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: #10518 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.

Not quite Babylon in my eyes
I have read Hotel, Air and Beach and now the world of weddings is centre stage from `anonymous' and Imogen Edwards-Jones.

We are taken through a week in a wedding planner's world and see how much is spent, how much is wasted and how many tears are shed in the process of bringing two people together. However the excess of weddings and the people involved was interesting, and from someone who has been involved in organising weddings and sent the bills I know what costs are involved, this was interesting see the far higher echelons of the market.

However, what held all this together `the story' did not work for me. It was too easy to skim read these parts until you got to the interesting parts and in the end that became a chore.

Not a `Babylon' book that I enjoyed, though have shared it with others at work who are involved in weddings as a humorous way to waste some time. Sort of a `Hello/Ok' magazine without the photos to while away a few hours if you want some escapism.

What will the next `Babylon' bring us........?