Release date: January 2006
Published by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press
Hardcover
Price: $21.95 US | $29.95 Canada
ISBN 0-312-33981-X
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EMILY GIFFIN, bestselling author of Something Borrowed and Something Blue
Macie Fuller is having trouble making up her mind about marriage. Working for a high-profile wedding planner in Atlanta, she makes her living "tossing brides," that is, getting high-maintenance clients married and out of her hair. Wedding bells and white doves are all in a day’s work, but Macie isn’t quite ready to make that trip down the aisle herself. While she loves her boyfriend, Avery, she simply can’t relate to his jet-set lifestyle — while she scrambles to pay the bills, he takes a turn on the tennis court and jaunts off to Japan.
When Avery finally does get down on one knee, Macie's reaction shocks everyone. It seems that after seeing brides behaving very badly, she is wary of becoming one herself. “What if I turn into them?” she wails. A deeper issue, of course, is Avery. Macie is not sure she will fit into Avery's charmed life — a very different world than she has ever known. Then there’s Avery's mother, who married into the family money and seems desperately unhappy. Will that happen to Macie, too?
When Macie comes around, it’s not for the dress or the diamond, but for love. She wants it for life. Toss the Bride is a warm and witty novel about finding romance on your own terms.
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, has selected Toss the Bride to be highlighted under the publisher’s “First Fiction” program. Download a PDF and view page 7 of the brochure to read an excerpt.
Other writers are reading Toss the Bride
“A delightful read — better than a day at the spa. Funny, entertaining, and endearing.”
HAYWOOD SMITH, bestselling author of The Red Hat Club Rides Again
“A comic, satirical story of high-maintenance brides and overblown weddings in the new South. Toss the Bride is a lively debut that will leave you cackling for hours. Great fun.”
MINDY FRIDDLE, author of The Garden Angel
“Toss the Bride is the warm and hilarious story of a hard-working wedding planner who also happens to be a reluctant bride-to-be. Fall in love with Macie Fuller and with author Jennifer Manske Fenske’s delightful first novel.”
LYNNE HINTON, author of Friendship Cake“Getting married properly is much more than a gorgeous gown and the ‘wedding of your dreams,’ even when you are a wedding planner who knows all the tricks. Jennifer Manske Fenske’s delightful new novel, Toss the Bride, introduces us to Macie, a bride wanna-be who realizes that her conflicted feelings about marriage may block her walk down the aisle. Along the way to wedded bliss we meet plenty of Bridezillas and learn that there’s no such thing as a perfect wedding.”
MARTHA WOODHAM, author of The Bride Did What?! Etiquette for the Wedding Impaired
“Toss aside your cares and spend some time with a real original. Jennifer Manske Fenske offers a new voice in the age-old field of matrimony: Anyone who’s spent even a minute fantasizing about her dream wedding will be astounded at Fenske’s imaginative look at all things nuptial. This is a wildly imaginative ride through bridal do’s and don'ts, presented through a series of weddings you’ll actually love attending — and you don't even have to dress up!”
LINDA LENHOFF, author, Life a la Mode and Latte Lessons