Synopsis:
Her dream wedding has fallen to pieces…but her love story has just begun. Lose your heart to The Wedding Proposal, a scripted, multicast rom com featuring an immersive soundscape!
Hanna is devastated when just a few weeks before her wedding, her fiancé drops the bomb that he doesn’t want to marry her. With the wedding bought and paid for (and completely non-refundable!), she decides to give it away to a deserving couple. Hanna chooses a pair of strangers that fate seems to put in her path, and then embarks on rearranging the wedding details with the help of the new bride-to-be’s brother. As Eric helps her make the final flower selections, put the finishing touches on the cake, and fine tune the other romantic details, something unexpected starts to happen. They find themselves falling for each other. Is Hanna’s broken heart to blame for pulling her toward Eric, or is this the beginning of something real and lasting?
Review:
I don’t have a great track record with Audible Originals, but I actually enjoyed this one. The cover definitely put me off and I pretty much never read romances by male authors. However, as this was a dramatised audio novella, it was an entertaining read.
The Wedding Proposal felt especially like a Hallmark movie. Our female main character gets dumped by her fiancé two weeks before her wedding. She isn’t able to get her money back, which is ridiculous if you ask me, why did she pay for it all? So instead of moping around she decides to gift her wedding to a complete stranger. Which is a very nice thing to do, but also a little weird.
Enter our male main character, Eric, don’t worry he’s not the one getting married his sister is. Unfortunately his sister is allergic to gluten so they need to change the cake and other such issues also arise. This is where the classic bonding montage you get between the two main characters in these Hallmark films happens. It’s actually all very sweet and the chemistry between the narrators is great.
I wasn’t a fan of the side characters, mostly the wedding vendors. But I don’t think you’re supposed to like them. Eric’s family are lovely though. There are a lot of emotional moments surrounding family in The Wedding Proposal but these add a surprising amount of depth to what is a two hour long story.
There isn’t a ton of character development as The Wedding proposal takes place over just two weeks–you only spend a few of these days with the characters. However, I would actually recommend this Audible Original. If you’ve read my reviews of the others in this catalogue, you will be surprised I’m saying those words. Trust me, I’m also surprised.
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