This book was so fun and cute!!! I love funny side characters and this book was no exception! There were also serious moments that we were very well written and enjoyable to read. Highly recommend.

I loved every second of this book. I loved the friendships, the growth seen In Freya, the love story - it was all incredibly sweet.
Also, as someone with a difficult mother/daughter relationship, I did appreciate seeing true feelings about this topic and the struggle to move forward.
Overall, a definite spring read requirement!

Thank you St.Martin’s Press and NetGalley for my ARC 💗

This was a Charming, hilarious, fun, sweet story. This is a story about when life throws a failed relationship at you, How you make the best out of it. This book had a superb cast of friends and wacky family members. It was very relatable and had me laughing, snoring out loud and crying some too. The romance was swoon worthy and yummy. This would be an excellent summer read. It was truly and entertaining read.

I was given this ARC in exchange for an honest review.




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I loved the wedding season. I normally listen to books on audible so I can’t wait until I can listen to the audiobook. The chemistry between Freya and Jamie was so fun and silly. I wish there was more. It was a little slow in the beginning but once the weddings started I love it.

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I should first say that while this story is cute, funny, and a bit of a romp, the cover and title don’t do it justice. The cover is adorable and our main character does have to attend a series of weddings while getting over a horrendous breakup, but there are so many other unexpected layers.
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Freya’s love life may get top billing but there were important, non romantic relationships - like the not so great one she has with her mother - that are explored and beautifully developed. Life long friendships, new friendships, workplace relationships, and both strong and broken familial ties add to the complexity of this lovely story.
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Not really a spoiler - but maybe - some of the interactions between Freya and her estranged mother had me teary-eyed. While this particular relationship evolves throughout the story, it’s still complicated in the end, and I very much appreciated that.
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As a deliciously entertaining romcom - this book ticked all of the boxes. I love the journey, leading to newfound self compassion and self acceptance that Freya embarks on and I found some of the plot points to be less predictable than most books of this genre. Ultimately, I was elated to find this story to be more than its cute cover led me to expect and I highly recommend it! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go read every other book Katy Birchall has written.
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Thank you 🙏🏻 to the author along with NetGalley and for the digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I don't think I have ever audibly laughed out loud when reading. I did that SEVERAL times during the course of this book. It was witty, it was adorable, and did I mention HILARIOUS?!?!?!?!? Once you get past the "Boohoo I got dumped" part at the beginning, you fall in love with Birchall's secondary characters. Not a single one is half-baked.. I want another book about Phil! PHIL!!!! Actually, a whole series about everyone. This was everything I wanted in a romcom. I want to give copies of this to everyone. It was such a fun read and I loved every moment. I'm going to go drain my bank account to devour everything else written by this author. Just FUN!

I received a complimentary copy of this book through NetGalley. The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

didn't love this book. First off it was definitely women's fiction with a small side of romance. It dragged on sooooo much for me I had to skim so much just to get a move on in the story.

This is a fun read about someone who's jilted the day before her wedding. Her supportive friends help keep her distracted during a busy wedding season. It's predictable, but thoroughly enjoyable.

Thank you to St. Martin's Griffin and NetGalley for the ARC.

4.5/5 Stars.

Once I got into this book it was hard to put down. Freya's character development was wonderful and the side characters were witty and loveable. The story managed to warm your heart while also making you laugh out loud. I will say, to me this leaned more towards women's fiction than a true romance. Nevertheless, I absolutely adored this book and cannot wait to read more by Katy Birchall.

Thank you to the publisher via NetGalley for a copy of this book.

Freya has her game face on and is ready to kick off wedding season with her soon-to-be husband. That is until he pulls her a side the day before to break up with her in a cupboard. Freya must then attend eight weddings that summer while mending her broken heart. Freya and her friends make a game plan - a task to focus on every wedding so she’s not focusing on her broken engagement including bringing home someone’s cuff links, giving a toast, and running in her hotel hallway naked.

I’ve never seen myself in a character more, but basically I am Freya. Besides the whole broken engagement aspect. I was dying laughing throughout this entire book. But even so, a central topic is mending her heartbreak and how life looks after that. Don’t go in thinking it’s all laughs and giggles.

I really enjoyed this one and highly recommend it!

What do a French waiter, a bearded brewer, and a poetry spouting-estranged mother all have to common? Enter The Wedding Season!

Freya Scott’s wedding day has arrived and it’s going to be the perfect event to kick off the wedding season—that is until her fiancé drags her to a broom closet to share that she’s too “together” and “sturdy” so he is going to have to break it off.

What follows for Freya is your typical spiral—What did I do wrong? What could I have done differently? What did I do to make him change his mind.

Enter Freya’s friends who devise quirky challenges to help her break out of this spiral, make it through the wedding season , and just maybe come out a little less dizzy on the other side.

I loved this read by Katy Birchall! It’s perfect for summer, and it has me going to search out more reads by her to enjoy!

Okay - The Wedding Season was absolutely adorable! There were so many laugh-out-loud moments, and dab your eyes with a tissue moments that I couldn't help but turn the page and devour this book in an afternoon! Freya was such a lovable, relatable character, and seeing how she grows into herself after everything she goes through was really awesome. She really inspires anyone going through it to keep putting one foot in front of the other, all while being hilarious and fabulous.

