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Bridal Bargains, 8th Edition: Secrets to throwing a fantastic wedding on a realistic budget (Bridal Bargains)

Denise Fields

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Total reviews: 322 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great cost-cutting ideas for weddings! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book has saved me a small fortune in planning my daughters wedding. Terrific information the wedding industry won't tell you and don't want you to know!!! A "must have" book as far as I'm concerned.

Best Book Out There 5 out of 5 stars.
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This has to be one of the best books I have come across. If you are on a budget then let this be your guide. Not only does it have great advice from choosing the dress to flowers to decor and the reception it list great ideas for you along with helpful websites to get what you need. If you want one book that has it all then this is it. It even has ratings to help you.

8th Edition and Still Going Strong 5 out of 5 stars.
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Bridal Bargains is a wonderful wedding planning book for anyone who wants to save a few dollars, but it's also great for regular brides who need a little help navigating the world of weddings.
The tips in the book will not only help you save some money, but they will help you get exactly what you want for your wedding. If you buy one book on wedding planning, buy this one. It's worth every penny.

Editorial Review:

The national best-seller the wedding industry does NOT want you to read! Bridal Bargains teaches couples all the tricks to saving money on a wedding--and how to avoid pitfalls and scams. With the average wedding costing $20,000, Bridal Bargains is the solution to tying the knot without breaking the bank.

The Knot Ultimate Wedding Planner: Worksheets, Checklists, Etiquette, Calendars, and Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

Carley Roney

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Total reviews: 50 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

This practical companion to The Knot Complete Guide to Weddings in the Real World acts as a stand-alone guide to the nuts and bolts of planning a wedding. The Knot Ultimate Wedding Planner is where the bride and groom can record wedding ideas, create budget guidelines, check items off their to-do list, generate the guest list, store contact information for their wedding vendors, and get tips and advice on the best way to plan their big day.

Chapter by chapter, the planner walks the bridal couple through each major step: for example, choosing the reception site, picking a photographer, and deciding on a menu. Author Carley Roney and the editors of The Knot Web site have talked with both wedding professionals and hundreds of thousands of brides and grooms, and have a good idea of the necessary ingredients for a successful wedding. Most helpful and thorough are each chapter's "Questions to Ask" checklists and the "Knot Knowledge" tips, which include money-saving ideas. The book also contains a gift log, a budget tracker, and a wedding-day phone contacts sheet.

Roney offers loads of helpful advice, such as recommending that the bride and groom declare "wedding free zones" where the couple makes time for activities together that have nothing to do with planning the wedding. Each chapter also includes her down-to-earth answers to commonly asked questions, such as whether it's appropriate for a relative to host a shower or if the wedding couple should pay for guests' travel expenses. With all of its tips, advice, and organizers, The Knot Ultimate Wedding Planner may just be, next to a wedding coordinator, the best way for modern couples to ensure their wedding is a smoothly run, stress-free affair. --Kris Law

Our Wedding Anniversary Memory Book

Rae Wakelin, Joy Rodgers-Mernin

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Total reviews: 62 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

The perfect gift 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book was a wedding present 8 years ago from my Mom. Every year we drag it out, pick our favorite horizontal photo and think about all of the fun things we did all year. It is a fun way to celebrate or Anniversary and look back at everything we have done. Until it showed up on Amazon, I had a hard time finding it, but now I buy it for all of my friends who are getting married. It is one of my favorite gifts and one that was really appreciated. We even bought a special gold pen so it all matches year to year.

Editorial Review:

This book is ideal for new couples as a shower, wedding or anniversary gift. The Wedding Anniversary Book spans 50 years, thefirst 15, year by year. Each year lists that anniversary's specialflower along with traditional and modern gifts. Each page featureselegant watercolors and calligraphy by Joy Rodgers-Mernin.Left-hand pages have an illustrated border w/diecut to hold 3 1/2 x 5or 4 x 6 photo. Right-hand pages have a quotation and illustrationwith space to write. Acid-free embossed paper and arrives with whitegift box.

Martha Stewart's Wedding Cakes

Martha Stewart, Wendy Kromer

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Total reviews: 16 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

Of all the decisions that go into planning a wedding, choosing the cake may be the sweetest. Much more than dessert, this beloved wedding symbol should be as special as the bride and groom themselves. Whether you imagine a majestic cake blooming with fresh flowers, a pristine fondant-covered masterpiece, or a homespun take on strawberry shortcake- or even if you don’t know where to begin- Martha Stewart’s Wedding Cakes will provide you with more than 100 delicious and inspiring ideas for timeless and beautiful confections that are perfect for every style of wedding.

Not just visually inspiring, these pages are filled with information you won’t find anywhere else. Martha Stewart and Wendy Kromer, the master baker and decorator who has been creating cakes for Martha Stewart Weddings for more than a decade, guide you through everything you need to consider when selecting a cake- and even how to bake and decorate one yourself. Novice and experienced bakers alike will find recipes and insiders’ techniques to create truly memorable wedding cakes.

