General Information on The Wedding

WHO

The Wedding was inspired by a few unnamed couples that Nicholas knows well. He won’t, however, be more specific for obvious reasons.

The Wedding tells the story Wilson and Jane Lewis, a couple married for thirty years. Wilson is an estate lawyer; Jane a homemaker. Noah, a character from The Notebook, is also revisited. Written in first-person, the story is told from Wilson’s point of view.

WHAT

The Wedding is a love story, one in which Wilson decides to court Jane, his wife of thirty years, all over again in the hopes of winning her love once more. The story is centered around the planning of a wedding after Anna, their oldest daughter, announces that she’s engaged. The Wedding is a follow-up to Nicholas’s first novel, The Notebook.

The Wedding, Nicholas’s eighth novel, is approximately 70,000 words in length.

WHERE

The Wedding was written in North Carolina.

The Wedding is set in New Bern, North Carolina.

WHEN

The Wedding was begun in August 2002 and completed in April, 2003, with extended breaks. The first seventy pages were written in August, and the book was set aside (to allow for editing of The Guardian) until late November. Writing continued from November until mid-January, when Nicholas took a trip around the world with his brother. Writing picked up in mid-February, and the novel was completed in April.

The story is contemporary.

THEME

Love and renewal

GENRE / SUB-GENRE

Dramatic fiction/Love story