A Wedding Bouquet (Super Regency, Signet) [Paperback]

Anne Barbour (Author), Carla Kelly (Author), Edith Layton (Author), Patricia Oliver (Author), Patricia Rice (Author)

Book Description

Series: Super Regency, Signet | Publication Date: May 1, 1996

For a masquerade ball, an old wedding dress transforms a shy, lonely woman into a dazzling Queen Guinevere and brings her an enchanted Sir Lancelot. A widow is surprised by two unexpected visitors at her sister's wedding - one breaks her heart and the other captures it forever. When the bride-to-be leaves her fiance stadning at the altar, her sister borrows the groom. A "blue" groom is torn between the woman to whom he is betrothed and a woman from his past. A young woman counts on her lucky sixpence to bring her a marriage proposal from the man of her dreams.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Focusing on the theme of marriage and weddings, this collection features works by five of Signet's most popular Regency writers, such as Patricia Oliver ("Something Old"), Carla Kelly ("Something New"), Patricia Rice ("Something Borrowed"), and Edith Layton ("Something Blue"). The tone varies from lively and funny to poignant and affecting, and anyone who has ever been through the rigors of wedding planning will find something with which to identify. Several of the authors have Regencies due out either in May or June.?KR
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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Signet (May 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451187857
• ISBN-13: 978-0451187857
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,316,548 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Four of five stories worth reading!, September 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: A Wedding Bouquet (Super Regency, Signet) (Paperback)

Unfortunately, it's the lead story that I couldn't even finish. Patricia Oliver is capable of a better effort. The next three stories (Carla Kelly, Edith Layton, & Patricia Rice) were amusing regency stories with the usual impediments to romance: relatives and misunderstandings. The fifth story, by Anne Barbour, was interesting, but I felt that I had read some of the scenes before. In fact, in one scene the dialogue came straight from Georgette Heyer's "Cotillion".

Overall, enjoyable stories for fans of regency romance.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quick and enjoyable 70-90 page reads for when you want a little boost of HEA, June 14, 2011

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This review is from: A Wedding Bouquet (Super Regency, Signet) (Paperback)

I really enjoyed the stories in this book. I disagree with one of the reviewers, who disliked the Oliver story. That story is actually one of my favorites in this anthology. I think Oliver writes well, and she packs a lot into the story for such a short one. If you like her Seven Corinthians story line with Signet, you'll like this one, too. The Earl and Countess of Mansfield from "Miss Drayton's Downfall" even make a brief appearance.

Also, you can't go wrong with Carla Kelly, whose story is, as expected, well-written and tugs at the heartstrings. The other stories are decent, but I wasn't a big fan of the Layton story.

*****

Description from the back of the book:

"Something Old" by Patricia Oliver

For a masquerade ball, an old wedding dress transforms a shy, lonely woman into a dazzling Queen Guinevere and brings her an enchanted Sir Lancelot.

"Something New" by Carla Kelly

A widow is surprised by two unexpected visitors at her sister's wedding - one breaks her heart and the other captures it forever.

"Something Borrowed" by Patricia Rice

When the bride-to-be leaves her fiance standing at the altar, her sister borrows the groom.

"Something Blue" by Edith Layton

A "blue" groom is torn between the woman to whom he is betrothed and a woman from his past.

"And a Sixpence for her Shoe" by Anne Barbour

A young woman counts on her lucky sixpence to bring her a marriage proposal from the man of her dreams.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read and enjoy!, March 2, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: A Wedding Bouquet (Super Regency, Signet) (Paperback)

I had to write a review because I disagree with the previous reviewer. The two stories she chose to belittle are my two favorites in the anthology. I can't imagine why she had any trouble reading "Something Old" by Patricia Oliver. Sure, most of us have read many stories in which the heroine is a young girl who has a painful experience at at ton gathering. But this time the girl has the extreme bad luck to fall in love at first sight with a cad who doesn't even notice! Ten years later they meet again. Is this a second chance at love? "And a Six Pence for Her Shoe" by Anne Barbour is a wonderful love story. The heroine waits for her fiance to return from war. She quarreled with him just before he left. Will he give her a chance to prove her love is true? The other stories were fine, but I found them less memorable. Read this anthology and see if you don't agree!