The adventures of wedding planners are often extremely amusing – if you’re not part of the happy couple or the wedding planner concerned. August is a perfect example of the kind of temperament needed to be successful in this nerve-racking career, and to find him, as an American, working and living in London was a particular treat for me. When he runs into Christopher, the man who broke his heart years ago, I knew things would either go catastrophically wrong or it would be highly romantic for these two guys to finally make it as a couple. Their story teetered on the edge of calamity for quite a while – but the tone of the novel as well as all the various disasters - and some of the perfectly hilarious secondary characters – makes reading it rather entertaining and I loved turning the pages to find out what was next.

To say that August and Christopher have a history makes what they went through sound rather more harmless than what it felt like for both of them. August is neither rich nor from a high-society background, but Christopher is both. August has created distance between his family and himself and stands on his own two feet, Christopher still lets his family and their snobbish attitude about “breeding” and status and money determine his actions. It is the latter that made Christopher break up with August after they were a couple all the way through university and were going to get married. August has never had another relationship, and though he won’t admit it, there is still a lot of pain.

When they meet again, the chemistry is still very obviously there. Even through the pain it causes August, he finds it difficult to resist. Christopher seems to have changed, but he has a heck of a time trying to convince August of that fact, and even when they finally seem to be on the right track, the old fears are alive enough to derail them yet again. Luckily they are both more mature, and Christopher is much more determined to be happy – his way, not his family’s way – so that he refuses to give up this time around. But it’s quite the ride!

If you like romances with lots of humorous situations and great secondary characters, if the romance of wedding planners’ lives is as much your thing as the many small and huge disasters they encounter on the job, and if you’re looking for a read that is emotional, funny, entertaining, and has lots of drama, then you will probably like this novel.


NOTE: This book was provided by Dreamspinner Press for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews. ( )

3.5 ( )