The Everything Wedding Book: The Ultimate Guide to Planning the Wedding of Your Dreams, Third Edition

by Shelly Hagen

You've imagined your wedding day since you were a child, and now it's finally approaching. You want everything on that special day to be absolutely perfect - from the ceremony to the flowers to the music. Filled with practical tips, useful secrets from the pros, and plenty of worksheets to keep you organized, this expanded edition keeps you up to date on the latest wedding trends and helps you walk down the aisle with style and confidence.

The Everything Wedding Book, 3rd Edition contains the best information on how From setting the date to driving off in the "Just Married" car, The Everything Wedding Book, 3rd Edition is your essential guide to ensuring that the most important day of your life isn't also the most stressful.

Genres: Nonfiction

384 pages, Paperback

First published August 18, 2004

Reviews

[Catherine · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm including this for the sake of total honesty in what I actually read.

This is probably the 2nd worst of all the wedding books I've read since the Engagening. It's dull and uninteresting and assumes the bride is going to spend a ton of money and has a bridal entourage and had no idea a civil ceremony can take place outside a "dull, sterile courtroom." So, you see, even though I never gave much thought to a "perfect" wedding, I have seen at least one movie and seen some tv that included a wedding, never mind wedding shows on tv, having been to real weddings, etc. It makes dumb suggestions and has some factual errors about dumb stuff, which only makes me madder. Not every wedding has to be a wiccan handfasting with bride wearing a leopard print sarong, but by enforcing the perfection of a dopey formula, I am gaggulating.

Actually, the only interesting and helpful parts are the irrelevant parts: the authors describe in great detail how difficult it is to get an annulment to get remarried in the Catholic church. Perhaps I ought to file that away...

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basic but fine. A little outdated since there is so much information online. Good browse.

[Ashley Snyder Miller · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm rather surprised that this book got some rather negative reviews. I found it very comprehensive, informative, interesting, and even a bit humorous (cheesy humor) at times.

I have already used this book to help develop a bank of questions to ask reception site managers. Since I'm early in the planning stages, I am in the research stage at present.

I can understand how a book like this could overwhelm an already nervous bride, but it does have helpful information. The book helped open up my creative thinking processes and I look forward to referencing it as I continue planning.

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm not sure that this book really helped us at all during the wedding planning. With chefs in the kitchen that wanted to be open to the suggestions here, or with people looking to learn their way in the wedding plan world, this book may be more helpful.

I think that my evaluation is more of an incomplete than anything, given the circumstances.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

I borrowed this from the library in ebook format and listened to it using the voiceover feature on my iPhone. Buried in a lot of common-sense advice, each section had a few details I wouldn't have otherwise known and tips I might not have thought of. I plan to check this out again closer to the wedding to save some of the checklists at the end of each section.

[Randi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Any wedding questions you have, it has answers!

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

it overwhelmed me with what I still needed to do