My list of Romance Novels About Weddings is perfect if you’re a hopeless romantic or someone who cries at weddings. I have a romance novels featuring weddings for every type of romance reader, from swoony second-chance reunions to enemies-to-lovers fake dates. I have flagged the ones free on Kindle Unlimited!

Romance Novels About Weddings

This list is reverse-chronological, with newest titles first. If I’ve reviewed the book, I link my review! Happy reading!

New Romance Novels About Weddings for 2026!

The Shippers by Katherine Center

Wedding Setting: a Caribbean cruise ship

Publication date: May 19, 2026 by St. Martins Press

Steamy or Sweet? Sweet! I have not read this yet, but Katherine Center’s books usually have a light spice level. Check back after I finish reading.

The Shippers is set aboard a cruise ship during a destination wedding. JoJo Burton ropes in her childhood best friend Cooper Watts as her wedding wingman to help her pursue her first crush. Shipboard antics, slow-dance moments, fake flirting, and forced proximity make this a perfect summer comfort read.

My review of The Shippers is coming soon!

Save the Date by Mallory Kass

Wedding Setting: Sandpiper Island, Maine

Sweet or Steamy? Sweet

Publication date: April 14, 2026 by Atria

Steamy or Sweet? Sweet to medium spice.

Save the Date is a romantic comedy about a lavish wedding weekend gone very, very wrong, told from three different women’s perspectives: the bride, the maid of honor, and the bride’s sister. The bride has a shocking secret from her past threatening to derail everything; the maid of honor has secretly loved the groom for ten years; and the bride’s sister is trying to hide her pain about a terrible family situation. I enjoyed this one a lot! If you love ensemble romantic comedies like Love, Actually, this one is for you.

The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn

Wedding Setting: Paris, France

Steamy or Sweet? Slow burn with some steamy open-door scenes.

Publication date: April 7, 2026 by Berkley

Set at a chaotic destination wedding in Paris, The Paris Match has an unexpected Beauty and the Beast energy that totally won me over. Two emotionally guarded people find their walls crumbling in what I think is the most romantic city in the world, surrounded by family drama and romantic chaos.

Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood

Wedding Setting: Taormina, Sicily, Italy

Steamy or Sweet: this one is pretty steamy!

Publication date: May 27, 2025

Problematic Summer Romance is a destination wedding romance set against the backdrop of Sicily. Maya Killgore has been crushing on older man Conor for years. Now, stuck together for over a week in a romantic Italian villa for her brother’s wedding, the tension they’ve been ignoring is impossible to avoid. A forbidden romance with a delicious age-gap element, lush Italian settings, and all the Ali Hazelwood wit you love.

This one was not for me, but if you love alpha heroines and age gaps, dive in!

The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce

Wedding Setting: Napa Valley, California

Publication date: July 16, 2024 by Berkley

Steamy or Sweet? Steamy! Open-door and emotionally intense.

The Ex Vows follows Georgia and Eli, estranged exes who must work together to save their best friend Adam’s wedding after a string of disasters. As the two of them race around Napa Valley to pull off a miracle in nine days, all the feelings they’ve been burying for five years come rushing back. This is a deeply emotional second-chance romance with incredible chemistry and yearning.

Bridesmaid for Hire by Meghan Quinn

Wedding Setting: Bora Bora

Publication date: April 2, 2024 by Bloom Books

Steamy or Sweet? Spicy scenes with enemies-to-lovers tension.

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Wedding planner Maggie Mitchell is on vacation in Bora Bora when she runs into Brody McFadden, her brother’s best friend, and her sworn enemy. Brady is there for his boss’s daughter’s “wedding of the century.” Maggie realizes the wedding could be the big break her small business needs, and that her best move is to pose as Brody’s girlfriend,. Fake dating, enemies-to-lovers, an off-limits love interestt… this one has ALL the tropes. The first in a fun series!

Forget Me Not by Julie Soto

Wedding Setting: McKinley Park Rose Garden, Sacramento, California

Publication date: July 11, 2023

Steamy or Sweet? Steamy!

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Ama Torres is a up-and-coming wedding planner who doesn’t believe in marriage. With a mother who has been married sixteen times, who can blame her? Elliot Bloom is a brooding florist she once fell for, but then broke his heart. Now they’re forced to collaborate on a high-profile wedding that could make or break both of their careers, even though neither of them has gotten over what happened two years ago. A grumpy/sunshine, second-chance romance told in a duet narration.

