Contests by Sheila Roberts

7/31/2016

Win A Wedding In A Book Duo

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Summer is wedding season - and to celebrate it my friend Debbie Macomber and I have a book out together containing two of our stories. Hers is FIRST COMES MARRIAGE and mine is SWEET DREAMS ON CENTER STREET (which is actually BETTER THAN CHOCOLATE, the first book in my Icicle Falls series). So we need to celebrate with a contest. We'll send some lucky a winner a copy of that plus one of my favorite of the Icicle Falls books, A WEDDING ON PRIMROSE STREET. Tell me your idea of an ideal wedding. (Maybe it was yours!) We'll pick a winner at the end of the month (so be sure to check back in September and see who won). Meanwhile, if you don't want to wait a whole month to see if the lucky winner was you, feel free to hop on over to your closest bookstore or online book source and pick up a copy. A fun summer read!

54 Comments

Trinitee Dunn

8/1/2016 09:23:15 am

I like a small romantic wedding. In the evening, candle light dancing off the walls, white twinkle lights around the room. Beautiful flowers on the tables, family and friends celebrating the day. Bride in a pretty white dress with sparkles and the groom in a black suit.

Kimberley Coover

8/1/2016 09:23:15 am

I loved my niece's wedding. Simple Catholic ceremony in church with the reception at her parents home. It was outside and beautiful

Michele Hayes

8/1/2016 09:50:55 am

I think the ideal wedding is whatever the bride and groom like. Could be on a beach, in a small chapel or at home. Just don't let others take over and tell them what they should or shouldn't have.

Yvonne

8/1/2016 10:18:37 am

Would love to win it :)

Yvonne

8/1/2016 10:23:50 am

P.S. Ideal wedding would be ours. Hubby proposed and since it took me a few days to decide (hey, I always said to family and friends that I would NEVER marry, HA!) once I said yes, Mom was sure I would change my mind. Which I did, BTW. The day prior to Wday. Anyways , we had the wedding 4 weeks after. Phone calls were made, shocking EVERYONE, and it was a blast. Called 100, and 97 showed up. We put tents in the yard, did only appetizers and LOTS of booze, a DJ , guayaberas for men (dressy shirts for men in the Caribbean- I am Puerto Rican), lots of dancing and great fun. We were married at my childhood home, but a judge that was the Dad of one of my ballet dancing buddies. 34 yrs later, we still think it was the best wedding :)

Sandra S

8/1/2016 11:09:38 am

To me it is the marriage, not the wedding that really counts. Therefore
I prefer a small wedding witnessed by those you truly care about and not every Jane and Joe whose favor you are trying to return. The money that would have been spent on a HUGE wedding should be given to the couple to help give them a happy start to their new lives.

Annette Naish

8/1/2016 12:33:02 pm

I think a perfect wedding would be somewhere outdoors. A place with a lovely view, a serene atmosphere and filled with friends and family wishing the couple well.

Theresa N

8/1/2016 01:17:35 pm

Small with family and friends.

Robyn K

8/1/2016 03:24:57 pm

Thank you for your generosity and this wonderful chance to win!

Ida Lukasik link

8/1/2016 05:08:29 pm

My ideal wedding, would be having a simple dress and just a few people there, in a church, with flowers,
I have had 3 weddings my last was that the last my husband died after 5 yrs. I will not get married again, it was simple at the courthouse outside on a sunny day. With so much love

Diane Sallans

8/1/2016 05:16:47 pm

I like a simple and comfortable wedding with family and closest friends. I like plenty of time for everyone to spend time together, so of course that will include tasty food. I love seeing pictures of the happy couple throughout their lives and then when they came together, and to have pictures of those they have been close to thru their lives. It should be a comfortable and relaxing time for everyone and without stress.

bn100

8/1/2016 08:18:53 pm

Hawaii

Kathleen O

8/2/2016 05:31:35 am

It would be in a garden with my fav Hibiscus flowers surrounding me as I said my vows and then a lovely party with all my family and friends to celebrate with me.

