Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest
In this insightful memoir, Doll examines weddings and marriage through the lens of her own friends’ unions. She has been to numerous weddings, and she has stories from all of them, ranging from confronting a high-school nemesis, to aiding a bride who has a severe allergic reaction to peanuts, to having a drunken meltdown in a bar as her friends are trying to get her to go home. Doll’s impressions of her friends’ intendeds are mostly positive, but her inability to support one pairing ends up costing her a friendship. Doll runs into this friend, Ginny, at several weddings, and despite her attempts to make amends, the rift is never quite healed. Though she dreads the clichéd bouquet toss, like so many other singletons, she can’t help but wonder if she will find love during the course of one wedding weekend. Doll is an engaging guide through the landscape of modern-day courtship and nuptials, and her book will have particular appeal for women in their twenties, thirties, and forties navigating the wedding circuit themselves. --Kristine Huntley