Learn the secrets to planning a stress-free wedding One of the most joyous days of your life has the potential to be one of the most stressful - but only if you let it Much of the stress of wedding planning comes from a lack of time, lack of organisation and too many options to choose from. Between these pages you'll find ideas and inspiration to help you plan your wedding exactly as you always imagined - minus the anxiety of feeling overwhelmed by it all. The average wedding takes over 200 hours to plan and this doesn't even include the time it takes to actually complete all of the tasks, activities, errands and projects. But in just a few hours a day, you'll learn how to: Set a practical budget - and plan your dream wedding within that budget Select the perfect wedding ring Reduce your guest list Quickly narrow down what dress style works for you and your bridesmaids Plan a honeymoon in just a couple of days Make every decision for your wedding Unlike other wedding planning books, this one is designed for brides (and their grooms) who want to get down to the business of planning their wedding without having to wade through the fluff. You won't waste precious time researching every little detail - it is all written here for you. This book acts as your wedding blueprint by breaking down every task into manageable steps. It provides loads of suggestions that allow you to personalise your big day at every step and plan a completely unique wedding. It also shows you how (and when) to look to professionals for advice and suggestions in their field of expertise. Each page is packed with ideas, inspiration and tips all within easy-to-read checklists. 15 simple ways to stretch your wedding budget 50 wedding themes 18-step guide to your ceremony Tips for pregnant brides and bridesmaids Hundreds of nontraditional twists to make your wedding unique 50 things that can go wrong on your wedding day An essential handbook for couples who want to enjoy their engagement - not spend the entire time planning their wedding. Smart brides have one thing in common - a good checklist

A practical, step-by-step approach to writing and conducting a Wedding Ceremony. In this shorter, guidebook version of the bestselling book, "Sacred Ceremony: Create and Officiate Personalized Wedding Ceremonies," readers are given all the information they need to write and officiate a personalized and meaningful wedding ceremony. Some key information within the book: The meanings behind each traditional element of a wedding ceremony Several sample wedding ceremonies Instructions for obtaining a marriage license Steps to becoming ordained Advice on selecting the right Officiant Information on filing the paperwork to make your wedding legal

This book covers all aspects of Wedding Reception Planning, from the perspective of the Bride & Groom, Bridal Consultant, and as a Professional Emcee.

This guide consists of 25 full color beautifully illustrated pages that address all of the important questions that will ensure your "Dream Wedding Reception" comes True

Simply read through the guide, provide the answers to all the thought provoking questions, then provide the completed guide to your Bridal Consultant or Emcee to ensure they have all of the details needed to ensure your 'Dream Wedding Reception' is made into a reality

Also included are the Professional Wedding Disc Jockey & Emcee Standards, as ratified by Canada's Top Entertainment Lawyer, Paul Sanderson of SandersonLaw.ca also available from www.CertifyYourDJ.com

Simply detach or copy, have signed, and include with your legally binding written contract. Ensure YOUR DJ GUARANTEES to meet the standards by getting it in writing

We hope you enjoy the guide and should you have any additional information you would like to see within its pages, please share your ideas with:
Terry Dillon: [email protected]

You're About To Learn The Secrets To Properly Adapt Etiquette Into Your Wedding, No Matter How Little Time You Have Had To Prepare

It doesn't matter if you've never experienced a wedding with etiquette. This guide will tell you everything you need to know, without spending too much brainpower.

This book covers everything there is to know about wedding etiquettes. In fact, some people have called it the "Wedding Etiquette Manual."

It's like having your very own etiquette expert that you can reference and ask questions anytime that you need to.

You're going to discover so many things on how to adapt etiquette into your wedding with little effort. Not only will you learn all the different things you should include in the invitations, but you'll also learn extra bonus tips to actually teach people.

Here's Just "Sneak-Peak" At What You'll Uncover With "Wedding Etiquette 101"

- How to properly determine who's doing what.

- Discover how to handle invitations and announcements.

- The wedding etiquette breakdown of who's who.

- Learn the several key elements to remember for the wedding shower.

- A step by step guideline of what normal wedding showers include.

- Discover the etiquette friendly ways of writing wedding invitations.

- Learn all the different things you should include in the invitations.

- Discover what else goes in the wedding invitations.

