Download or read book Stuff Every Bride Should Know written by Michelle Park Lazette and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, including: • 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

Download or read book The Bride s Essential Book of Lists written by Amy Nebens and published by Sterling Signature. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compact, portable, and packed with information, this planner is the essential resource for every savvy bride-to-be. Complete with worksheets for comparing services and costs; pockets to hold papers, vendor samples, and business cards; and tips and checklists for everything from the ceremony and reception to the honeymoon and beyond, it has exactly what a modern bride needs to stay stress-free.

Download or read book Stuff Every Tea Lover Should Know written by Candace Rose Rardon and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pocket-sized handbook to all things tea is the perfect gift for tea connoisseurs, tea newbies, and anyone who appreciates a good cuppa. Tea is one of the most popular beverages in the world—second only to water. And there's so much to learn and try beyond the colorful boxes in the grocery store. Like wine and beer, each tea variety has its own distinct history, source, and flavor profile, from Darjeeling to matcha to Silver Needle. Tea is also embedded in the traditions of many cultures around the world and is shared with others through distinctive ceremonies that include unique customs, foods, and accessories. Within the pages of this pocket-sized guide, you’ll find information, how-tos, and trivia for tea lovers of all levels. Experts and newbies alike will learn about • Tea Bags vs. Loose Leaf • Anatomy of a Tea Plant • How to Prepare Tea • Tea Families and Common Varieties • Types of Teapots and How to Use Them • Tea Traditions Across the World Plus an illustrated guide to tea accessories, terms every tea lover should know, highlights from tea history, a tea tasting guide, tips for throwing tea parties, and much more!

Download or read book Emotionally Engaged written by Allison Moir-Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the country’s foremost expert on “cold feet,” a smart and compassionate guide for the bride-to-be who thinks she should be blissfully happy—but is freaking out instead For most brides, the elation of engagement is accompanied by a cocktail of unexpected emotions: Anxiety about making a lifelong commitment. Sadness about leaving their single life behind. Confusion when even simple decisions—should we serve chicken cordon bleu or beef Wellington?—bring them to tears. Worst of all, since everyone around them expects them to be happy, few brides feel there’s anyone to turn to with these conflicting feelings. Written by one of Modern Bride’s “25 Trendsetters of 2006”—and targeting the 2.5 million women who get engaged each year—Emotionally Engagedis the only book geared toward helping brides survive their engagements and emerge as stronger, happier, better- adjusted married women. In the book, Allison Moir-Smith shares her threestage, tried-and-true process from her workshops and individual therapy sessions, along with the stories of over a dozen brides-to-be and newlyweds, helping readers transform their bridal blues into bridal bliss.

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 The Bride To Be Book written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and published by Potter Style. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journal of memories from the proposal to I Do! by Amy K. Rosenthal.

Download or read book Every Bride Needs a Groom Brides with Style Book 1 written by Janice Thompson and published by Revell. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small-town girl Katie Fisher is planning her wedding. Sure, her boyfriend hasn't managed to pop the question just yet, but that doesn't mean she shouldn't enter a contest in Texas Bride magazine to win the dress of her dreams, right? But when her boyfriend breaks up with her and takes a job in another town--the very same day Katie wins her dream dress--her world is turned upside down. Should she claim her prize? And will the hunky former pro-basketball player who runs the swanky Dallas bridal shop--yeah, you read that right--catch on to her humiliation if she does? Janice Thompson designs a romance sure to delight, with plenty of fish-out-of-water moments, a hilarious supporting cast, and more of the wedding biz world her readers adore.

Download or read book The Bride s Instruction Manual written by Carrie Denny and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Last! A No-Nonsense Guide to Bridal Essentials! Feuding in-laws, rehearsal dinner meltdowns, controlling wedding planners— what’s a gal to do when her Big Day threatens to go down with more drama than a boatload of wedding crashers? Have no fear: The Bride’s Instruction Manual boils it all down to the basics, covering every topic you need to know to march down that aisle with confidence, from setting the date and choosing The Dress to creating your guest list. Chock-full of cheat sheets to keep you on track and on budget, The Bride’s Instruction Manual is the perfect shower gift for every blushing bride-to-be—courtesy of veteran wedding journalist Carrie Denny.

Download or read book The Everything Mother of the Bride Book written by Katie Martin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert advice for the perfect wedding day! She's met "the one" and set the date - now she needs your help to plan the big event! The Everything Mother of the Bride Book, 4th Edition is completely updated and revised with the latest information you need to get your daughter down the aisle in style. Wedding planner Katie Martin explains everything you'll need to know, including: Planning showers and engagement parties Meeting the future in-laws Navigating sticky situations like ex-spouses and former family members Picking out the perfect dress Knowing when to speak up - and when to keep quiet! Complete with new sections on social media etiquette, this practical guide covers everything you'll need to make sure your daughter has the perfect - and stress-free - day of her dreams.

Download or read book What Every Bride Needs to Know written by Susan DeVries and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is your guide to all the things that happen after “I do.” The advice in this book to brides is pretty simple. You don’t need to become an expert on men. Only one man. Learn the secrets to loving and respecting him while also asking for what you need. Take an honest look at your own family: its unwritten codes, how it has shaped you, and the ways it affects your relationship with your husband. Learn how to speak each other’s “language” and appreciate the qualities each of you brings to your marriage. Susan DeVries and Bobbie Wolgemuth offer a solid, approachable look at improving communication skills, secrets for a great sex life, budgeting basics, dealing with in-laws, navigating tough times and much more. Above all, you’ll cultivate a spiritual unity that draws the two of you closer to each other as you draw closer to God. What Every Bride Needs to Know will help make your first year together as husband and wife what it was meant to be: the most important year in your life.

Download or read book Stuff Every Groom Should Know written by Eric San Juan and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for engagement parties or a groomsman’s gift, this little black book has all the skills a guy needs to get from “yes!” to “I do.” Fun, easy, and stress-free chapters on wedding planning for dudes include: ·How to Budget for a Wedding ·How to Choose the Best Best Man ·How to Pick the Perfect Tux ·How to Write Your Own Vows ·How to Survive Your Bachelor Party

Download or read book The Bride s Book of Lists written by Amy Nebens and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the savvy bride, the secret of planning the perfect wedding isn’t just knowing what she has to do, but also knowing what questions to ask. Along with tips and checklists for every aspect of the wedding, including the ceremony, the reception, fashion and beauty, and the honeymoon plans, each section of this book suggests dozens of possible queries, with space for writing the answers. For example, at the reception site, inquire, "How do overtime charges work?” and when interviewing musicians, the bride should find out whether they will play requests or require breaks. Complete with worksheets for comparing services and costs, as well as pockets to hold papers and business cards, this is the essential planner for every bride.

Download or read book The Knot Ultimate Wedding Planner and Organizer Revised and Updated binder written by Editors of The Knot and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 wedding website, The Knot, comes their bestselling binder—the indispensable organizer and planner that hundreds of thousands of married-couples-to-be have relied on—now completely revised and updated for a wide variety of ceremonies. The go-to online resource that has been helping couples plan their wedding ceremonies for more than twenty-five years, The Knot has compiled all their essential planning tools into this beautiful wedding binder that features a linen-textured cover and foil stamping. In addition to dozens of ideas brand-new to this edition, you will find: Detailed timelines and worksheets for scheduling and budgeting Planning and money-saving tips on everything from the dress to the music to the reception decor 8 tabbed dividers packed with visual inspiration, including more than 100 brand-new color photos of updated centerpieces, table settings, favors, and more Extensive information on choosing your vendors, including checklists of key questions to ask Inclusive ideas for modern weddings, including inspiration for LGBTQ+, multicultural, interfaith, and nontraditional ceremonies A PVC pocket for collecting tear sheets, important contracts, and business cards Removable stickers on the front, spine, and back so you can make the binder your own Since it first published in 1999, The Knot Ultimate Wedding Planner & Organizer has become a go-to resource and guide for anyone preparing to say "I do." Now updated for today's couples, it's also a lovely keepsake after the meaningful, joyful, and customized celebration you're sure to have.