You will learn:
Where to begin- how to decide what style and flavors are right for you, taking into account the season, location, and theme of the event

Buttercream or fondant? Ganache or meringue? Useful charts explain the delicious materials bakers use, so you can choose the ones that suit your taste and style

Creative ways to display your cake so it takes center stage at the reception

How to find and hire a baker, including questions to ask and contract considerations

Ideas for cutting costs without sacrificing quality or beauty

How to incorporate traditions from around the world

Everything you need to know about baking a cake yourself, with complete recipes as well as how-to decorating techniques with color photographs and reference charts

A treasury of inspiration, Martha Stewart’s Wedding Cakes will ensure that your cake, whether homemade or professionally baked, triple-tiered or a tower of cupcakes, embellished with fresh fruit or elaborate sugar roses, is every bit as magical as your big day.

Tying the Knot: The Complete Wedding Organizer (Personal Organizers)

Sara Miller, Karen Berman

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Total reviews: 20 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Disappointing 2 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This was one of two planners I ordered and it was very disappointing. For one the binder is very flimsy and planning details involved are slim to none. Ultimately I only used this planner for overflow. This planner might work if you are having a very small wedding but it is not very helpful for any kind of detailed work. Trust me, you could do better. The best thing about this is the cute pink design, but you get over that real quick.

Editorial Review:

Use this appealing organizer to turn your wedding dreams into reality! With 108 pages of planning information, this indispensable volume features organizational necessities: essential information and places to record details about budget, parties, attire, invitations, wedding party, flowers and music, ceremony, reception, and honeymoon. Plastic folders within each of the nine category sections store and organize papers, receipts, estimates, and samples. The three-ring binder allows for popping pages in and out, or adding your own. The flexible, plastic cover is durable and light. Measures 10-1/2 wide x 11-1/2 high x 1-7/8 deep.

Emily Post's Wedding Etiquette, 5e (Emily Post's Wedding Etiquette)

Peggy Post

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Total reviews: 34 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

What makes a perfect wedding? "[The bride] and the groom both look as though there were sunlight behind their eyes, as though their mouths irresistibly turned to smiles," wrote Emily Post in 1922's Etiquette. Great-granddaughter-in-law Peggy Post, author of the fourth edition of Emily Post's Wedding Etiquette, absolutely agrees with Miss Emily. To ensure those bright eyes and smiles, she imparts thoughtful and commonsensical advice on how to plan for not just your wedding, but for all the social and familial obligations and traditions that a wedding entails.

Unlike many wedding manuals, Post includes advice for the "encore" bride as well as for the new bride. In this day of remarriages and blended families, tact and strategy are often needed to make sure feelings aren't hurt and everything runs as smoothly as possible. A chapter on multicultural and interfaith marriages addresses differing world traditions and how they can be incorporated into a touching ceremony that makes both the couple and their families happy. If you are unsure of who is supposed to do what, Post gives you clear instruction, often including a flow chart that delineates the responsibilities of all people involved in the wedding party (bride's parents throw the engagement party, best man returns the tuxes, flower girl's family pays for her outfit).

Throughout Emily Post's Wedding Etiquette are sidebars with questions asked of Post regarding an amazing array of wedding-related conundrums ("My daughter's fiancé wants to follow his family's tradition of having a money tree at the wedding. I personally find this distasteful; can I say so?"). This is a great book to find the answers for all those sticky questions. All involved in the wedding process should leaf through, get their bearings, smile, and then forge ahead. --Dana Van Nest

Your Stress-Free Wedding Planner: Experts' Best Secrets to Creating Your Dream Wedding

Judy Allen

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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Use the tools and techniques the experts use for stress free planning

Every wedding moves through the same series of planning steps, but the time,
money, energy and emotion invested can vary tremendously. Couples who use
the tools and techniques the experts use are prepared to do what matters,
when it matters most. With the logistics in order, they have the freedom to
enjoy the events leading up to their special day as well as time to relax
and plan their future life together.

As they work their way through the planning stages, couples will find that
their initial stress over planning their wedding day has disappeared.
Couples committed to creating a memorable, meaningful wedding day will come
to view the wedding planning process not as an ordeal to get through, but as
a fun experience.

Judy Allen is a professional event planner and shows brides a step-by-step
approach to minimize the complexity of planning the wedding day. When an
event is planned in these 10 stages, whether over six weeks or a year or
longer, the planner will always be in control of the process, will not go
over budget and will find the whole process relaxed and stress free.

The 10 stages:
1. Visualization: Wedding-Day Dreams
2. Decision Making: What Matters Most
3. Designing a Realistic Blueprint
4. Choosing the Perfect Wedding and Reception Site
5. Selecting the Right Wedding Vendors
6. Before You Sign on the Dotted Line: Questions to Ask
7. Organizing Wedding-Day Timelines and Wedding-Day Flow
8. Wedding-Day Flow Sheets
9. Wedding Supplier Previews and Wedding-Day Rehearsal
10. On-Site Wedding-Day Orchestration

Simple Stunning Weddings: Designing and Creating Your Perfect Celebration

Karen Bussen

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

The three biggest trends in weddings today are simplicity, personalization, and color. Wedding design expert Karen Bussen highlights these elements as she shows couples how to design their own weddings without going crazy or broke.

