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The Wedding People
Phoebe Stone checks into a grand Newport hotel in a green dress and no luggage, planning one last night. The Cornwall Inn is already packed with Lila and Gary's week-long wedding, and the bride is not about to let a stranger's crisis wreck the itinerary. Espach's novel is darkly funny and unexpectedly tender: a story about the performance of a perfect wedding, the outsider who crashes it, and the strange mercy of being honest with someone who was never supposed to know you.
“There is no such thing as a happy place. Because when you are happy, everywhere is a happy place. And when you are sad, everywhere is a sad place.”
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The Wedding People This or That
Answer in under three seconds. No wrong answers — only revealing ones.
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Rapid fire (60 seconds)
Read these aloud as fast as the group can shout answers.
- 1. Green dress or Borrowed bridesmaid look?
- 2. No luggage or Too many suitcases?
- 3. Hotel hot tub at night or Sailboat at noon?
- 4. Welcome basket or Room service breakfast?
- 5. Opening-night speech or Morning-of car ride?
- 6. Cornwall Inn lobby or Newport marina?
- 7. Spreadsheet of fun or No itinerary?
- 8. Lemonade on the lawn or Coffee in the robe?
- 9. One perfect photo or One honest sentence?
- 10. Stay through the last toast or Leave before the cake?