Wedding Belles

By Beth Albright

The Sassy Belles are back...and this time, wedding bells are ringing!

Seven months pregnant and head over heels in love, Vivi Ann McFadden is busy pulling together the final details for her wedding to Lewis Heart, famous play–by–play announcer for the Crimson Tide. But with two wedding–planners–gone–wild, a psychic giving her advice, and the ceremony happening on the same day as the wildly popular Crimson Tide kickoff game, chaos reigns supreme. Luckily, maid of honor Blake O'Hara Heart is on the job. She'll tackle this wedding if it's the last thing she does!

But not everyone is cheering for the happy couple. News of the upcoming nuptials has brought Lewis's old flame back to Tuscaloosa–and she's got a secret that could mean the end of Lewis's marriage...before it even begins.

Sexy Southern fun...with a hint of magnolia!

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia
• Release date: Aug 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781743642702

Beth Albright

Beth Albright is a Tuscaloosa native, former Days of Our Lives actress, and former radio and TV talk show host. She is a graduate of the University of Alabama School of Journalism. She is also a screenwriter, voice-over artist and mother. She is married to her college sweetheart, Ted. A perpetually homesick Southern Belle and a major Alabama Crimson Tide fan, she splits her time between San Francisco and, of course, Tuscaloosa.

Reviews for Wedding Belles

[monicalynn-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The Sassy Belles are at it again. Vivi getting ready to get married to Lewis Heart the Voice of Crimson Tide who is making all of her dreams finally come true. The go to pick up their marriage license and find out Lewis is already married shocking to him and Vivi and everyone else, because no one ever though Lewis Heart would get married. In the mean time Blake Vivi's best friend and Lawyer is keeping her promise to soon to be Ex Husband Harry Heart by making appearances with him while he is running for officer. Sneaking around with Police Detective Sonny Bartholomew who is investigating a murder on a boat in their area. Then things get interesting trying to find Lewis's long lost wife who he thought was a joke of a marriage when they did get married and didn't realize it was real 13 years ago. Come to find out she is involved some how some way with the Murder Sonny is investigating. Of Course the end leaves you anticipating the next book in this series. Fun read.Nerves are high throughout wondering if they are going to find and catch the killer and will they find the wife for sure and get her to sign annulment papers in time for the Big Wedding.

[sharonr53 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

They’re baaaccckk-the wacky duo from “Sassy Belles” Blake O”Hara Heart and Vivi Ann Macfadden, return in another book about life in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Being a New England girl, I love reading books about life in the South. Blake and Vivi have found love in their lives and Vivi is getting ready to marry her man, Lewis when they discover he has been legally married to a stripper he pretend married in college. Vivi is pregnant so a delay in the nuptials is not an option and Blake, along with her lover Sonny, ends up as part of an investigation into the background of Lewis’s long forgotten “wife”. Sonny is the head of the local law enforcement and he and Blake reconnected in the previous book. Blake is technically still married to local politician Harry Heart but only until the election is over as their marriage is dead in the water.I really enjoyed the machinations that Blake and Vivi went through to get Vivi and Lewis to the altar. The wedding planning with the Fru Fru boys was hysterical and the villainess Dallas Dubois also makes a return appearance. Blake and Sonny are a great couple with a lot of heat between them. Vivi and Lewis are just too cute together and the events leading up to the wedding give a perfect look at what their lives will be like together.This is a really good summer read. I would recommend reading Sassy Belles first if possible because it fills in a lot of the history between all of the players. The third book in the series “Sleigh Belles” is due in September. If it is anything like the first two books it should be a fun book to read

[cats57_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This is the second book in a series. I do not recommend that you dive into this series with this as your first book. I dove into this book without reading the first one and am regretting it mightily. There is very little back-story so I am finding it very difficult to work up any feelings for this group of friends and family. In addition, not knowing the back-story is making it very difficult to understand the attitudes, language and personalities of the characters. In my opinion, light reading this is not. There are so many story lines that you might lose your mind just trying to keep up with the hyperactive antics of this group of Belles.If you do not appreciate college football and especially if you are not a fan of ‘Bama, you might not see the humor that this book is wrapped in.This is n interesting mix of different stories –we have a pregnant Vivi, who has just found out that her fiancé is married. A second storyline of Blake a lawyer who is finding herself enmeshed in a hidden relationship with an old beau while she gets a divorce from her husband who is running for the Senate. There is a thread of a story about the wedding planners, Fru Fru Caterers; they are a bit of a cliché.I grasp that this book is about the Southern culture and the authors’ knowledge of it, but for some reason the interactions and dialogue does not ring as real to me. Of course, this is merely from my point of view and my relationships with the Southerners that I call friends. Everyone just seems clichéd to me. However, alas, I am a Yankee so who am I to judge, right? LOL!The book may be a bit difficult for ¾ of the country to understand but it still was a fun and entertaining read, with enough heat and mystery to keep you engrossed. That is if you can keep up with this zany group of characters. Bless their hearts! *ARC Supplied by publisher*

[karmaforlifechick · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I loved this book! This is the second book in the Belles series… Vivi is finally getting married to her prince charming Lewis Heart and she and her best friend Blake O’Hara are fixin’ for the wedding of the century! They’ve got amazing event planners to work with and family and friends helping them. All the characters were a hoot, even Dallas who could be annoying to some. There was so much support and family and in spite of everything going on, my heart was filled with joy and excitement. I was rooting for Vivi and Lewis from the get go… It was filled with Southern charm and love. I can’t wait to start reading Sleigh Belles…

[karmakath · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I loved this book! This is the second book in the Belles series… Vivi is finally getting married to her prince charming Lewis Heart and she and her best friend Blake O’Hara are fixin’ for the wedding of the century! They’ve got amazing event planners to work with and family and friends helping them. All the characters were a hoot, even Dallas who could be annoying to some. There was so much support and family and in spite of everything going on, my heart was filled with joy and excitement. I was rooting for Vivi and Lewis from the get go… It was filled with Southern charm and love. I can’t wait to start reading Sleigh Belles…