Wedding Plan
Take Back Your Wedding: Managing the People Stress of Wedding Planning
Aug 9th
Take Back Your Wedding: Managing the People Stress of Wedding Planning
Take Back Your Wedding combines wisdom from the world of family therapy with a realistic picture of how couples and families behave under the stress of planning a wedding. Weddings bring out the best and worst in all of us because they combine romance, money, loyalties, jealousies, new in-law relations, and endless practical decisions-all played out in front of your whole community of family and friends! No one get through this without times of frustration, confusion, and sometimes anger. This book is an essential guide to handing the stress, avoiding the common pitfalls, having a great wedding, and launching a successful marriage.
ASIN: B004N84WK4
2nd Wedding: Your Second Wedding: How to Handle Issues, Make Plans, and Ensure it’s a Great Success
Jul 31st
Your Second Wedding: How to Handle Issues, Make Plans, and Ensure it’s a Great Success
Many people marry within three years of divorce, according to AllLaw.com. In fact, second marriages occur more often than not. Even though you may have already planned a wedding, second weddings present even more challenges. How should you word the invitations? Will you shell out a lot of money on a dress and tuxedos? Do you invite friends you made during your last marriage? There are many factors to consider, and this book will help you navigate through them to make your special day less stressful and more memorable. Your Second Wedding: How to Handle Issues, Make Plans, and Ensure it s a Great Success will teach you everything you need to know to make your second wedding run smoothly. You will learn what types of vows and ceremonies you should consider and how to deal with religious differences and etiquette for speeches and toasts. You will find useful advice on shopping, choosing a location, registering for gifts, and budgeting. There is also advice on how to plan your reception from appropriate décor to the right entertainment. This book includes easy-to-use checklists, planning sheets, and a variety of samples to help you stay organized and on-track throughout your planning. If you are combining your family with your new spouse s family, you will learn how to comfortably acclimate yourself to your new lifestyle. You will also learn how to include children in your ceremony and how to make your honeymoon a familymoon. If you are divorced, this book will help you tell your ex-spouse about your engagement and will offer advice on which of your ex-spouse s family members to invite to the wedding. With so many decisions to make and factors to be sensitive to, it is easy to become overwhelmed when you are planning your second wedding. This book will help you to stay calm as you prepare for a wonderful, magical wedding day. This book has compiled the best advice from the most trusted resources in the business. We have spoken with experts, as well as people in your same position to give you all the best information to plan a successful event and keep things running smoothly on your big day. You only need one source to plan your second wedding this thorough, easy-to-read book.
Wedding Book: Matthew Robbins’ Inspired Weddings: Designing Your Big Day with Favorite Objects and Family Treasures
Jul 31st
Matthew Robbins, Martha Stewart’s right-hand wedding expert, approaches each wedding design with an object that the couple finds meaningful, and in this inspirational guide, he shows you how to do the same. In Matthew Robbins’ Inspired Weddings, Matthew will walk brides through his process of transforming the special into the spectacular by choosing nine objects around which to base a wedding design. Along the way, he will share insider tips and industry secrets that make the difference, allowing every reader to feel that she has imbued her wedding with a bit of Matthew Robbins’ wedding magic.
Matthew Robbins runs the New York–based events planning firm Matthew Robbins Design. Robbins is a contributing editor and pens a regular column called “Reality Check” in Martha Stewart Weddings, and regularly contributes to InStyle Weddings, theknot.com, Elegant Bride, Modern Bride, and New York Weddings. He writes a weekly blog for the Martha Stewart Weddings website, and is a regularly featured guest on both the Martha Stewart Show and Martha Stewart Living Radio. He lives in New York City.
Stag Night: A Bachelor’s Last Night of Freedom
Jul 9th
Stag Night: A Bachelor’s Last Night of Freedom
A stag night- also known as a bachelor party – is a man’s last chance to make the most of his final opportunity to engage in activities his new wife might not approve of, or merely to spend time bonding with his friends. For the very first time, Welcome Books presents a charming, tasteful, and hilarious gift book to celebrate this age-old tradition!
Following on the heels of Sex Libris, authors Measom and Shaner are back with another hilarious collection of art, jokes, games, and stories for the groom-to-be. Stag Night includes: games and activities, travel ideas, tips for the best man, vintage pulp stories and customs from around the world. For the groom or members of his party, this campy and idea-filled book is sure to help make any man’s last night of freedom one to remember.
The Best Damn Wedding Planner – Black & White Edition: The Must Have Guide For Anyone Planning A Wedding
Jul 9th
Wedding planning does not have to be a nightmare when you have some help. This book will help you plan your wedding by giving you details right down to booking the hotel for your out of town guests. Take the pressure off planning a wedding and use this guide to make everything much easier. It’s not just about Wedding Etiquette anymore! Please feel free to visit my website when it’s finished and drop me an email.
