Four friends from Mrs. Rochambeaux's Gentle School for Girls find an old sixpence in their bedchamber and decide that it will be the lucky coin for each of their weddings.

"Something Old"
Julia Quinn's prologue introduces her heroine, Beatrice Heywood, and the premise of Four Weddings and a Sixpence.

"Something New"
In Stefanie Sloane's unforgetabble story, an ever-vigilant guadian decrees that Anne Brabourne mus marry by her twenty-first birthday. But love finds her in the most unexpcted of ways.

"Something Borrowed"
Elizabeth Boyle tells the tale of Cordelia Padley, who has invented a bethrothed to keep her family from pestering her to wed. Now she'll need to borrow one to convince them she's found her true love.

"Something Blue"
In Laura Lee Guhrke's story, unlucky Lady Elinor Daventry has her sixpence stolen from her and must convince the rakewho pilfered the coin to return it in time for her own wedding.

"... And a Sixpence in Her Shoe"
Julia Quinn finishes with the story of Beatrice Heywood, who never believed that the sixpence was anything but a tarnished old coin.... Until it all led all of her friends to true love. But her faith in the coin is tested when it keeps sending her to the wrong man!