“Ada Calhoun has written the definitive meditation on marriage in all of its mystery and imperfection. It should be required reading for anyone considering it, and highly recommended for those who want to be reminded of why they did it in the first place.” - Molly Ringwald

“Ada Calhoun is the friend we all need--the one who lets us behind the curtain of her good marriage to help us better understand our own. She's smart, funny, and best of all, willing to bare all.” - Emma Straub, New York Times-bestselling author of Modern Lovers

“A warm, tart, corrective to the persistent conviction that a wedding is the neat end of a love story.” - Rebecca Traister, New York Times-bestselling author of All the Single Ladies

“Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give is an uncommonly gracious invitation to rethink our relationship to an institution that often seems to have us doomed before we begin. There's been so much cant, as they used to say in the 19th century, written about marriage, but Ada Calhoun's book is honest about the struggle to love another person without congratulating itself for being honest, and if that isn’t a spiritual discipline, I don't know what is.” - Carlene Bauer, author of Frances and Bernard and Not That Kind of Girl

“Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give is extremely funny and deeply insightful. With its generous spirit and breathtaking honesty, Ada Calhoun's instruction manual of a book recalls another all-time favorite, Anne Lamott's classic Bird by Bird. This slim volume is brimming with practical advice, and should be mandatory reading for married people and anyone who's contemplated taking the leap.” - Davy Rothbart, author of My Heart is an Idiot, creator of FOUND Magazine, and contributor to NPR’s This American Life

“What a witty, sexy, surprising testimony to the institution of marriage! It's the best essay collection I've read in a long time, just astoundingly honest and insightful about what marriage really means. And I say that as someone who has been married 20 years.” - Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy