I really enjoy Cathy's books and who doesn't like the idea of a Winter wedding? Warm, with twist and turns. Easy to follow and imagine, I definitely recommend it as lovely cosy read.

This was a lovely story. I enjoyed reading it. It wasn't overly Christmasy as the main focus of the Story was a winter wedding. The book had a great sense of community as friends and family come together to sort the wedding. The Story made me smile it just wasn't good enough for a higher rating. It didn't always graphic my full attention. I was really into the story at the start but as it went on it just didn't keep it I was slightly disappointed but I was still glad that I read it. It had nice enough characters and flowed well enough. I think I just needed a bit more excitement and atmosphere.

Many thanks for creating a nice story that I am sure others will enjoy.
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This is part of a series, but I didn't feel left out from having read the previous books. So, I would say it reads well as a standalone book.

However, I found it rather slow and it didn't grip or engage me at all, and I sadly left this book to the side 15pc in.

A really great story, charming, atmospheric, great characters. Filled me with warmth and spirit. Well written and flowed nicely, was romantic and funny, charming and full of fun. A great read, i really enjoyed it.

Really enjoyable. Heart warming and completely romantic. You really can’t lose with snow, weddings and romance all intertwined, it’s just brimming with hope and happiness. The characters develop off the page and make it easy to like them and want to be spending your evening with them! Great storyline. I’ve not read the previous books in the series but this story can be read alone. Highly recommended.

Thank you Netgalley

Hazel moves to Little Bramble after a terrible betrayal. She sets up a wedding planner business. She meets Jack who also has issues from before. I cannot wait to read more by this author. This author has now become a go-to author. To have a book that is well written as well as entertaining is a delight.

I really struggled with The Country Village Winter Wedding by Cathy Lake. I felt it was really slow to take off and too unrealistic for me. Sorry, I could not finish this book.

This was a brilliant read and is being featured on my blog for my quick star reviews feature, which I have created on my blog so I can catch up with all the books I have read and therefore review.
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I liked the return to the village and familiar characters. Took a while to warm to the new ones but did enjoy this book.

The Country Village Winter Wedding by Cathy Lake

I received an advance review copy for free thanks to NetGalley and Bonnier Books UK and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Clare Greene and Sam Wilson are getting married and everyone in Little Bramble is excited for the event of the year. But Clare and Sam are busy people and have left organising their wedding to the last minute.

Luckily, wedding planner Hazel Campbell has recently moved to the village. She had what she thought was a wonderful life in Edinburgh with a successful business, a loving fiance and her own wedding coming up. But when she caught her groom-to-be in bed with her best friend she fled, leaving everyone and everything behind.

I have enjoyed my previous two visits to Little Bramble and this was just as I expected - a delightful read. Whilst part of a series, these books can each be read as a standalone. I thought that this was just a lovely, page-turning read, that will leave you with a smile on your face.

A heart-warming festive read that brings together the joys of Christmas and weddings. If you haven't read any of this series so far then I would highly recommend that you start.

Rating: 4/5

Absolutely loved this book, it took a while to get into the book but when I did it was good to return to Little Bramley and the people I had previously enjoyed reading about. Looking forward now to the next instalment in the lives of the people in this village .

Thank you to the publisher for giving me an advanced copy in return for a review.

A wonderful feel good read. Broken hearts mended, new beginnings and a warm and comforting family Christmas. The perfect festive escape.

A great festive read.

Hazel is new in town, opening her new business as a wedding planner, having left her life in Edinburgh behind. Jack is in the area to stay with his sister, still not having recovered from losing his wife. Will Hazel and Jack get together this Christmas?

It was truly lovely to be back in Little Bramble again and to be able to catch up with Clare and Sam, who are struggling to plan their wedding.

Thankfully Hazel our leading lady of this book has just moved to Little Bramble and is setting up as a Wedding Planner and attempts to come to the rescue. She is also sworn off men after discovering the truth about her fiancee the night before her own wedding, and isn't really sure where she can trust women either.

