The Wedding Gift

by Bart Baker

Overview

In the vein of BEACHES and LOVE STORY. What would you sacrifice to give your best friend THE WEDDING GIFT? A story of friendship, love, and sacrifice.

Donna is a successful wedding planner in St. Louis. When her lifelong best friend, Cameron, meets Andie, he has finally met the woman he will marry. Donna is thrilled that Cameron and Andie have found each other. She wishes she could be as lucky. Donna's been planning her own wedding since she was six years old. All she's missing is the guy.

As Cameron and Andie get serious, falling deeper in love, Donna is working around the country, planning destination weddings. Exhausted, she returns to St. Louis to plan Cameron's surprise engagement to Andie. Dealing with Andie's prickly, distant mother, Caroline, and loving but meticulous father, Henry, is a chore for Donna, but she's dealt with worse. The engagement surprise is a fantastic night, and Donna plunges headlong into planning Andie and Cam's wedding day, which Donna promises Andie will be the most amazing St. Louis has ever seen...next to Donna's, which she's been planning since she was six years old. All she's missing is a man who loves her.

But when Donna's exhaustion becomes unbearable, she gets a devastating diagnosis. Forgoing treatment that will put her in bed, Donna vows to herself to make it through Cam and Andie's wedding. She wants to do this one special thing for her friends before she faces the end.

When the truth inevitably comes out, Donna's major concern is that they not replace her. She wants to give them this special day.

Andie and Cameron have another idea. Loving Donna as much as they do, Andie and Cameron decide to give Donna the one thing she's always wanted before she dies - her wedding to a man that loves her.

But no good deed goes unpunished. Andie and Cam must sacrifice to make this happen for Donna. It's difficult for them, but they know they are doing the right thing. They are determined to pull this off for Donna, their sacrifice a small token of their love for Donna.

Donna's lifelong dream comes true. But it's nothing as she imagined. It's far, far more wonderful and overwhelming in the most beautiful and emotional way. Donna discovers the love that surrounds her and has spread through the city, to people whose lives she's touched, making her special day so filled with love and beyond anything she could imagine.

Donna is touched to her core by the sacrifice and love her friends have blessed her, to give her THE WEDDING GIFT.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798985986600
Publisher:	Bart's Head Productions
Publication date:	06/02/2022
Edition description:	Large Type
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Screenwriter, playwright, and novelist, Bart Baker has been writing professionally for over 35 years. He has 19 produced film and TV credits, including the Pierce Brosnan action film LIVE WIRE, SUPERCROSS, with Steve Howey, Sophia Bush and Channing Tatum, the CBS Television BRIDE Trilogy (CHILDREN OF THE BRIDE, BABY OF THE BRIDE and MOTHER OF THE BRIDE) and most recently the summer hit, LOVE AND SUNSHINE on the Hallmark Channel, as well as work on four series, including the Courteney Cox series, DIRT, on FX. Baker has also written five novels. His first, HONEYMOON WITH HARRY, was a critical and commercial success, the movie rights bought by New Line Cinema. He's written a sequel, A SECOND HONEYMOON WITH HARRY, and the third in the trilogy, THE LAST HONEYMOON WITH HARRY, will be published in November. He has also written the critical success, WHAT REMAINS, THE VIRGIN DAIQUIRI, and AFTER OZZ. Baker also co-wrote his first graphic novel, THE SACRED BAND OF THEBES which is presently being drawn and colored.