Our Ex’s Wedding

Happy release week to Our Ex’s Wedding by Taleen Voskuni! I loved her previous book, Lavash at First Sight, and still need to read her debut, Sorry, Bro. This third novel is set in the same universe, especially bringing in characters from the first book, including a redemption for Raffi Garabedian.

Ani Avakian is a wedding planner, but after her previous clients failed to pay her, she’s in debt. She can’t refuse the luxury wedding she’s just been hired for… even though one of the brides is her ex, Kami, whom she’s still not over. The big day will be held at Ô, a new winery owned by Raffi, who also happens to be Kami’s ex. What a small world! As Ani and Raffi work together to make this wedding a huge success, they can’t help the feelings growing between them. But are either of them ready for a new relationship?

What I Liked:

• The hilarity of planning your ex’s wedding. Kami has not one, but two exes preparing her wedding, and she’s not at all bothered. But Ani sure is. It’s simultaneously funny and a tad heartbreaking seeing our main characters put on this event, especially since Ani starts off not at all over their breakup two years prior. I appreciated seeing her arc of moving on. I also loved seeing how Raffi and Ani were able to overcome their differences to make this wedding perfect. The more they interacted, the more I loved them together!
• An HEA for Raffi. I still haven’t ready Sorry, Bro, but I very much need to, especially since I now know that one of the main characters in Our Ex’s Wedding first appeared as one of the bros who didn’t get the girl there. He wasn’t so great in that first book, but Raffi has matured a lot since then. It was fun getting to see a love story for him, despite his past mistakes.
• What’s considered “manly.” Raffi’s dad frequently calls out Raffi’s less masculine attributes. Indeed, Raffi likes clothes and shopping and he’s in a feminist book club with all women. I like that he pushes back against his dad’s narrow views on what it means to be a man.
• Queer characters. Ani is bisexual, and the wedding is between two women. The author’s first two books were sapphic romances, and this is the first one between a man and woman, but queerness is still very much centered and celebrated.
• Armenian culture. I loved getting to know Armenian words, foods, and customs (including those related to marriage) throughout this novel. Ani and Raffi are both Armenian American and very connected to their roots. One of the brides is also Armenian, so the wedding has several aspects to honor that culture.

Final Thoughts

I adored Our Ex’s Wedding from start to finish. It’s only January, but this will for sure make my list of favorite romances of 2026. Raffi and Ani are so perfect together, and I just loved their story of finding happily ever after not with their shared ex, but with each other. Taleen Voskuni is an author I can’t wait to read more of!

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

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

Our Ex’s Wedding by Taleen Voskuni
Series
Audience	Adult
Genre	Contemporary Romance
Setting	California
Number of Pages	416
Format I Read	Ebook (NetGalley ARC)
Original Publication Date	January 20, 2025
Publisher	Berkley

Official Summary

Two people who can’t stand each other must come together to plan their mutual ex’s wedding in this new romantic comedy by Taleen Voskuni, author of Lavash at First Sight.

Ani Avakian was supposed to be the Bay Area’s premier Armenian wedding planner by now. But after a huge blow to her business, she’s determined to redeem herself by taking on the biggest job of her career: a wedding for an indie movie star. The wedding is set at a stunning Armenian-owned winery, and Ani is eager to connect with the owner, who she’ll be working closely with. But then she actually meets him. Sure, Raffi is ridiculously hot and charming, but he’s also insufferably smug. Though the real gut punch comes when Ani meets the happy couple—because the actress’s fiancée is none other than the woman who shattered her heart two years ago: her ex-girlfriend, Kami.

All Raffi Garabedian has ever wanted is to make his father proud. Taking over the family winery should be his dream come true—but its first major event is off to a rocky start, thanks to one irritating(-ly beautiful) wedding planner who challenges him at every turn. He’s shocked to find that they have one thing in common, however: their mutual ex, Kami. Despite the record level of awkwardness, they’ll have to work together to make sure this wedding goes perfectly. But first, they’ll have to deal with the tension sizzling between them—before it turns their ex’s nuptials into a full-blown disaster…or something much more scandalous.