The Wedding - Nicholas Sparks

The Wedding is the sequel to Sparks's popular novel/movie The Notebook. Wilson Lewis has been married for 30 years. A hard-working estate lawyer, he passed the years in his office while his saintly wife raised his three children. While certain that he is in love with his wife, he is absent-minded and practical, as opposed to romantic. Over the years, he has taken his relationship for granted, and when he completely forgets his 29th anniversary, he is sure that his wife is contemplating leaving him. So, he spends the entire next year planning the perfect gift for his 30th anniversary and figuring out ways to make his wife fall back in love with him - with a little help from his aging and quite ill father-in-law. Two weeks before his anniversary, Wilson's oldest daughter Anna announces that she is getting married - and quickly. Wanting her grandfather to be alive for the ceremony, she decides her parents' wedding anniversary would be a perfect date, throwing a wrench into Wilson's plans to win back his wife. But, as the planning takes on a frenzied pace, Wilson pitches in - reminiscing about the past 30 years with his wife, and being to understand that he needs to make drastic changes if he intends to live out the rest of his life with his wife as planned. This is the first Sparks novel that I've read, but it played out as I've heard all his novels do - in a romantic feel good sort of way (some might say cheesy). I kept expecting something bad to happen - and there are some twists and turns, and a few teary moments (sad and happy) - but in the end, I got the happy ending Wilson and I both wanted.