≡ [PDF] The Wedding Chapel Rachel Hauck 0025986341527 Books

The Wedding Chapel Rachel Hauck 0025986341527 Books

Download As PDF : The Wedding Chapel Rachel Hauck 0025986341527 Books

The Wedding Chapel Rachel Hauck 0025986341527 Books

Heart's Bend, Tennessee is the setting for The Wedding Chapel by Rachel Hauck. Let the town's name give you a clue as to the message contained within this story - the love story of Jimmy and Colette. Their tale begins in 1948 when Colette and her sister Peg arrive in town to live with their aunt and uncle. The girls are war orphans who lost both parents as a result of World War II. When Jimmy sees a picture of the two girls before they arrive in town, he loses his heart to the younger of the girls, Colette. But due to his shyness around girls and her overbearing sister, the two have a hard time getting to know each other and end up merely looking at one another from afar. Jimmy overcomes his shyness enough to make the first move and the two fall in love. Fast forward to the current day and we find Jimmy and Colette in their early eighties, living lives much different from what they first imagined. Jimmy is now the retired coach of the local high school football team. Colette is living a life of luxury in a Manhattan penthouse overlooking Central Park; she is adored by her fans after having played Vivica Spenser on a soap opera for 60+ years. What has split these two young lovers apart? What secrets does each hold close to their heart? And how does a never used wedding chapel back in Heart's Bend figure into their love story?

A second love story set in the present is also interwoven throughout, that of Taylor and Jack. They too are natives of Heart's Bend who left the country to find fame and fortune and is so doing find each other. But each has a boatload of baggage that they've brought with them. In spite of that they both want desperately to make their marriage work but fear the unknown. Will the wedding chapel back in Heart's Bend bring these two closer or finalize their split?

A tale of love and lost love, secrets and lies, and healing of wounds is the central theme of this wonderful story. Interwoven with an unshakable faith in God, you'll find yourself rooting for the characters in this charming tale.


Tags : The Wedding Chapel [Rachel Hauck] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. <strong>From <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of <em>The Wedding Dress</em> comes<em> The Wedding Chapel.</em></strong> <strong>A lonely wedding chapel built as a tribute to lost love just might hold the long-awaited secret to hope and reconciliation.</strong> For sixty years,Rachel Hauck,The Wedding Chapel,Zondervan,0310341523,Advertising executives,Chapels,Christian fiction,Christian fiction.,Family secrets,Homecoming,Loss (Psychology),Love stories.,Man-woman relationships,Man-woman relationships;Fiction.,Romance fiction,Tennessee,Women photographers,AMERICAN LIGHT ROMANTIC FICTION,Christian - Romance,EVENT Wedding,FICTION Christian Romance,FICTION Christian Romance General,FICTION Romance Clean & Wholesome,FICTION Romance Contemporary,Fiction,Fiction & related items,Fiction - Religious,Fiction-Christian,FictionRomance - Contemporary,GENERAL,General Adult,Religious & spiritual fiction,Romance - Contemporary,RomanceGeneral,TOPICAL Christian Interest,Tennessee,United States,Women photographers,Christian - Romance,FICTION Christian Romance,FICTION Christian Romance General,FICTION Romance Clean & Wholesome,FICTION Romance Contemporary,FictionRomance - Contemporary,Romance - Contemporary,Fiction - Religious,American Light Romantic Fiction,Fiction,Fiction & related items,Religious & spiritual fiction

The Wedding Chapel Rachel Hauck 0025986341527 Books Reviews

I have looked forward to this book for quite some time. I love Rachel Hauck's Royal Weddings series, and I enjoyed The Wedding Dress as well. I had a feeling I'd like this one too, and I was right.

This book switches back and forth between both time periods and point of view quite often. Ms. Hauck weaves back and forth between today and the 1940's-50's, and the story is told through the eyes of four characters - Coach Jimmy and retired actress Colette, and Taylor and her husband Jack. These characters are all intertwined, though at first it isn't quite clear how, their story of love and heartbreak, sacrifice and turmoil speaks clearly throughout. While this may sound confusing, Ms. Hauck does a great job of helping the reader keep track of who is speaking and when at the beginning of each chapter.

