Freya gets left at the altar after 12 years with her college sweetheart and has to pick up the pieces of her life. Unfortunately, she is still surrounded by weddings and planning, but then along cames Jaime who helps her through the worst wedding season of her life.

Overall, this was extremely cute and a quick and easy read. I enjoyed it a great deal and I loved how she had friends to help her through it all.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC for a review.

Dumped the day before her own wedding, Freya's friends come up with a series of challenges to help her get through the eight weddings between her own and the rest of the season. She moves through her grief into acceptance and c0mes out the other side. The premise was believable, and her supporting friendships no less than than stellar. Lovely writing, wonderful details, and even a new love interest!

Such a great read. This was my first read from the author and will definitely check out her other work.

I loved the characters and the friendships. I love when secondary characters contribute just as much to the story.

Highly recommend

This book made me laugh so many times! I want this friend group. Such a cute feel-good book about self discovery and coming to terms with things.

This was a fun and funny book. Loved all the challenges that Freya was given by her friends. I was surprised that she actually followed through. Getting the cufflinks was my favorite. Great story. Recommend for public libraries.

This was so fun and charming! A delightful read! I love when a book is about the heroine's growth and self-discovery - man optional.
Thank you to Katy Birchall, St. Martin's Press, and NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!!

Freya has her whole year planned out, starting with her meticulously organized wedding to her long time boyfriend Matthew. But when Matthew breaks up with her the day before the wedding, it throws her whole life into an uproar. She isn't sure how she'll survive the next month, much less the rest of the year which is populated with the weddings of many of her friends and family. Her best friends Ruby and Leo devise a list for her-a challenge task for each wedding that she's attending so that she can concentrate on each task and not on Matthew's absence. Thus starts her emotional and funny journey through multiple weddings over the course of months.
Freya really grew into herself over the course of the story. I really liked her and I was glad that she liked herself, too.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC in return for my VERY late review.

4 stars! The Wedding Season is a realistic and charming contemporary romance. I recommend this entertaining read.
Thank you to Katy Birchall, St. Martin's Press, and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I really did not see this book coming, and I loved that! I actually had to drop this and come back to it, because the pain of Freya being jilted the day before her wedding was so poignant (not a spoiler, in the synopsis). But I'm so glad I picked it up again, because I could not predict any way this book went! What a refreshing journey for Freya, and I loved how it focused on her story over the "wedding season" and her cast of friends instead of forcing her to move on right away. Matthew is the worst, just have to throw that in there.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for providing an eARC in exchanged for an honest review!

I enjoyed this book, bit it felt dull at certain points.
Freya and Matthew are getting married, until he calls it off right before they walk down the aisle.
Her friends step up to the plate and give her challenges to keep her mind off her life spiraling out of control.
While attending many weddings, she is forced out of her comfort zone and made to do things and meet people that she might not have met before.
I love when authors incorporate texts into the book and the ones between Freya, Leo and Ruby were hilarious.
Thanks to NetGalley for the chance to read and review this title.

The Wedding Season is a fun and emotional contemporary romance. Freya's journey was not only entertaining but also very relatable. I love that as she is going through one of the most heartbreaking moments in her life, she is surrounded by amazing friends who help her along the way.

Four solid stars for this fun story.

The readers follow along with Freya after she is dumped just before her wedding and must then navigate wedding season for all her friends. I love the dynamic relationships she has within her friendship circle and the witty humor throughout this book. The story has more of a focus on her character growth rather than the romance which played out well in this book. Overall a very enjoyable read.

The Wedding Season by Katy Birchall is a wonderfully hilarious and heartwarming romcom with a loveable main character that you cannot help but cheer on and you read. Her situation in the beginning is horrible after a filed relationship, however, Freya makes the best of her life during wedding season and grows throughout in an entertaining manner.

I really enjoyed this book! The Wedding Season was a beautiful ode to finding yourself after heartbreak. Normally I find books like this a bit tedious and overdone, with a classic love interest/rebound popping in halfway through in a very predictable manner. However, the addition of the wedding checklist created by her friends added a fun twist and made it more than your typical romcom. I gave the book 4 stars for a delightful, easy read!

Did not finish book. Stopped at 23%.
I loved Katy Birchall’s first adult book, The Secret Bridesmaid, so I was excited to read this. But the first time I picked this up as an ARC, I had a hard time getting into it. I picked it up a second time as an audiobook hoping that would help, but I still had difficulty getting invested. It's a very different book than The Secret Bridesmaid. It’s more women’s fiction than rom com, and the first 23% drags on without much plot happening. I enjoyed the characters for the most part, but it was just too slow for me.

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review.

The wedding season

Boy, I feel bad about how long it took me to finish this book! And I’ll give you the cliche it wasn’t you it’s me. Because really it wasn’t the book it was totally me.

I couldn’t rave enough about The Secret Bridesmaid the first book I read by this author. So when I saw she was publishing The Wedding Season it was a must-read I needed it!

Well, it did not disappoint. The thing I loved about The Secret Bridesmaid was how funny it was! Neither TSB or TWS fit the typical rom-com narrative because it’s less about a couple's relationship and more about the main character and the changes she makes. The building of her character and relationship with friends and or family. The Wedding Season fits perfectly with that and Birchall was able to again bring a funny, charming story to life with the main character you could easily be friends with.

Freya is all ready for her big day, enjoying her rehearsal when her groom-to-be shocks her by backing out of the wedding. Freya is at the age where everyone you know is getting married or having engagements and showers and doesn’t know how she will be able to handle all the events to come without thinking of her wedding that did not happen. So her friends and herself make a list of quests/challenges for her to compete at each event so she will be distracted. Can Freya complete each task without thinking of Matthew? Or will she let her “sturdy” personality get in the way of trying new more adventurous things.

Filled with beyond-funny banter, friendship, getting back on your feet, and great characters. This book is as wonderful as the last.

I loved the growth of Freya's character over the book.This book will make you want to book a ticket and travel to all the different places Freya goes!

I love Katy Birchall’s writing and will be following this author and reading more from her.

Thank you!

I'm a bit frustrated by the fact that this book was categorized as a romance, it's women's fiction. It's about Freya, who after being left by her fiancé the day before their wedding faces a season's worth of friend's weddings head on. Her friends give her tasks to complete at each wedding to give her something to distract herself. This book is entirely about Freya and her growth, so it is not a romance, it is women's fiction. I was expecting a much lighter book given the blurb and designation as a "rom-com" but it's not overly funny and so much of this was Freya working through her issues. I do think the book was an accurate portrayal of the situation but when that was not what was promised, it made me not enjoy the book as much as I would have knowing what I was getting myself into.

This is so good!!!! Such a great and realistic story! This book had me laughing my head off and truly enjoyed each and every page. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVED the main character Freya and totally related to her experience!

There’s a certain time in your life when it seems like all of your weekends are spent celebrating engagements and weddings. It can be a fun and exciting time—unless, like the jilted young woman in Katy Birchall’s The Wedding Season, you’re still reeling from unexpected heartbreak...

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Me the whole time: BLOCK HIS NUMBER!!

Freya has been dumped the day before her wedding. With it being the wedding season, Freya now has to attend seven friend’s weddings. Her best friends come up with a task for her to complete at each wedding to keep her mind off of her despair. As Freya completes her tasks, she gets to know herself better and becomes more fearless.

This book was quite fun, and it had all the components of a classic romcom. I personally just did not particularly care about any of the characters. I feel very neutral about this book; I did not hate it, but I also did not love it— it was just okay.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press, St. Martin's Griffin and Netgalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.