And as much as I enjoyed the focus on Hazel it was the alternating chapters where we get to know Josh in great detail that I couldn't get enough of.

I was hooked on seeing how his story would evolve, plus I loved the rest of his family especially Bobbie. They just seemed like a fabulous family to be a part of.

And Kyle, Clare's son is utterly fabulous too, I loved some of his one liners, his teasing banter and generally the energy he brought to any scene.

This is such a heat warming and cosy read, bringing with it the best elements of Christmas and Weddings into one compelling package of book. I loved it!

Thank you to Zaffre and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for a free ARC of this book. I have chosen to write this honest review voluntarily.
This is the first book I have read by this author; although it forms part of a series it can be read as a standalone.
The setting is the run-up to Christmas in a village. Hazel has just moved there after the collapse of her longstanding relationship, and has decided to set up running a wedding planning business, as she had done previously. However, she doesn't seem to have done any research as she struggles to get bookings and then seemingly spends a few weeks looking for a venue - it's a good job she has nothing else to do! Oh, wait, she has the offer of a free check up for her cat, but she doesn't even organise that or register herself with a doctor or dentist until she's several weeks in to her new life! I found the narrative style rather slow; it includes the comments 'as long as ... a registrar .... was present' and 'marry in December and it was likely to be cold' - surely this is obvious to any reader? She holds a meeting with her clients in the pub, and after discussing the presentation about a place to hold the wedding Hazel prepares to leave, reminding them "don't forget that you need to give notice that you intend to marry ...." even if this is not part of her role as the wedding planner surely she should be providing them with a list of what needs to be done by each date? There is a mistake when we read the detail of Fenella making a cafetiere of coffee but by the time she sits down it has become tea.
This was too unrealistic and slow for me, sorry, I only read 25% before giving up.

Loved this book.and will definitely read the others in the series. This book made me laugh out loud a lot.

With thanks to netgalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review which I freely give.

I have read Cathy Lake before and really enjoyed her work. It was lovely to be back in Little Bramble for Christmas and a wedding. Double delight. I loved the snowflakes on the pages at the beginning of new chapters and to break up a chapter. This book is a dual story. The 2 main characters are Hazel & Jack. Both have broken hearts. They both come to the village for a new start. Hazel returns to village where she had a holiday here with her parents as a child. She was a wedding planner and was due to get married. The day before she was due to marry she arrived home early only to find her Fiancé with her business partner. Broken hearted she leaves her home in Scotland to make a new life for herself and Fleas, her faithful cat. Jack having lost his wife in a car crash goes to stay with his 'Big' sister and family for a few weeks for Christmas. Apart from his wife being killed Jack also finds out that his wife had kept a secret from him.

It is not long before Hazel is organizing her first wedding in the village. We gradually meet many of the residents, including Bella, Lee and children along with Jack. Clare and Sam are the couple getting married, I will not expand anymore as I do not wabt to spoil it. Clares family are funny.

I really enjoyed this read. If you have read Cathys Christmas show book and enjoyed it, you will love this. I can fully recommend this book and have no hesitation in the 5* rating.

Hazel Campbell is a wedding planner with a broken heart. Right before her wedding she found her soon-to-be-husband in bed with her best friend and business partner, so she decides to leave everything behind and start again in Little Bramble. With a new house and a new company, all she needs are clients. Everyone in Little Bramble is excited for the wedding of Clare and Sam and thanks to her charm and some brilliant ideas Hazel is hired to organize a winter wedding right before Christmas. Busy with the planning and still bruised by her past experience, romance and love are the last things Hazel is thinking about until she meets Jack who, like Hazel, is in Little Bramble for a new start. Will they find happiness together?