Martina L Arguijo

8/2/2016 07:48:27 am

Hmm...I am married but did not have a wedding. I would fancy a fall wedding outside on a ranch at Dusk in the Hill Country of Texas. A simple yet elegant, classy gown. My close friends and family....because I have a lot of family...lol.

Tarah

8/2/2016 08:07:59 am

I loved our wedding! It was outside on the garden, that overlooked the city below, all you saw were tree tops! We were married inside of a cute little wooden gazebo decorated with pink & white flowers and tulle. Surrounded by our closest family & friends, who took a vow to support our marriage and encourage us when times got hard. It was beautiful.

Nancy Luebke

8/2/2016 10:18:20 am

42 and a half years ago, our own wedding was real nice. It was in a big church that my family attended, we had a lot of family and friends there. It was a little fancy but not too much and everybody seemed to have a good time at the reception in the church hall. And we have nice pictures to remember it by. Except the best man still remembers having to wear a pink shirt, fond memories still linger.

Marilyn J Barr

8/2/2016 11:14:11 am

I do believe an ideal wedding would be performed outside with a view of a beautiful lake and flowers in bloom, then a sit down reception on the inside at the lake pavilion with sparkling lights adorning the ceiling with colored netting with the lights peeking thru, along with bottles of a good wine and sparkling grape juice on all of the round tables adorned with candles/flower floating in the center of the table, offering a buffet of hors d'oeuvres, following with a buffet of array of delicious foods. Dancing would follow the reception honoring the wonderful couple with many toast. I would also have a self photo booth set up for people that want to take pictures of the wonderful event and have it manned with somebody that could give them their copy of their pictures right away without a wait period.

Mary Minjare

8/2/2016 11:18:51 am

For me, an ideal wedding is one with God in the center of the commitment the couple makes in the presence of their families and friends. And then GREAT food after! HAHAhaha!

Sandy S

8/2/2016 11:21:12 am

My ideal wedding would be shrouded in 100s of candles on a warm evening on the beach...surrounded by family and a few friends,

Thank you for the giveaway

Sheila Golding

8/2/2016 11:40:28 am

My ideal wedding is small and intimate. Giving everyone a chance to talk. Don't need to spend a fortune to have a wonderful wedding!!

Rita Tellier

8/2/2016 11:45:06 am

The best wedding of all time was one that I attended at the beach. It happened at dawn. The waves were lapping at the shore. The bride came over a sand dune wearing white lace hotpants. Her maid of honor wore red lace hotpants. The sun was just coming up in the background as they repeated their vows. The reception was coffee and donuts at the nearby church hall. O, did I say? It was my hippy sisters wedding many years ago.

Debora Butts link

8/2/2016 12:00:00 pm

For me, a small intimate wedding with family and friends in a small country church, where you grew up ! No wedding planner just family and friends helping with making arrangements for flowers, cake, reception, everything homemade and hands on ! We had a shoe string budget,but it worked out well and was beautiful and memorable ! We have been married for 31 years and the secret to happiness is,I married my best friend !

Dona

8/2/2016 12:17:56 pm

Going to the Florida Keys in the winter February, valentines day, I live in Wisconsin so cold. For sure family would come too. Get married on the sandy beach with flip flops and a pretty sun dress! At sunset so the setting sun would cast beautiful colors as it seems to sink in the ocean.

Delores

8/2/2016 12:34:40 pm

Would love to win I love to read

Sally

8/2/2016 12:48:36 pm

Hi Sheila! My ideal wedding is based on my son's wedding. Outdoors, on the water, more casual than formal ( my DDL wore flip-flops!), small, with lots of good food and friends!

Dorian Gagliardi

8/2/2016 01:28:47 pm

My ideal wedding would be on a lake. The groom would wear a grey tux and I would wear a Cinderella dress. Lots of people and flowers. It would be a Spring wedding. The 2 cakes would be 3 tiers each. One vanilla cappuccino the other chocolate caramel.