This is a super sweet romcom and will easily be one of my favorite books of the year!
Both funny and touching, the story follows Freya Scott after she’s dumped by her boyfriend of twelve years (in a broom cupboard!!) the day before their wedding.
Her friends come to her rescue, amidst her heartbreak, with a plan of action to get her through a busy wedding season. What follows has to be one of my favorite romance stories ever, and I loved seeing Freya get her own version of a happily ever after.
I think this book is perfect for fans of books by Mhairi McFarlane or Linda Holmes’ Evvie Drake Starts Over.
Thank you so much to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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The day before Freya Scott’s wedding she is dumped, in a broom closet more specifically. Still, just because a relationship ends doesn’t mean your entire life pauses, in fact she has the wedding season ahead of her. Filled with all of her friend’s weddings, Freya doesn’t know how she’ll survive this summer. That is until her best friends come up with a fun bucket list of one task per wedding to distract her. And, of course, the distraction in the form of the cute guy that seems to be invited to most of the weddings, Jaime. As Freya deals with losing who she thought was the love of her life and completing a list of slightly ridiculous tasks, she slowly rediscovers who she is without any man relying on her or hand to hold.

Freya is the perfectly relatable main character. She’s sarcastic and quick as hell, but after the shitstorm that was her last relationship, she’s also scared and more careful in love. She doesn’t fall head over heels for Jaime and immediately forget what happened only a few weeks ago. Instead she takes the time to rediscover who she is without a partner: a bad cook, slightly better gardener, and someone brave enough to go to seven weddings having been dumped the day before her own not that long ago.

In order to travel through the entire wedding season, which lasts for months, the author skips around the scenes to only the necessary ones. We did get some extra scenes in Freya’s friendship with Ruby and Leo and I loved the ones with just Freya taking time to heal, but some felt like random scenes picked. Some of the tasks weren’t even written, just told that they happened. I wish we got more of the actual weddings, but that may also be what I was expecting and then didn’t really receive which is throwing me off.

This book was both a cutesy feel-good romance and not a romance simultaneously. Throughout the book we see Freya reclaim her own identity and watch her slow healing after the end of a 12 (!!) year relationship. The scenes with Ruby and Leo made me laugh out loud and the commitment they have to standing by Freya made me smile so hard.

The ending felt a little rushed, as if we got the entire lead up and then promptly cut off after the first kiss kiss. I was thoroughly enjoying their playful banter and the lead up so I was slightly disappointed that most of it was just flirty back and forth. Overall though, this was a fun lighter read with an emphasis on healing and friendship with the perfect little sprinkle of romance I loved.

Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the chance to read this book in exchange for my honest review.

“When you get dumped the day before your wedding in a broom cupboard, suddenly everything seems a bit shit.”

The Wedding Season is a fun and humorous women’s fiction book about a hard topic: being dumped the day before your wedding. After being with Matthew for 12 years, Freya has to get through Wedding Season by herself. Luckily, she has an amazing family and group of friends to help her move forward.

I really enjoyed this book! I loved watching Freya let loose, seek out new hobbies, be awkward, and forge new and remade relationships. Ruby and Leo are absolutely the best, and I was glad that their wedding was the one to close out Wedding Season. This book is charming and delightful while also giving a lovely reminder that we need to surround ourselves with people “love each other, guide each other, don’t give up on each other” and “don’t let each other give up on ourselves.”

Thanks to St. Martin’s Griffin for this ARC!

Seems like a great book to read if you do. And the cover is really pretty definitely would but it for the soul purpose of it!

Freya has it all together - in life and in love...until the day before her wedding when her fiancé Matthew calls it off in a broom closet. As Freya has to navigate living alone, finding hobbies, and being single for the first time in over a decade, her friends create a list of challenges she must complete in order get through the "wedding season" of the seven weddings she's invited to or participating in the bridal party. The challenges help Freya find herself, what she really wants in love, re-develop a relationship with her estranged mother, and maybe even a new love interest. I enjoyed the story/characters. This is the second book I've read by Katy Birchall and I am officially a fan. Thanks to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

What do you do if you were dumped the day before your wedding? And had to attend MULTIPLE weddings in the aftermath? Make list of crazy things to do to survive! This is the sweetest story of how to live your life after it has been crushed.

Katy Birchall was an author I was introduced to last year with her book The Secret Bridesmaid! I absolutely loved the plot in this book! It was so fun and the challenges were hilarious! I don't think it is a romance but fun nevertheless!
*Thank you so much to the publishers for gifting me an early release copy to give an honest review. My opinions are my own*

The Wedding Season was a cute and fun read about friendship and the impact great friends can have during the sad and difficult times in our lives. I loved Ruby and Leo, and Freya’s dad. They added so much to this book and I honestly wish more of the book was dedicated to them.
Sadly, I feel this is mislabeled as a romance. The main love interest doesn’t even get introduced until almost a quarter of the way into the book and then we don’t see him often enough to really get to know him. It almost felt like there was too much going on and that the author needed to pick one aspect to focus on. Either the friends and tasks or learning to love again.
I did love how we got to see Freya grow and learn to be herself through this book.

Thanks to NetGalley for an eARC f this book in exchange for my honest review.