Wedding Dashers

Happy book birthday to Wedding Dashers, the debut novel by Heather McBreen! This is a heartfelt romance about rushing to get to a destination wedding, but running into travel mishaps at every turn. Ada and Jack—the maid of honor and best man, respectively—may have their own reservations about the upcoming wedding and about each other, but being stuck together as they travel across the UK, they find they have more in common than they first realized.

Why I Chose This Book:

I loved the idea of rushing across England and Scotland to get to a destination wedding in Belfast. My recent travels over the holidays actually mirrored some of what Ada and Jack go through in Wedding Dashers! This book looked like it would be a lot of fun. I wasn’t prepared for how emotional it would get!

What I Liked:

• Ada is so unlucky! And so broke! Girl, I feel you!
• Ada and Jack’s meet-cute… and how it all ends so badly lol
• Fun, chaotic, slightly stressful travel from London to Belfast. Trains and cars and ferries, oh my!
• The scenic route through the UK! Between destinations, they end up in Lancaster, Edinburgh, and
  Cairnryan along the way.
• Funny!
• But also emotional!
• What do YOU need in a relationship? Why do you stay with someone?
• Career goals and creativity
• Sister relationship
• Pizza pact
• Forced proximity

What Didn’t Work for Me:

• The destination wedding is in Belfast, which is in Northern Ireland, but the characters consistently just said Ireland. These are two different countries! Please be accurate about what country a major city is in!

Final Thoughts

I ended up loving Wedding Dashers so much more than I’d anticipated! It delivers a cute and funny romance with travel hijinks, but it’s also so heart-wrenching and profound. This is a story that I’ll remember and return to, and I look forward to reading more from Heather McBreen.

Special thanks to the publicists at Penguin Random House, Berkley, and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book!

Get the Book

You can buy Wedding Dashers here – it’s available as a paperback, ebook, and audiobook.

Wedding Dashers by Heather McBreen
Audience	Adult
Genre	Contemporary Romance
Setting	England; Scotland; Northern Ireland; Italy
Number of Pages	400
Format I Read	Ebook (NetGalley ARC)
Original Publication Date	January 28, 2025
Publisher	Berkley

Official Summary

After a case of mistaken identity and an almost one-night stand, two stranded wedding guests have to find their way to their final destination together, in this riotously fun debut romance.

Ada’s little sister is getting married. Which should be a happy thought, right? But the once close sisters have been in a year long fight, the wedding is all the way in Ireland, and Ada is so broke that she just barely managed to get a ticket on a budget airline. And as if things couldn’t get worse, said airline just cancelled her connection. Which means Ada is stuck in London with no way to make it to the wedding.

Surely she’s hit rock bottom?

So, there’s no reason for her not to spill her heart out about the over-the-top wedding, her sister’s worryingly quick engagement, and the womanizing best man she’s dreading meeting to a handsome also-stranded stranger at the bar. Until she realizes the stranger is headed to the same wedding. Oh, and he’s the infamous best man.

Now, Jack and Ada must put their simmering attraction behind them to make it to Belfast before they miss the nuptials. But between flat tires, missed trains, and suspect hostels, Jack and Ada start to question whether their feelings are worth going the distance, or just a distracting detour along the way.