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Bestselling Author Emily Giffin Lists Her Lovely Atlanta Home on the Market

Julia Walsh — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:00:00 PDT

Emily Giffin, author of Something Borrowed and four other best-selling novels (who moonlights as a TrèsSugar guest writer), has put her 6-bedroom, 5.75-bath home in Brookhaven, Atlanta, on the market and has recently reduced its asking price by a whopping $100,000. That number hasn't been published, presumably due to her celebrity status, but I'm sure it costs a pretty penny.

The four-story house has an expansive kitchen, a private backyard with pool and pool house, a huge finished basement with gym, an outdoor fireplace and grill area, a 1,500-bottle wine cellar, a children's art room, and a media room. The manse is a Federal-style home with traditional interiors and truly beautiful professional landscaping. The only thing it's missing is a library to store her ever-expanding book collection!

Come take the full tour!

Emily Giffin Shares Her Top Moments From the Royal Wedding!

Guest Writer — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:15:05 PDT

Editor's Note: The following is a guest post written by Emily Giffin, author of Something Borrowed and four other best-selling novels. For more from Emily, like her on Facebook.

Just as I got up at the crack of dawn with my mother and sister to watch Di and Charles wed, I set my alarm for four this morning, donned my fanciest hat (purchased for Royal Ascot during my years in London), and gathered with my mother and own satisfyingly brainwashed-to-care children to watch this generation’s version of the royal wedding. As we sipped Earl Grey and munched on iced royal-nuptial sugar cookies, I tweeted the action, entranced by every detail of Kate and Will's magical day. Thirty years from now, here is what I will remember most:

A "people's wedding" with pomp and circumstance. Just as the guest list included celebrities, royals, and dignataries, as well as the butcher, grocer and postman of Kate's Berkshire village, the ceremony managed to be both formal and intimate at once, a tricky balancing act. Even the avenue of English field maple trees placed along the aisle (Kate's idea, natch) brightened the somber, thousand-year-old abbey doubling as a final resting place of 17 monarchs. Right out of the gate, Kate proves that she can respect tradition - yet do things her way - with warmth and style.
The dress, the dress! Kate looked positively stunning in her Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen ivory, hand-laced gown. While Diana's dress conjured an overdone child's drawing (no surprise, since she herself was a teenager!), Kate's gown was elegant and sophisticated, wonderfully reminiscent of Grace Kelly. A real, grown-up princess. (And, of course, I'd be remiss not to mention Kate's "something borrowed" - a 1936 Cartier tiara, on loan from the Queen herself, per royal wedding tradition. Beautiful.)
Picture-perfect Pippa and hot Harry. In contrast to the hideously comical, Dr. Seuss-esque selections of the Princesses of York, Eugenie and Beatrice. Oh, no they didn't.
Prince William’s one-liner to his soon-to-be father-in-law . . . “just a small family affair!” I love that he loves her family - another good sign.

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Emily Giffin's 10 Favorite Wedding Movies

Guest Writer — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:00:24 PDT

Editor's Note: The following is a guest post written by Emily Giffin, author of Something Borrowed and four other best-selling novels. For more from Emily, like her on Facebook.

Spring is here, and I am officially in wedding mode! For one, my first novel Something Borrowed is being released to the big screen on May 6th (plan your girls’ night out now!). For another, my assistant Kate was married last weekend in a beautiful ceremony in Atlanta and kindly included my three children in the festivities. (My twins sons, one of whom declared it the "most romantic day ever," were program attendants and my three-year old daughter was the flower girl). And finally, only fifteen more days until the ROYAL WEDDING! 

Although some might think there has been media overkill, I, for one, am obsessed with every detail, from the flowers to the horse drawn carriages to the guests (how I wish I were one!). I can vividly remember waking up before sunrise with my mother and sister to watch Lady Diana and Prince Charles wed - and can’t wait to do it again with my own daughter. Let’s just hope that Kate improves upon Di’s gown! 

So in honor of both Kates in my life, and in the spirit of springtime "I dos" everywhere, here are my favorite wedding movies of all time. Because who doesn’t love a little Something Borrowed, Something Blue?

