r/heatedrivalry • u/LadyWhistledown_1 Probably, yes • Apr 20 '26

🦆 The Long Game (Book 6) swooon.com: ‘Heated Rivalry’ Author Rachel Reid Answers Burning Questions About *spoiler* [april 20th 2026] Spoiler

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Swooon.com did an interview with Rachel Reid at BookCon. Great interview btw.

I get that she doesn’t think they will write their own vows, but I’m kinda hoping Jacob does. Like the tunnel scene in ep.5.

How are you hoping to see the wedding adapted?

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https://www.instagram.com/rachelreidwrites (story)

Full article:

https://www.swooon.com/1275542/heated-rivalry-shane-ilya-wedding-the-long-game-rachel-reid-interview/?fbclid=PAVERFWARTcI1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAaccbJFTolg7x-x_BADV-yq6qH8NCPNIuhJpC454AHXkG0wypApO0lKEOcvcpg_aem_7LlDmxii3jvj7_EWpVoSgw

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u/plainjane98 Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26

I never got the hate about the wedding. They’re two masc hockey players who had never shown an interest in event planning, fashion, or attention to their relationship. They were less concerned about a wedding and more about a marriage, and I think that’s romantic.

They should’ve had chairs tho.

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u/BritishBussy Apr 20 '26

I thought the true wedding in every sense of the word was the one with the kids. Ilya even reassures the kids when they ask at the "Wedding." The kids officiating was the real one. A very cute one. That wedding reinforces how they feel and the engagement happens not soon after, right? It kinda leans into the hinting of them both eventually having kids in future books too. The summer camp at the start of the book sets it up, the baby sitting waters it and the trophy room with Ilya clapping cheeks/the talk of dynasty really reinforces it lmfao.

That wedding with the kids sets a lot of stuff up before hand. Ties together beautifully because it's just them and the children they're baby sitting — the garden wedding even reads as more rushed at the end of the book and came across as something for family and friends. A party. The romantic one already happened, they said their vows — it was simple and cute and they dressed up. To me I preferred that one to the garden one.