- When and when not to accept gifts during your shower.

- What types of gifts you should give to guests at your wedding.

- The gift do's and don'ts list to follow for your etiquette.

- Learn how to nicely return a wedding gift.

- Wedding etiquette tips guidelines for your etiquette.

- Find out who to tip, for which services & how much.

- Plus much MUCH More

Would you like to plan your own wedding; however, you are not sure where to begin? Planning a wedding can become stressful and overpowering. This guide has been developed to help you through the course of planning a successful ceremony and reception. It delivers a step-by-step process to keep you organized with a checklist and helpful hints in planning your special occasion from beginning to end. So let's get started

Hundreds of decisions have to be made when planning the event of a lifetime. Will that day truly be a dream come true (as it should)?or a disappointment? 101 Ways to Screw Up Your Wedding Reception (Without Really Trying) is an invaluable guide to a stress-free, picture perfect wedding reception.

You want a creative wedding. A wedding that has all your family talking and all your friends envious. A wedding that fuses pop culture and love. If those statements are true, then you want a geeky wedding Whether you want to keep it classy or be a little wild, there's something for everyone here. Along with dozens of ideas for the invites, dresses, locations and even honeymoon, we'll show you how to do what all engaged couples want to do: save money To see other books by GadChicks, or to read the FREE (yes, Free ) online magazine, visit our website.

The Benefits of a Wedding Planning Book A wedding can be one of the happiest events in a person's life; but, it can also be one of the most hectic times. There are so many different aspects in a ceremony and reception that weddings can be frustrating to even think about. Taking the time to plan everything out can help. The benefits of a wedding planning book are worth it. Brides can use a wedding planning book to organize every portion of their big day. Having every detail in one place will keep brides from forgetting small things. Wedding planning books allow brides to sort everything from transportation, wedding favors, flower arrangements, to wedding venues. Using a planning book can even help keep track of wedding expenses and related appointments.

The Benefits and Uses of a Family Scrap Book Scrapbooks have become very popular in recent years, and scrapbooking only continues to grow in popularity. Keeping a family scrap book is a fantastic way to improve on the traditional family photo album. They can make a collection of photos really reflect the personality of the family members. Scrapbooks allow the maker's creativity to flourish. Photos of children can be embellished with decorative elements that are related to activities the children like, or activities they are participating in in the photos. Pages can be dedicated to certain themes. Photos of the family can be laid out in more creative ways than in traditional photo albums. Scrapbooks make displaying family memories as interesting as possible.

The Benefits and uses of a Wedding to Do List and Organizer Having a Wedding To-Do List. A wedding is one of the most exciting days in a young person's life, but it is also filled with stress. There is a lot of pressure placed on the couple to have the perfect wedding. A wedding to-do list can help the couple stay on track. The to-do list can be a place for the couple to keep track of everything that needs to be done and everything that has already been done. By referring to their list and doing the things on their list, the couple are on the right track to having a beautiful wedding to remember. It will also help the stress levels of the couple to be able to see items being able to be checked off of the list.

Marry Me in Africa is an invitation to discuss approaches and processes in African marriage ritual. As one crucial institution in African culture, marriage in its traditional African definition has helped many of the continent's cultures maintain a sense of community and identity. This book invites especially students and researchers into exchanges on some African marriage traditions and their roles in African societies. It concerns those aspects that fascinate me and many other Africans that we believe will interest people in the New World, particularly the Caribbean. Researchers of the African Diaspora might want to use some of the marriage practices for reconstructing models for analysis and interpretation of the formation and transformation of the African heritage in the Diaspora.
Marry Me in Africa is particularly useful for scholars not familiar with the different cultural practices among African societies, their sources of identity and diversity, and the implications of these for understanding African social systems. This book will be a useful companion for other scholars who know about some of the cultural practices but are unable to identify exactly their relationship to specific ethnic groups, traditional concepts, social, political, economic, technological, and other practices that have constituted the patterns of cultural behavior among African societies through marriage.
Individual or local cultural traditions and practices are presented within the context of the general African cultural heritage, leading to cross-cultural comparison and generalizations. The convergence of traditional marriage patterns and continuities in specific aspects of traditional values and behavior of various societies are examined over the common-ground sense of community among Africans that may not be the same today as in the past. For this reason this book takes the liberty to discuss present manifestations of a transformed past in the present.

