Thank you to NetGalley, HarperColliins UK and the author Erin for allowing me too read this book in exchange for an honest review!

First things first, I love this book. To give this a bit of context; I have been a bridesmaid four times and a bride once so I think I am fairly qualified to say that this book really does hit the nail on the head when it comes to all things wedding!

This book evoked lovely memories for me of buying my wedding dress, going on my hen weekend, my actual wedding day but most importantly it reminded me of my friends and how much I love them. Although I don't see my bridesmaids and best friends half as much as I used to........ we really did have a scream planning my wedding and this book bought all of those memories flooding back.

I would recommend this book to anyone planning a wedding, give it to your bridesmaids and insist they read it, if not for the laughs then definitely for the tips they can gain... especially for the hen weekend!

One tiny criticism would be that because this book has quite a lot of characters and you are introduced to them quite quickly, it took me a long time to remember who was who and where they fitted in. I had to keep going back to the beginning to remind myself of how they were related to the main character.

Other than that, this book was surprisingly gorgeous.

What's not to love about a book detailing friendships, wedding planning and fraught hen party activities. It's great to lose yourself in the whirl of organisation and the wedding itself with love in the air. The bridesmaids all have their share of life's dramas going on you really feel a part of it- down to planning the outfit you want to wear!!!!!!!
Erin has such a lovely writing style that you find yourself totally immersed and turning the pages enjoying being a part of the celebrations.
Highly recommended.

Erin Lawless has  the knack of capturing life events in a humorous and sensitive way that makes everything you read believable and so easy to visualise and empathise with.

The One With All The Bridesmaids is the complete story of Nora and Harry's wedding year, from Engagement party to Wedding day.  However it's the Bridesmaids, Cleo, Bea, Daisy and Sarah and their lives  who are the stars of this story. Their friendship with Nora and each other makes this an absorbing fun read and its easy to identify with parts of their lives and some of their adventures whatever age you are.

The female characters are realistic and recognisable and make this a page turning read. Enjoyable as individual stories, reading them again as a complete book is a delight that perfectly captures the romance and craziness of getting married.

I received a copy of this book from Harper Impulse via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

I’ve seen positive things said about Erin Lawless’ books so often that I just had to try one for myself! ‘The One With All the Bridesmaids’ is a warm, witty, enthralling story that grabbed me in the first couple of pages, and I was really sad when I reached the end. During the preparations for Nora’s wedding, the focus is on her four bridesmaids - Cleo, Daisy, Sarah, and Bea - as they all have secrets which gradually come out one by one. I’m so glad that there are more books in the wedding/engagement series, as I’ll definitely be reading more from Erin. I’d highly recommend this book for anyone who is getting married, being a bridesmaid, or going to a wedding this season… or anyone who just likes reading about them!

Oh my god, I’ve just realised that I have never read an Erin Lawless book before! I know I have purchased a few of her previous novels, but unfortunately they’ve been sitting on my TBR for far too long, shamefully! After reading Erin Lawless’ new release, I now have the urge to buy every single book of hers and binge read them.

I don’t usually read the tag lines on blurbs before I read a novel because I sometimes think that they’re forcing me to think a certain one. However…..the tagline on this blurb is absolutely bang on. If I were to describe this novel with a movie reference, I would 100% say that it’s like Bridesmaids….except funnier.

Once again this review will have to be vague due to the amount of spoilers that could be written. Don’t worry, I won’t spoil, but this is why I need to keep it brief as I can talk for England…no, really, I can.

It didn’t take me long to find my favourite bridesmaid! Despite the other characters reservations about their friendships with this particular bridesmaid, I absolutely LOVED her. Her mouth ran away with her. Her facial expressions got her in more trouble than Lee from Blue’s womanising ways. Her cold exterior rivalled Elsa’s from Frozen, yet she came across as the more ‘real’ one of the group. Who am I on about? Bea of course! I think I gelled with her more than the others because I saw myself in her character. Being totally honest, there were a couple of the characters I found myself disliking. I won’t say which ones as everyone’s opinion is different.

I adored the whole music reminiscing for playlists and such, felt like I was being transported back to my youth. Well, I say transported…maybe hiding my face in embarrassment as I realised that I could have easily have joined the ‘cool club’ too at that wedding.

I LOVE how Erin Lawless isn’t afraid to delve into the nineties, bringing them into the present and into her storylines. It’s so much fun and completely relatable. I just loved her. Erin Lawless has such flawless, side-splitting humour which, instead of laughing because it’s so funny, you end up laughing going ‘omg I totally did that!’ or ‘she’s bang on!’, if that makes any sense!

‘The One With All the Bridesmaids’ is a fun, modern and addictive tale about weddings and then some. This book really is the perfect antidote to any bad day, bad mood, or blah feeling, because as soon as you lay your eyes on Nora’s story, your frown will have turned upside down before you can even say ‘Spice Girls’.

Brilliant, brilliant book.

Thanks Harper Impulse.

The thing that attracted me to this book was of course that stunning cover that I absolutely adored. The colours and everything is just perfect for the story itself and also very eyecatching.

After waiting for this story to be released as a full book I was delighted as it was definately worth the wait having all the parts together as I could not put this down.

The One with All the Bridesmaids is full of humour with lots of parts that just leave you laughing out loud and I found I read this with a huge smile on my face. I had plenty of giggles at the stories at the start of the chapters of peoples experiences at weddings I thought they where great.

The story is about Nora and Harrys wedding and the run up to it that includes the hen, dress shopping etc it also gives us the stories of each of the bridesmaids. I loved hearing of each bridesmaids story and their own love lifes. Of course when it comes to a group of girls theres always a scandel and there is in this group.

