Whitney Lyles

The book's divided into 4 parts--one for each of the weddings that Cate is a bridesmaid in. Sarah has a wild bachelorette party while pretending she didn't to her fiance. Val is Cate's cousin. Leslie is the bridezilla who appears to have planned her wedding to the tiniest detail but not thought much beyond that, and Beth has a costume wedding since she gets married on Halloween. Along the way Cate collects three engraved silver mirrors as bridesmaids gifts.

At the beginning of the book, Cate has been dating Paul for about a year. She's puzzled as to why all her friends seem to be getting married while the two of them are still in relationship limbo (as far as Cate is concerned anyway). At Sarah's wedding, Care reconnects with her childhood friend Ethan who hires her to take photos of menu items for his catering business. Their friendship renews--and after Cate and Paul break up, it's clear Ethan wants more, but Cate is worried their easy friendship will suffer if she takes the chance.

I can sympathize with Cate's fears. It is scary to take the step from friendship to a romantic relationship, and in most cases, it does seem hard for the two people to go back to just friendship if it doesn't work out. I think because in most cases one of the two still wants more than friendship. However, the friendship base does seem to be important in a long term relationship, so . . .… (altro)