The Wedding Date
"A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in a fun and flirty debut novel. Agreeing to go to a wedding with a guy she gets stuck with in an elevator is something Alexa Monroe wouldn't normally do. But there's something about Drew Nichols that's too hard to resist. On the eve of his ex's wedding festivities, Drew is minus a plus one. Until a power outage strands him with the perfect candidate for a fake girlfriend. From the best man's toast to the bouquet toss, Alexa and Drew have more fun than they ever thought possible. But before they know it, Drew has to fly back to Los Angeles and his job as a pediatric surgeon, and Alexa heads home to Berkeley, where she's the mayor's chief of staff. Too bad they can't stop thinking about the other. They're just two high-powered professionals on a collision course toward the long distance dating disaster of the century--or closing the gap between what they think they need and what they truly want.."--
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Alexa Monroe is the Black chief of staff to the mayor of Berkeley when she gets stuck in a hotel elevator with white pediatric surgeon Drew Nichols, in town for his ex's wedding. Drew asks her to walk in as his fake plus-one, and the weekend turns into a long-distance Los Angeles to Berkeley fling.
The Wedding Date was written by Jasmine Guillory and published in 2018. It launched her Wedding Date series of connected contemporary romcoms.
Jasmine Guillory has written multiple connected Wedding Date books including The Proposal, The Wedding Party, Royal Holiday, While We Were Dating, and others. Each features a different couple in the same friend-group circles.
The Wedding Date is 352 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Wedding Date takes most readers 5 to 8 hours to finish.
The Wedding Date is a standalone novel by an unknown author, not part of a series.
The Wedding Date is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.