{"id":48516,"date":"2023-08-10T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=48516"},"modified":"2023-07-15T14:43:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T19:43:11","slug":"books-with-wedding-themes-or-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/books-with-wedding-themes-or-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Books with Wedding Themes or Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know about you, but I go to many weddings in the summer! According to a survey done by The Knot<\/a>, weddings hit peak season when the weather is more favorable. In European countries, late summer (August\/September) is most popular. In the US, October is the top month. No matter when you have your wedding, there is practically guaranteed to be downtime for the guests at some point. If you’re like me, you never travel without a book, so having a wedding-themed book with you AT a wedding seems very fitting!<\/p>\n

Below is a list of new and forthcoming books with wedding themes or settings that you can find at the Davenport Public Library. Descriptions have been provided by the publisher and\/or author.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Best Men<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Sidney Karger<\/p>\n

Max Moody thought he had everything figured out. He\u2019s trying to live his best life in New York City and has the best friend a gay guy could ask for: Paige. She and Max grew up next door to each other in the suburbs of Chicago. She can light up any party. She finishes his sentences. She\u2019s always a reliable splunch (they don\u2019t like to use the word brunch) partner. But then Max\u2019s whole world is turned upside down when Paige suddenly announces some huge news: she\u2019s engaged and wants Max to be her man of honor. Max was always the romantic one who imagined he would get married before the unpredictable Paige and is shocked to hear she\u2019s ready to settle down. But it turns out there\u2019s not just one new man in Paige\u2019s life\u2014there are two.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the groom, Austin, who\u2019s a perfectly nice guy. Then there\u2019s his charming, fun and ridiculously handsome gay younger brother, Chasten, who is Austin\u2019s best man. As Paige\u2019s wedding draws closer, Max, the introverted Midwesterner, and Chasten, the social butterfly East Coaster, realize they\u2019re like oil and water. Yet they still have to figure out how to coexist in Paige\u2019s life while not making her wedding festivities all about them. But can the tiny romantic spark between these two very different guys transform their best man supporting roles into the leading best men in each other\u2019s lives?<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Jana Goes Wild<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>by Farah Heron<\/p>\n

Jana Suleiman has never really fit in\u2014everyone always sees her as too aloof, too cool, too perfect. The one time she stepped out of her comfort zone she ended up with a broken heart and a baby on the way. Aaaand lesson learned. Now she\u2019s a bridesmaid for a destination wedding in Serengeti National Park, and almost everyone she knows will be there. Her five-year-old daughter. Her mom. Her friends. Even her potential new boss. And of course (because who doesn\u2019t love surprises!) her gorgeous-but-not-to-be-trusted ex.<\/em><\/p>\n

Fortunately, Anil Malek is a great dad, even if Jana hasn\u2019t quite forgiven him for lying to her all those years ago. Determined to show he has no effect on her whatsoever, she and the bridesmaids concoct a go-wild list to get Jana through the week. Sing karaoke? Sure. Perform their high school dance routine in front of strangers? Okay. But the more she lets down her guard, the less protection she has against her attraction to Anil. And Jana soon realizes it\u2019s one thing to walk on the wild side . . . and quite another to fall for her ex all over again.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Big Gay Wedding<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Byron Lane<\/p>\n

Barnett Durang has a secret. No, not THAT secret. His widowed mother has long known he\u2019s gay. The secret is Barnett is getting married. At his mother\u2019s farm. In their small Louisiana town. She just doesn\u2019t know it yet.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019ll be an intimate affair. Just two hundred or so of the most fabulous folks Barnett is shipping in from the \u201cheathen coasts,\u201d as Mom likes to call them, turning her quiet rescue farm for misfit animals into a most unlikely wedding venue.<\/em><\/p>\n

But there are forces, both within this modern new family and in the town itself, that really don\u2019t want to see this handsome couple march down the aisle. It\u2019ll be the biggest, gayest event in the town\u2019s history if they can pull it off, and after a glitter-filled week, nothing will ever be the same. Big Gay Wedding is an uplifting book about the power of family and the unconditional love of a mother for her son.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Love at First Set<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Jennifer Dugan<\/p>\n

The gym is Lizzie\u2019s life\u2014it\u2019s her passion, her job, and the only place that\u2019s ever felt like home. Unfortunately, her bosses consider her a glorified check-in girl at best, and the gym punching bag at worst.<\/em><\/p>\n

When their son, Lizzie\u2019s best friend, James, begs her to be his plus one at his perfect sister Cara\u2019s wedding, things go wrong immediately, and culminate in Lizzie giving a drunken pep talk to a hot stranger in the women\u2019s bathroom\u2014except that stranger is actually the bride-to-be, and Lizzie has accidentally convinced her to ditch her groom.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, newly directionless Cara is on a quest to find herself, and Lizzie\u2014desperate to make sure her bosses never find out her role in this fiasco\u2014gets strong-armed by James into \u201centertaining\u201d her. Cara doesn\u2019t have to know it\u2019s a setup; it\u2019ll just be a quick fling before she sobers up and goes back to her real life. After all, how could someone like Cara fall for someone like Lizzie, with no career and no future?<\/em><\/p>\n

But the more Lizzie gets to know Cara, the more she likes her, and the bigger the potential disaster if any of her rapidly multiplying secrets get out. Because now it\u2019s not just Lizzie\u2019s job and entire future on the line, but also the girl of her dreams.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Plus One<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Mazey Eddings<\/p>\n

Some facts are indisputable. The sun rises in the east, sets in the west. Gravity exists. Indira doesn\u2019t like Jude. Jude doesn\u2019t like Indira. But what happens when these childhood enemies find the only thing they can rely on is each other?<\/em><\/p>\n

On paper, Indira has everything together. An amazing job, a boyfriend, and a car. What more could a late twenty-something ask for? But when she walks in on her boyfriend in an amorous embrace with a stranger, that perfect on paper image goes up in flames.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jude has nothing together. A doctor that\u2019s spent the last three years traveling the world to treat emergencies and humanitarian crises, a quick trip home for his best friend\u2019s wedding has him struggling to readjust.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thrust into an elaborate (and ridiculously drawn out) wedding event that\u2019s stressing Jude beyond belief and has Indira seeing her ex and his new girlfriend far more frequently than any human should endure, the duo strike a bargain to be each other\u2019s fake dates to this wedding from hell. The only problem is, their forced proximity and fake displays of affection are starting to feel a bit\u2026real, and both are left grappling with the idea that a situation that couldn\u2019t be worse, is made a little better with the other around.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Want some more books with wedding themes or settings? Try these:<\/p>\n