PatsyBurenheide

8/2/2016 02:44:13 pm

These would be an awesome end of the summer!

Tanya

8/2/2016 03:50:56 pm

Beautiful wedding on the point in Traverse City right before sunset! The sun off of lake Michigan was a beautiful backdrop. Our son & daughter-in-laws wedding in June!
PS I would love to get these books!

Barbara. Wenner link

8/2/2016 04:06:16 pm

I would love to have a wedding outside in a beautiful garden suround with a lot of flowers thanks for the giveaway.

HeatherLynn Hoff

8/2/2016 04:40:44 pm

I wanted something different for my wedding, unfortunatly when the parents became involved our wedding was the usual traditional church wedding with a reception hall. I really wanted a luau for the reception. Where the guests could come in Hawaiian beach clothing, to an outdoor beach venue. We would have a signature island fruit cocktail and all the trimmings for a great luau. Fruit bowls and fruit sculptures, tropical flowers, etc.. Since I live in Michigan, and my June wedding was incredibly hot back in 1997, I would have appreciated the luau and the beach for the reception.

Karen Geurts

8/2/2016 06:18:13 pm

I would have liked early evening, in late August at Lake Tahoe. With family and close friends.

ANN STEWART

8/3/2016 06:03:04 am

I would love to win the books. Thanks for the chance.

Gail Hollingsworth

8/3/2016 08:17:08 am

Any wedding with two people in love and with God at the center is the perfect wedding no matter where it is. Mine was 35 years ago the 28th of this month in a little church with family and friends. My dad "gave me away" and a short 10 months later he passed away. So thankful for that precious memory captured on our wedding video.

Cynthia E. Blain

8/4/2016 05:47:02 pm

Our only daughter was married going on 18 years next month and I have not been to even one wedding since that even came close to what we did at her wedding to make all guests have a fun filled day. After a beautiful church wedding we went to a venue near a gorgeous river with acres and acres of flower gardens and gazebos, etc. so people were able to stroll through the gardens and have a beverage at the gazebos at any time during the cocktail hour while our harpist's music spread throughout the gardens. We had a band playing music and all the while people were dancing, we also had a fellow doing caricatures of any guest who wanted to sit and be sketched. This was ideal for many of the folks who were older and didn't want to dance much or at all. There was also a coffee and tea station and each table had their own three tiered cake all decorated with flowers that looked totally real. Each table of 8 had a cake that served 16 to 20 people so those who wanted to have their cake (to take home) and eat it too, had that chance as we provided cake boxes for everyone. The band held a few little contests like the longest married couple at the reception and the shortest married couple other than the bride and groom, and etc. and all received nice gifts from my husband and me. We had cameras on each table and the guests really had fun taking posed photos of the other guests at their table, and that was great fun for us when we saw all of them a couple of weeks later. And then we sent copies of all the photos to each person that was in a photo or two or more. There was much more, but my feeling and that of my daughter was that the wedding should have more than just music, and with these other opportunities for people to participate in, the day was a big hit with everyone. It was a wonderful day with fantastic memories. I wish all couples could have a fun time at their wedding like we all did.

Debbie Rudder

8/6/2016 12:29:04 pm

Would make great late night reads!!!!!

Star Forbis link

8/6/2016 12:38:58 pm

I had a beautiful Church Wedding, next year will be our 30th Wedding Anniversary. If I had to do it now, I'd choose a Beach Wedding somewhere tropical, or a Christmas Wedding!! (Two opposites, yet two of my Favorite things!! But, that's me!)

Virginia Campbell link

8/6/2016 02:54:23 pm

Sheila Roberts & Debbie Macomber--what a terrific twosome!!! An ideal wedding is one where the focus is on the couple and their personal hopes and dreams for the future. It should be peaceful and pleasant, and then followed by a lovely, relaxed reception where people have a good time. The whole event should be a happy time for all and pleasant memory for years to come. Everyone is unique and individuality should be allowed to shine through.

cheryl c.

