Friday, June 10, 2022

Eight wedding novels for all the lovers and the haters

Celia Laskey is the author of So Happy for You and Under the Rainbow, a finalist for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her other work has appeared in Guernica, The Minnesota Review, Day One, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from the University of New Mexico and currently lives in Los Angeles with her wife and their dog Whiskey.

At Lit Hub Lasky tagged eight novels for "either a wedding lover who gets teary-eyed at every ceremony and hits the dance floor hard at the reception, or a wedding hater who begrudgingly buys plane tickets, bristling at the disturbing sameness of most weddings." One of the titles for a wedding hater:
Lucy Foley, The Guest List

Wedding novel meets murder mystery in this thriller about a splashy wedding on a remote island off the coast of Ireland. The main characters include the bridezilla, the bridesmaid, the best man, the wedding planner, the plus one… and the body! Much like any novel for wedding haters, resentments and jealousies come to the surface over the course of the wedding, but these ones are big enough to propel a murder.
Read about the other entries on the list at Lit Hub.

Also see: the six most momentous weddings in fiction.

--Marshal Zeringue