Miss Julia Throws a Wedding

I have read several of the "Miss Julia" books, and all are enjoyable. I like to read a series in chronological order if possible, and was surprised to find #3 on my to-read shelf, since I've already read many more. After a few chapters it began to seem familiar and I realized I had read it a while ago. But it was a fun plot and I had already been drawn into the story, so I reread it - no regrets and plenty of laughs. This is the kind of lighthearted story to read when you need a change of pace from heavier, serious topics. Miss Julia is a widow of a certain age who always "speaks her mind" (the title of book #1) and takes things literally. She desperately hangs onto the manners and etiquette of a proper Southern woman without a sense of show more humor, but with everyone's best interests at heart. In #3 she is thrilled when Deputy Coleman Bates (her boarder) and Binkie Enloe (her attorney) announce their plans to tie the knot at the courthouse. But Miss Julia insists on a real wedding ceremony and offers to provide one. It's no spoiler that a wedding takes place, in spite of all the roadblocks and shenanigans. show less

Mrs Julia Springer is planning a wedding, the much delayed nuptials of attorney Binkie Enslow and Deputy Coleman Bates while over the road from her house the Family Life Centre (much to her annoyance) is being built alongside her church with surprising results. Can she get them to the altar within a week? Maybe. She is helped by Hazel Marie (her late husband’s paramour), Little Lloyd (Wesley Lloyd Springer’s little love child), the wickedly attractive J.D. Pickens of the ‘exceptionally full moustache’ (Hazel Marie’s beau) and the wonderful Lillian: ‘I don’t never turn on the radio or the TV till Miss Julia outta the kitchen.’ Wedding favours provided by LuAnne Conover to keep husband Leonard occupied since he recovered show more his taste for life: ‘medical science is a wonderful thing, even if it didn’t hit quite the degree of moderation in some cases.’ Comic refreshments before the wedding supplied by Pastor Ledbetter’s wife Emma Sue, she of the Abbotsville prayer chain, and her dump cake. Music provided by Miss Mattie Mae Morgan (‘a three hundred pound Little Richard’) accompanying the unsmiling Lieutenant Peevey in some surprising anthem choices and vocal range. But what has happened to presiding Pastor Lance Petree? Can he really have been stolen by local kleptomaniac Dixon Hightower? This is a wonderfully happy and funny book. ‘Hallelujah Jesus!’ to quote Miss Mattie Mae Morgan. show less

Miss Julia Springer has a week to plan the wedding of Coleman and Binky. She also has the worry of the thief Dixon Hightower escaping from prison and some strange doings at the family life center being built across the street. This is the first book in the series that I have read. I didn't realize there were two books before this. I'll definitely go back and read them. An amusing, light read.

Although I adore Miss Julia, this installment fell flat. First of all, it is Miss Julia's wit that I am so drawn too, as well as the way that she so unknowingly noses into other people's business, and her ability to love deeply. She didn't seem quite like herself this time around. She came across as more intentionally self centered and self serving than ever before. There was quite a bit of repetitivness as Miss Julia prepared for a friends wedding. There was little else to the storyline other than a strange bit that seemed unrelated near the end.

I do enjoy this series, even though there are times that I get a little irritated with Miss Julia and her rather straight-laced views on life.

In this episode of the series Miss Julia is planning a wedding to marry off Deputy Coleman and Attorney Binkie. Between the crisis of Binkie getting cold feet and the challenges of trying to throw a "proper" wedding in one week, Miss Julia is about worn to a frazzle.

There isn't a death in this one, the criminal is an escaped thief (sounds like a kleptomaniac to me), who is running around town taking some of the strangest items, like bumper stickers and religious leaflets, big wheels and game boys.

All comes to a head on the day of the wedding, and the description of the wedding events are show more wonderful, rolling on the floor laughing in places and touching as all good wedding ceremonies need to be!

As long as I keep enjoying the series I'll keep reading. show less

An entertaining, fun book. Miss Julia gets involved in so many people's lives but she usually tries to make them better. This time she helps a young couple that are already intimately involved (and expecting a baby, no less) get married. All this while during building a Family Life Center at the church across the street, strange things are seen in the brickwork. She makes me laugh when s Miss Julia talks about other females flying off the handle and getting carried away when I think that is just what Miss Julia does! Oh, well, things end well.

I love the "Miss Julia books." She's a Southern lady of a "certain age" who loses her controlling husband, finds his mistress & their 10 year old son on her doorstep, takes them in, loves them up, and they become a very unusual family. Enter Lillian, her faithful black maid and best friend who is full of good old fashioned common sense. Miss Julia's escapades will leave you laughing since after years of subservience to her diseased husband, she spreads her wings and begins to enjoy life . . . and so do we, as a result.