The Wedding People by Alison Espach

This is a light romance novel of the modern variety, which I have come to really enjoy (in spite of thinking of myself as someone who does not read romance novels). When I read it, I could see where it was headed very early on, yet despite that, I had trouble putting it down. The plot gets off to a slightly improbable start. Phoebe Stone is recovering from yet another failed fertility attempt, and in the midst of licking her wounds from that, she is confronted with her husband leaving her for another woman--one who has just had a baby. So newly divorced Phoebe Stone decides to go to the luxury Rhode Island hotel that her husband wouldn't book a holiday at with her with the express intention of killing herself. She soon finds out that she’s the only guest not attending the week-long, million-dollar wedding of spoiled little rich girl Lila. So even though the tone is one of giving up on both life and happiness, there is a bit of the comical involved. Lila, who is just as self-centered as this sounds, is terrified that a suicide would ruin her perfect wedding, and so she befriends Phoebe, who gradually discovers reasons to cherish life again. It is a mixture of fun and serious in a story that is propelled forward with recognizable characters and when it arrives at a largely foreseeable ending, you can close the book with a satisfied grin.