Betty's Wedding Author:Michael Bragg An unnamed girl keeps a photo album to scrapbook all the festivities surrounding her older sister's wedding to Jim, from the day the engagement is announced, to the samples of the dress fabrics, to the moment when the sleeping narrator is carried upstairs to her new bedroom (the one the bride vacated). In a 1920s setting, this book has the look ... more »of a vintage wedding, interspersing sepia-toned photos with antiqued color spreads, and with careful attention to historical details and superstitions the narrator finds a button in her piece of wedding cake. The only misstep in this volume is a minor affectation readers will long to know the name of this anonymous girl; she perfectly expresses both a child's pleasure in the hoopla and chronicles the innocent ironies that the day inspires.« less
ISBN-13: 9780027118803 ISBN-10: 0027118800 Publication Date: 5/30/1988 Pages:32 Edition:1st American ed Rating: