A Modern Girl's Guide to Getting Hitched

by Sarah Ivens

Discover the truth about weddings with this fun, witty, self-help book for brides-to-be.

A Modern Girl's Guide to Getting Hitched gives tips, guidance and case studies on how to plan for your big day, cope with your families and friends, and achieve your own goals. Entertaining and informative, it tells the truth about weddings that the magazines don't dare to mention.

Topics covered
*Coming to terms with never being able to pull men again!
*Dealing with the details that will drive you mad - and discovering the available options
*Looking like a princess - without having to behave like one
*Creating the right service for you
*Speeches - choosing the right people for the job and controlling their content
*Choosing a bridesmaid without losing all your female friends
*Learning how to balance being a wedding bore with a full-time job
*Judgement Day - including common disasters and last minute fixes.

A Modern Girl's Guide to Getting Hitched is a must-have, light-hearted guide to one of the most unintentionally stressful days of a woman's life.

Genres: Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2002

Reviews

[Monica · Rating 1 out of 5]

Another DNF. I am not planning on getting married anytime soon but this book (well, half of it at least) made me be as stressed as if I am going to get married next week.

[Diana Hrab · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was way too young when I read this, don't remember much, just that some parts were funny.

[Lucie Millitt · Rating 2 out of 5]

Found this in the book bank at my local Tesco. Read about 80% of it as some sections weren’t applicable. Learnt a couple of facts about weddings, but it wasn’t for me!

[Ally · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a few of you may know in 18 months I will be marrying my boyfriend of 8 years! {I really don't like saying Fiance} We've been engaged for nearly 1.5 years and I have to tell you, I'm really not enjoying wedding planning. At all. I bought A Modern Girl's Guide to Getting Hitched in 2012 because I wasn't sure where to start or what I was meant to do. While A Modern Girl's Guide to Getting Hitched was helpful in some areas, a wedding magazine was just as helpful. Also I found A Modern Girl's Guide to Getting Hitched went more along the traditional roots and is more ideal if you're planning a bigger wedding. I'm planning a wedding with about 30 day guests and a total of 60 evening guests, so a quite small and intimate wedding. Also each section in A Modern Girl's Guide to Getting Hitched while informative is rather brief and not full of a lot of detail of things you wouldn't think of.
Yet it does contain quite a few comments from real brides and things they didn't think were important at the time but wish they had more time for when looking back.
Overall, A Modern Girl's Guide to Getting Hitched is a light, quick read, that you can easily flip through when there's something you're not sure about and need to double check. But I think it's more suitable to someone going down the more traditional wedding root and if you're having a big wedding.

[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

mostly helpful.

[Sarah Clinch · Rating 1 out of 5]

Didn't really tell me anything all that useful. Somewhat shallow.

[Sylwia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book and I think every bride-to-be should read it!

[Melissa Bowes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Feeling stressed about things I didn't know I was supposed to be stressed about.

[Kelsey Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not the type of book I would usually purchase, but it was a gift which proved somewhat useful. Plenty of good tips and advise! :D