The Romance Writers of America named On the Way to the Wedding the 2007 RITA Award winner for Best Long Historical Romance. And it turns out it is the uncle who was the traitor. Now knowing the truth Gregory has to find a way to free Lucy from her marriage with Haselby. Lucy's uncle claims Haselby's father is blackmailing the family with proof that her deceased father was a traitor to England. However, Lucy chooses to marry Haselby with a reason unknown to anyone, but Lucy and her uncle.Īfter the wedding Gregory finds a way to speak with Lucy and eventually she tells him the truth. Gregory arrives moments before the two exchange vows and confesses that he wants to marry Lucy. Lucy is likewise given an inner conflict, as she is essentially engaged to Lord Haselby, an arranged match which she has already accepted.Īfter realizing he is in love with her, Gregory rushes to the church to stop Lucy's wedding to Haselby. The author details Gregory's difficulty in determining whether his love for Lucy is real, or if it is simply an infatuation such as he felt for Hermione.

Believing that Gregory is more sincere in his attempts to gain Hermione's favor than her other suitors, Lucy agrees to help him win Hermione's heart.ĭuring the course of the house party, Lucy and Gregory become friends and then develop romantic feelings for each other. After he makes his attraction known, Hermione's best friend, the pretty-but-not-quite-as-attractive Lady Lucinda 'Lucy' Abernathy informs him that Hermione is already in love, but with someone unsuitable - her father's secretary. After catching a glimpse of the 'breathtakingly perfect curve of her neck' at a house party, Gregory falls immediately in love with the beautiful and extremely sought-after Hermione Watson. The hero of the novel is Gregory Bridgerton, the youngest male and last unmarried sibling in the Bridgerton family. Some of the heroine's slightly obsessive-compulsive tendencies were taken directly from traits of Quinn and her husband. Quinn noted that the title was derived from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

It won the 2007 RITA Award for Best Long Historical Romance, and reached #5 in the New York Times Bestseller List and # 4 in the USA Today bestseller list.

It is the eighth and final novel of Quinn's Bridgerton series set in Regency England and tells the story of Gregory, the youngest male Bridgerton sibling. On the Way to the Wedding is a 2006 historical romance written by Julia Quinn, published by Avon.

Julia quinn on the way to the wedding