The New Essential Guide to Gay and Lesbian Weddings
Jun 15th
The New Essential Guide to Gay and Lesbian Weddings by Tess Ayers and Paul Brown
The original wedding planner for gays and lesbians is updated, and more fun and informative than ever!
The latest in wedding etiquette, witty anecdotes and unexpected historical trivia, make this an indispensable and truly entertaining resource for same-sex couples who want to plan an unforgettable and perfectly orchestrated wedding. It leads you through topics from the philosophical to the practical, and answers the tough questions such as:
Why bother having a wedding, especially where it’s not legal?
Now that you can get legally married, should you?
Breaking the news to your family
The latest trends in gay engagement rings
How to place same-sex wedding announcements in newspapers
Should you make your wedding attendants dress in matching outfits?
Tips on cutting down that enormous guest list
How to scoff at tradition and make your celebration your own
What to do with that silly piece of tissue paper in an invitation
What to carry down the aisle if you don’t feel comfortable carrying a bouquet
You’ve been living in sin for ten years; is it appropriate to register for gifts?
Making the Internet your wedding resource friend
The first of its kind back when same-sex marriage was still a novelty, this complete guide is indispensable for any couple thinking about tying the knot!
About the authors: Tess Ayers, a former television producer, is married to Jane Anderson, her partner of 27 years. Paul Brown is a public school teacher in Southern California.
Tess Ayers is happily married to Jane Anderson, her partner of fifteen years.
Paul Brown has worked in theater and television and has coordinated numerous weddings and events.
La Boda Perfecta: The Perfect Wedding (Marabout)
Jun 15th
La Boda Perfecta: The Perfect Wedding (Marabout) by Editors of Larousse/Marabout
The Marabout line is a smart, colorful appealing group of books created for Spanish speaking women. The books are beautifully produced with full-color layouts on glossy paper that have the feel of an expanded magazine.
La Boda perfecta offers advice on everything from choosing rings and bridesmaids to how to look absolutely radiant on the special day.
The Larousse editorial team includes many language and reference experts based in countries around the world. In this way the linguistic team keeps it’s finger on the pulse of living languages as spoken by the native language speakers of these countries.
Wedding Wisdom: An Insightful Approach to Wedding Planning
Jun 12th
Wedding Wisdom: An Insightful Approach to Wedding Planning
Wedding Wisdom is a compilation of advice, insights, and experiences from renowned Los Angeles-based “Wedding Fixer” Mary Dann-McNamee and her co-author, Wedding Publicist Leila Khalil. It offers a unique point of view based upon Mary’s eighteen years working as a wedding planner and ten years working as a marriage and family therapist.
Mary believes that it is her job to make her client’s dreams come true, so more than just finding the perfect location for a wedding, she makes it a priority to get to know who she is working with so she can instantly relieve the stress and confusion of the process. In this volume, she offers sage advice for both brides and wedding planners.
You will learn how to prepare for weddings emotionally, practically, spiritually, and joyously from the mentor of wedding planners and the wedding fixer for brides. Mary has been a featured expert on the Style Network’s Whose Wedding is it Anyway?, and Married Away, and the WE Network’s Platinum Wedding.
Wedding Wisdom is filled with tips, insights, forms and photographs for planning a perfect wedding for yourself or your clients.
ROYAL WEDDINGS THROUGH TIME
Jun 10th
A unique pictorial souvenir of the Royal Wedding. perfectly timed to appear in time for the Royal day. including many rare images of the Royal Family from the fifteenth century to the present day.
Royal Weddings are always a time for public celebration; the build-up, the pomp and circumstance of the day, the dress, the sense of occasion. Author Janette McCutcheon takes us through the history of Royal Weddings, the highlights, the dresses, using period illustrations of every major royal wedding from Henry VIII to Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. Many rare images are used, often in full color, telling the story of these important royal occasions.
An Event to Remember: Designing Spectacular Special Occasions
Jun 10th
An Event to Remember: Designing Spectacular Special Occasions
Jerry Sibal is no mere party planner. He’s a world-renowned designer of unforgettable celebrations of every description. Each of Sibal’s projects—whether for a private birthday party or holiday dinner, a lavish wedding or bar/bat mitzvah, a corporate retreat or charity ball—is a distinctive work of art. An Event to Remember presents a portfolio of some of Sibal’s finest and most visionary work—with dramatic photographs that will make you wish you’d been there.
Throughout, Sibal reveals how he coordinates architecture, lighting and audiovisual systems, interior decor, tabletop arrangements, and his trademark floral extravaganzas to create such gloriously spellbinding environments. Venues from all over the country are featured, from New York City’s Rainbow Room, to Miami Beach’s Setai Hotel, to Atlantic City’s Borgata Casino, to outdoor settings such as the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and a California hillside with breathtaking Pacific Ocean views.
