Wedding Set Rom-Com Reads

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Anna and West didn’t have much in common in college. He was a buttoned-up heir to a grocery chain and she was a free-spirited artist. They’re college marriage was a sham to get her access to subsidized family housing at UCLA. She thought their divorce was finalized at graduation.

Three years later, Anna is a starving artist while West is a Stanford professor. He has little interest in joining the family business, which he views as a heartless corporation, but he is interested in receiving his inheritance.

When it turns out that a clause in his grandfather’s will requires him to be happily married for five years before receiving one hundred million dollars, Liam thinks his marriage to Anna puts him in the home stretch. But now his family is pressuring him to meet his mysterious spouse. First, Liam worries about how his family will react to paint-splatter, foul-mouthed Anna. Then he begins to worry that introducing her into his toxic world of wealth will corrupt his pure-hearted fake wife.

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Best friends Lexie and Scarlet find themselves attending yet another wedding—perhaps their ninth or tenth of the summer. To keep things entertaining, they invent a wedding-themed bingo game, with challenges like spotting a tipsy bridesmaid, enduring an awkward best man’s speech, and dancing to a terrible DJ. The final task? Kiss a groomsman.

Lexie anticipates a lighthearted diversion but is caught off guard when she meets not one, but two captivating groomsmen: Chris, a tall, dark, and handsome man departing for New York that very night, and Josh, a charmingly rugged farmer.

Though they’ve just met, Christ impulsively invites Lexie for a weekend away in New York City. As she navigates this unexpected romantic dilemma, Lexie must decide if love is truly in the cards and, if so, with whom.

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Having watched her mother get married more times than she can count on one hand, Ama is confident that getting married is not for her. Nevertheless, Ama loves working as a wedding planner and especially enjoys matching her clients with the perfect vendors to create the wedding of their dreams.

Elliot hates being a florist. His father left the flower shop to him, and now he feels stuck with it. But flowers do have one thing going for them—they can’t run off and refuse to speak to him again, like Ama did when he proposed to her two years ago.

Now, Ama has been hired to plan a celebrity wedding that promises national exposure for her business. The only catch is that Elliot has already been hired for the flowers. Worst of all, the two brides have picked up on the chemistry between Ama and Elliot, and, oblivious to the pair’s complicated history, they are determined to set them up.

Add in a reality TV film crew documenting each step of the wedding prep. For Ama and Elliot, their hearts and livelihoods are both on the line.

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Penelope is a hard-working and bubbly Californian. Her fiancé, Chase, is smart, charming, and has future political aspirations. Everyone is looking forward to their over-the-top dream wedding…except their mothers.

Penelope’s mom, Alexa, is Greek, and as a single mom, she doesn’t understand why any woman would get married. Chase’s mom, Abigail, lives in Coastal Connecticut and doesn’t understand why the wedding isn’t happening at her golf club. Then, a sudden twist of fate leaves these very different mother-in-laws in charge of finishing the wedding planning together.

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Rachel Vinson has created a successful but secretive business in the wedding industry. For a fee, she provides the perfect bridesmaids for any wedding. Of course, no one knows they are paid, and it’s crucial to stay undercover to avoid embarrassing the bride. While she has a full staff, Rachel heads to the highest-profile events herself, which is how she ended up at the luxe wedding of an Instagram influencer in Hawaii.

Rachel is serving as the maid-of-honor opposite the groom’s business partner and long-time best friend, Camden. Camden is understandably suspicious of Rachel since he’s never met her before, and he has been burned by people misleading him in the past. 

As their interactions increase throughout the week, Rachel is determined to keep him at a distance, but fate continues pulling them closer together, often through near-disaster wedding moments.

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Influencer Mia Bell has lived her life online for years, and what makes for better content than planning a wedding? Every aspect of the elaborate affair is being entirely paid for by sponsors. There’s only one problem – she’s no longer engaged. To save face (and sponsors) she fakes the wedding. When the pressure gets to be too much, Mia retreats to her mother’s home in Colorado. She impulsively throws her phone over a cliff, vowing to live off-line and off-the-grid for a while.

Mia’s followers are concerned about her sudden absence, but techie loner Paige sees it as an opportunity. Motivated by her desire to bond with her sister, Jessica, Paige hacks into Mia’s account and begins impersonating Mia. Paige begins to enjoy her fake life a bit too much, causing chaos along the way.

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As long as Meredith can remember, she’s spent summer at Martha’s Vineyard. But this is her first year back since her sister died. To make things more overwhelming, her entire extended family will be there to celebrate her cousin’s wedding. She has to face the family alone since her long-time boyfriend just dumped her.

Thankfully, one family tradition will help distract her. Each summer, they play an ultimate game of Assassin, with this year’s game scheduled during the wedding week. Her target is one of the very cute groomsmen. As the week progresses, her resolve to stay single is tested.

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Lily is a great writer, has a reliable job, and has great friends. But she’s also 32 and single… which is all her mom can seem to focus on. It’s especially hard to ignore her relationship status when everyone else around her is getting married – she’s a bridesmaid in five weddings in six weeks.

She’ll go to any length for the love of her friends, but she also needs a place to vent. Which is why she starts an anonymous blog called Bridesmania where she dishes on mom-zillas, wicked bridesmaids, body-shaming dress clerks, and even her 88-year-old Granny (who she’s recently been deemed the guardian of) who prefers to enjoy her morning mimosas in the nude. Of course, we all know that secrets are hard to keep on the internet…

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Max has carved out a unique career for himself. He’s a professional wedding disruptor. Brides hire him to object at ceremonies so they don’t have to call off their own weddings.

