I knew what I wanted and when I found it, I bought it. I didn’t spend a lot of time looking through bridal magazines. Not very romantic but we got the job done! It’s been 24 years since that day but I think I found a dress on my first visit. But after I was engaged, I visited a local bridal shop on my lunch hour with a co-worker. I was 31 when I got married and had been working in the corporate world for several years, so there wasn’t a lot of family around to help. I’m not sure anyone has ever asked me this before. – Would you share the story of your own personal wedding dress? How you selected it?

The book was published four years ago but has seemed to find a second wind the last few months.

I expected some success, but not quite the level it’s reached now. – From the beginning, all involved felt like The Wedding Dress was a special book. From there, the process takes about a year from first submitting to my editor, through the rewrites, the line edits and the advanced copies going out to reviewers. I had about 3 weeks to develop the plot and three months to write it. – I didn’t have a lot of time for The Wedding Chapel. – How much time did you need to finish the story and to publish it? I’m not sure I had anyone in mind for either of them, though all characters are somewhat autobiographical.īut it’s fun to invent people I might want to be friends with if they were real. Taylor, and her love, Jack, developed on their own. I found a picture of my grandparents when they’d started dating in the ‘30s and it really inspired Jimmy and his love, Collette. – Jimmy, one of the historical characters, is a lot like my grandpa-who was also called Jimmy. – Tell us something more about your main characters Jimmy and Taylor? Are they close to someone from your real life? So I strive to not give up on my gift and talent. I think every writer battles doubt somewhere during the writing process. – What was the biggest challenge during the write up process? I didn’t know what to write next and while on vacation with my husband in Tennessee, I drove past a wedding chapel up on a high hill surrounded by trees and I thought, “What about a wedding chapel?” I mentioned it to my publisher later on a phone call – just the title, no story, no plot and she loved it! So I was off with a new story. It looks at the mystery of love, and asks, “How long does true love wait?” – It’s a story about 60 year old wedding chapel in which there has never been a wedding. – Rachel, what is your last book The Wedding Chapel about? Let me introduce to you lady Rachel Hauck. We’ve got a great chance to dig deep into the writing world of our next guest. The book is a nice follow up of her hits The Wedding Dress and Georgia On Her Mind. USA Today bestselling author Rachel Hauck finished very strongly last year with her last novel The Wedding Chapel.

Rachel hauck the wedding dress series