Download or read book Weddiculous written by Jamie Lee and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this irreverent wedding guide, the star of Netflix’s “The Wedding Coach” and comedian Jamie Lee offers practical advice and hilarious insights on how to stay sane while planning your "big day." Weddings. What was once a beautiful celebration of a couple coming together for a lifetime of happiness has become a bit ridiculous, complete with the whimsical monogrammed mason jars and unconventional photo shoots. The Epic task of creating that special event can be nightmarish—a dizzying maze of minutiae and seemingly endless choices that might tempt you to say yes to a quickie drive-through chapel in Vegas. But weddings don’t have to be stressful. You don’t have to give in to the crazy—or give up completely. Famous funny gal Jamie Lee learned much more than she counted on pulling together her own wedding, and in Weddiculous she shares her first-hand experiences and hilarious hard-won insights with every girl who just said "yes." Jamie gives you the real low-down, puts the madness into perspective, and walks you through the process step by step in a calm, realistic, and highly entertaining way. Weddiculous includes helpful checklists, timelines, and suggestions on everything from what questions to ask vendors to how to handle difficult bridesmaids to what’s worth the extra cost (and more importantly, what’s not). Throughout, Jamie provides guidance on when you should trust your gut and when you need to listen to others. What Amy Sedaris has done for hospitality and crafting, Jamie Lee now does for weddings. Weddiculous will help remind you what’s really important about your wedding day: it’s just the first day in a long and happy marriage.

Download or read book From Sh tshow to Afterglow written by Ariel Meadow Stallings and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebound after loss, grief, and the other cruel crises life throws your way with this irreverent guide -- the perfect anti-self-help book. Sometimes your foundation crumbles. Sometimes you realize there wasn't a foundation to begin with. Maybe your relationship ended in a breakup or divorce, or you lost your job, or a loved one died. Whatever crisis showed up to screw with you, it brought everything else crashing down, and suddenly life became confusing, disorienting, out of control. A total shit show. You. Need. Help. Therein lies the problem: Traditional self-help guides just aren't for you. You're an individualist, an iconoclast, a follow-your-own-drumbeat kind of person. The typical sunshine-and-rainbows, "live your best life!" books in the "personal growth" aisle aren't going to speak to your worldview -- you need an embrace-your-weirdness vision for growth and rebuilding. Enter Ariel Meadow Stallings, who has experienced a few life catastrophes of her own and emerged from them with newfound clarity and strength. In From Sh!tshow to Afterglow, she offers a lifeline of support and outside-the-box thinking for times of crisis and confusion, sharing plenty of tactical tips for getting your shit together. Along the way, she never lets readers forget that sometimes a life has to be taken apart before it can be put back together better than ever. Without sugar-coating how deeply it sucks to have your world shattered, From Sh!tshow to Afterglow gives readers a reassuring plan to for putting the pieces back together and emerging stronger than ever.

Download or read book Brides in Training written by Lauren Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This training is for every woman, whether engaged and in need of good advice, married and in need of a refresher, a newlywed who is still learning the ropes, or single and desiring to prepare for marriage in the future. Or, it might be for someone who has been through a divorce, and wants to learn how to do things God's way in the future. These practical tips, stories, and interactive questions will help you to prepare to be a better wife and to have a more fulfilled marriage. They will save you the headache and heartache of having to go through the issues that so many of us "married folks" have had to go through. Don't learn the hard way - learn 'what not to do' before you say "I Do " It is never too late to start over and do things the right way - God's way

Download or read book Everything I Know About Love written by Dolly Alderton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller "There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it.” —Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women “Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart, and explosively engaged in the wonders and weirdness of the world. But what makes this memoir more than mere entertainment is the mature and sophisticated evolution that Alderton describes in these pages. It’s a beautifully told journey and a thoughtful, important book. I loved it.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and City of Girls The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and—above all else— realizing that you are enough. Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age—making you want to pick up the phone and tell your best friends all about it. Like Bridget Jones’ Diary but all true, Everything I Know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its terrifying and hopeful uncertainty.