Is there an audiobook of Weddings?

Yes. Weddings has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Jim Frangione.

How long is the Weddings audiobook?

The Weddings audiobook runs 7 hr.

Is Weddings on Kindle Unlimited?

No. Weddings was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on September 10, 2026.

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Our score

4.8/ 5

Incredible

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EDITION PUBLISHEDJune 2026

PublisherPenguin Random House

Genres

Fiction Contemporary Romance

Themes

Marriage versus independence across generationsMothers and daughtersWarning signs in a relationshipAging, regret, and second chances

Weddings

Name: Weddings
Price: 13.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Danielle Steel

Danielle Steel

Danielle Steel's new novel follows a chic Parisian-born wedding dress designer whose daughter's engagement cracks open three generations of women's unresolved questions about love, safety, and whether marriage is worth the risk. It's a book club natural, built for readers who want their family drama laced with real emotional stakes.

The Review

Our take

Dominique Dupont spends her days fitting other women for the moment they'll be looked at hardest, and Steel is canny to make her a dress designer rather than a planner or a caterer. There's a real difference between staging an event and building the thing a woman has to stand still inside while everyone stares. Dominique reads fabric and boning and hidden seams the way other people read faces, and that expertise becomes the book's actual subject, even when the sentences themselves stay plain and unfussy. You start to notice how often a scene turns on what someone is wearing, or refusing to wear, and how much that tells you about what she's willing to become.

The three women in this family disagree with each other in three completely different registers, and that's where the book earns its pleasure. Felicity's engagement carries the most weight, and Steel handles the turn in her relationship with real patience, letting small signs pile up instead of ringing an alarm. She goes still in rooms where she used to talk freely. She starts checking a door before she says something ordinary. Nobody narrates this as danger; you just feel the air in the scene change, and that's the sharpest writing in the book, done with a light hand instead of a heavy one. Violet gets the opposite job, comic relief and moral counterweight in one person, laughing off the whole machinery of white dresses and seating charts without ever sounding smug about it. Watching the two sisters argue past each other without either one winning is more honest than most novels manage on this subject.

Then there's Dominique herself, running out a long, undernourishing arrangement with a married man who has given her almost nothing in return, and her own mother back in Paris, once a wealthy man's mistress for decades, now weighing whether an old flame is worth the trouble at her age. The grandmother's chapters caught me off guard. It's not what happens in them so much as the plain fact of a woman well past seventy still asking whether she's allowed to want more out of life. Steel doesn't wallow in her regret. She just lets it sit at the table like another guest, unremarked but impossible to ignore.

Why you should read

Fans of multigenerational family sagas
Readers who want relationship fiction with real emotional stakes
Book clubs debating marriage versus independence
Anyone drawn to a wedding-industry backdrop

What to expect

Four interwoven women's storylines
Gentle pacing with short chapters
One subplot with genuine tension and danger
Plain, accessible prose over ornate style

The pacing stays gentle throughout, chapters short, four storylines braided without ever losing the thread, and Steel trusts emotional clarity over any showier style. The men here get less curiosity than the women, mostly serving as obstacles or rewards rather than people in their own right, which is the one place the book shows its age. But it was never really their story. It's about the instant before a woman steps out in front of everyone who loves her and has to decide, one more time, whether this is actually the life she wants.

Reviewed by Avery · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.8/ 5

Incredible

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Where to read or listen

Is there an audiobook of Weddings?: Yes. Weddings has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Jim Frangione.
Listen to Weddings free with an Audible trial
We earn from qualifying Amazon purchases.
How long is the Weddings audiobook?: The Weddings audiobook runs 7 hr.
Is Weddings on Kindle Unlimited?: No. Weddings was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on September 10, 2026.
How much does Weddings cost?: On Amazon: Kindle $13.99, Hardcover $15.80. Prices as of October 16, 2026 at 11:20 AM EDT and may change.

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What is Weddings about?: Dominique Dupont spends her days fitting other women for the moment they'll be looked at hardest, and Steel is canny to make her a dress designer rather than a planner or a caterer. There's a real difference between staging an event and building the thing a woman has to stand still inside while…
Is Weddings worth reading?: We scored Weddings 4.8 out of 5. Danielle Steel's new novel follows a chic Parisian-born wedding dress designer whose daughter's engagement cracks open three generations of women's unresolved questions about love, safety, and whether marriage is worth the risk. It's a book club natural, built for readers who…