For a while, I thought I could write a story about the middle years of Noah and Allie’s life, since I’d neglected those years in The Notebook. None of my ideas for the “sequel” were as moving as the original story had been, and I didn’t want to diminish the first story by publishing something less than meaningful. For those who’ve read the novel – and know how it ends – you’ll understand this point, and frankly, I didn’t know where to take the story after the final scene. I thought it would be fun to revisit those characters – both for myself, and for the readers – but it was easier said than done because I hadn’t originally written The Notebook with the intent of a sequel in mind. Even now, readers still talk to me about that novel and the memories of Noah and Allie still linger in their imagination. The first idea was fairly obvious, and I’ve been toying around with the idea of a sequel or follow-up to The Notebook ever since the novel was published. The genesis of a novel is always a tricky process, and The Wedding had the longest genesis of any novel I’ve yet written, and was based on two separate ideas that had been floating around in my head for years.
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