Author: Mary Kay Andrews
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Genre: Romance
Source: Won it

Goodreads: Can this wedding be saved?

Up-and-coming floral designer Cara Kryzik is about to score the wedding of a lifetime—one that will solidify her career as the go-to-girl for Savannah society nuptials. The only problem is, life seems to be conspiring against her. Cara’s implacable father, “The Colonel”, doesn’t believe in Cara’s business savvy and is about to call in his twenty-thousand-dollar loan. Then, on the morning that someone steals her dog, Cara’s refrigerator goes on the blink, turning twelve thousand dollars’ worth of gorgeous blooms into road kill. And if that’s not enough, the dog-napper, Jack Finnerty, turns up at her latest wedding and then mysteriously leaves her stranded on the dance floor.

All this turmoil will be solved if Cara can pull off the lavish Trappnell-Strayhorn wedding. The payday will solve all her problems—even the looming problem of a celebrated florist named Cullen Keane who is moving into her turf from Charleston. But the wedding is in six weeks, the bride is acting strangely (even for a bride) and the stepmother of the bride is becoming Cara’s biggest headache. What Cara needs is to focus, but that’s not easy when Jack is turning up at every wedding in Savannah (the man seems to know everybody), with Cara in his sights and seduction on his mind.

When Brooke Trappnell spirals into a shocking crisis and the wedding is in jeopardy, Cara must come to the rescue and figure out what she really believes in. Is it love? Is it her own strength? In the end, for everyone, “Save the Date” has more meanings than one. Told with Mary Kay Andrews’s trademark wit and keen eye for detail, Save the Date is one you won’t want to miss.

Ope’s Opinion: This was a stand alone book. It had a lot of detailed descriptions about flowers, about the flower shop, about the people involved and about Cumberland Island. There were many weddings and each one you got to know the people, their venue and their flowers.

Cara ( MC ) was very involved with her brides. She had so many struggles, it sort of got old after a while. I do enjoy reading about someone who starts out with some difficulties and works their way out of them. This one just kept having more difficulties piled on the whole time.

Cara had a relationship that went through some hard times, then suddenly everything was forgiven and all was better at the end without them working through anything. It was a long book with a rushed ending.