The Wedding Date Kindle Edition

4.3/5.0For fans of Sally Thorne's "The Hating Game," comes Jasmine Guillory's epic contemporary romance with a successful woman who knows what she wants, what she doesn't, and is striving to discover how much she's willing to risk to get it. Alexa is a driven woman in politics at the City Hall, but she has set aside her relationship goals to pursue her career with a single-minded focus. Cue being trapped in an elevator with sexy stranger Drew. Drew is dreading attending his best friend's wedding to his ex. In a moment of desperation, he begs Alexa to be his date to the event. What follows is beautiful, humorous, and frustrating while you wait for these two to realize they are meant to be. Jasmine does an amazing job of highlighting Black voices in this genre in an authentic way and showing all sizes/shapes/colors deserve their space in books. Highly recommend reading this and the rest of the series.

I usually don’t indulge in rom-com books cause they are so predictable but I’m glad I gave this one a chance. It sorta grabbed me by the throat and wouldn’t let go. I enjoyed each character. It even made me blush a few times.

5/5 recommend. I loved the premise for this book and boy did Jasmine G not disappoint. This book flowed so well, every character was well written and their wasn’t any unnecessarily long monologues or explanations of feelings from the characters. Drew and Alexa had chemistry that jumped off the page. I would read this again. I wasn’t expecting this book to be so steamy but no complaints here I loved every second of it. With the loads of sex and angst this still was a cute love story. I feel that the author Jasmine portrayed Alexa & Drew’s multiracial “friends” with benefits relationship spectacularly. I couldn’t stop reading. I thought their relationship was so passionate, beautiful, real and raw. Something in a relationship I’m hoping for. Getting stuck in an elevator with a really hot guy, starting a fake relationship, having so much passion that you can’t stay away from each other, fighting back the feelings after you sworn off relationships but at last love wins, you admit to falling hopelessly in love and go to live happily ever after - see why can’t I get a meet cute like that. Where’s my drew ? 😂 lol

This book has been on my TBR forever and I’m glad I finally read it.Now, normally I see a meet-cute and think to myself, awe, that would be a fun way to meet a guy… Stuck in an elevator is not a fun way to meet a guy! Although, if he’s a doctor and I have cheese and crackers… But stuck in the dark seems a good way to describe these two.Alexa is a lawyer, chief of staff to the mayor, wanting to make an impact. She has a core group of friends that mean the world to her, she has a sister she loves, and when you read the story you see her comparing herself to everyone else, and you want to give her a hug. She lives in Berkeley.Drew is a doctor, a pediatric surgeon, I’ll pause for the awwwws. He has ended every single relationship he’s been in after 1-2 months, yet seems to remain friends with his exes. He lives in LA.So, a doctor and a lawyer get stuck in an elevator… He actually needs a fake date to a wedding, she helps him. In real life this would be the end of it, actually if this was my life I would need something to relax after being stuck in that elevator! But you know those meet-cutes.But there’s more than distance keeping these two apart. Alexa is black and Drew is white, and to Alexa that makes a huge impact at times. Especially when they run into all those California blondes. They both need to work out their demons to figure out how to make it work.

A cute, well written love story! I truly enjoyed the plot and cast of characters and it was just cheesy enough to bring a smile to my face lol!

Such an awesome book. I’m hooked on the series now

I throughly enjoyed this book. I love Jasmine Guillory's writing and the way in which she develops her characters. I'm looking forward to the rest of the books in the series.

I mistakenly thought this book was the basis for the movie The Wedding Date but it is not. This is a totally different story. However, I do not regret purchasing this book because this is a really good read and I would highly recommend it to anyone who loves romance.

Do you like fake dating, forced proximity and a commitment phobe MMC? And also the miscommunication trope? If so then this might be the book for you!I really enjoyed the chemistry between the two main characters. However, when... certain scenes started playing out I thought we were in for some serious spice and unfortunately this is a door half-closed book so in that sense it fell a little flat for me. It was like we were being teased and then rejected.Alexa is the epitome of many women I know which made me dislike her in the first half of the book 😂 (yes I am the worst lesbian ever) and I adored Drew.I wish I could eat like the characters in this book though! I don't think they ate one healthy thing the whole way through! (Actually there might have been one mention of a salad...)I adored the ending and I can't wait to read the next book in the series!

