The Wedding Book: The Big Book for Your Big Day Author: Lisbeth Levine | Language: English | ISBN:
B006MGDJB8 | Format: EPUB
The Wedding Book: The Big Book for Your Big Day Description
Announcing the wedding bible: the most complete, lively, handholding, step-by-step guide to help every couple have a perfect wedding—no matter their budget, taste, or personalities. More than 2.2 million North American couples tie the knot each year; until now, only a mere fraction could work with celebrity wedding planner Mindy Weiss. But the significant fact is not Ms. Weiss's clientele, but the reason for it: She's so very good at what she does. And now she shares all of her hard-won experience, wisdom, inspiration, and style tips.
The Wedding Book covers everything, in a voice filled with understanding: announcing the engagement, and what to do when someone isn't happy about the news; creating a budget; the pros and cons of destination weddings. Drawing up the guest list; planning the ceremony (and how to personalize your vows); menus to inspire; contracts and wedding insurance. Shopping for the dress, six great hairstyles, tuxedo vs. dinner jacket, the etiquette of invitations. Style tips for flowers, the tabletop, linens; a cake that says "you"; the crucial "Sixty Days Until I Do"; rehearsal dinner strategies; plus freezing the cake and preserving the bouquet.
Today the average cost of a wedding is $25,000—at $19.95,
The Wedding Book is the smartest investment a bride-to-be could make.
- File Size: 5687 KB
- Print Length: 485 pages
- Publisher: Workman Publishing Company (April 17, 2008)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B006MGDJB8
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,436 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Weddings
- #25
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Weddings
I was looking for a wedding book that would help me with etiquette, planning, and staying sensible...but this book is almost guaranteed to blow your modest wedding plans out of the water. It's written from by a professional wedding planner, so it makes sense in retrospect that it would be really over the top, but when I bought it, I was expecting something a little more down-to-earth. If you are planning a huge wedding and cost is no issue, this book might be for you. It encourages you to design everything in your wedding to exactly what you want, and offers many suggestions that will complicate and expand your wedding plans. Horse drawn carriage? Go for it! $200 veil and custom altered dress? It's your day, go crazy! If you want that kind of cheerleader in your corner, this book is for you.
However, the scant few pages on keeping to a sane budget and the lack of really sensible advice made me return the book. A wedding is about the love and the partner, not about the outrageously expensive flowers, trumped up etiquette that was only invented in the last thirty years or so, or impression you'll make with expensive custom color schemes, etc. If you are a bride on a smaller budget, or a bride who cares more about her partner than whether the guests love the chair sashes or not, I recommend "Bridal Bargains" by Denise Fields or "A Practical Wedding" by Meg Keene. Both books will allow you to craft a wedding as big or as small, as simple or as fancy as you like while staying sane, saving money, and remembering what's really important about your wedding (and it's not the hideous bridesmaid gowns or lavish centerpieces you're only going to use once).
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