The Plus One by Mazey Eddings

Setting: Suburban Philadelphia

Publication date: April 4, 2023

Steamy or Sweet? Steamy! Explicit open-door scenes.

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Indira doesn’t like Jude. Jude doesn’t like Indira. These childhood frenemies have always been at odds. Then life throws them both under the same roof for Indira’s brother’s over-the-top wedding. Indira dreads having to facing her cheating ex and needs a fake date. Jude, just returned from years as a humanitarian crisis doctor, needs someone to help him with some serious PTSD. What starts as a practical arrangement starts feeling very real, very fast.

Note: the wedding isn’t the center of this story. It’s more a romance about helping a loved one heal from serious trauma. But I highly recommend it!

Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Setting: Oxford, England

Publication date: April 2022

Steamy or Sweet? This cozy romantic mystery is comic and sweet.

Meddy Chan is finally getting married to her college sweetheart Nathan at a destination wedding in Oxford. But her plans for a drama-free day go sideways when the hired wedding vendors turn out to be actual Indonesian mafia. Her four aunties, naturally, are NOT going to let ANYONE ruin their beloved Meddy’s wedding day. If you loved Dial A for Aunties, this sequel delivers even more heart, chaos, and hilarious family dynamics. Note: read Dial A for Aunties first (or my recap post) as that book features the first part of Nathan and Meddy’s second chance at love romance.

Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake

Setting: Bright Falls

Publication date: February 22, 2022

Steamy or Sweet? Steamy WLW romance!

Delilah Green swore she’d never go back to her hometown. But when her estranged stepsister guilts her into photographing her wedding, Delilah finds herself right back in Bright Falls. She plans to breeze in and out… until she meets Claire Sutherland, one of her stepsister’s best friends, and decides maybe there’s some fun to be had after all. What starts as flirtation and a scheme to save Astrid from her terrible fiancé turns into something neither of them expected. A steamy, emotionally layered queer romance.

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

Setting: San Francisco / Los Angeles

Publication date: January 2018

Steamy or Sweet? Steamy! Open-door scenes with a lot of heat and a fake-dating premise.

The Wedding Date begins with an unforgettable meet-cute in a stalled hotel elevator. Alexa Monroe, chief of staff for the mayor of Berkeley, agrees to be pediatric surgeon Drew Nichols’s fake girlfriend for his ex’s wedding, and sparks instantly fly. What starts as a one-weekend charade turns into a complicated long-distance romance full of genuine chemistry and real-world conversations about race and privilege. This lighthearted, sexy read doesn’t shy away from tackling issues like self-confidence and interracial relationships alongside all the rom-com fun. A modern classic that launched a beloved series!

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

Setting: Maui, Hawaii

Publication date: May 14, 2019

Steamy or Sweet? A medium amount of spice.

Olive Torres is famously unlucky — but when her twin sister’s entire wedding party gets food poisoning from the seafood buffet, the only two people left standing are Olive and her sworn enemy, Ethan Thomas, the groom’s brother. With a nonrefundable Hawaiian honeymoon suddenly up for grabs, they agree to a truce and head to Maui. Their plan: enjoy paradise separately and pretend the other doesn’t exist. Their problem: they keep running into people from their real lives, forcing them to play the role of newlyweds. A hilarious, warm, enemies-to-lovers fake-relationship rom-com with a wonderful Mexican-American family at its heart — this is the book that made Christina Lauren a household name for romance fans.

I also have a review of The Paradise Problem, and audiobook only sequel to the Unhoneymoonbers!

The Bride Quartet by Nora Roberts

• Visions in White
• Bed of Roses
• Savor the Moment
• Happy Ever After

Setting: Connecticut

Publication date: 2009–2010

Steamy or Sweet? Light to medium open door spice.

If you want a wedding romance series to sink into, the Bride Quartet is a classic for a reason. Four childhood best friends (Mac, Emma, Laurel, and Parker) grow up to run Vows, a successful wedding planning company in Connecticut.

Each book tells the love story of one of the partners. Mac the photographer finds love with a sweet English teacher; Emma the florist discovers feelings for her closest male friend; baker Laurel falls for the man she’s crushed on since childhood; and type-A planner Parker meets her match in a motorcycle-riding bad boy. Each book stands alone, but reading all four together is perfection for fans of friendship-centered women’s fiction with romance at the heart.

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