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Stuff Every Bride Should Know
An easy, elegant, and pocket-sized gift book packed with everything a bride needs to plan her dream wedding.
This petite handbook is a personal wedding planner you can carry in your pocket! The perfect engagement present or planning handbook for any soon-to-be bride, this manual is packed with tips to plan, execute, and enjoy the perfect engagement and wedding,
• How to Set a Budget
• How to Select Your Attendants
• How to Find the Dress
• How to Make Your Guests Comfortable
• How to Handle Showers and Parties
This petite handbook is a personal wedding planner you can carry in your pocket! The perfect engagement present or planning handbook for any soon-to-be bride, this manual is packed with tips to plan, execute, and enjoy the perfect engagement and wedding,
• How to Set a Budget
• How to Select Your Attendants
• How to Find the Dress
• How to Make Your Guests Comfortable
• How to Handle Showers and Parties
- GenresHow ToNonfiction
144 pages, Hardcover
Published December 8, 2015
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July 5, 2022
Of course I'm assuming this little book of wisdom is as helpful as it seems given I'm over a year and a half away from the big day, but the lists and points given in this book seem useful! It seems like a good starting point book for my planning process, particularly because it outlines all the major plans that need to be made and offers a list of the timings of when they should be made by.
I highly recommend this if you've just gotten engaged or if you would like to purchase a gift for someone who has just gotten engaged!
I highly recommend this if you've just gotten engaged or if you would like to purchase a gift for someone who has just gotten engaged!
April 12, 2021
Read this in one quick burst one night after binge planning for our wedding. Most of it is pretty straightforward, unsurprising advice, but at least the author acknowledges that not every wedding tradition is for every couple. Lots of wedding-related reading seems like it is still firmly planted in 1950s ideologies, and while this book still maintains one foot in the past, the other is at least willing to dip its toe in the pools of modern thought. I even bookmarked some pages because they were good reminders to come back to later, and there was at least a nugget or two I hadn't already thought of (like, when trying on gowns, sit in them! Make sure they can be sat in! In COVID times, it was easy to miss that little detail, as I've been wary to try a dress on for very long at all!)
Definitely not an exciting or super illuminating read, but one I'm glad I picked up from my library, and certainly worth a borrow for others who might be planning a wedding and need some sensible advice.
Definitely not an exciting or super illuminating read, but one I'm glad I picked up from my library, and certainly worth a borrow for others who might be planning a wedding and need some sensible advice.
March 29, 2025
Nice book of lists and suggestions as you go to plan your wedding!
Though it’s too late as I am already a wife than a bride, as my friends get engaged and as some have asked for advice, I appreciate a book like this to collect a lot of different thoughts.
It is so hard because I believe each wedding is such an individual spectacle and experience. However, this book does have a lot of good bits to think about, even if some may be surface level or “first step” in many steps to prepare for a wedding and the marriage itself.
The best advice I can pass to any bride-to-be is simply talk to people you know who have gone through it already! A book or a planner can only get you so far. It’s YOUR day!!
Happy reading♥️📚
Though it’s too late as I am already a wife than a bride, as my friends get engaged and as some have asked for advice, I appreciate a book like this to collect a lot of different thoughts.
It is so hard because I believe each wedding is such an individual spectacle and experience. However, this book does have a lot of good bits to think about, even if some may be surface level or “first step” in many steps to prepare for a wedding and the marriage itself.
The best advice I can pass to any bride-to-be is simply talk to people you know who have gone through it already! A book or a planner can only get you so far. It’s YOUR day!!
Happy reading♥️📚
March 15, 2025
Helpful lists, but I feel like those lists could be found online. Overall the tone of this book was not very mature or thoughtful when it comes to tough situations… for example, the author advises you make up lies if you don’t want to invite people and advises you have someone “distract” your parents from each other if they are divorced.
July 24, 2023
This book is basically a compilation of lists to help in the wedding planning process. It’s helpful, but make sure to read it very soon after getting engaged because I waited too long and a lot of the advice was for things we had already checked off the list, but I wish I knew it beforehand.
September 5, 2023
I read this little book in just over an hour. It’s excellent for quick reminders and suggestions for what you need for your wedding, from the moment you are engaged until after the big day. I’ll definitely refer to it over and over again while planning my own wedding.
December 21, 2021
A very practical and useful book to plan your wedding. Having everything in one place with good advice can really take some of the edge of the planning process
January 9, 2022
Awesome little book with great tips and insight.
Perfect for a gift too!
Perfect for a gift too!
September 14, 2024
Solid little book if you’re newly engaged and haven’t dipped your toes into the world of the wedding industry yet. Definitely a nice little engagement gift for a bride-to-be in your life :)
April 9, 2025
Has some good original tips but not the best book out there.
November 4, 2025
Stuff every bride **who is having a $20K+ all out affair should know**, but for someone eloping and wanting guidance on writing vows, navigating making decisions, setting boundaries, etc? Useless.
January 6, 2025
I should have read this a year ago but quick & thorough for all brides planning a wedding. Super beautiful little book too.
February 8, 2023
Starting with "what to do now that you are engaged," this handy little guide goes through different aspects of every stage from engagement through the honeymoon.
Some of the advice is common sense, and some covers things that might be overlooked with all of the bigger decisions that a modern wedding demands. From the practical and mundane to the more romantic aspects, and even the potentially stressful (i.e. How to Write Your Vows - Or Not), all are treated with equal importance.
Not much, I'm guessing, is not touched on - including how to reschedule or cancel a wedding. My one quibble is with an early section of Six Questions to Ask Your Intended. Unless your acquaintance with your intended is very short (and perhaps that should be a concern?), it would be better to have some of these questions answered before the proposal.
The final section of the book is "The Checklist." It is more than a checklist. It is also advice, summary and an index, with many bullet pointed items including a page reference that will make looking back for more detail extremely easy.
Overall, this is a handy reference guide full of advice from engagement to the wedding and beyond. The size (3 1/2" x 5 3/4"), as with all of these "should know" books from Quirk, is perfect for a pocket or purse, though you might prefer the option of an e-book on your smartphone.
This is an edited version of the review originally posted on my WordPress blog at http://wp.me/p5Tcfi-16I and refers to a copy I won from the publisher in a BookLikes giveaway. It includes only my honest opinion. While reviews are encouraged, they are not required.
Some of the advice is common sense, and some covers things that might be overlooked with all of the bigger decisions that a modern wedding demands. From the practical and mundane to the more romantic aspects, and even the potentially stressful (i.e. How to Write Your Vows - Or Not), all are treated with equal importance.
Not much, I'm guessing, is not touched on - including how to reschedule or cancel a wedding. My one quibble is with an early section of Six Questions to Ask Your Intended. Unless your acquaintance with your intended is very short (and perhaps that should be a concern?), it would be better to have some of these questions answered before the proposal.
The final section of the book is "The Checklist." It is more than a checklist. It is also advice, summary and an index, with many bullet pointed items including a page reference that will make looking back for more detail extremely easy.
Overall, this is a handy reference guide full of advice from engagement to the wedding and beyond. The size (3 1/2" x 5 3/4"), as with all of these "should know" books from Quirk, is perfect for a pocket or purse, though you might prefer the option of an e-book on your smartphone.
This is an edited version of the review originally posted on my WordPress blog at http://wp.me/p5Tcfi-16I and refers to a copy I won from the publisher in a BookLikes giveaway. It includes only my honest opinion. While reviews are encouraged, they are not required.
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