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Weddings. They’re fun, festive and joyful. Sometimes they come once a year and seem like a good excuse to go on a vacation to a pre-determined destination. Sometimes it seems every weekend is a wedding. In Save the Date, Jen Doll sheds light on the largely untold stories of wedding guesthood, the highs and the lows, charting the course of her life as a perennial wedding guest, from her 8-year-old exploits at the wedding of distant family members to the wedding of a boyfriend’s friends at the age of 36. There’s the first wedding of a college friend, a destination wedding, attended with little baggage beyond a suitcase full of colorful bikinis, strappy sandals, and summery party dresses. A series of weddings led to the painful end of what had been a valued friendship. The time a date showed up wearing black jeans for a formal ceremony. And that first trip home for a childhood pal’s big day, learning that your first love has gone and eloped to Hawaii. Casual or black tie, around the corner or on the other side of the globe, weddings are about love. And not just the love of the marrying couple, but also the love of the guest for that couple, and the love of a guest for, ultimately, herself. We can figure out what we want by examining the weddings we go to; and whatever we do, we will go to weddings. Funny, honest and affecting, Save the Date is a fresh and spirited look at why we marry and all the ways that we connect to one another.