The story itself is beautiful, and spoke to me. Taylor and Jack are newlyweds struggling to figure out how to make marriage work. At times I wanted to smack them both and tell them to just communicate already! It caused me to sit back and look at my own marriage, however, and reflect on my own communication skills with my husband.

The other issue that was important in the story was that of sibling rivalry, and the idea that there are two sides to every story. It reminded me, yet again, that it is easy to judge someone when you don't know the whole story, and while sometimes that information doesn't change things, often times it does. Taylor's grandmother and Colette were sisters, and didn't get along at all. Many characters in the book didn't think well of Taylor's grandma, but she had a good relationship with her. This spoke to me, and reminded me to find the good in those around me.

Overall, I really enjoyed The Wedding Chapel, and recommend it to anyone who loves a good romance with history thrown into the mix!

*I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review*
This is another of Rachel Hauck's books that cover different time periods and how they intersect at some point. As the story starts out, a group of close high school friends get together to hang out all the time--after school, football games and during the summer in the town of Heart's Bend, Tennessee. This is during the 40's right before the Korean War. As it happens in the life of a group of friends, jealousy occurs as does competition between each other. Collette and Jimmy loved each other and wanted to marry. He even built a wedding chapel on his family's land for Collette. But Collette's sister was also in love with Jimmy. She was the stronger personality and convinced Collette that she should stay away from Jimmy. So, Collette ran away to New York with one of the guys in the group. Some of the group went to war. Some of them married and stayed in Heart's Bend. Years later, Collette is an actress in a long running soap opera. Jimmy was a hall of fame football star and high school coach. But he never married.

On a different timeline, in today's time, Taylor left Heart's Bend to pursue a career as a photographer. She is living in New York. She and Jack, a media specialist, also from Heart's Bend run into each other and marry after a whirlwind romance. But their marriage is on shaky grounds. Jack comes from a dysfunctional background and has problems believing the marriage is going to work out. He is keeping secrets from Taylor about a job offer in a different city, thinking that she won't want to go with him. When Taylor's job sends her on a photo shoot for the soap opera that Collette is a cast member of, she meets Collette, who is actually her grandmother's sister. About the same time, Taylor's job sends her to Heart's Bend for a photo shoot of the wedding chapel that Jimmy built. As Taylor and her sister clean out their recently deceased grandmother's house, the secrets of years ago begin to slowly unravel as she reads her grandmother's journal.

This is a thought provoking story about the frailties and humanity of people and how misunderstandings and secrets can cause so much damage but also the power of redemption and healing through grace. There is a connection between the characters in the different generations that Rachel Hauck has created and she does a great job of telling an amazing story to tie everything together.
Heart's Bend, Tennessee is the setting for The Wedding Chapel by Rachel Hauck. Let the town's name give you a clue as to the message contained within this story - the love story of Jimmy and Colette. Their tale begins in 1948 when Colette and her sister Peg arrive in town to live with their aunt and uncle. The girls are war orphans who lost both parents as a result of World War II. When Jimmy sees a picture of the two girls before they arrive in town, he loses his heart to the younger of the girls, Colette. But due to his shyness around girls and her overbearing sister, the two have a hard time getting to know each other and end up merely looking at one another from afar. Jimmy overcomes his shyness enough to make the first move and the two fall in love. Fast forward to the current day and we find Jimmy and Colette in their early eighties, living lives much different from what they first imagined. Jimmy is now the retired coach of the local high school football team. Colette is living a life of luxury in a Manhattan penthouse overlooking Central Park; she is adored by her fans after having played Vivica Spenser on a soap opera for 60+ years. What has split these two young lovers apart? What secrets does each hold close to their heart? And how does a never used wedding chapel back in Heart's Bend figure into their love story?

A second love story set in the present is also interwoven throughout, that of Taylor and Jack. They too are natives of Heart's Bend who left the country to find fame and fortune and is so doing find each other. But each has a boatload of baggage that they've brought with them. In spite of that they both want desperately to make their marriage work but fear the unknown. Will the wedding chapel back in Heart's Bend bring these two closer or finalize their split?

A tale of love and lost love, secrets and lies, and healing of wounds is the central theme of this wonderful story. Interwoven with an unshakable faith in God, you'll find yourself rooting for the characters in this charming tale.