The first book--The Wedding Game, by Meghan Quinn--is the second book I've read recently that revolves around a reality TV show. And, just like the other one, both heroes are jaded divorce lawyers. Go figure. Have I just discovered a secret trope?
The Wedding Game
Meghan Quinn
Meghan Quinn
https://www.amazon.com/Wedding-Game-Meghan-Quinn-ebook/dp/B0899QWN9Y/ref=sr_1_1
USA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn’s latest bauble is the charming story of a crafting queen battling a jaded divorce lawyer on a wedding reality show.
Luna Rossi is a veritable crafting genius—she can bedazzle and bead so hard her Etsy site is one of the hottest in the world. So it’s only natural that Luna would convince her brother and his husband-to-be to compete on The Wedding Game, a “do-it-yourself” TV show, for the title of Top DIY Wedding Expert.
As a jaded divorce lawyer, Alec Baxter scoffs at weddings and romance. But when his recently engaged brother begs him to participate in The Wedding Game, Alec grudgingly picks up a glue gun and prepares for some family bonding.
Both fierce competitors, Luna and Alec clash on national TV as harsh words and glitter fly with abandon. But as they bicker over color swatches and mood boards, they find themselves fighting something else: their growing mutual attraction. While Luna is torn between family loyalty and her own feelings, Alec wonders if he might have been wrong about love and marriage all along…
The Wedding Proposal (by Sue Moorcraft) is not technically a wedding book--but it starts with a botched proposal, so I think it counts. It opens with a forced proximity trope--two former lovers find themselves sharing space on a houseboat in Malta.
https://www.amazon.com/Wedding-Proposal-laugh-out-loud-Moorcroft-Collection-ebook/dp/B0D87RCCZM/ref=sr_1_1
Two exes, one disastrous proposal and a tropical island escape.
Sensible Elle Jamieson is ready for a new start. One where she can be carefree and adventurous. And put the past firmly behind her.
She’s spending the summer living on her friend’s boat in Malta. Elle imagines sun-drenched days discovering the island’s hidden gems.
But her dream getaway turns stormy when she discovers she’s sharing her floating home with gorgeous, but insufferable, Lucas Rose. The man who broke her heart.
Four years ago, Lucas proposed to Elle and she turned him down. His injured pride prevented him from staying to ask why and Elle never forgave him for it.
With both of them refusing to give up their holiday they must learn to live side by side in paradise. Which is easier said than done when they can’t agree on anything. And past emotions begin bubbling to the surface.
But one thing they can agree on . . . falling out of love is a lot harder than falling in love.
If Poppy Love could just avoid Ryan Clark, her life would be fine.
The brooding photographer hated her on sight when they met at twelve years old, and the feeling is mutual. And yet somehow he's always . . . there: Poppy's first wedding as a cake designer, the second wedding when a bear ate her cake, and then there was the fifth wedding when. . . well, it's probably best not to mention it, actually.
Now her best friend is getting married and moving to the other side of the world. And as if that impossible heartbreak wasn't awful enough, Poppy, as Maid of Honor, is about to be stuck with Ryan for the whole wedding trip to New Zealand, because of course he's the Best Man.
Perhaps it's time to finally call a truce. Or perhaps it's time Poppy admitted the heat between them isn't truly hate, at all. . .
Asher Wright has spent his career creating and concocting the perfect dishes and is about to open his very own restaurant. Life is good. His love life, however, is far from cooking! He hasn’t thought about Lucy Gray in years – not since they both graduated, reeling from the shocking loss of her then boyfriend and his best friend Kris, who tragically died at 18. So when he witnesses the breakdown of her wedding in all its humiliating glory - old wounds and long-buried emotions resurface.
As Lucy lands a right hook on her soon-to-be ex-fiancée in front of their entire wedding party, she has a moment of realization... Love is not on the menu for her! Fate, however, has other plans... A chance twist of events lands Asher as the private chef for Lucy’s spirited grandmother, Mitzi, and what begins as awkward encounters in Mitzi’s Portland mansion soon evolves into a simmering connection she never expected.
As Asher and Lucy work through their past they discover a bond that feels both familiar and excitingly new.
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