagonist's Louboutins. --Katherine Ball Ross, creator of The Quiet Center: Women Reflecting on Life's Passages; former Literary Editor of Victoria Magazine
Schneider invites us behind the scenes of two exclusive worlds--the bridal industry and magazine publishing--and shows us the glamour and the grind of making dreams come true. --Karen Bussen, author of the Simple Stunning Weddings series
In this often hilarious peek into the inner sanctum of bridal fashion, the author captures with exquisite precision and wicked detail the hidden workings of this exclusive and intriguing world. The story of the disastrous love lives of four women whose job it is to create perfection for brides-to-be is filled with keen observations into human nature and is so real, you can practically hear the taffetta swishhhhhhh... --Martine Aerts-Niddam, Fashion Director, Inside Weddings Magazine
An insider's look at the polite but lusty gloves-off games of the bridal magazine world. Even though the author disguised every player, the characters ring hyper true... Funny and sad, often at the same moment, The Wedding Writer is a send-up to savor. --Margaret Kennedy, former Editor in Chief, Elegant Bride Magazine and Victoria Magazine
SUSAN SCHNEIDER, a bridal magazine editor and writer, has spent the last ten years helping engaged women get ready for the Big Day. She is the former executive editor of Modern Bride and Elegant Bride, and currently of Bridal Guide. She has been an editor and writer for a number of other major women's and parenting magazines and is the co-author of two marriage and relationship books with Dr. Sonya Rhodes. She lives in New York City.