Offbeat Bride
Offbeat Bride

Author: Ariel Meadow Stallings

Publisher: Seal Press

Published: 2010-02-23

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0786741287

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Unenthused by a white wedding gown and bored by the hoopla of the Hollywood-style reception, Ariel Meadow Stallings found herself absolutely exhausted with the nuances of traditional nuptials . . . so she chose to take a walk off the beaten aisle. In this updated edition of Offbeat Bride, Stallings humorously recounts the story of the original offbeat wedding-hers-and shares anecdotes and advice from dozens of other nontraditional couples. She also includes a chapter on budget weddings in today's weak economy, along with sidebars, tips, tricks, and planner encouragement to help you figure out your special day. What results is a combination of hilarious wedding stories and tons of helpful how-tos-a perfect mash-up of memoir and handbook. At once practical and enjoyable, Offbeat Bride validates choosing the funky, different, and offbeat over the traditional, and leads couples through the planning process-from unique ideas on how to announce their engagement all the way to answering the question, "So, how's married life?" Stallings is the ultimate guide to the alternative wedding of your dreams, and with Offbeat Bride, she brings you a book that serves both as an encouragement and celebration of aisles less traveled.

All the Essentials Wedding Planner: The Ultimate Tools for Organizing Your Big Day (Wedding Planning Book, Wedding Organizers, Wedding Checklist Planner)
All the Essentials Wedding Planner: The Ultimate Tools for Organizing Your Big Day (Wedding Planning Book, Wedding Organizers, Wedding Checklist Planner)

Author: Alison Hotchkiss

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2012-12-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781452107134

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The essential tool for organizing the picture-perfect wedding of your dreams. Every bride needs a chic and practical planner: Expert advice from in-demand wedding planner Alison Hotchkiss combines to-do lists, sample floor plans, downloadable templates, and gorgeous design by Hello!Lucky to create the ultimate wedding planner book and organizer. There are countless decisions to be made and several little details that simply cannot be forgotten, so this wedding book will help you stay on track moving towards your big day. In a hardcover, 3-ring binder style, you can take this planner book to all of your appointments to take notes and keep all important documents together. Includes 176 pages of planning and organization help, 16 color tabbed dividers, and 2-color interiors.Provides expert advice for every step of the way including resources for gift registries, wedding insurance, wedding websites, travel planning, and more. All the Essentials Wedding Planner truly is the ultimate tool for organizing your big day. A must-have for anyone who is recently engaged and starting the wedding planning process. Makes a great engagement gift for loved ones! Beautifully designed and expertly laid out with practical advice from Alison Hotchkiss spread throughout.

Brides, Inc.
Brides, Inc.

Author: Vicki Howard

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2008-08-25

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780812220452

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Reveals how many of our customs and wedding rituals were the product of sophisticated advertising campaigns, merchandising promotions, and entrepreneurial innovations. The businesses and entrepreneurs, from jewelers to bridal consultants and caterers, set the stage for today's multibillion-dollar industry.

Legendary Brides
Legendary Brides

Author: Letitia Baldrige

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780060195595

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From Queen Victoria to Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, "Legendary Brides" captures the magic of eight prominent brides and their weddings, providing timeless ideas for gowns, flowers, menus, table settings, and other essentials. 250 illustrations & photos.

The Everything Jewish Wedding Book
The Everything Jewish Wedding Book

Author: Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-11-17

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1440501661

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From reciting the Kiddush (sanctification prayer) to building the chuppah (wedding canopy), the details of a Jewish wedding can be overwhelming! This wedding guide helps newlyweds understand tradition and plan a wedding they’ll cherish forever. Written by a rabbi who has performed many weddings, this informative guide will help people navigate: the Judaic concept of marriage; engagement etiquette; the proper way to introduce the families; how to confer with a rabbi and the ritual director; the business of incorporating family heirlooms; and more! Whether the wedding is joining two Jewish people or an interfaith couple, this book is a must-have survival guide for any chatan (groom) or kallah (bride).

