{"id":24156,"date":"2015-06-01T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=24156"},"modified":"2015-05-23T11:38:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T16:38:57","slug":"the-real-thing-lessons-on-love-and-life-from-a-wedding-reporters-notebook-by-ellen-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-real-thing-lessons-on-love-and-life-from-a-wedding-reporters-notebook-by-ellen-mccarthy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Thing: Lessons on Love and Life From a Wedding Reporter’s Notebook<\/I> by Ellen McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"the<\/a>Ellen McCarthy has written a charming set of lessons about living and enjoying love in her book, The Real Thing: Lessons on Love and Life From a Wedding Reporter’s Notebook<\/strong><\/em>.<\/strong><\/em><\/a> What intrigued me the most about this book was that McCarthy was a skeptic about the whole wedding business and love when she first began reporting about weddings and even after she married.\u00a0She sometimes is still skeptical, but feels that working as a wedding reporter has allowed her to find a set of resources, whether those resources are married couples, the notes she’s scribbled down, or the books she has read, that she can utilize to keep her marriage strong and alive. This book serves as a collection of the lessons she believes everyone should be aware of regarding love and life.<\/p>\n

McCarthy writes throughout this book that she took\u00a0her job as a wedding reporter because she wanted to write about people. Sure, she would love to have a Saturday night off to go and hangout with her friends, but once she is sitting and waiting for the ceremony begin, she is immediately thrown into a new beautiful love story and the beginning of a new life together. McCarthy tackles the questions of “How do you know this person is the one?”, “Should we live together before marriage?”, and even “Should I call\u00a0the wedding\u00a0off?” McCarthy admits to being far from a marriage and love expert and that is why she\u00a0augments\u00a0her\u00a0written beliefs\u00a0within this book with\u00a0multiple interviews from experts, as well as interviews and snapshots into the weddings and lives of the people she has interviewed for her job.<\/p>\n

McCarthy has gathered together a multitude of information about how people go about finding love and the life they want. This book is eye-opening for people in all stages of relationships, from single to happily married for years to divorced, and provides help for those who may need\u00a0a little push to understand the life they are living now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ellen McCarthy has written a charming set of lessons about living and enjoying love in her book, The Real Thing: Lessons on Love and Life From a Wedding Reporter’s Notebook. What intrigued me the most about this book was that McCarthy was a skeptic about the whole wedding business and[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[2828,2904,248,713,2948,532],"class_list":["post-24156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-help","tag-life","tag-love","tag-marriage","tag-tips","tag-weddings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-6hC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24156"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24236,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24156\/revisions\/24236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}