The Knot's Complete Guide to Weddings - Softcover

Roney, Carley

3.85

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9780767902465: The Knot's Complete Guide to Weddings

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0767902467 ISBN 13: 9780767902465

Publisher: Broadway, 1998

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Planning for the big day? Here are the most up-to-date answers to all your questions in the first book from the editors of The Knot, the largest online wedding resource.

Overwhelmed by the countless questions and details that planning your wedding entails? Don't despair! The Knot's Complete Guide to Weddings helps you make all the critical decisions and takes you step-by-step from your engagement to the big day, from the reception to the honeymoon. Inside you'll find checklists, worksheets, true tales, insider advice, and in-depth sections on:

How to personalize your wedding
Updated wedding etiquette
Creating a realistic budget
Choosing a great location
Shopping for The Perfect Dress
Tips for working with florists, caterers, officiants, and others
Sneaky cost-trimming tricks
Invitation wording
Ethnic wedding customs
Vows and ceremony details

Plus: Coping with stressful family situations, dealing with interfaith issues, and maintaining strength, sanity, and romance through it all.

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Review:

Promoting the idea that "there's only one thing that really matters: that you have the wedding you want, not a nervous breakdown," Carley Roney and the editors of The Knot Web site have compiled all the information any modern bride and groom may need to plan and execute their dream wedding. Equal parts wedding consultant, marriage counselor, best friend, and cyberresource, this is not the guide your grandmother--or mother, for that matter--used to plan her wedding. Much of The Complete Guide to Weddings in the Real World is culled from the experiences and questions that users of their successful Web site, www.theknot.com, have written in about. This interactivity gives the guide credibility for the engaged couple of the '90s. Readers will find the Web site a useful accessory to the book.

In a humorous, hip, and engaging style, Roney runs down the basics of betrothal starting with the engagement and ending with the honeymoon and postwedding "reentry." In between, we get specific instructions on details like budgeting essentials, selecting locations, arranging the ceremony and reception, hiring photographers and musicians, and registering for gifts. Roney also presents a "Sticky Subjects" section that covers the more sober side of weddings: what to do when your families' religious or political beliefs collide, how to keep the physical side of a relationship alive during the turmoil of wedding planning, the potentially explosive issues of money and wedding budgeting, what to do when your friends or family disapprove of your intended, and even "Top Ten Family 911s."

Snapshots of actual weddings and their budget breakdowns, comprehensive checklists and worksheets, and extensive information on wedding resources with phone numbers, addresses, and Internet addresses (when available) will both help you untangle the knots that can come with getting hitched and make your day one that brings tears of happiness, not dismay. --Stefanie Durbin

From the Back Cover:

"The Knot is unquestionably America's leading wedding resource. . . .No bride and groom should be without it!"
--Marcy Blum, top wedding planner and coauthor of Weddings for Dummies

"A resource for the post-Emily Post crowd. The Knot provides ideas, advice, and a place to vent for those planning to take the plunge."
--Crain's New York Business

"Best of the Web: Bridal Registry: The Knot Wedding Gift Registry" -- US News and World Report, Dec. 98

"The best wedding website: The Knot, **** Four Stars"
-- Yahoo! Internet Life, Jun. 98

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