Author Event! Lisa Cheek with Byron Lane at the Bookshop

For fans of Sloane Crosley, a sharp, funny memoir from the acclaimed author of Sit, Cinderella, Sit about love, commitment, and whether she’s ready for marriage right before turning fifty.

For years, Lisa Cheek believed long-term commitment wasn’t her style. Her romantic history followed a familiar pattern: date a lot, date widely, and back away before anything could last. So even she is surprised when, at forty-nine, she finally says “yes” to a proposal and to the possibility of marriage with her boyfriend, Big Johnson. But on her wedding day, after the vows have been said, she discovers something shocking: they aren’t actually married.

Is it a slight oversight in the chaos of planning a wedding? Or is this a sign to run while she still can?

In The Big Day, Lisa Cheek invites us inside one unforgettable wedding day, with hilarity, chaos, and unexpected turns. As everything begins to unravel, she looks back on a lifetime of relationships—her own, and those of her family and friends in attendance—searching for patterns, meaning, and the truth about what makes love last.

Funny, unflinching, and deeply relatable, The Big Day is a memoir about late-in-life love, marriage, and the complicated question so many people face: when it really matters, do you stay—or do you go?

Lisa Cheek is an author and former film and television editor known for her humorous, candid writing about relationships and identity. Her debut memoir, Sit, Cinderella, Sit, was a People Magazine pick, an Amazon bestseller, a Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist, and was named one of Zibby’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025. Her latest memoir, The Big Day, is a funny, unflinching look at love, marriage, and the complicated question of whether to stay or walk away. You can find her musings at One Minute Thoughts From A Pink Head on Substack. She lives in Los Angeles with two dogs, two cats, and her husband, Big Johnson, where she has several scripts in various stages of development while working on her next memoir.

Byron Lane is author of the novels Big Gay Wedding and A Star Is Bored. The New York Times Book Review has called his writing "wildly funny and irreverent." He is a former assistant to actress and writer Carrie Fisher, a two-time Emmy Award winner for his work as a television news journalist, and the playwright behind the acclaimed show Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad On Craigslist. He's from New Orleans and lives in Palm Springs, California, with his husband, New York Times bestselling author Steven Rowley, and their rescue dogs, Raindrop, Shirley, and Belle.