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With that said, on with my book recommendations for this summer.

This Charming Man by Marian Keyes

The true queen of "chick-lit", Marian Keyes is at it again with a novel about how one mans marriage becomes the heartache of four women.

One of the primary characters is Lola who discovers that her fantastic boyfriend, a politician named Paddy, is marrying someone else. Heartbroken she flees Dublin and heads for the countryside.

Grace is a journalist and old friend of Paddy's and, as she has a hard time getting over him, she wants to write about his wedding.

Another woman who is having great difficulty forgetting her first love Paddy is Grace twin-sister Marnie, although she ought to be happy with her existing marriage and two daughters.

Finally we have Alicia, the woman who's honor it is to actually be marrying the desirable Paddy. As our cunning plot-maker would have it she is having mixed feelings wether he is "the one" or not.

Does that sound confusing at all? It probably is.

Plotting, love and drama - could you imagine something more entertaining to read at the beach this summer?

Lust for Life by Adele Parks

This story is about Bella who secretly gets married with Stevie when she is only a teenager. However, after bickering about things like paying the bills and cleaning the house, their marriage soon breaks apart. Bella left Scotland for London, where she met the wonderful Philip - and before she knew it she was married to two men at the same time. The two men not knowing that the other existed.

When her marriage to Philip is at its best and she finally has managed to leave her "old life" behind her, her sister happens to meet the love of her life - who of course turns out to be none other than her other husband Stevie!

This suddenly makes her discover that old love never rusts...

Shopaholic ties the knot by Sophie Kinsella

Sophie Kinsella's series about Rebecca the shopaholic has become most popular. In this book she is finally getting married to her boyfriend Luke, and naturally this is the perfect excuse for doing some crazy shopping with her credit card. "You only get married once" being her reason.

Luke's mother is planning a posh wedding in New York, while Rebecca's parents are making plans for a simpler garden wedding at home in England. As Rebecka is completely unable to decide what she wants, the parallel plans continue until complete chaos is imminent.

This is the perfect, easy going book to have with you at the beach. If you also have a tendency to overspend on your shopping you will certainly be able to relate to Rebecca's character. The book is humorous, easy to read and impossible to put down.

Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes

The Bergdorf Blondes is arguably the ultimate chick-lit novel, written by Vogue editor Plum Sykes. She is a classical it-girl and one source of inspiration for the bitchy character Emelie in "The Devil wears Prada".

The main character in the book calls herself as "Moi" and she spends her time shopping, getting her hair dyed in the exactly right shade of blonde, hanging with her unreliable heiress/friend and sipping champagne.

When her engagement goes down the drain she panics, but the wedding bells are soon ringing once again when she realizes that the in fact are many "Mr. Rights" out there.

It is easy to be sceptical towards a plot like the above mentioned one, but the Bergforf Blondes is actually a charming read. Before you know it you would really like nothing more than becoming a Bergforf princess yourself - slacking in bed half the day and getting lots of free clothes from from designers just in order to bee seen wearing them.

I can appreciate that people who are into Dostojevskij might sniff at this sort of literature, I sometimes do myself. Then again it is something extremely relaxing about your biggest problem in the world being that you offended Vera Wang by not letting her design your wedding dress - even if it's only happening in your imagination!

Although the above makes for a fascinating read, better reading for the serious weddingplanner is found at the weddingnotes.info wedding planning portal. There you can find many wedding planning articles that will both inspire and offer concrete advice.

• Planning the Perfect Wedding Ceremony
• The Traditional Wedding Photo Album
• What To Wear To Your Best Friends Summer Wedding
• Planning church weddings
• The Right Wedding Hair