8/18/2016 08:58:17 pm

Any place as long as it is filled with love, romance, God, friends, and family.

cheryl c.

8/28/2016 07:57:33 am

I apologize if this is a duplicate reply. It seems that my previous reply never posted.
To me, the perfect wedding can be anywhere as long as it involves love, romance, faith, friends, and family.

Marla Green

8/29/2016 04:29:21 pm

My dream wedding will be a destination wedding. Very small at one of the carribean islands.

Karon McCulloch

8/29/2016 04:32:32 pm

Perfect wedding would be one where only the best friends and closest family of both parties was present in a very intimate and personal setting and ceremony, followed by a huge party when the couple returns from their honeymoon, where everyone can celebrate together, with dancing to every kind of music, tons of food, etc.

Kim

8/29/2016 04:37:27 pm

a beach wedding :

Veda Leggett

8/29/2016 04:43:23 pm

My idea of a perfect wedding would be to elope. I want the wedding to be about the love and commitment between two people, not a big, showy spectacle. No Las Vegas type elopement either. I would have loved to be able to escape to Gretna Green!

Lynn Russell

8/29/2016 04:48:13 pm

My wedding was a church wedding with reception at my parents' house in May 1966. Nothing like weddings of today. Loving family and friends. My husband died after 26 years of marriage. If I get married again, I would want just a couple of people and lots of love. Thanks for the offer for the books.

Dorian

8/29/2016 04:56:54 pm

The perfect wedding would be outside near a lake.

April west

8/29/2016 06:14:14 pm

I think a lovely wedding would be a small family gathering in the mountains.

8/29/2016 08:42:17 pm

I enjoy weddings. It's always nice to see how each couple takes a standard ceremony & makes it their own. I have enjoyed two of my own weddings. The first took place at my parent's home when I was young & ambitious. It was the wedding I'd always dreamed of-- just not the marriage of anyone's dreams. My 2nd wedding was took place when I was older & my ambitions were beaten down. It was more memorable to me than the first wedding, but there were only four people in the room when we wed. The marriage is beyond my wildest dreams. It's not the wedding that's important, it's the marriage. That's the stuff dreams are made of.

Cindy Rader

8/29/2016 08:49:35 pm

I liked my wedding: not large with friends and family, dancing, laughing and having a great time! I'd like to do it again.

Melissa Carelock

8/30/2016 01:29:13 am

THE IDEAL WEDDING IS TO SHOW EACH OTHER THE LOVE YOU HAVE FOR ONE ANOTHER. ALWAYS CHERISH ONE ANOTHER.

Ida Lukasik

8/30/2016 03:17:26 am

I love wedding books, love the romance. Since my husband passed away I miss him and it so much. Reading it makes me closer to him

Linda Frabotta

8/30/2016 04:42:03 am

My ideal wedding..hopefully is my daughters. She is getting married in 3 weeks and this year and a half of planning is all coming to an end. I'm hoping it's as magical and perfect just as she has dreamed, celebrating with all our loved ones.

Joanna Kerns

8/30/2016 11:01:08 am

My favorite wedding will be my own. We found love in our 60s being so young. We met on facebook doing a Bible study almost a year ago. August 20th I got a box of things from him and called before opening. Inside was a little box and as i opened he asked me to marry him. He had sent money to buy my dress too. He had helped me find a church and we will marry there with my new family the Church. And my kids. Then head for Texas to his house. My new home. And live happily.

Roxanne Patterson

8/30/2016 11:51:48 am

My wedding was a non-traditional wedding. Yes, 43 years ago my husband and I eloped. We were married in city hall in Burlington, VT on a beautiful fall day with gorgeous fall leaves outside the window. We both knew when we saw the rich gold colors that we were doing the right thing despite family protests. It has been a wonderful life and we'd do it again in a moment!

Ida Lukasik

9/8/2016 03:59:40 pm

I have been married a few times. My first was in my inlaws living room during a snow storm. And my best and favorite was to my husband who is now deceased, we were married outside in OH.

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