10 Gift Ideas For the Women in Your Life From Emily Giffin!

Guest Writer — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:00:55 PDT

Editor's Note: The following is a guest post written by Emily Giffin, author of Something Borrowed and four other best-selling novels. After passing on her tips for gift giving, she's sharing 10 of her favorite presents to give and receive! Click on the pictures below to find out more about each. And for more from Emily, like her on Facebook.

Anything from the Iomoi website. I especially love the Lucite paperweights (I recently selected "urchin pattern sky" for a friend). I also enjoy the cupcake return address labels for birthday cards I send to friends.
A subscription to a magazine, from the New Yorker to Vanity Fair to UsWeekly. The gift that keeps on giving.
Kate Spade iPhone and BlackBerry cases. Live colorfully!
Liz Victory cosmetic cases and totes. Because you can't have too many totes - and every girl is in need of a fresh, non-stained travel case.
A custom yoga mat for those friends who have the gall to be healthy. My favorite color combo is pink and preppy.
A commissioned sketch or personalized note cards by Inslee. I adore her work so much that I have her sketches on the homepage of my website and also framed in my office.

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The Art of Gifting

Guest Writer — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:00:53 PDT

Editor's Note: The following is a guest post written by Emily Giffin, author of Something Borrowed and four other best-selling novels. For more from Emily, like her on Facebook.

At this point in my (very) late thirties, I don’t necessarily relish the anniversary of my birth, but I do confess to loving a beautifully wrapped, satisfying gem of a gift. My dearest friends certainly delivered last week, cushioning the cruel blow of thirty-nine.

As I opened one particularly thoughtful gift - a pair of fine cotton, drawstring pajama pants and a lovely-scented travel candle from two gal pals who know how much time I spend in hotels - I thought of what makes the perfect gift: an indulgence that you are thrilled to receive but probably wouldn’t buy for yourself.

Here are five specific gifting tips:

Buy in advance - or at least take notes. How many times have we found the perfect card months before our cousin’s birthday? Or heard our best friend muse in a department store that she really “needs” to spice up her underwear drawer? Seize these moments and either buy in advance, allocating a drawer or shelf in your home for the collection, or record the idea in a “gift” notebook. An extreme example: I recently bought a darling Sweet Sixteen card for my Goddaughter who is only seven - but I know I will be grateful to have it in 2020!
Gifts aren’t just for birthdays. I have two friends who always gift me upon the publication of my novels. An engraved bookmark, a bouquet of fresh flowers, or a sweet token that coordinates with my book jacket art, e.g. a tiny bootie for Baby Proof with a 2006 penny inside (the year that book was released). I cherish these gifts and love the generous spirit in which they are given. So go ahead and celebrate your friend’s new home, job, or car (or help ease the blow of a bad break-up). She will never forget the gesture.
Try to avoid the generic candle or bath product and choose something that reflects your friend’s personal style. Having a gift monogrammed or personalized will show you thought of her way in advance of her day. And if you simply can’t resist the candle-bath product route - be sure to pick the perfect scent or color.

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Spread the Love: Taken Friends Can Make Great Matchmakers

Guest Writer — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:00:20 PDT

Editor's Note: The following is a guest post written by Emily Giffin, author of Something Borrowed and four other best-selling novels. For more from Emily, like her on Facebook.

Last Fall, I was in a coffee shop, trying to write, when I struck up a lively conversation with a charmingly suave, but not too suave, guy on an adjacent fireside couch. He had nice hair, warm eyes, and was wearing satisfyingly distressed Levi’s paired with manly boots - part cowboy, part John-Varvatos cool.

Through our chat, I learned that he was single and looking for, in his words, "a kind girl." I swooned in a married-girl sort of way, and then, on a whim, snapped his photo with my phone. Later that afternoon, I posted it on my Facebook fan page, sure that there would be some takers in the 404. Within an hour, there were over two-hundred comments from girls in Atlanta and all over the country. Parker Estep became an instant cult figure on my page, and my moonlighting matchmaking career was born.

