GRR Reviews Make-Believe Wedding (The Great Wedding Giveaway) by Sarah Mayberry

Make Believe Wedding is about consequences, secret pining, and a guy that's just too nice to be true.

Andie Bennett had been pining after Heath McGregor for a very long time, but Heath is her brother's best friend, and also her boss. Heath only saw her as the tagalong little sister and an electrician under his employment, not a potential romantic partner. After attending yet another wedding, Andie gotten drunk and apparently filled out a ticket for the great Wedding Giveaway of Marietta (MT) where she put down Heath's name as if they were engaged! She thought she tossed the ticket... Except... She won!?!?! Heath, being the great guy he was, suggested that perhaps he and Andie can get engaged for real, and break up later. Just to save her face. Except... pretend engagement and marriage often ended up turning real indeed...

I have no problem with the secret pining, but NOT getting engaged is going to humiliate Andie, which was why Heath decided to help her out by getting engaged? That really makes no sense. And like SEALs romance, Marietta, MT is apparently the fictional romance capital in the US where people go get hitched or something. The romantic push-pull is fine. I just wish the motivation would make a little more sense! Heath was just "too nice"!

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Guy comes to rescue of woman who needed a fiancee after accidentally winning a dream wedding (she wanted him all along)

Tropes: fake engagement, unrequited love, brother's best friend

Overall Rating:  3/5