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The Wedding People: A Novel

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.

It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She’s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.

In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.

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Published Jul 30, 2024

384 pages

Average rating: 7.59

3,211 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

sjcb
May 30, 2025
9/10 stars
Made me fall in love again
Psawyer812
May 30, 2025
8/10 stars
Whitty, depressing and light-hearted all at the same time. It's such a fun post pandemic midlife crisis memoir.
sweetlemoneade
May 27, 2025
8/10 stars
Very cute and sweet. Going into this book blind was wild! Very rom-com movie-esque.
juleskshi
May 22, 2025
9/10 stars
i had such a hard time putting this book down. the self reflection was too real sometimes, but it also left me feeling more hopeful about life. the writing also sorta reminded me of an emily henry book where you’re brought along on a vacation and get to enjoy a lot of the banter/humor between the characters. i had a good laugh several times while reading this and thought the characters were solid.
Anonymous
May 20, 2025
8/10 stars
This was a very interesting book. Parts of it felt a bit icky to me, especially the depression / suicide part. It was real, but also not...? I felt as though it made light of these dark feelings and the FMC turned around too quickly.
I loved the connections that formed between the characters, but so much was surface level that I couldn’t connect much with any of them.

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