After getting stuck in an elevator together, Alexa agrees to be Drew's plus one to the wedding of his ex-girlfriend. But, what starts out as a fake relationship turns into something real when the weekend is over and they can't stop thinking about each other... Will their new long distance relationship work out, or will they get in their own way (like they always do...)?It's rare that romance books get mainstream coverage, so my interest was definitely piqued when I saw The Wedding Date popping up everywhere - and I couldn't resist when I spotted that it was just £1.99 on Kindle. A feel-good, heartwarming read that I couldn't put down, this book starts out with a sweet meet-cute and then throws adorable and sexy moment after adorable and sexy moment at you, until you're as in love with these characters as they are with each other.It's so much easier to get into a romance novel, for me, if the characters have other interests other than each other - and that couldn't be more the case here. Alexa is the mayor's chief of staff working on the biggest and most meaningful project of her life, whilst Drew is a paediatric surgeon, and both have a cast of friends and family with whom they have relationships that I was equally invested in as I was in the romance.My other favourite part of the book is they way that it weaved in discussion of racism, and the realities of being a black woman dating a white guy, who has mostly white friends. They way they both deal with that situation really adds another level to their story, and felt very real to me. I really can't wait for Jasmine's next book, which is coming out later this year, featuring a character we've already met...

I enjoyed this book. Alexa was a very likable lead, with an interesting job and a reasonably well developed back story. I liked that she was described as being a little larger than the often very slim heroines of romance novels, and was still beautiful and desirable. I thought issues around race and dating were dealt with well (Alexa is black and Drew is white). There are moments where Alexa has to point out the differences in their experiences that Drew hasn't noticed and these work really well and add a layer of realism to their romance. The romance was sweet, and the way that their feelings develop and deepen for each other was believable and sweet. The food was described very well and I had a hankering for many of the foods they ate, especially the oft mentioned donuts! The only draw back for me was the love interest Drew. He had a lot of good qualities and I could see why Alexa would fall for him... but he also had some pretty unpleasant characteristics: some fairly troubling bouts of jealousy over Alexa's male friend and his own best friend, belittling Alexa's work when they are in the midst of an argument, kicking and throwing things, and treating his 'best' friend really badly (I have no idea why Carlos stuck around to be shouted at). This unpleasant side to Drew built up in the second half of the novel and since he was given far less grounding (his backstory is that he is a pediatric surgeon and had a lot of short term girlfriends) I was left feeling like he really wasn't the perfect match for Alexa. This wouldn't be a problem in another genre (people fall for the wrong people all the time), but as it was a romance novel, I really wanted to believe Alexa would live happily ever after; but by the end I was hoping for a twist and that she'd actually end up with someone else. I still think this was a great novel, and would recommend it to others, I may just rejig the ending a little bit in my head!

THE WEDDING DATE is the utterly adorable romance charming in both its story telling and delivery.It begins with a chance meeting between Alexa Monroe and Drew Nichols. Alexa is in town meeting her sister at the hotel in which she is staying. In a rush to get up to her sister’s room she barely notices the stranger who is on board with her. That quickly changes when the power goes out and they become stuck.The stranger in question is handsome paediatric surgeon, Drew. He’s a reluctant member of a Wedding party taking place over the next few days. Getting stuck in an elevator is an inconvenience he can do without, but once he strikes up a conversation with his fellow detainee, it quickly becomes the highlight of his day.The ease of interaction and conversation became them would become a real source of enjoyment for me. Although they have a “known” each other a short while it makes perfect sense for Drew to invite Alexa to be his wedding date. It’s a welcomed element of fun and mischief to the story, and the beginning of friendship that so wonderfully blossoms into more.I have to say how much I really enjoyed Alexa as a heroine. She was smart , driven and one hell of a classy lady.

...but hate to admit that I really didn’t enjoy this sadly. Felt like it was a chore to finish it. I will admit that it was rather refreshing to read a book that featured a normal size woman as a lead character but then it was overly mentioned which put me off as was making it more of a thing.