I can't imagine having 8 weddings to attend in one year, let along one season. At the top of the cake is the main character's own wedding!

When life makes a 180 degree spin, Freya is going to have to refigure her entire summer. Enter the best friend's you'll ever have and a series of challenges wild enough to make anyone laugh. Will it be fun or will everything end in disaster? Then again, hasn't it already become a disaster? What can be worse?

I connected to Freya early on in the book and that attraction only grew strong with each wedding that passed. I think everyone should be able to take a little piece of this book, laugh, and realize it's sentimental importance. Kudos to Katy Birchall for making me laugh ridiculously.

Freya’s story is not so much about romance as it is self love and coming to terms with a massive life change. The characters are well written and well rounded, and the author does a great job of showing the time and effort it can take to come to terms with big events like what Freya went through. Overall a very endearing and heartwarming story about starting over!

Freya Scott got dumped hardcore the day before her wedding. She is left devastated, heartbroken, and humiliated. But she is determined to never let them see her sweat! She is going to power through the wedding season. She is going to put on a happy face and follow her friend's outrageous challenges to survive the weddings she will be attending.

This was a charming and engaging book. I enjoyed Freya's journey from heartbreak to discovering her worth and finding her voice. The cast of characters were fun and entertaining. I enjoyed as Freya healed and found inner strength.

I really enjoyed this book and following Freya through wedding season after Matthew dumps her the day before their wedding. Cute, fun, endearing read.

Greta is in the Eve of her wedding when Matthew her fiancé decides he can’t marry her. This is the story of Freya’s journey after that through the season of many more weddings. Her 2 best friends give her a task at each wedding. Through this process Freya gets back on her feet and learns a lot about herself and might just meet someone new.

This book was brilliant!! Birchall did an amazing job writing the characters for this book. I loved the colorful array of personalities that literally jumped off the page at me. She did that thing that I like where ALL of the characters get some backstory and spotlight time so that you get to know them. I love that because it gives so much more depth to the story.

Freya was so witty that I laughed out loud constantly! Her general chemistry with every other character was amazing. I love her friendship with Leo and Ruby. The three of them were nonstop laughs. I especially loved Freya when she finally stood up to Matthew. She was a bit of a pushover at the beginning but once she found her backbone she owned it! That restaurant-wine throwing scene will live rent free in my mind forever.
I also enjoyed getting to see her in different lights throughout the book. As we all are, Freya was different with different people. You see one side of her with her dad and brother, a different side with Matthew, another side with Leo and Ruby, a totally different side with Jaime. She was extremely well written and exists in my mind as a real person might.

Matthew was a tool!! I know he was written in a way that begs for redemption but I can't. He's a douche 🤷🏻‍♀️

I really like Jaime with Freya. Their chemistry was amazing, even in the beginning when they were fighting. It looked like it was going to be a classic enemies to lovers but he quickly apologized and their chemistry just naturally flowed. I liked their banter and the way he pushed her to complete her challenges once he found out about them. I didn't like the hotel.... Could have gone differently my man.

The story moved at a good pace. Not too much description but enough detail to make you feel present. I'm glad I read this book and I'm sure I will reread again.

Thank you to Katy Birchall for a book that made me fall in love with reading again!

I'd recently DNF'd a book here on NetGalley, one that others had loved. I was starting to get a little jaded. Then, I picked up The Wedding Season. What a breath of fresh air!

I wouldn't necessarily call this a romance. It's more Women's Fiction. After a 12-year relationship, Freya is unceremoniously dumped in a broom closet by her fiance, Matthew, the day before their wedding. Stunned and heartbroken, Matthew insists on a clean break, with minimal contact - refusing to really give Freya any closure. Worst of all, theirs was the first of 8 weddings within their friend group. First of all, how is Freya supposed to bounce back? Second, how the heck is she going to navigate all those other nuptials?

Freya's best friends, Ruby and Leo come up with a plan - a challenge for Freya at each of the weddings she's to attend - from getting a man's cuff links to taking an unexpected plus one to a wedding. No one is more surprised than Freya that it's working - focusing on her task makes each wedding a little more bearable.

Yes, there's a love interest. But, really, that's not the focus of this book. The most important part of the story is Freya's resiliance, her ability to forgive not only Matthew, but others who have wronged her, and her ability to move forward - slowly but surely.

I literally laughed out loud in places. And, I got misty in others.

This was the perfect book to pull me out of my reading slump!

Thank you so much to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for the opportunity to read a digital ARC in return for an honest review.

Super fun light read! I enjoyed it and it made me laugh so many times. I love her friends and their dynamics. Would enjoy reading again definitely recommend

This was such a fun book to read after having planned a wedding. It was fun to see the other side of things.