There are lots of things to love in this festive and romantic novel: engaging and likable characters, a beautiful setting, a winter wedding with lots of snow, a close-knit community feeling that comes out from every page, and a heartwarming and emotional story that kept me completely engrossed. I read The Country Village Winter Wedding in one day, captured by the author’s writing style and by the fantastic characters she created. Each character is relatable and authentic and I enjoyed their stories. Full of romance, friendship, and wedding planning, The Country Village Winter Wedding is the perfect story to get you in a Christmas mood!

4.5 Stars

Cathy Lake’s The Country Village Winter Wedding is an entertaining, enjoyable and engrossing tale brimming with humour, charm, warmth and plenty of heart.

The village of Little Bramble can barely contain its excitement – Clare Greene and Sam Wilson are about to get married and their wedding promises to be the event of the year. Everybody in the village simply cannot wait to put on their glad rags and watch the beautiful couple get married. However, Clare and Sam are busy people who seem to have underestimated just how much hard work and planning weddings require. With everything left to the very last minute, it doesn’t look like Clare and Sam’s dream wedding will take place any time soon – until Little Bramble newcomer Hazel Campbell steps in at the eleventh hour and saves the day!

The wedding planner has just moved to the village from Edinburgh. Hazel had thought that her life was as close to perfect as it was possible to get. She had it all from a successful career to a thriving business and a gorgeous fiancé – until she caught her bridegroom-to-be in bed with her best friend! Distraught, devastated and upset, Hazel had been left with no other choice but to pack her bags and leave her old life behind and move to Little Bramble.

The gorgeous village seemed like the perfect place to start over and with a wedding to organise, Hazel thinks that she has found the perfect distraction. Throwing herself body and soul into organising this wedding leaves her with little time to worry about her own problems. However, Hazel soon realises that in Little Bramble, she might just end up finding the happiness that she had long given up on – providing that she lets go of the past and embraces this unexpected second chance.

Cathy Lake’s The Country Village Winter Wedding is cosy festive reading at its best! Witty, warm-hearted, emotional and full of delightful characters it is impossible not to care about, The Country Village Winter Wedding is a superb tale of second chances, renewal, new beginnings and falling in love that charms and delights and is sure to have readers eagerly anticipating their next visit to Little Bramble.

As I said above, I really enjoyed visiting Little Bramble in the summer so I couldn't wait to return again in winter. One of the many great things about series like this is that you get to meet your favourite characters again, I loved seeing how Emma and Connor were getting on, as well as Harmony!

The second, well third thing to jump out at me was the names of Sam and Clare, back in June I married a Wilson myself so it felt a bit like a kindred spirit and I felt linked to them immediately (1 and 2 were the title and the cover).

Even though the book is focused around Sam and Clare's upcoming wedding, we learn more about Hazel and Jack, both suffering with broken hearts but ready for a fresh start. Hazel is lovely and I loved exploring the village with her, getting to see the different shops and aspects of the community, it was nice to be able to rebuild that image in my mind. I also love that her cat is called Fleas Witherspoon... I mean come on **. Jack is coming to terms with the loss of his wife but there is also something else there that we don't discover for a while which I have to say, kept me on my toes throughout wondering what it was as there are little hints.

Jack is staying with his sister's family, Bella, Lee and their two daughters Bobby and Penny who just couldn't be a nicer unit and welcome him in with open arms, warm fires and fresh coffee. When Bella bumps into Hazel at the green one morning it is the start of a beautiful friendship and you can see that they hit it off instantly. Plus you can't help but notice the looks between Jack and Hazel... is there something simmering there?!

I loved the run up to Christmas in this book, it was a really realistic timeframe as well, spending time at the Christmas market, going ice skating and decorating the tree, all activities that I enjoy. There was a true sense of magic throughout this book and I really wanted a happy ending for both Hazel and Jack, and Clare and Sam of course but I was definitely more invested in the former.

The wedding itself sounded so idyllic and I really liked the way that the community rallied round to make sure everything went ahead smoothly. If only I could be whisked away to Little Bramble for a cosy winter weekend, this book has left me wanting snow, eggnog, mulled wine and days wandering around a Christmas market looking at all the little trinkets!