Sophie found out right before her marriage that she’s been cheated on again. She hires the gorgeous Max to step in and confront her fiancé. Sophie enjoys the revenge so much that Max asks her to start working with him to expose cheating women the same way he handles the men. But things get complicated when they’re hired by the man who is marrying a girl who broke Max’s heart.

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As she’s planning her daughter’s wedding, Marcy is also trying to finalize her divorce after a long marriage. She’s been separated long enough to have a new boyfriend pushing for a commitment, and now her ex-husband Harvey wants to get back together too. 

Marcy’s too busy with the wedding to deal with her own man problems. It turns out weddings bring out the worst in everyone. And it doesn’t help that her daughter’s new in-laws keep stealing items everywhere they go! 

As Marcy realizes that it might be impossible to keep everyone happy, she knows it’s time to make the hard choice between old and new.

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Rachel is a New Yorker who agrees to spend the summer in Singapore, her boyfriend Nick’s home country while he attends his best friend’s wedding. He just failed to mention one crucial aspect of his life. He is considered Singapore’s most eligible bachelor and the lavish wedding they’ll be attending is billed as the wedding-of-the-century.

Nick’s family is essentially royalty, with younger generations expected to comply with the older generations’ wishes for their life (and spouse) choices. Rachel struggles to fit in with Nick’s family and friends at all the over-the-top events leading up to the wedding.

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After a lonely childhood raised with a cold, distant stepfamily, Delilah swore she’d never return to her hometown of Bright Falls, Oregon. But when her estranged stepsister, Astrid, begins pressuring her to return home to photograph her wedding, the guilt trip and the promise of a five-figure payment are more than Delilah can turn down.

Delilah is determined to breeze in and out of town and be back home in New York as soon as possible. But while she’s there, she figures it can’t hurt to have a little fun with Claire, Astrid’s cute bestie.

The idea is less appealing to Claire, who has a lot on her plate. Between running her bookstore and raising her preteen daughter without much help from her ex-husband, Clair prefers to keep life simple and surprise-free whenever possible.

Delilah definitely feels like an unwelcome surprise that could disrupt Claire’s life. Claire would prefer to keep her distance, but as the two are repeatedly thrown together for wedding preparation tasks, Claire begins to find Astrid’s charms harder to resist.

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When American Rebecca (Bex) Porter moves to the UK to attend Oxford University, she’s shocked to discover that she’s living down the hall from Prince Nicholas, the future king of England. Living in close quarters allows Bex to get to know the real Nick – the person behind the title. 

When their friendship develops into more, Bex is thrust into a ritzy world of society events, exclusive ski trips, and dinners at Kensington Palace. But the glamour comes with loads of baggage – from intrusive tabloids and ex-girlfriends to long-held royal family secrets.

How much is Bex willing to sacrifice for Nick? Will the pressures of the Crown ultimately come between them?

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Maggie is enjoying a well-deserved vacation from her wedding planning business. She’s determined to relax and not think about work. But that’s before she hears that the wedding of the century is happening right there in Bora Bora. If only she had an in, this could help her take her business to the next level.

Unfortunately, that ‘in” comes in the form of the absolute last person she wants to bump into on vacation. Brody is her brother’s best friend and her sworn enemy. It turns out his boss’s daughter is the one getting married and he’s in Bora Bora for the wedding in hopes that it will earn him brownie points toward a big promotion.

Maggie and Brody decide to put their hate for each other aside and pretend to be boyfriend and girlfriend for the sake of the wedding. What could go wrong?

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Exes Addie and Dylan haven’t spoken in two years, but are both headed to their friend’s wedding in Scotland. When their cars crash into each other, they have no choice but to carpool if they want to make it to the wedding on time. In addition to Addie and Dylan, Dylan’s best friend, Addie’s sister, and a random guy from Facebook who needed a ride are crammed into a Mini for the long ride across England.

Along the way, Addie and Dylan are forced to explore the events that tore them apart.

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Jude and Indira have been enemies since childhood and, even as adults, remain polar opposites. Jude is a doctor who has been traveling the world from one humanitarian crisis to another, but still feels like he has nothing in his life together. Meanwhile, Indira has the perfect job and dream boyfriend…until she doesn’t.

At a mutual friend’s stressful wedding event, Jude and Indira agree to be each other’s fake dates to remove the stress of showing up alone. But when they’re forced to be closer than expected, will they realize that this wedding from hell really is better when they’re together?

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This is a laugh-out-loud lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers tale in which the enemies are the bride and groom.

When Naomi and Nicholas separately both get cool feet three months before their wedding, they find out that whoever cancels is financially responsible for the nonrefundable wedding bill.

Can either of them get the other person to cancel? Or will they rediscover love through pranks and sabotage?

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Maryam is on her way to her sister’s impromptu wedding, and Anna is headed to meet her boyfriend’s wealthy family. These two strangers are seatmates on a flight to Toronto when they find themselves in extreme turbulence. The scary flight causes the two women to confess their deepest hopes and fears to each other.

They think they’ll never see each other again, but the rough ride leads to an emergency landing in Ottawa. Instead of making it to Toronto, the duo (along with Maryam’s sister’s entire bridal party and Saif, the love of Maryam’s life) find themselves at the quirky Snow Falls Inn in a picture-perfect town. Could being snowbound in a small town unexpectedly turn into the best holiday ever?