I received a free digital copy of this book from the publishers/author via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

When Nora gets engaged to her childhood friend turned love of her life, it’s only natural that she gets some of her best friends together to be her bridesmaid. The only problem is, while all the girls love Nora, they don’t always get on with each other. This book follows the bridal group from engagement to wedding day and involves a lot of wedding dress shopping strops, secrets revealed and problems shared.

This book was just a great big heap of light-hearted refreshment and I really, really enjoyed reading it. It didn’t take me too long into the book to be able to separate out all of the girls from Nora, the bride-to-be, Bea, the childhood bestie, Cleo, the college bestie, Daisy, the back packer friend and Sarah, the one who married into it all. All the girls soon had their own unique voices and I was able to fall into each part of the story with not much difficulty in knowing straight away who I was following. The only few stumbles i had was between Cleo and Bea and only because for some reason, my mind sometimes felt like their names were the same.

I will say that as a 25-year-old, I’m not yet in the friends getting married years of my life so I have never been part of a wedding party, so I have never had to deal with the woes of being a bridesmaid, organising hen dos and potentially dealing with wedding day disasters. This book did sometimes make me hope I would never have to be a bridesmaid because it was slightly overwhelming how much they were doing, even though it all seemed like great fun.

I loved the chemistry the group had together, especially near the end of the book and the night before the wedding. Even though they started out a bit so-so with each other, the girls really ended up becoming a solid unit and being there for each other and I absolutely loved it. By the end of it, I wanted to be their friend. I didn’t really want the book to end to be honest, and just wanted to follow their lives forever.

While the main relationships in this book are the girls’ friendship, there are obviously some romantic debacles in this book too and I totally was a sucker for them. My favourite character was Cleo and I really loved her romantic storyline, and Bea’s made me very happy by the end too.

I’m also calling out for a Nora and Harry getting together for the first time novella, because that would be the cutest. Or just more novels about all of the girls because yes please!