The Wedding Season is women's fiction almost tipping romance trope . It follows the story of Freya who was dumped by her fiancé on the eve of her wedding . It is the wedding season so she and her best friend Ruby comes up with a plan for her to survive the season.

I absolutely looked the book . It was perfect balance of everything . I normally dont read women's fiction but this must be my new favorite from that trope . We get to see Freya grow as a person and learn to love another person again. The romance element was kinda enemies to lovers . I loved it . the only downside was that I wished I could see more of that.

I WOULD ABSOUTELY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK

So, this story starts out with our MC Freya and her twat of a fiancé, Matthew. After months of secretly having doubts about their relationship, Matthew decides to call it off with Freya the day before their wedding—in a broom closet. Heartbroken—though I don’t understand why because Matthew is one of the dullest characters out there—Freya takes matters into her own foot, taking out Matthew’s balls in the process.

Yes, she seriously kicks him in the crown jewels. It’s GD magical.

Anyway, as it turns out Freya and Matthew’s wedding was the first to kick off the wedding season, and Freya actually has a bajillion more weddings to attend, all while trying to mend her broken heart. To help her out, her friends—honest to God, I need more friends from the UK—devise a series of tasks for Freya to complete at each wedding to keep her mind off Matthew. These tasks range anywhere from loitering on a dance floor to public indecency in a hotel hallway.

During the wedding season, Freya meets and begins to get to know Jamie who works for a rival purveyor of adult beverages. Jamie is kind of a dick at first, but his softer side soon emerges, and he begins to grow on Freya, which is good because they have several mutual friends in common and she’ll be seeing quite a bit of him.

Will Freya and Matthew work it out in the end, or will Freya find herself and her sense of self-worth in the process?

This book was exactly what I needed to pull me out of my slump. It’s hilarious and never felt dull. I loved watching Freya grow as a person once she stepped out of Matthew’s shadow. Her story felt real, the characters were all well-developed, and the absolute bonkers circumstances Freya finds herself in were just enough to lighten what could have been a heavy read. I highly recommend this one for lovers of contemporary women’s fiction with a shot of romance.

The Wedding Season is a light hearted romance that started with sadness. A bride dumped the day before her wedding? But luckily Freya has a great father and brother plus friends that would do anything for her. Together they come up with a plan to distract her mind at all the weddings she has to attend in the up coming months. Freya will perform a task at each wedding. The tasks were sweet and harmless and seemed to do the trick. The real winner in this story is seeing Freya become a stronger woman and figure out what she really wants out of life. A Prince didn’t come save her- she saved herself.

All I can say is this is so very entertaining on audio! I loved everything about it, the accents, the cast of characters, the storyline, the setting, ALL of it!
There were many laugh out loud moments that we can all relate to about friendships and relationships.
Freya Scott is getting married to Matthew, her long-term boyfriend...until she is not. Somehow she has to survive the breakup and eight weddings that follow. This is how the "Wedding Season" is created.
Fortunately, her friends have an idea! Together they devise a series of outrageous challenges for Freya to complete at each wedding, designed to distract her from Matthew and her heartbreak. These are things that she would normally never go along with, but she has to prove to herself and friends that she is fine. Along the way she discovers herself and that she is having fun as a single girl. There is a love/hate relationship with Jaime along the way and the ending is just perfect!
Thank you netgalley and the publisher for the advanced copy of this book!

4.5/5 stars

Freya is finally getting married to her boyfriend of 12 years Matthew. Their wedding marks the first of eight in Freya’s wedding season calendar. Freya has everything planned out, except Matthew dumping her in a broom closet hours before they are to walk down the aisle. Heartbroken and humiliated, Freya is dreading the upcoming weddings following her own disaster. Her friends Ruby and Leo devise a plan: to make a wedding list of tasks Freya is to complete at each of the upcoming weddings to help keep her mind off Matthew. Even with a few hiccups along the way, Freya is surprised to find that she is enjoying completing these tasks and discovering more about herself that she never really knew possible. Most importantly she begins to learn that love can find you in the most unexpected ways.

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This was such a sweet feel-good story with some great character development. I absolutely loved seeing Freya’s growth and development and how she discovers things about herself that she had long forgotten or hid away. I absolutely adored the dynamic of her friendship with Ruby and Leo, who are engaged themselves and are the last wedding Freya is to attend that season. There were many moments where I laughed out loud and grinned ear to ear. There is romance in this book which was sweet but for me the main star was Freya and her growth and her relationship with her friends and her mother. It was really heartbreaking to read of Freya’s sadness as she tries to navigate life without the one person she thought she was going to spend the rest of her life with. Freya’s character felt super relatable and all of the lovely people she had surrounding her and giving her endless support made my heart swell. Thank you so much to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an eARC of this novel in exchange for my honest review. This title is available for purchase now!

