Download or read book Storied Weddings written by Aleah Valley and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shape your wedding into a beautiful occasion that goes beyond the look, to one that shares your story. An inspiring book–meets–planning tool brimming with realistic tips and beautiful imagery; Storied Weddings encourages you to examine your tastes, family history, hobbies, styles, and other bits and pieces of your story to weave into your wedding celebration, your storied wedding. Filled with wedding florals, venues, cocktail recipes, bouquet recipes, table setting ideas, color pairings, and more, the book also features charming stories from past couples, real wedding images, and insightful pro tips throughout. A thoughtful Q&A brings a spark to the process—incorporating these questions will encourage couples to really personalize every detail—to bring to life your vision for a timeless celebration that is perfectly you. With fifteen years of planning and designing weddings and celebrations, Aleah and Nick Valley are known as industry leaders who happily share their knowledge and creativity. Their work has been published in Brides Magazine, Sunset Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, Style Me Pretty, and more.
Download or read book The Night Before the Wedding written by Natasha Wing and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here comes the bride...and the flower girl! This springtime wedding is the latest occasion to be celebrated in Natasha Wing's best-selling series. It's the night before her sister's wedding, and one little flower girl sure is excited! But will complications on the morning of the big day bring down everyone's happy moods? Any little girl who has dreamed of being a flower girl--and their numbers are legion--will love this fun, rhyming story told in the style of Clement C. Moore's Christmas classic.
Download or read book Merry Ever After written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrasts the way children of different social classes were betrothed and married during the Middle Ages.
Download or read book The Wedding Ringer written by Kerry Rea and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman who wants nothing to do with love or friendship finds both in the unlikeliest ways in this hilarious and heartwarming debut by Kerry Rea. Once upon a time, Willa Callister was a successful blogger with a good credit score, actual hobbies, and legs that she shaved more than once a month. But after finding her fiancé in bed with her best friend, she now spends her days performing at children's birthday parties in a ball gown that makes her look like a walking bottle of Pepto Bismol. Willa dreams of starting fresh, where no one knows who she used to be, but first she needs to save up enough money to make it happen. Maisie Mitchell needs something too: another bridesmaid for her wedding. After a chance encounter at a coffee shop, Maisie offers to pay Willa to be in her bridal party. Willa wants nothing to do with weddings—or Maisie—but the money will give her the freedom to start the new life she so badly desires. Willa's bridesmaid duties thrust her into Maisie's high-energy world and into the path of hotshot doctor Liam Rafferty. But as Willa and Maisie form a real friendship, and Liam's annoyingly irresistible smile makes her reconsider her mantra that all men are trash, Willa's exit strategy becomes way more complicated. And when a secret from Maisie's past threatens to derail the wedding, Willa must consider whether friendship—and romance—are worth sticking around for.
Download or read book Wedding Toasts I ll Never Give written by Ada Calhoun and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage. We hear plenty about whether or not to get married, but much less about what it takes to stay married. Clichés around marriage—eternal bliss, domestic harmony, soul mates—leave out the real stuff. After marriage you may still want to sleep with other people. Sometimes your partner will bore the hell out of you. And when stuck paying for your spouse’s mistakes, you might miss being single. In Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, Ada Calhoun presents an unflinching but also loving portrait of her own marriage, opening a long-overdue conversation about the institution as it truly is: not the happy ending of a love story or a relic doomed by high divorce rates, but the beginning of a challenging new chapter of which “the first twenty years are the hardest.” Calhoun’s funny, poignant personal essays explore the bedrooms of modern coupledom for a nuanced discussion of infidelity, existential anxiety, and the many other obstacles to staying together. Both realistic and openhearted, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give offers a refreshing new way to think about marriage as a brave, tough, creative decision to stay with another person for the rest of your life. “What a burden,” Calhoun calls marriage, “and what a gift.”
Download or read book OMG Wedding Stories written by Alex A. Lluch and published by WS Publishing Group. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The many details and aspects of wedding planning mean something is bound to go awry on the Big Day. After reading this book, readers will realize, no matter what goes wrong on their wedding day, it probably won't compare to these funny, crazy and outrageous true wedding stories sent in by members of WedSpace.com, the top social networking site for engaged couples to network with other brides, guests, and local vendors. OMG! Wedding Stories will have engaged couples and wedding guests laughing, gasping in shock, and thinking, "Thank goodness that wasn't me!" This great gift book will help brides and grooms keep in mind, no wedding is perfect, and the least you can do is laugh about it.
Download or read book Bride and Groom Story written by Alex A. Lluch and published by WS Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documenting the story of your love and your wedding can be heartwarming, funny, and can even relieve some of the stress of planning a wedding. How would you both describe your first kiss? When did you know he or she was The One? What was the craziest part of planning the wedding? Bride & Groom Story is a one-of-a-kind keepsake that asks the humorous, loving, and tough questions about love and marriage. Bride & Groom Story provides a unique opportunity to record the details of a relationship over the years, including the wedding and plans for the future. Questions on topics such as milestones, vacations, family, sex, dreams, and the wedding help readers create a treasured record of their love, memories, and future together. This book also includes a special front-cover photo window for photo of the couple. Engaged couples will love filling out this book together, or friends will enjoy giving it as a gift for wedding showers and engagement announcements. Couples will want to look back on their responses for years to come, or even pass the book on to children and grandchildren.
Download or read book Vogue Weddings written by Hamish Bowles and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exquisite collection of nearly 400 iconic, inspirational wedding photographs of royalty, models, artists, actors, musicians and designers who have appeared in Vogue through the magazine’s 120 year history. Showcasing the work of legendary photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Patrick Demarchelier, Jonathan Becker, Norma Jean Roy, Mario Testino, Irving Penn, Arthur Elgort, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, and Annie Leibovitz, Vogue Weddings will transport you to a myriad of romantic settings around the world, from storied castles, palaces, and cathedrals, to weddings by the sea or in the countryside. Here are the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in London; Sofia Coppola and Thomas Mars in Italy; Kate Moss and Jamie Hince in the Cotswolds; Lauren Bush and David Lauren at the RRL Ranch in Colorado; Marina Rust and Ian Connor in Maine; Lauren Davis and Andrés Santo Domingo in Cartagena, Colombia as well as such iconic photos as Bianca and Mick Jagger in the car after their wedding in St. Tropez. A chapter on models’ weddings includes portraits of Natalia Vodianova, Coco Rocha, Maggie Rizer, Stella Tennant, Lara Stone and Cindy Crawford among others in their own wedding dress choices. Vogue Weddings also features behind-the-scenes details from Hamish Bowles; personal wedding stories from Mario Testino, Plum Sykes, Marina Rust and Sarah Mower; and fashion portfolios created by the magazine’s editors of bridal photo shoots, many including couture.
Download or read book The Best Party of Our Lives written by Sarah Galvin and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This moving collection of true stories about gay weddings shows how LGBT couples have overcome cultural and personal obstacles to their unions, made wedding traditions their own, and what everyone can learn from them. Told in a series of essays that mimics the course of a traditional wedding, from engagement to walking down the aisle to the honeymoon and beyond, The Best Party of Our Lives invites readers to reflect on what makes their own relationships unique, and the significance of public celebrations of love. With chapters each focusing on a different couple's love story, the challenges they faced, and the lessons they learned, the book offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the changing face of marriage. The perspective these trailblazing couples gain by examining and remaking marriage for themselves will inform anyone who is planning a wedding and inspire anyone who has ever been in love.
Download or read book A Cup of Comfort Stories for Weddings written by Helen Kay Polaski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cup of Comfort Stories for Weddings pays tribute to that most important of days when you and your soul mate make your everlasting love for each other “official.” You’ll share in both the excitement of new love and the steadfastness of long-time love with these three wedding stories. Whether you’re a newlywed or you’re celebrating a golden anniversary, A Cup of Comfort Stories for Weddings will delight you with these tender tales of commitment, adoration, and intimate bonds.
Download or read book One Perfect Day written by Rebecca Mead and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astutely observed and deftly witty, One Perfect Day masterfully mixes investigative journalism and social commentary to explore the workings of the wedding industry-an industry that claims to be worth $160 billion to the U.S. economy and which has every interest in ensuring that the American wedding becomes ever more lavish and complex. Taking us inside the workings of the wedding industry-including the swelling ranks of professional event planners, department stores with their online registries, the retailers and manufacturers of bridal gowns, and the Walt Disney Company and its Fairy Tale Weddings program-New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead skillfully holds the mirror up to the bride's deepest hopes and fears about her wedding day, revealing that for better or worse, the way we marry is who we are.
Download or read book A Lovely Love Story written by Edward Monkton and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gift book for special occasions, two friends realize they fit together perfectly and discover that differences shouldn't be an obstacle to loving each other.
