The Wedding Dress

The Wedding Dress - by Rachel Hauck

Rachel Hauck's novel "The Wedding Dress" was truly fabulous. At first I thought this novel was like the movie The Wedding Dress that was on the Hallmark channel a few times, to my surprise it wasn't it was completely different. It only took me a day to read it because I just had to read more and more of it.

The story is about a wedding dress and the 4 women who wore it. Charlotte sales wedding dresses at her shop that she owns in Birmingham Alabama. She is engaged to be married in two months and not sure if she wants to get married. She goes up to the mountain to talk to God and try to get her head together. She ends up at an estate sale which she didn't plan on going and purchases a very old ugly trunk that she didn't plan on buying. She doesn't even know why she did. In trunk there happened to be a very exquisite wedding dress that was one hundred years old and it seemed at first that it was never worn because it was never altered. As Charlotte wondered about her wedding she also wondered who did this wedding dress belong to and why did it come to her. I loved how Rachel Hauck's went into detail regarding the history of the dress, the lives of the 4 women, the men they loved and who loved them. How one woman fought for the rights of others no matter what it could cost her. How she had the courage to stand up for what she believed in. I loved the couple who had been married for Seventy two years, they were still so in loved and could finished each others sentences. They were too precious.The only thing that I didn't particularly care for was, how one of the women that was engaged to be married was unsure of her love for her finance. Yet she allowed him to kiss her in a way where he could of almost had his way with her. It was just a little much for my taste. Other than that I really love the book.

Rebecca Adkins
 I received a free copy of The Wedding Dress by Rachel Hauk, from Thomas Nelson so I can review. In no way am I made to give only good reviews.