This book was amazingly sweet and tender. I put off reading this book for so long because I thought "how could a continuance of The Notebook be any good? And how could anything compare to the original masterpiece." Boy was I wrong. I thought this book was beautiful in the way he works so hard to win his wife back to him. I passed this book to my mom because I knew she would love it just as much as I did... if not more. ( )

Reviewed by Taylor Rector for TeensReadToo.com

Wilson Lewis comes to the sad realization one day that after thirty years of marriage his wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him. Jane's father, Noah, (this book is the sequel to THE NOTEBOOK) has always had respect for Wilson and Noah tells him stories of how he kept Allie from falling out of love with him.

Wilson is an estate lawyer and has spent very little time at home over the years. He realizes that Jane fell out of love with him when he forgot their twenty-ninth wedding anniversary.

Jane was a stay-at-home mom and raised their three kids -- Anna, Joseph, and Leslie.

Anna comes home one day to announce that she is getting married. Because of Noah's health and since her fiancé is heading to college, they want to get married the next Saturday. Anna claims that she wants a small wedding at the courthouse, but her mom, of course, wants a big wedding, even though they only have eight days to put it together.

Saturday is Wilson and Jane's anniversary and Wilson wanted to do something really special this year so he took the week before and the week after their anniversary off from work. He hasn't taken that much time off in eight years!

With all the work to do with the wedding, Wilson has been making Jane dinner more often and trying to help out as much as he can. What will Wilson do to make his wife fall back in love with him, so that she doesn't leave him?

Coming from Nicholas Sparks, this book had a very high bar set for it. And this romantic love story went far beyond that! THE WEDDING is yet another wonderful romance from this amazing author! ( )

Being a huge fan of the film The Notebook, a movie based on Nicholas’ Sparks novel, I was eager to read the pages of what some may call The Notebook’s sequel. I hoped that in this novel, I would find the same appealing romance and excitement that drew me to The Notebook. Although characters are shared between the two stories, there are very few other similarities, and even though there were some compelling concepts, overall I found The Wedding to be a great letdown.
The Wedding takes place in a small town in North Carolina and revolves around the life of Wilson Lewis and his family. Wilson, a middle aged husband and father of three, was surprisingly easy to relate to. His thoughts and feelings about the important aspects of a relationship followed very closely to those which I believe. While reading the book, I often times found myself stopping to reflect on how the thoughts and situations he dealt with mirrored situations I had struggled to deal with at times in the past. Although I criticize the book for lack of a captivating story line, I do value the realistic viewpoint, and relativity of the main character.
The qualities I appreciate in Wilson, however, did not manage to spare me from the dull plot. Time after time I found my thoughts straying away from the pages of my book to the more exciting events around me. Continuously it seemed as if the same points were made, and the same events were occurring. I easily grew tired of the constant talk of Wilson, and his wife Jane’s downhill marriage. All parts of the book from beginning, to end seemed to blend together. To me, there did not seem to be a or climax to this story, it was as if the book had come to a plateau, ruining all chances at competing with the excitement of The Notebook.
Those who are not seeking a novel filled with action cover to cover may find this book to be of great interest, as well as those who are captivated by the simplicity of everyday life, love, and family. But if one is seeking great thrills and mystery in a book I would highly recommend another choice of literature. At best The Wedding can be acknowledged for its detailed look into the difficulties and trials of everyday life; but in all other ways it is common, and fails to become an outstanding read. ( )

This book is the continued story of Noah from the notebook, thru the eyes of his son-in-law who is struggling to reconnect with his wife after their marriage is strained. This story goes thru getting ready for their daughters wedding (Noah’s granddaughter) with a surprise ending that will leave you breathless. ( )

Pass this one up. I grabbed it because it was a follow up to "'The Notebook'" and I really liked that one. But this one is about the grown children and I found it, all in all, a major disappointment. I didn't think it nearly up to par with anything else I have read of Nicholas Sparks. As I read it, it felt like he was just trying to make more off "The Notebook".
It was sappy, boring, predictable and I am really glad it is not the first Sparks for me or I wouldn't have read another. ( )