Product Description

Congratulations, you’re planning a wedding! Besides obtaining a fancy tuxedo and a stunning gown, organizing a wedding ceremony takes creativity, planning, diplomacy, and nerve. The whole ordeal can seem overwhelming at first, but with a little guidance, you’ll pull off a wedding people will remember for ages.

Wedding Planning For Dummies, 2^nd Edition demystifies and simplifies all the details that go into the Big Day, providing inspiration and innovative ideas to personalize your wedding celebration and, of course, make it fun for everyone—especially you! This one–stop guide is all you need to:

• Design a comprehensive schedule for a snag–free wedding day
• Keep track of expenses with a wedding budget
• Negotiate contracts and surf online for deals
• Get those pesky financial technicalities out of the way
• Plan a weekend wedding, a themed wedding, and other celebrations
• Select a suitable wedding party
• Plan for various customs and rites
• Get the decorative effect you want
• Throw a great reception with music, food, drink, and cake!
• Handle gifts, registries, rings, photos, and the honeymoon

Packed with tips for saving money and common kitsch you should avoid, this is the ultimate guide to satisfying everyone on the Big Day. You’ll discover the confidence you need to make the wedding of your dreams come true with Wedding Planning For Dummies, 2^nd Edition!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31827 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 408 pages

From the Back Cover
Features helpful planning forms and checklists

Plan your dream wedding on a budget

Stressed about wedding planning? Relax! This friendly guide gives you all the help you need to plan and enjoy a memorable, hassle–free ceremony and reception. You get tips on everything from setting the date and selecting the invitations to keeping track of gifts, guests, and thank you notes. Your Big Day will be special, unique, and fun!

Discover How To:

• Get the most for your money
• Personalize your celebration
• Handle tricky family dynamics
• Hire caterers, florists, and photographers
• Plan the perfect honeymoon

About the Author
Marcy Blum is a well–known expert on weddings and entertaining. She has appeared on numerous TV shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Today Show.

Laura Fisher Kaiser writes about consumer culture for Interior Design, This Old House Magazine, and The Washington Post.

Customer Reviews

Weddings for American Dummies
There are some good detail points in here, and some things that you are of course, bound to have forgotten to organise, or overlooked, but it is written by a New-Yorker and is therefore more specific for the American market - Such things as getting the while wedding party (guests and all) together for a 'practise' dinner, to see who gets on with whom, and so that everyone (guests) knows where they are sitting & what they need to do! I have yet to be invited to one of these!

No question, the best wedding book around
Weddings For Dummies is the only guide you'll need to making your big day perfect. The authors have a sensible approach and they provide all the details and tricks of the trade that would take a lifetime of wedding planning to learn. If that wasn't enough, the material is presented in a easily accesible format and with enough humor to keep things in perspective. A great gift for the bride (or groom) to be. Get an extra one for the parents. They'll thank you for it. You will get a big return on your investment in this book. I practically wore the covers off of mine.

What a management system book!
When my husband and I started planning our wedding early this year, we had no idea where to start. We thought of have a proper project management system to manage the whole thing. This was the near perfect book for us. It gave us the information we needed with a little humor to keep us from completely going nuts. We referred to it again and again for nine days. I may even bring it to the wedding just in case but my husband talked some sense into me. We have since sent the book to a friend who is now using it to plan his wedding across the country. And, my husband and I have now started our own family planning!