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"My friend, who was just maid of honor in a wedding, returned from the weekend and gushed about how gorgeous the bride looked, how perfect the day&amp;amp;#8217;s weather turned out, and how much fun everyone had at the reception. But one of the best parts of the celebration?It was how adorably silly-happy the bride got at the sound of her own voice calling the groom her husband! &amp;amp;#8220;She&amp;amp;#8217;s just so excited to be married to him,&amp;amp;#8221; my friend told me of the bride. Ladies, I die. And OK, I&amp;amp;#8217;m probably the biggest chick-flick-loving, romantic sap out there. But really, isn&amp;amp;#8217;t that the most beautiful thing? That at the end of a hopefully and deservedly fantastic wedding, the couple is just so thrilled about the marriage part. Enter Wedding Cake for Breakfast: Essays on the Unforgettable First Year of Marriage, a poignant new anthology, iced with honesty and humor, about the first year after saying &amp;amp;#8220;I do.&amp;amp;#8221; It&amp;amp;#8217;s for women in the thick of that year or beyond it, it&amp;amp;#8217;s for women in wedding-planning zone who are gearing up for it, and it&amp;amp;#8217;s for women who are neither but in the mood for a good summer read (*hand-raise here*). As I read the book, I kept coming across essays that reminded me of different friends in my life&amp;amp;#8212;some married for a while, some newlyweds, and some unwed like me. And romance- and Italy-loving me particularly enjoyed Cathy Alter&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Ciao, Baggage,&amp;quot; about, well, exactly what you think. Who would have thought that losing your luggage on your anniversary trip could be the most pivotal moment in the first year with the love of your life?! Married ladies, was your first year of marriage what you expected? Engaged girls, what are you most looking forward to? You can pick up a copy of Wedding Cake for Breakfast here! Photo: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Group, USA"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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