Oh Freya, I just want to hug her. I read the Secret Bridesmaid last year and enjoyed it, so I was looking forward to this new story. They are unrelated stand-alone books, connected by the theme of weddings. This is definitely more of a women’s fiction story with an emphasis on Freya’s growth and healing a broken heart, but there is romance as well that’s really sweet. Freya’s friends and family are great characters. The story centers around an ambitious checklist to help Freya heal from a broken heart. Along the way, she also deals with a tense relationship with her mother. All of these issues are dealt with using humor and a sense of adventure. Jamie is a fun character and a good friend that brings a wonderful charm to the story. I did a mix of reading the ebook and listening to the audiobook. I loved the narrator, Daphne Kouma. This would make a great summer read as we head into a popular time for weddings.
Thank you to @smpromance and @netgalley for the free digital ARC.

This book may have been the biggest surprise for me of the year. This book felt like I was hanging out with my best friends and I just wanted to be in this world. This book is so funny, sweet, romantic, and but also realistic.
This is more Womens Fiction with romance sprinkled in but for me the true romance of the book was the friendship soulmate connection of Freya and Ruby.

The Wedding Season follows Freya who is dumped before her wedding and has to find a way to get through the upcoming wedding season. Luckily she has amazing friends who help her come up a list of things she must do at the wedding. The scene where Freya, Ruby, and Leo create this list may be one of my favorite book scenes of the year and I was dying of laughter.

I loved Freya so much and how this book just felt like a huge character study on someone who has to reasses their whole life after their marriage falls apart. To see how different people deal with different types of grief resonated with me so much. I started this book on Kindle but ended up listening to most of it on the audiobook and that helped me get more into Freya’s mindset. Daphne Kouma did an insanely amazing job of narrating Birchalls writing and infusing it with even more humor, indecision, and confidence. I loved how we get to see Freya going back into her past and she tries to figure out her future and reasses and find new appreciation for all her relationships both romantic, familial, and friends.

This book also has Ruby who I need as a best friend and Leo who I need as a husband. They bring so much comedy but also heart and just true love and care about Freya that is just so pure and sweet.

I absolutely adored this book.

Thanks to St Martins and NetGalley for this ARC for my honest review

You might think a book titled The Wedding Season is a romance novel, and you’d be both right and wrong. Primarily, the story is about what happens after Freya’s fiancé breaks up with her the day before their wedding. Freya’s friends rally around her and help pull her through some very hard times indeed - and that includes seven weddings over the course of the next few months. I just loved her friends, especially Ruby and Leo, who think up a sort of challenge for Freya, to help her survive all the upcoming weddings (including theirs!). They give Freya a task to complete at each wedding, something that is out of her comfort zone. This proves to be a very successful ploy at having something to distract Freya from mourning the end of her very long relationship with Matthew. In addition to Ruby and Leo, I loved Freya’s family members, especially her over-the-top mother. She was definitely good for a few laughs.

It was wonderful to follow Freya’s journey from broken-hearted to self-confident. This is my first book by Katy Birchall but I will now be on the lookout for others she has written.

I bounced between the audiobook and the ebook for this title, which was very convenient. The audiobook narrator, Daphne Kouma, was terrific, handling numerous voices and accents.

Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the opportunity to listen to an advance copy of this audiobook and to St. Martin’s Griffin and NetGalley for the opportunity to read an advance reader copy of this book. All opinions are my own.

This was a cute book, though I struggled a lot with liking the Main Character - the novel was just typical chick lit “fluff” which is neither good nor bad, just kind of dragged and nothing special to keep my attention.

Hours before Freya and Matthew are supposed to get married, he bumps her in the broom closet...Freya is such a relatable character and I absolutely adore her and her whole friend group. This was a painful slow burn rom-com a tad bit predictable but a fun read. The wedding challenges had me laughing out loud.

Definitely read if you like Bridget Jones’s Diary and have a million weddings to go to this summer.

Admittedly I almost DNFd this book at like 25/30% because I could not get into the story. But I pushed on and ended up being completely enthralled by Freya’s story and her growth and how she ended up realizing it’s okay to not be okay and to tell people how they hurt you. It’s okay to put the past behind you and more forward. It’s okay to move on and be happy. In the end that was what was so great about this story and I almost didn’t get to know that. Make sure you give The Wedding Season a chance because I almost didn’t.