Find out more below!

Best-Selling Author Emily Giffin Pens New TrèsSugar Guest Blogger Series!

Guest Writer — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:00:42 PDT

Editor's Note: Readers, get excited! Emily Giffin, the author of Something Borrowed and four other best-selling novels, is our new guest blogger! Here's what she has to say about it:

As a writer of popular women's fiction, including Something Borrowed and Heart of the Matter, and a lover of all things pop culture, I am thrilled to be a guest blogger for TrèsSugar. I look forward to sharing with you my girly pursuits - from my latest must-read books to all the relationship advice that comes my way as the author of five best-selling books about love and friendship. I can't wait to hear from you as we go along; please keep me posted on your latest obsessions, too! Stay tuned for my first post, going live tomorrow.

Hilary Swank Buys Up Rights to Something Borrowed

BuzzSugar — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:29:49 PDT

Soon, author Emily Giffin will find something of hers borrowed for the big screen - her stories. Hilary Swank and her producing partner Molly Smith have bought the rights to Giffin's popular novels Something Borrowed and Something Blue, and they may end up being "starring vehicles" for Swank. We were just talking about these producing partners and another book-to-movie deal that may star Swank: French Women Don't Get Fat. That Hilary Swank! She keeps busy.

Variety explains that Something Borrowed follows "a Manhattan attorney who becomes involved with her best friend's fiance following her 30th birthday." Something Borrowed is my favorite of all of Giffin's books (it even inspired a Buzzworthy Challenge way back when) so I really hope they don't mess this up! Along the same lines, I don't really envision Swank in this role. At all. I might be on a Rebecca Hall kick after seeing her in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, but I really think she'd be a better fit. Or. . .anyone else. What do you think? Have you read Giffin's books?

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What's Buzzworthy? Wedding and Marriage Novels

BuzzSugar — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:55:00 PDT

Last week the USA premiered their summer series "The Starter Wife" which was based on the popular novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer about a woman who married into a hip Hollywood lifestyle that she's forced to leave behind when her husband cheats on her.

It makes me think of another marriage-themed book I read recently, Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin, in which the main characters' love triangle threatens to shake up an engagement. The book is funny and self-deprecating, and each of the characters learns something about him/herself in the end, which seems to often be the case in novels about weddings or marriage.

Thus, this week's Buzzworthy challenge is to bookmark the novels or memoirs specifically about marriage or weddings that you find most arresting (and no, they do not have to be happy stories). The tag to use when bookmarking your choices is wedding books, but please don't bookmark your favorite planners!

Using BuzzSugar's cool Buzzworthy bookmarking tool, find your favorite books on the Web and tag or title them with the phrase wedding books. Then, I'll post some readers' choices next week.

To find out how to create a Buzzworthy bookmark,

read more Don't worry: TeamSugar makes it easy to bookmark and capture anything on the Web that you consider "Buzzworthy." If you already have a "That's Fab" button on your browser's tool bar, you can use that to bookmark your Buzzworthy items. If you don't have the TeamSugar bookmarking button on your toolbar, you can learn how to get it by watching this video.

Does Something Borrowed Deserve a Film Sequel?

Becky Kirsch — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:15:45 PDT

I read Emily Giffin's novel Something Borrowed, as well as its sequel, Something Blue, last Summer, finding both novels to be relatable (though at times frustrating), but enjoyable beach reads. With that said, I was disappointed with the film adaptation, and couldn't hide that in my review for Something Borrowed. However, there were two bright spots in the movie: John Krasinski and Kate Hudson.

Sarcastic Ethan and sassy Darcy easily have the most personality of any of the characters in the film, and their performances were the most fun to watch. With that in mind, I'm actually rooting for Something Blue, the sequel that follows Ethan and Darcy in London, to get the big-screen treatment. The story is more straightforward with fewer side characters, and Krasinski and Hudson could very well have believable comedic chemistry that turns into romance. Whether or not the film will get made is still up in the air, so tell me - do you think Something Borrowed deserves a sequel, even though it isn't soaring at the box office or with critics?