Review: Free for the Wedding
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 7, 2012
Event planner Valerie has been invited to the wedding of two childhood friends. The Groom is the boy she crushed on and the Bride was her best friend. Jason (the Groom) believes he and Heather (the Bride) share a deep romantic history due to a love letter he thinks he received from Heather at eleven years old. Val is horrified when she realizes that the letter SHE wrote in Heather's place so many years ago may be the reason Jason is marrying Heather. Determined to set the record straight and keep her friends from making a mistake due to her actions (and possibly winning Jason for herself), she high-tails it to Virginia. Cue the string of mishaps and adventures on the trip there, and a handsome man she reluctantly takes on as a traveling companion. Is Jason really the one for Val or is this new stranger the one for her?Sometimes predictability is the worst sin a book can commit, but as predictable as this was... I surprisingly didn't mind it. I really just wanted something average, short, cute, easy and simple. This book did that for me. It wasn't the most inventive, mind-blowing, hilarious, or even all that romantic book I've ever read. I enjoyed it anyway because it was relaxing and light-hearted.The characters are likable and the situations are mildly amusing. There were two things that bothered me though. The first was the note which was such a fixture of the story-line. I think eleven was too young to have believably written something like that; I think it would have been a little more natural feeling had the author made them teenagers at least. The second would be the rush at the end to make the "love" connection. It was rushed and really for that kind of sudden declaration, there needs to be more of a romance, which this didn't really have.I would recommend this to those that are looking for something quiet, not something uber exciting and dramatic.*This is a clean book, no sexy times.