Wedding Traditions
1,001 Ways to Have a Dazzling Second Wedding
Sep 7th
1,001 Ways to Have a Dazzling Second Wedding
1,001 Ways to Have a Dazzling Second Wedding is a complete guidebook for couples who are planning their second weddings. The book provides the most current and applicable how-to’s on such touchy subjects as: gown choice, family participation, guest diplomacy, gifts, bridal reception planning, religious requirements, and legalities. This book is organized for easy reference on any specific topic. Besides the countless hints and tips, special interview sections include the wisdom and insight of wedding planners, clergy, relationship counselors, attorneys specializing in prenuptial agreements, stylists, florists, cake decorators, and dozens of other professionals.
The New Jewish Wedding
Aug 28th
The New Jewish Wedding, Revised
The Definitive, Completely Up-to-Date Guide to Planning a Jewish Wedding
Since its original publication in 1986, The New Jewish Wedding has become required reading, assigned to engaged couples by Conservative, Reform, and Reconstruc-tionist rabbis alike. In this new revision, Anita Diamant, one of the most respected writers of guides to Jewish life, continues to offer step-by-step guidance to planning the ceremony and the party that follows — from hiring a rabbi and wording the invitation to organizing a processional and hiring a caterer. She also includes:
A new chapter focusing on converts, non-Jews, and same-sex couples
Essential Web sites
All new art, with examples of ketubot, invitations, and other wedding paraphernalia
New poems and new translations of the seven wedding blessings
Complete, authoritative, and indispensable, The New Jewish Wedding is a must-have resource for anyone who wants a wedding that combines spiritual meaning and joyous celebration.
Church Wedding > Dearly Beloved: Navigating Your Church Wedding
Aug 9th
Dearly Beloved: Navigating Your Church Wedding
This is a down-to-earth yet spiritually grounded guide that helps couples of all ages to sort out their financial, social, familial, and religious priorities with an experienced priest before their relatives and their “wedding planner” can get to them. Perceptively and with a light touch, MacBeth covers: Why have a church wedding? What does the service mean? How do you deal with family expectations? Why is everyone driving you crazy? And how do you make a wedding into a worship service? The final chapter focuses on non-traditional couples including divorced couples, couples of differing ages, blended families, widows and widowers, same-sex couples, elderly couples, and interfaith couples.
A Very Pink Wedding: A Gay Guide To Planning Your Perfect Day
Aug 8th
A Very Pink Wedding: A Gay Guide To Planning Your Perfect Day
Whether you are planning an intimate ceremony or a Vegas-inspired celebration, this is the ultimate step-by-step guide to walking down the aisle. Tailored exclusively for gay couples, this handbook covers ever aspect of wedding planning, including creating a timeline, choosing a gay-friendly venue and honeymoon location, finding the right cake, sending invitations, and making—and sticking with—a budget. Useful checklists and a useful resource section packed with suppliers, websites and organizations is also of included. Charming personal anecdotes and case studies of gay men and lesbians who have already tied to the knot round out this invaluable reference for creating your perfect day.
Nicola Hill is a former Guardian journalist and a cofounder of gay-friendly-wedding-venues.com, an award-winning website for gay couples.
Catholic Wedding > The Catholic Wedding Book: A Complete Guidebook
Aug 8th
The Catholic Wedding Book: A Complete Guidebook
THE CATHOLIC WEDDING BOOK, now in a new, revised edition of this best seller, will take the pain out of wedding preparations, answer all your questions and make planning your wedding easy.
The Catholic Church teaches that marriage is forever. The truth is that no sane person would want to suffer through the preparation for a marriage more than once. Some say that a wedding is God’s way of testing a couple to see if they’re fit for marriage.
In THE CATHOLIC WEDDING BOOK you can find everything you want to know about:
* Selecting Scripture readings for your wedding
* Choosing and decorating the church
* The duties of the best man and maid of honor
* Wedding ritual options
* Marriages between Catholics and other Christians
* Making the best use of the rehearsal
* Organizing the wedding procession
* Putting the ushers to work
* Dispensations and how to get them
* How to plan your own wedding ceremony
* Getting the most out of marriage prep.
* Dozens of other questions and answers…
Easy reading for Catholics of all ages, THE CATHOLIC WEDDING BOOK provides practical advice for planning a wedding liturgy and the text of all official forms, readings and prayers approved by the Church–everything you need to make your wedding joyful and meaningful. So read brides magazines for your dress and reception, but be sure to purchase this for the real substance of your Catholic wedding.