Each of the characters I loved and I wish they where my real life friends as I loved their relationship with each other they just had lot's of fun. Characters like these just make a book and im sad to leave them however I really feel there is potiental for a follow up book set in the same style, I would absolutely love to hear more from the girls.

My book of the year so far! A very easy 5 stars!

First published as a four-part novella series, this book centres around the countdown to Nora and Harry’s wedding, and the lives of the four bridesmaids. Bea is feeling guilty about an incident from the past. Cleo is keen on fellow teacher Clay but isn’t too confident about taking the next step. Sarah – the only married one – is trying to start a family, while American Daisy is still playing the field.
Employing the long-time friends motif that Lawless favours, the story follows the path to the big day, with an engagement party, gown shopping, a hen’s weekend to Paris and a New Year’s Eve wedding. With a handful of characters to follow, none were particularly memorable and the overall story felt disjointed and lacked any real punch. The real-life wedding tales leading into some chapters were a nice touch. But if you could only pick up one book from this usually amazing author, then I’m recommend this is The One to Miss.

3.5 stars.

After reading a review on this book I knew it was one I was going to enjoy - so I quickly requested it on Netgalley and here I am! This novel was lighthearted throughout and had so much humour that in places I was laughing out loud!

The characters reminded me somewhat of those from Sex and the City and to be honest I really liked that about this book. One thing I will say, is that there are a lot of characters in this book - however, don't let this put you off! As I haven't read any of the other books but I managed to understand what was going on and still enjoyed it!

This story was short but sweet and was such an easy to read, lighthearted story.

Thank you so much to Netgalley and Harper Impulse for a chance to read this book, which I have reviewed honestly.

This is the perfect pick-me-up, I spent so much of the first bit of the book laughing at various aspects of wedding planning, and then as the story progressed I found myself really involved with all four bridesmaids lives, as the big wedding approaches.

For this book is far more about Bea, Cleo, Daisy and Sarah and their lives, than about Nora, the bride, so we really get to see things from many perspectives, and there are multiples romances to hope for, or to deal with difficulties with.

Some of the wedding party, including the groomsmen, have all known each other since school days, and others are more recent additions to the gang. It really is a story of female friendships and I loved seeing how the girls dealt with the four major events in the planning of a wedding - engagement party, wedding dress shopping, hen party and of course the big day itself.

At the start of some of the chapters there are real life anecdotes from real weddings, which fit into the book really well. As I read them I was reminded of the off cuts in When Harry Met Sally when every now and then you would get real people talking about relationships, this had a similar feel to me, and I loved reading them as much as I enjoyed the book itself.

There are so many characters and threads of story in this book that even if you aren't too keen on one of the bridesmaids, there are plenty of others to keep you going. Wedding dress shopping had some hilarious moments, as did the hen party. I don't want to say much about them as I would probably spoil things.

I'm not sure I can properly explain how much I enjoyed this book, it was a pleasure to read, with a great sense of humour, and it was so refreshing to read a story about a wedding and its planning but from the perspective of those all important bridesmaids.

Thank you so much to Netgalley and Harper Impulse for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

When Nora gets engaged to her childhood friend turned love of her life, it’s only natural that she gets some of her best friends together to be her bridesmaid. The only problem is, while all the girls love Nora, they don’t always get on with each other. This book follows the bridal group from engagement to wedding day and involves a lot of wedding dress shopping strops, secrets revealed and problems shared.

This book was just a great big heap of light-hearted refreshment and I really, really enjoyed reading it. It didn’t take me too long into the book to be able to separate out all of the girls from Nora, the bride-to-be, Bea, the childhood bestie, Cleo, the college bestie, Daisy, the back packer friend and Sarah, the one who married into it all. All the girls soon had their own unique voices and I was able to fall into each part of the story with not much difficulty in knowing straight away who I was following. The only few stumbles i had was between Cleo and Bea and only because for some reason, my mind sometimes felt like their names were the same.

I will say that as a 25-year-old, I’m not yet in the friends getting married years of my life so I have never been part of a wedding party, so I have never had to deal with the woes of being a bridesmaid, organising hen dos and potentially dealing with wedding day disasters. This book did sometimes make me hope I would never have to be a bridesmaid because it was slightly overwhelming how much they were doing, even though it all seemed like great fun.

I loved the chemistry the group had together, especially near the end of the book and the night before the wedding. Even though they started out a bit so-so with each other, the girls really ended up becoming a solid unit and being there for each other and I absolutely loved it. By the end of it, I wanted to be their friend. I didn’t really want the book to end to be honest, and just wanted to follow their lives forever.

While the main relationships in this book are the girls’ friendship, there are obviously some romantic debacles in this book too and I totally was a sucker for them. My favourite character was Cleo and I really loved her romantic storyline, and Bea’s made me very happy by the end too.

I’m also calling out for a Nora and Harry getting together for the first time novella, because that would be the cutest. Or just more novels about all of the girls because yes please!

This book had four separate instalments, each coming over a few months, and I am glad that I read the whole book in one go instead of separately as it was easier to get involved in the story.

Nora and Harry are getting married, they’ve been friends since they were five, and they have gone from being friends to falling in love. Bea has been Nora’s friend since they were tiny and they met Harry at school and Bea’s not sure how she feels about Nora and Harry falling in love.

The story begins when Nora tells Bea she’s fallen in love with Harry and Bea’s reaction, the engagement party, the problems of finding the right wedding dress, the hen weekend and also the wedding itself. The storyline involves not just the girls but also Harry’s friends as most of them were friends from school.

This is an excellent book, the storyline flows, there are some good strong characters, I liked all the women characters particularly Sarah who was an outsider as she had only married into the friendship. A lighthearted summer read which is fresh and funny.