Product Description

It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone loves a good wedding. Except, possibly, the bride and groom, who spend the day in such an overexcited frenzy that they can't remember it. And the bridesmaids, who are forced to wear ill-fitting peach taffeta so as not to outshine the bride. And the best man, who has to make a terrifying speech in front of a room of drunken people he's never met before, then fight off the attentions of the chief bridesmaid. Oh, and the father of the bride, who has to pay through the nose for the whole thing...Now, in the bestselling Babylon tradition, Imogen Edwards-Jones lifts the lid on the excesses of the wedding industry. The scams which inflate the prices of everything from flowers to cakes to marquee hire. And the wedding disaster stories of high jinks at the altar and disastrous low comedy in the speeches. The potential for things to go horribly, horribly wrong is never higher than at a wedding. Hilarious, shocking and thoroughly entertaining, "Wedding Babylon" is proof positive that the dream day is never far from becoming a nightmare...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13669 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Review
A must-have for any bride-to-be... lifts the lid on scams used by the wedding industry to make sure your big day is their pay day --Fabulous magazine, News of the World

Review
the most shocking and revelatory to date.

Review
a horrifying insight into the scams and scandals of the business.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic! Entertaining! Funny!
Loved the behind the scenes look into the wedding industry from the view of a wedding planner...like the bride who keeps coming back for all her parties! It shows the bride from the outside world and how easy it is to become a bridezilla! Its an easy read and highly recommended...perfect as a gift for a bride to be as well as enjoyable reading. Prepare to laugh!

She has done it again...
Imogen has done it again. This book is like chick lit chocolate, I am getting married and I am starting to plan my day I thoguht I would take a look and it is as hoped a must read for any girl who has, soon will be or is planning to in the future ALL wedding planners/florists etc out there. it has everything from insider information as always, with some great idea's and a warning to do your best not to be a bridezzila... Bring on next years title.

More of the same from the Babylon Series
I do like the Babylon books, however Hotel Babylon, Air Babylon and Fashion Babylon are the only convincing ones so far. Beach Babylon, Pop Babylon and this one, Wedding Babylon are not exposes in any way. We all know what happens at a wedding. The book follows the usual format. A man goes through a day or in this case, a week of being a wedding planner. All the anecdotes she has gathered happen to this one man in this week making it sound much more interesting than it probably is. We have the stalker bride who used the planner and now gets him to organise every social event she holds. There are lots of references to staff stealing drinks, wedding planners sleeping with the bridesmaid to avoid going to a horrible B&B and lots of little stories about people spending lots of money shoehorned together in one book. I didn't feel any love in this book, I felt it was done like this: Send someone to ask loads of wedding planners what's the most lavish/horrible/exciting things that's ever happened in your career. Type them all up as if they happened to one person or if it won't fit in with your timeline, say that it happened to a friend he knew. This book is useless to anyone who got married in the "normal" way as it only really deals with the super-rich clients so I couldn't identify with it as being in any way like my wedding.

If you haven't read Air, Hotel or Fashion Babylon and were considering this one instead, I'd say try one of those first.