Vision in White: Book One in the Bride Quartet by Nora Roberts

               For the past year weddings have been consistently around me.  Not my own, but other people I know, movies, television, and (as you can tell from this post) books have all had weddings featured somehow.  What interests me about this is in all I have seen and read there has not been two occasions exactly alike.  Everyone wants such different things and has unique ideas for how they want their day to turn out.  This takes a lot of work, even for the smaller weddings.  That is where Vows comes in.

                This series is about a group of four women, best friends from childhood, who run Vows, a wedding planning company.  They each have their own specific tasks based on their talents and interests.  All the women are greatly skilled at what they do and try their best to make each wedding as perfect as possible.  Every detail is thought of and handled.  They practically make things worry free for the bride and groom.  Reading about them, oh how I wish this company truly existed.

                Vision in White is the first book of the quartet and focuses its attention around the photographer of the group, Mac.  She discovered her love for photography at a very young age and keeps a framed copy of the photograph that inspired her career.  Even though she is around weddings all the time, she is skeptical about the happily ever after for herself.  Most of this is probably due to her family history.  There have been multiple divorces involving both her mother and her father, and then there is her mother’s continuous manipulative presence.  With this is mind, one can see why she may have a bit of a hard time when she falls for Carter.  A teacher, and apparently not Mac’s usual type, Carter has had a crush on Mac since they were in school together for a brief time.  They meet up again when Carter’s sister comes to Vows to plan her wedding.  It does not take long for them to get together, but the question quickly becomes about staying together.

                I do not know how anyone could not fall in love with Carter.  He is really sweet and will do anything for Mac, but is not a push over.  It is a great combination.  I have read this book before, but Mac and Carter make such a great couple, it was hard to put down.  This is why I was up still up at 2:30 in the morning reading, again.  As tired as I was, Carter was worth it.