Save the Date

The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest

By: Jen Doll

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Weddings. They're fun, festive, and joyful - they offer endless opportunities to reexamine love and what we want for ourselves, regardless of whether or not our aim is a walk down the aisle. In Save the Date, Jen Doll charts the course of her own perennial wedding guesthood, from the ceremony of distant family members when she was eight to the recent nuptials of a new boyfriend's friends. Wedding experiences come in as varied an assortment as the gowns at any bridal shop, and Doll turns a keen eye to each, delivering a heartfelt exploration of contemporary relationships. Funny, honest, and affecting, Save the Date is a fresh and spirited look at the many ways in which we connect to one another.

©2014 Jen Doll (P)2014 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Critic reviews

"With humor and honesty...Doll offers a refreshing take on society’s evolving ideas on marriage and the importance of knowing oneself." ( Publishers Weekly)

"Save the Date is a hilarious, open-eyed account of one woman's life as a wedding guest. Doll chronicles the good, the bad, and the drunken with wit and insight into the state of modern marriage." (J. Courtney Sullivan, author of The Engagements and Maine)

"Reading Save the Date is like attending a wedding with the coolest plus-one ever. Jen Doll is witty, charming, and can see through all the BS of the wedding culture while still having a fun time with it." (Drew Magary, author of Someone Could Get Hurt and The Postmortal)

Great narrator but okay book

I felt the narrator was great but the book itself was mediocre. If I had been reading the book myself, I probably wouldn't have finished it.