Download or read book Wedding Stories You ll Love written by Helen Kay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wedding Stories You'll Love pays tribute to that most important of days when you and your soul mate make your everlasting love for each other "official." You’ll share in both the excitement of new love and the steadfastness of long-time love with these three wedding stories. Whether you’re a newlywed or you’re celebrating a golden anniversary, Wedding Stories You'll Love will delight you with these tender tales of commitment, adoration, and intimate bonds.
Download or read book The Best Party of Our Lives written by Sarah Galvin and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This moving collection of true stories about gay weddings shows how LGBT couples have overcome cultural and personal obstacles to their unions, made wedding traditions their own, and what everyone can learn from them. Told in a series of essays that mimics the course of a traditional wedding, from engagement to walking down the aisle to the honeymoon and beyond, The Best Party of Our Lives invites readers to reflect on what makes their own relationships unique, and the significance of public celebrations of love. With chapters each focusing on a different couple's love story, the challenges they faced, and the lessons they learned, the book offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the changing face of marriage. The perspective these trailblazing couples gain by examining and remaking marriage for themselves will inform anyone who is planning a wedding and inspire anyone who has ever been in love. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Download or read book Wedding Stories written by Diana Secker Tesdell and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bouquet of great wedding stories--by turns funny, passionate, bittersweet, and romantic--by famous writers from across the past two centuries. From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Lorrie Moore, and from Stephen Crane to Edwidge Danticat. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET CLASSICS. The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," O. Henry's "The Marry Month of May," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Bridal Party," Joy Williams's "The Wedding," and Lorrie Moore's "Thank You For Having Me"--encompass comic wedding mishaps, engagements broken and mended, honeymoon adventures, and scenes both heartwarming and heartbreaking. There are glamorous weddings in Paris and New York, and more eccentric ones in the Wild West and on a remote island beach. There are nervous brides, forgetful grooms, meddling guests, interrupted nuptials, second thoughts, and second chances. Above all, there are all kinds of people--young and old, rich and poor, divorced and widowed, with or without children--joining together in the age-old quest for matrimonial happiness.
Download or read book A Practical Wedding Planner written by Meg Keene and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of A Practical Wedding offers a no-nonsense wedding planner, with all the tools, tips, and strategies to get the celebration you want, on a budget you can actually afford Whether you're newly engaged or haven't quite made anything official yet, but you know you want to spend your lives together, you're going to need help planning your wedding. When you're ready to take a deep breath and start, this is the book you want--need--to have. From figuring out what you really want--as opposed to what everyone else thinks you should want--to helping you keep an eye on the ceremony itself and the vows, Meg Keene, founder of apracticalwedding.com, covers all the essentials. With checklists (such as flowers, food, final venue walk-through) and key spreadsheets (guest list and seating chart, budget, venue search, and more), A Practical Wedding Planner helps you: Set a budget--and stick to it Choose a venue: traditional, non-traditional, and everything in between Hire good vendors and keep your friendors (and tells you why DIY doesn't always save money) Figure out catering, rentals, and everything else Pinterest forgot to tell you Reality-check wedding dér Create and write a ceremony that really represents both of you Get everyone to show up...and have a good time
Download or read book Laughing All the Way to the Altar A Collection of Funny and Hard to Believe Wedding Stories Based on Actual Events written by Joann Moore and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2018-09-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smiles and tears of joy stream down her face as the bride is escorted down the aisle on her wedding day. This is where heart-felt vows are exchanged witnessed by friends and families, and where couples are well on their way to their "Happily Ever After." Well, we can dream, can't we? Professional Wedding Planners, JoAnn Moore and Mindy Marino have planned hundreds of successful and fabulous weddings. They have worked with engaged couples, mothers and fathers of couples, overzealous guests (some invited and some not) and some church officials that forced head scratching challenges, off the charts crazy behavior but leaving a wake of humor behind. With large sums of money spent, the coming together of families who might be meeting for the first time, and high expectations for perfection, it's as close to the Bermuda Triangle as you might want to get. Enjoy the experiences and stories of these professional wedding planners as they take you on a journey of fabulous, funny and sometimes unbelievable events. The book, based on actual events, will take you down the aisle in style, tradition and with laughter at things that go wrong. Somehow, they always seem to save the day from disaster in spite of the interactions with their odd and quirky clients and guests. In the end, and despite the mishaps, they always found the humor and the joy in the day of celebration when two people come together as husband and wife.