The Benefits and uses of a Wedding Engagement Journal Capture the Big Day. Your wedding engagement is a day that you will never forget, but it is difficult to relive all of the memories that took place on that special day without the help of a wedding engagement journal. A wedding engagement journal allows you to capture the feelings that you and your husband-to-be felt on that day when he asked you to live with him threw time and all eternity. A journal allows you to insert photos with the thoughts and feelings that you were experiencing at the time that the shot was taken. Do not let the memories of your engagement pass you by Capture them in a wedding engagement journal that will be passed down to your children one day.

The Benefits and uses of a Wedding Photo Album Wedding Albums - Digital may be In but Traditional is enduring In this modern age of digital photography there seems to be less interest in having a tangible wedding album to keep around for memories. Photographers wrangle the newlyweds into buying the newest digital package with CD's/DVD's and other whatnots. But what about having your hands on old-fashioned if I dare say photos? Nothing can still beat the traditional wedding album as a keepsake. It is a wonderful item to have on the shelf or coffee table. It makes for a conversation maker and guests at your home can pick it up at their leisure if they so choose. Breaking out a DVD and popping it in seems so pretentious of an exercise that it would be downright embarrassing.

The Benefits and uses of an Engagement Photo Album Remember Life Before You Were Married. The days leading up to a wedding can be hectic and chaotic for any couple. With all of the planning that goes into a wedding, one may even forget about the cherished memories that got the bride and the groom to this point. Thanks to an engagement photo album, a soon-to-be husband and wife can capture all of the moments that led up to the greatest day of their lives. Family and friends will get pleasure from looking at the pictures of a happy couple that were taken shortly before they were married. An engagement photo album offers you a great place to store your photos and allows you to showcase them for anyone who wants to see them.

The Uses of a Wedding Planning Book Planning for a wedding can be one of the most hectic time for any soon-to-be married couple. The amount of time that is put into inviting friends, family, co-workers, bosses, and anyone else each party of the marriage feels like deserves to witness their matrimony can take a toll on their health and energy. By utilizing a wedding planning book, every aspect of the wedding can be functioned through simple schedules and appointments. The wedding planning book enable couples to organize their plans into writing, which allows them to see the big picture before actually hosting the event itself. It is very useful for those that are looking for a way to keep their wedding organized and functioned as according to plans.

"The Wedding Officiant's Manual: A guide to Writing, Planning and Officiating Wedding Ceremonies" The Wedding Officiant's Manual is an essential guide for anyone who wants to create a wedding ceremony. Sunny Dawn Johnston, an Ordained Officiant with over a decade of experience, has written this book from the Officiants perspective. However, this manual can be used by brides, grooms and wedding consultants as well as ceremony Officiants. This guide contains fourteen complete ceremonies and a variety of vows, poems, prayers, blessings and wedding traditions. There are also several special tips that only a seasoned pro would know. Johnston's goal is to offer you a variety of material that honors your unique beliefs, traditions and intentions. "The Wedding Officiant's Manual" takes the guesswork out of the ceremony creating process and gives you options galore, all in one handy book. Included is a Q&A form to make the entire experience from beginning to end as stress free as possible. This is the Ultimate guide for step-by-step instruction on creating the perfect ceremony.

No Worries Weddings' Start-up Guide to Planning a Worry-free Wedding - Everything you need to know to start your wedding planning off right and avoid wedding stress - offers Nearlyweds help with their wedding planning journey. This is the first in a set of guides to help with various wedding planning topics. We start with this mini-guide to help you with the basics-where to start your planning journey

Vera Tanger has lived an exciting life. As the wife of an ambassador, she's lived in many countries around the world, making her an expert in entertaining and etiquette. So when two of her three children announced that they were both getting married in the same year, they naturally turned to her for help. Enthusiastically, Vera put her global experience to work-and decided to share her experience and insight with others looking to plan weddings with ease, grace, and pleasure.

Wedding planning, as every bride knows, is a complicated process-and every detail counts.