The New Wedding Book
The New Wedding Book

Author: Michelle Bilodeau

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1459747135

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Plan your wedding without the weight of outdated customs and get hitched in a way that is authentic, fun, and true to who you are. From the minute couples become engaged, they are pressured to buy into a one-size-fits-all wedding. By breaking down the antiquated traditions of that #blessedweddingday, The New Wedding Book will help you and your betrothed throw those icky traditions to the curb in honour of having the wedding of your actual dreams — not the one you've been force-fed for decades by the wedding-industrial complex. Inspiring couples to plan their wedding in a way that is meaningful to them, Bilodeau and Cleveland debunk the manufactured traditions, advocate for realistic budgets, offer brilliant advice from real-life couples, and confront the crushing pressure for weddings to be perfect.

How I Planned Your Wedding
How I Planned Your Wedding

Author: Susan Wiggs

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2011-01-25

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1426884443

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Bestselling author Susan Wiggs literally wrote the book on happily-ever-after love. But orchestrating her daughter Elizabeth's real-world wedding turned into a different story altogether, and one that takes two to tell—the mother and the bride. Here is the all-too-true tale of a mother and daughter collaborating on life's ultimate celebration—a dream wedding. Often poignant, sometimes irreverent and always hilarious, this charming book is also packed with useful advice from both ends of the cupcake-tasting table. Join mother and daughter as they wade through the trenches of flowers and favors, grueling gown decisions…and the cold, cruel realities of a budget. With luck, love and loads of patience, they come out on the other side, bloodied but unbowed, replete with life lessons—and closer than ever before.

All the Beautiful Brides
All the Beautiful Brides

Author: Rita Herron

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781503945500

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"A young woman lies dead at the bottom of a waterfall, dressed in a wedding gown with a rose stem jammed down her throat. And in the small town of Graveyard Falls, the horrifying vision stirs a long-ago nightmare back to life... FBI Special Agent Cal Coulter gets called in to investigate the murder, which bears a terrifying resemblance to a series of killings committed thirty years ago: three teenage girls were found dead at the waterfall's base, all bearing rose stems in their throats. But the high school football star was convicted and imprisoned for those murders, leading Cal to suspect that the killer is still out there. Now, the body count is rising again. The monster's sights are set on counselor Mona Monroe, Cal's best friend's widow...and the woman he's always loved. Can Cal stop the killer before Mona becomes the next victim?,"--page [4] of cover.

Vogue Weddings
Vogue Weddings

Author: Hamish Bowles

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2012-10-30

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0307957063

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An exquisite collection of nearly 400 iconic, inspirational wedding photographs of royalty, models, artists, actors, musicians and designers who have appeared in Vogue through the magazine’s 120 year history. Showcasing the work of legendary photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Patrick Demarchelier, Jonathan Becker, Norma Jean Roy, Mario Testino, Irving Penn, Arthur Elgort, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, and Annie Leibovitz, Vogue Weddings will transport you to a myriad of romantic settings around the world, from storied castles, palaces, and cathedrals, to weddings by the sea or in the countryside. Here are the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in London; Sofia Coppola and Thomas Mars in Italy; Kate Moss and Jamie Hince in the Cotswolds; Lauren Bush and David Lauren at the RRL Ranch in Colorado; Marina Rust and Ian Connor in Maine; Lauren Davis and Andrés Santo Domingo in Cartagena, Colombia as well as such iconic photos as Bianca and Mick Jagger in the car after their wedding in St. Tropez. A chapter on models’ weddings includes portraits of Natalia Vodianova, Coco Rocha, Maggie Rizer, Stella Tennant, Lara Stone and Cindy Crawford among others in their own wedding dress choices. Vogue Weddings also features behind-the-scenes details from Hamish Bowles; personal wedding stories from Mario Testino, Plum Sykes, Marina Rust and Sarah Mower; and fashion portfolios created by the magazine’s editors of bridal photo shoots, many including couture.

The Ship of Brides
The Ship of Brides

Author: Jojo Moyes

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-05-27

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 069815634X

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other war brides on an extraordinary voyage to England—aboard HMS Victoria, which still carries not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers. Rules are strictly enforced, from the aircraft carrier’s captain down to the lowliest young deckhand. But the men and the brides will find their lives intertwined despite the Navy’s ironclad sanctions. And for Frances Mackenzie, the complicated young woman whose past comes back to haunt her far from home, the journey will change her life in ways she never could have predicted—forever.