Molly K. Hans is a freelance writer living in Shiremanstown, Pennsylvania. She and her husband have ten children.
William C. Graham is a priest of the Duluth diocese and is currently the director of Catholic Studies at the College of St. Scholastica. He holds a Master’s degree in Liturgy from the University of Notre Dame and the PhD in historical theology from Fordham, the Jesuit University of New York City.
Wedding Culture > Thai the Knot: How to Untangle the Complexities of Cross-Cultural Marriage
Aug 7th
Thai the Knot: How to Untangle the Complexities of Cross-Cultural Marriage
American men are beguiled in their thousands by the enchanting women of Thailand. But many make poor choices when it comes to marrying women whose needs, habits and expectations are very different from their own, and a clash of cultures can ruin a romance. Who better to advise than a Thai woman herself? No topic is taboo as Pop Soisangwan offers insider knowledge on how to secure a successful match. Illustrated with humorous cartoons.
Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity
Jul 15th
Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity
This work explores what it means to be modern and what it means to be Korean in a culture where courtship and marriage are often the crucible in which notions of gender and class are cast and recast. Touching on a number of important issues–identity, romantic love, women’s work, marriage negotiations, and wedding ceremonies–Laurel Kendall gives us a new appreciation for how Koreans have adapted this pivotal social practice to the astounding changes of the past century.
Kendall attended her first Korean wedding in 1970, soon after she arrived in the country with the Peace Corps. Years later, as a seasoned anthropologist, she began interviewing both working-class and middle-class couples, matchmakers, purveyors of dowry goods, and proprietors of wedding halls. She consulted etiquette handbooks and women’s magazines and analyzed cartoons, photographs, and weddings themselves. The result is an engaging account of how marriage matches are made, how families proceed through the rites, how they finance ceremonies and elaborate exchanges of ritual goods, and how these practices are integral to the construction of adult identities and notions of ideal women and men. The book is also a reflection on what it means to write “Korea” in a complex and ever changing social milieu.
Veiled Remarks: A Curious Compendium for the Nuptially Inclined
May 30th
Veiled Remarks: A Curious Compendium for the Nuptially Inclined
Getting married is a beautiful thing. The historical origins of the act of marriage? Not so pretty. Veiled Remarks: A Curious Compendium for the Nuptially Inclined is an illustrated assortment of fun facts, tidbits and gewgaws on the quite fascinating, often bizarre, sometimes bloody, completely true history of matrimony. Woven throughout the trivia is the tale of one Leslie Scarpanato, jilted bride, whose woeful tale of lost love helps shed some light on an ancient union often taken for granted . Marriage by capture, ghost bride sightings, the Dunmow Flitch Trials, black market heart prices and why jail cells are reserved specifically for Indian mothers in-law make this an intriguing read for the nuptially inclined.
The A-Z of Wedding Wisdom
Nov 15th
Planning and organising your wedding is quite a challenge, especially for today’s busy brides and grooms. The good news is that many people have been there, done it and got the T-shirt Sharing their experience can save you a vast amount of time, money, energy and sanity when it comes to your own Big Day. In this book Suzan St Maur has gathered together many years’ worth of wedding wisdom from wedding planners, wedding suppliers, and married folks themselves: experiences, expert advice, shortcuts, tips, and much more. No matter how complex your wedding is going to be, the advice you’ll find in this book is priceless. In easy-to-read, easy-to-reference encyclopaedic style, Suzan covers all the usual – and the more unusual – issues you may have to deal with when planning your wedding. Here are just a few: Parents, step-parents, adoptive/birth parents * Brothers, sisters, step-siblings * Aunts, uncles, grandparents and other key relatives * The best man, chief bridesmaid and other bridal attendants * Speeches * Guest lists * Receptions * Table seating plans * Different religions * Different races/cultures * Gay and lesbian weddings * Finances and paying the bills.
About the Author
Suzan St Maur is a prolific international writer, researcher, and editor as well as being the author of over 20 published and commissioned books on business, consumer and humour topics. This is her fifth book on weddings for How To Books. She also runs a lively and popular group on Facebook called ‘Suze’s Weddings Chat Room’. She lives mostly in Bedfordshire with her teenage son and an assortment of dogs and cats.
