Wedding Planning @ your library ®
It is summertime and the
wedding bells are ringing. All across the country,
blushing brides and handsome grooms are making vows before
family and friends. For that special day, most couples do lots of research to ensure that all facets of
this blessed event are the best they can be.
Summer in South Florida is actually the slow season for
weddings, but it is a great time to do your planning so that the
day turns out right.
So what better place to start your wedding planning than at
your library!
Below is a collection of web
sites and books
designed to help you with planning your wedding. Then,
when you need some downtime from all the dress fittings,
invitation writing, and setting the registry, why not read some
great novels
about weddings to get some inspiration, or simply a good laugh!
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Wedding Planning Books |
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Miss Manners on Painfully Proper Weddings
With her trademark comedic inflection, Martin, the
syndicated columnist whose bestselling etiquette manuals
provide entertainment as well as guidance, turns her
attention here to weddings. Indirectly addressing the bride
but including the entire cast of trouble-causers--relatives,
in-laws, attendants, divorced parents--Miss Manners supports
reasonable standards, exuding acerbically genteel regret at
some contemporary nuptial excesses while accepting some
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The Portable Wedding Consultant
Now any couple can easily plan their wedding like a
professional... without the cost of hiring one. "The
Portable Wedding Consultant includes advice from more than
50 wedding planning experts, covering everything from
ordering invitations and selecting the perfect dress to the
pros and cons of changing the bride's last name. Advice and
suggestions from real-life brides and even lists of Internet
wedding resources make this an essential guide for every
bride and groom planning their own wedding.. |
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to The Perfect Wedding
This wedding guide contains a
section on using the Internet as a fast tool to help brides
and grooms plan their weddings. It includes dealing with
soon-to-be in-laws during the planning process, updated
information on nationwide trends, and advice form bridal
consultants and brides. |
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How to Plan an Elegant Wedding in 6 Months or Less
Wedding guide author Naylor speeds up the planning process
considerably, arguing that most brides do all the planning
and booking in about one month anyway and then spend several
months (possibly a year) defending or rethinking those
decisions. Though Naylor provides a unique planning
time line, her information on the big day and its
surrounding events is just practical, organized advice
applicable to many couples not just those on a tight
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The Groom's Guide
A great reference for all the
wedding details. As soon as you slip the ring on her finger,
your perfect woman turns into a Bride. Welcome to the land
of wedding planning, with a language and customs all its
own. Learn the wedding language from an expert, feel
confident as the perfect groom, and discover what your bride
is really thinking with this guide. |
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Modern Bride Guide to Etiquette
The editor-in-chief of America's #1 bridal magazine helps
couples solve today's etiquette dilemmas and have the
wedding of their dreams. Whatever the situation--divorced
parents or different ethnic customs--the author discusses
the universal issues as well as current trends and offers
both traditional and contemporary solutions. |
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Let's Elope
Here's a guide for couples
willing to break some traditional rules. The authors offer a short history of
elopement and talk about reasons modern couples elope:
stress reduction, finances, and the desire to be unique.
They define elopement as anything other than the big,
traditional wedding and discuss options ranging from
minimally planned escape elopements to hybrid
wedding-elopement choices like surprise weddings,
dinner-party weddings, destination weddings, and theme
weddings |
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Perfect Wedding Guide
A complete guide for
finding local resources to make your wedding planning
easy. Type in your Zip Code to find retailers in
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Modern Bride
You've read the magazine,
now see it on the web. Shop online or browse
through for ideas from the flowers to the honeymoon. |
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West Palm
Beach Weddings
A local guide to wedding
resources centered around West Palm Beach.
Contains helpful advice when shopping for photographers,
flowers, and more. |
Premier Bride
A straightforward directory of links to
sites to plan your wedding day from alternations to
yacht charters. Information is local to Palm Beach
and Broward. |
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Wedding Novels |
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Murder with Peacocks
Hectic plans for three family weddings in one summer are
made even more hectic by murder. New author Donna Andrews
combines murder and madcap hilarity with a cast of eccentric
oddballs in a small southern town.
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Shopaholic Ties the Knot
Since Becky Bloomwood's last adventures in the national
bestsellers "Confessions of a Shopaholic" and "Shopaholic
Takes Manhattan, " she has become the best personal shopper
at Barneys, and is living with her boyfriend Luke. So not
everything is smooth as silk--Becky's ring finger is still
bare.
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The Accidental Bride: a Romantic Comedy
Lily Blair, 27, a newspaper reporter and free spirit, has
become engaged in haste and refuses to repent at leisure.
Shortly before her wedding to "the third richest man in the
second largest city in Ohio," she decides to call the whole
thing off--but can she? A witty first novel
about a bride who has her wedding cake and eats it, too!
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The Wedding
The sequel to "The Notebook," Attorney Wilson Lewis has
been married to Noah and Allie's daughter, Jane, for 30
years. Wilson realizes that the passion and romance have
gone out of his marriage and fears his wife no longer
loves him. He decides to embark on a yearlong program to
renew his romantic ties to his wife, seeking out the
advice of Noah, who now spends his days in a retirement
home feeding a swan he is sure is the reincarnation of
his beloved Allie. In the midst of Wilson's
machinations, his daughter Anna announces she is getting
married. The upcoming wedding provides Wilson with the
opportunity to bring his elaborate plan to fruition.
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Miss Julia Throws a Wedding
The inimitable Miss Julia pushes an indecisive couple
toward matrimony in this Southern comedy-of-manners
series' latest installment, which begins with the
protagonist frustrated at the inability of her friend,
Miss Hazel, to get her beau to propose. But another
opportunity surfaces when Sheriff Coleman Bates proposes
to his lawyer girlfriend, Binkie Enloe. Miss Julia
immediately plows into the wedding plans, which get
derailed when a major fight causes Binkie to back out.
After some clever detective work, Miss Julia discovers
that the real reason for Binkie's hesitation is her
pregnancy, which leaves her indecisive right up to the
wedding day. |
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Mother of the Bride
In this illustrated memoir, the bestselling author of
"Love, Loss, and What I Wore" affectionately explains
why childbirth is less painful than planning a
daughter's wedding. With light, humorous prose and
attractive drawings, Beckerman deftly recounts her
journey down the winding path between watching a film
clip of the royal wedding of Elizabeth II in 1947 and
becoming the mother of a modern American bride in the
1990s. |
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Posted: 6/25/05 |
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