The Wedding Planner Notebook was designed to help women get and stay organized, reduce the stress of planning, and stay on budget. Planning for the biggest event most will ever plan takes precision and care, and Vera's helpful and easy-to-use notebook helps brides keep everything in one place.

You can put her extensive experience to work for you Inside, you'll find

a wealth of valuable tips and suggestions to save you time, money, and stress;
methods for putting it all together, from the invitations to the ceremony to the reception;
advice on how to not only create a budget-but how to stick to it;
a handy tool to keep track of suppliers, vendors, and contacts;
a guide to managing the pre-wedding planning schedule with ease.

Easy to carry and use, the Wedding Planner Notebook was designed to accompany the bride at all times. It's a world of experience in your pocket

A wedding is a precious event and something that makes great memories. Apart from having those professionally done photos couples love to have other photos that they hold near and dear to their heart.

With a Wedding Scrapbook Photo Album all of those memories can be safely stored away.

The pictures can be added and the cute annotations added as well.

Professional Wedding Planning Advice is a compilation of interviews with industry experts, who have shared their insider tips and secrets on how to plan the perfect wedding. Inside, we've included interviews with Wedding Officiants, Wedding Photographers, Wedding Planners, DJ's, Florists, and Jewelers to name a few. Professional Wedding Planning Advice is the one must have book that any couple should pick up before planning their big day.

In this book I communicate over the thirty years of experiences of creating events for people of many financial backgrounds and varied tastes. I cover from the beginning to the end processes that allows your event to operate smoothly yet efficiently. Of course life is not perfect and yet you expect a perfect event. This is not impossible but it all relies on the budget, planning, preparation, and execution. The people you choose to effectively depend on to execute your event are a portion of the success of the event. Remember that you chose those persons which is a great part of your budget planning and preparation. The quote, " You get what you pay for....." in most cases stand true because most experienced people can show you a track record and render justification cost of services.

How to Save Money by Planning Your Own Wedding Be Your Own Wedding Planner and Save Money Nowadays, it's almost assumed that the happy couple will have a professional wedding planner take charge of the details of the event. But not so long ago, there wasn't any such thing as a wedding planner, and the bride and her mother made it all happen. While a wedding planner can be a great help, you don't need one. In fact, there are many benefits to acting as your own wedding planner, one of the biggest being the amount of money you can potentially save. There are two main reasons why couples looking to save money should plan their wedding on their own. Planning your own wedding. There are, however, alternatives to this traditional type of reception. If you're looking to cut costs or just want to do something a little bit different from the norm, think about one of the following fun reception alternatives. They include: .. When planning a wedding, one surprise expense for couples is that they have to pay for the wedding locale, whether it is a church, temple, hotel, or even outdoor park. For those couples looking to curtail costs wherever they can, getting married at a location without exorbitant rental fees and catering costs is one way to do so. Fortunately there are plenty of great options, here they are... How to Save Money by Planning Your Own Wedding Weddings mark the beginning of a couple's new life together. At one time, it wasn't out of the ordinary for a couple or the bride's parents to spend almost their entire savings on the big day. Planning your own wedding. But now, the poor economy and the inability to land or keep a job have altered people's perspective on this sort of unbridled spending. Planning your own wedding. An increasing number of couples are starting to take a more frugal approach to wedding planning. Planning your own wedding. For those looking to lower their costs and save money, we have listed a number of quick ways to do so. Planning your own wedding. Planning your own wedding. In the United States, the average cost of a wedding is about $20,000. In some parts of the country, it is even higher. One of the meatiest line items, often to the tune of $5000 or more, is the flowers. Planning your own wedding. There are alternatives to using flowers to decorate the wedding and reception venue, many very beautiful. Planning your own wedding. It is possible for individuals to create gorgeous centerpieces and decorations without floral arrangements and without spending a great deal of money. Planning your own wedding. Planning your own wedding. These days it has become necessary for many soon-to-be brides and grooms to limit the amount of money they spend on their wedding. Planning your own wedding. Couples have either found that emptying their savings account for the wedding isn't wise or may not even be an option. Planning your own wedding. Whatever the motivation behind a more reasonable approach to wedding planning, it is important that you don't go too far in the opposite direction. There are certain aspects of a wedding where it best not to pinch pennies. Here are our suggestions: ... How to Save Money by Planning Your Own Wedding