Simple Stunning Weddings is the first wedding design book to focus on the where of the wedding. Location is the first and most important decision brides and grooms must make: everything else flows from that. Bussen showcases 12 popular wedding settings, including the city loft, country inn, art gallery, botanic garden, and private club, and demonstrates how to make them extraordinary. With the site as the starting point, she creates unifying themes with color, flowers, and personal touches. She explains how to deal with vendors, how to spend the wedding budget, and when it makes sense to hire a specialist.

Sharing all her trade secrets, Bussen teaches the power of simplicity and the impact of color, which can be tailored to any budget, always to stunning effect: substituting cotton tablecloths for silk in the same eye-dazzling color combinations, for example, or creating striking flower arrangements using only one or two types of blooms. Whether for a barefoot union on a beach or a formal affair in a hotel ballroom, this fully illustrated, information-filled book is like having Bussen on hand as your personal wedding designer. AUTHOR BIO: KAREN BUSSEN is one of Manhattan's most exciting wedding designers. Her work has been featured in such magazines as Modern Bride, Martha Stewart Weddings, Home, Food & Wine, and Interior Design. In the past six years, she has designed more than 100 weddings.

ELLEN SILVERMAN's photographs have appeared in Charmed Bracelets and New Soul Cooking (both STC).

Kauai Trailblazer: Where to Hike, Snorkel, Bike, Paddle, Surf (

Jerry Sprout, Janine Sprout

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The latest edition of the Sprout's top-selling guide is packed with new and updated activities, dozens of fresh photos, and a special Trailblazer Kids section for families headed to Hawaii's "adventure island." Popular among independent and active travelers, Trailblazer guides are known for their user-friendly format, readability, and sharp graphics. You'll find all the mountain ridges, tropical gardens, beaches, coves and lagoons, jungles, rivers, historic landmarks and cultural sites, coral reefs, ancient ruins, and coastal bluffs-all the places to get wet, muddy, and have fun on Kaua'i. Less energetic visitors will appreciate the book's driving tours, which hit the headliners along with the island's out-of-the-way charms. The authors have spent years exploring Kaua'i, and it shows. A Resource Links section gives visitor information and cultural contacts, recommended recreational outfitters, museums and attractions, Hawaiiana shops and hula shows, as well as a! hand-picked list of restaurants and places to stay. Safety precautions and traveling tips are not to be overlooked, and a Best Of section lets you select among activities to suit your mood.

119 hikes and strolls to mountain ridges, tropical gardens, beaches, jungles, coves, reefs, historic landmarks and ancient ruins, swamps, craters, forests, coastal bluffs and tide pools, towns, canyons, waterfalls and river valleys

- 68 beaches, including 22 reachable only by trail - 42 snorkeling pools, both the island favorites and hidden coves - 61 mountain bike rides along forest, coastal, and countryside trails - 27 kayaking waters: 13 rivers and streams, 14 bays and lagoons - 36 surfing spots - a special Trailblazer Kids section - 10 maps and 175 photographs - 4 driving tours, featuring heiaus, wildlife sanctuaries, cultural and historical sites,tourist attractions and natural wonders - Resource Links to recreational outfitters, stables, golf courses, camping, transportation, accommodations, local-style eats and shops - Appendices of Hawaiian words, place names, movie locations, hula performances, farmer's markets, weather, flora, history

The Complete Wedding Planner & Organizer

Elizabeth Lluch

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Excellent Wedding Planner 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

From my Fiance: I am very happy with this wedding planner. I think that it is very comprehensive and has some great ideas. The budget spreadsheets are very helpful... I also like that you can insert your own pages or folders to keep all your wedding related documents in one place... I highly recommend this book!

Wonderful! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I found this book online and really liked it, and I actually checked it out in a bookstore before buying it on amazon (which saved me $10!) It's high quality with a sturdy cover and thick divider pages with pockets on either side to hold things. I really like that it has a bunch of pictures, but they're all in one section in the front, so they're not in the way. The hole punch (which works even though it's not super-fancy) and three ring binder have allowed me to add and remove things as I want. I've taken it with me to meet with vendors, and they've all said that the questions in it are great questions to ask. I think the cover is cute, too! I would definitely recommend this to someone who wants helpful tips and information in a pre-organized binder that they can customize.

Editorial Review:

A new title from America's top wedding experts, Elizabeth & Alex Lluch. The Complete Wedding Planner & Organizer provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date wedding planning information in a handy 3-ring binder designed to help brides stay organized and on top of their wedding plans. The binder includes a back cover pocket to store important documents, dividers to keep track of information, a 3-hole punch to easily add pages, and inspirational wedding photos.