As wedding season approaches, love is usually in the air except for Freya. When she is jilted at the alter, she must pick herself up and make it through numerous other weddings. This is made more bearable when she strikes a deal with some friends. This is a light, fun read that inspires readers that often life's most tragic moments help us grow the most.

Freya Scott is suppose to be going down the aisle in her wedding but her fiancee Mathew decides to call it off. Freya friends decide to help her make the most of it anyways she is invited to several weddings and her friends give her tasks to do at each wedding. They come up with a list of things for Freya to do at each wedding.

The tasks are what makes the story interesting Freya who seems not the type to pull of the tasks without a hitch she finds herself at times into peculiar situations which makes this fun and entertaining.

Freya is such a likeable character she goes along with her friends task and makes it through the wedding season regardless even though she is not getting married herself anymore.

I recommend The Wedding Season it was a quick fun read. It is a clean fun romance with characters you can get behind them. Daphne Kouma did a great job narrating the story bringing life to the characters,

Thank you to Netgalley and MacMillian Audio for a free audio version of the book for an honest review.

Freya Scott finds herself jilted hours before she is set to walk down the aisle to wed her longtime boyfriend, Matthew. She is lost, confused and angry. However, her best friends task her with a set of challenges that force her to step outside her comfort zone. She takes these on with a seriousness that was almost comical. Freya was a lovely, admirable character whose enthusiastic attitude regarding her situation was palpable. I highly recommend this story for readers who love romantic comedies or who are looking for a pick-me-up. Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this audiobook.

The story was ok. It moved like molasses and the tasks she needs to do should have had a bit more excitement but I guess because this is a more romcom feel, it couldn’t be as steamy and adventurous as it could have been.

I didn’t love this nearly as much as The Secret Bridesmaid, but once I got past some of the cringy/made me physically angry portions, I enjoyed the book. The MC was annoying but I loved her BFF.

I received an advanced copy. All thoughts are my own.

A cute RomCom style story. Overall I enjoyed the story. Characters were great, writing was great. I know it was overall a story about Freya learning some life lessons, but I do wish we had gotten more of Jamie and Freya's Story.

The narrator was great, a really enjoyable voice to listen to.


Thank you to the publisher for this eARC.

I would love to give feedback on this title but i was not given ample time to provide feedback before the book was archived.

I had quite a few starts and stops to get through this audiobook, but once it got going, it was fine. The narrator, Daphne Kouma, was perfect for the story, but my biggest complaint is that the wedding tasks took so long to actually start that I was losing interest in the story.

This was more an adult “coming of age” story about Freya Scott who is dumped by her boyfriend of 12 years the day before their wedding. She spends the rest of wedding season grieving her relationship and coming to terms with what her future will look like now. To help distract her, her two best friends compile a list of tasks to do at different weddings throughout the season to distract her.

While there were some fun encounters and a bit of romance, I was hoping for a lot more fun and frivolity, so this just didn’t quite hit the mark for me.

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for this ARC.

I absolutely loved The Wedding Season, it was such a fast and easy read. Freya felt relatable and the entire time I was rooting for her. I felt awful for her when her fiancé dumps her the night before her wedding, but in the end it was truly for the best. This definitely checked off all the boxes for what I love in a romcom and if it were a movie as well, it would have me laughing, crying and give all the feels. That’s why I fell in love with the story and would recommend it to anyone as a fun romcom read or even a summer read.

The premise of the story is that Freya is dumped by her fiancé the night before her wedding and it also happens to be ‘the wedding season’ as they had multiple weddings taking place this summer that they were meant to attend as husband and wife. Now she is broken hearted and still has to attend all of her friends weddings while pretending to be okay. Freya and her best friends come up with a plan on how she will survive the wedding season, especially the wedding that both her and her ex will attend. Their plan consist of a list of tasks that Freya must complete at each wedding in order to keep her mind off her heartbreak. Almost like a challenge or something so embarrassing that it keeps her from thinking of Matthew.

What I enjoyed the most were the friendships and other relationships that we discover for Freya. It made the story lighthearted and fun. Plus it shows us how friends can really be there to support you in difficult times and help you come out of situations in a way you didn’t expect.

How do you survive the heartbreak when your fiancé calls off the wedding the day before you were to be married? How will you face the seemingly millions of other upcoming wedding as "the one who got dumped?" Luckily, Freya’s friends help her find a way to focus on a wedding season challenge rather than a broken heart. Each wedding comes with a wild task she must complete. Will the tasks distract her enough from the fact that she gave so many years to a man who didn't want her? Will they distract her from all of the love in the air that she is obviously without?

This was such a cute read! I loved Freya's character, and her friends were a riot. The best kind to have! While it's definitely a romance novel, the journey of Freya's healing and inner strength was really highlighted, and I appreciate that!

I listed to this book on audio, and thought the narrator did a great job, especially in bringing Freya to life.
I received an audio copy of this book via NetGalley. I read and reviewed this book voluntarily, and all opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

The Wedding Season is a novel by Katy Birchall. Freya Scott, brands manager for a multi-national drinks company, was a day away from her magical wedding, the first of eight this season, when her fiancé, Matthew, breaks it off and cancels their wedding. Distraught, Freya spends a few days undercover, but then return to her job to focus on something besides her heartbreak and facing her future alone.

If that were only the worst of it! She still has a summer and fall of friends’ weddings to attend. How will she make it through this season? Her friends Ruby and Leo devise a plan they call the wedding survival guide. At each wedding she has a task to focus on and complete, none simple, some completely outrageous! Somehow along the way, Freya not only heals her heartbreak but also finds her future.

This is a delightful, poignant, laugh out loud funny tale. I loved the author’s humor and heart. I very much enjoyed this book and I do recommend it!

“𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘩, 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵.”

𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖: on the day before their wedding matthew tells freya that their relationship is over. freya then has to go through an entire summer of weddings while dealing with her heartbreak.

𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒: going into this one i was expecting a romantic comedy. while there were certainly some elements of romance in the story i feel like this was about a lot more. it was more about freyas time of self reflection and healing from her breakup and it was also about the importance of friendship. i absolutely adored her best friends ruby & leo and all they they did to support her throughout the summer after the breakup. and i also enjoyed the plot line of freya and her mother trying to mend their broken relationship. overall this one surprised me in a good way. it also had me laughing out loud on several occasions. i definitely recommend.

𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆: i liked it!

special thank you to NetGalley, Macmillan Audio & Katy Birchall an ALC of this book in exchange for an honest review!

This one surprised me. It was about Freya’s journey of overcoming a breakup and self discovery during that process. There wasn’t a lot of romance which worked perfectly with this story, but there was a splash of a love interest who I loved! It was a beautiful messy journey of the the ups and downs losing someone who was a huge part of you and having to recreate yourself putting the pieces together. This was a wonderful feel good read. Thank you to the publisher and to NetGalley for the opportunity to listen to this read in exchange for a review.

I absolutely adored The Secret Bridesmaid by Kary Birchall so I was really excited when I got an ARC from NetGalley of The Wedding Season. This started off very strong with a captivating storyline and some really great characters. I really liked the development of the characters in this but didn't find the Jamie storyline as natural and organic as I think Birchall was going for. This is what keeps me from giving this otherwise adorable rom-com 5 stars. I loved the different wedding tasks and thought this was so cute and heartwarming. I look forward to Birchalls' next wedding themed rom-com!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Last year I loved reading The Secret Bridesmaid and The Wedding Season was just as great. Although one may expect these books to be rom coms, they are actually more of contemporary fiction with some romance included. In this one, Freya is dumped in a broom closet by her fiancé the day before their wedding. Since theirs was meant to be the first of 8 weddings Freya would be attending, her best friends Ruby and Leo come up with fun and silly things for her to do at each wedding in order to distract her. At one she has to be the last one on the dance floor, at one she has to kiss someone goodnight, etc. I found Freya's inner thoughts to be funny and amusing, while the audio narrator did annoy me a bit - when saying someone sighed or laughed, she would also sigh, or laugh or whatever.

I thought The Wedding Season was going to be a romance, and although there is a romantic storyline, the majority of the story is about friendship, figuring out what you want you out of life and letting go and having fun. Freya Scott is an organized, smart and ambitious woman who is dumped by her fiancé the night before their wedding. He didn't feel like she needed him and that she was too rigid and organized. To get her through the Wedding Season, her BFFs Ruby and Leo, who are engaged and getting married that summer, come up with a list of things for Freya to do, something at each wedding. Some are fun, some are serious, but all will get Freya out of her comfort zone.

I really enjoyed this book, even though it was not what I was expecting. Freya is very uptight in many ways and doesn't see herself as others do. She has to deal with a devastating experience, and find closure. She also has a very difficult relationship with her mother that she needs to work through, as both have very different ideas of what happened there. I enjoyed seeing Freya complete the various tasks/challenges on the list, some putting her in very funny situations. I loved how Freya's friends supported her and helped her deal with the situation she is in. Finally the romance, Matthew was a creep. The way he treated Freya after all the time they had been together was terrible, he was such a coward. Freya was better off without him. She met someone at a couple of the events she was at and they clicked. It wasn't a whirlwind romance, but a friendship that develops into something a little more. Daphne Kouma narrates this story and does a great job. Using expression, tone and various accents she is able to give voice to the various characters that enhanced my enjoyment of the story. I really liked this story that was more of a women's fiction story with humor, friendship, finding yourself and some romance. A great summer story, I recommend.

How fun is this concept?!

This was such a witty and charming read. It had a swoon worthy, slow burn romance but it was also so much more.

After being dumped just hours before your own wedding, as you can imagine, this one started off pretty deep and emotional but then turned into a beautiful and inspirational journey of self discovery as Freya learned how to be happy on her own after a 12 year relationship.

By the end, I was so invested and felt so connected to Freya that I was so excitedly cheering her on! I would love to see this one adapted!

I really enjoy Katy Birchall's writing style and fun wedding storylines. I was instantly sucked in by the main character and loved that you also heard what was going on in her head during the crazy situations she encountered throughout the book. If you are looking for light hearted read, I highly recommend this book!

This wasn't what I thought it would be. I thought it would be a light romcom and I would laugh and fall in love with a couple falling in love. Even though this book didn't start out this way, all those things still happened. Freya gets jilted before they make it to the wedding day and she spends the book trying to find out who is she when she's not part of a couple. Her journey is painful for her at times but sets up some amusing scenes and new potential relationships. I enjoyed getting to know her and watching her grow.

Narration was well done, no issues.

The day before her long-planned wedding, Freya’s fiancée calls it off, in a broom closet amidst the elaborate preparations. As if that isn’t bad enough, theirs was the first of eight weddings planned for the summer amongst their circle of friends. Heart-broken and embarrassed, Freya doesn’t want to be pitied or to miss her friends’ celebrations. But it’s really tough. So a couple of friends (who also plan to get married that summer) set her a list of zany tasks to complete at each affair to help her cope. With nothing to lose, Freya takes on the list and learns that her life isn’t over after all. She even manages to reconnect with her semi-estranged mother along the way, surprising them both. This humorous read offers a look at how second chances pop up when one least expects. Recommended pool or beachside reading (or to read in a hammock).