Books To Read While You’re Wedding Planning
Wedding planning can be such a special time in your life, but it also comes with a ton of questions: How do we book the perfect venue? Do we really need to register for tableware? Why does everyone have an opinion? Have no fear! We’ve compiled the perfect list of books by the most trusted pros to make the wedding of your dreams a reality. Definitely say “I do” to these great reads!
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Add to BookshelfThe Knot Ultimate Wedding Planner and Organizer, Revised and Updated [binder]
by Editors of The Knot
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.
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Lucky in Love
by Eleni N. Gage
Every engaged couple wants two things: a meaningful wedding and a lifetime of happiness. This great gift book is a cross-cultural collection of marriage folklore that will help you achieve both. Create your own lucky traditions with nods to each other’s heritage, customs from places you’ve visited together, and auspicious rituals that just feel special. With this book as your guide, you can make your own luck in love.
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How to Be Married
by Jo Piazza
In the tradition of writers such as Nora Ephron and Elizabeth Gilbert, award-winning journalist and nationally bestselling author Jo Piazza writes a provocative memoir of a real first year of marriage that will forever change the way we look at matrimony.
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Style Me Pretty Weddings
by Abby Larson
Joyful, love-filled weddings are created with the details that make the couple unique. Style Me Pretty has become a go-to destination for planning your own ecstatic wedding. Now, the founder of the beloved site, Abby Larson, offers this gorgeous resource. Full of lively and oh-so-lovely ideas, and more than 250 photographs, this swoon-worthy volume will help you distill the wide world of wedding inspiration into the most meaningful, utterly original day you can imagine.
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The Knot Yours Truly
by Carley Roney and Editors of The Knot
Your wedding day is a unique opportunity to show the world just who you are as a couple. The Knot Yours Truly helps you envision your celebration and show off your particular style. Chock-full of ideas, The Knot Yours Truly also includes 20 craft projects for personalizing your day. From invitation embellishments to a macrame leash for your four-legged ring bearer, this book has everything you need for the most extraordinary day.
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Wedding Readings
by Various
This rich collection of writings on the nature of love and commitment has long delighted brides and grooms of every denomination. Culled from both sacred and secular texts, and suitable for either traditional or informal wedding ceremonies, these selections might be included in Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, interfaith, and non-denominational exchanges of vows.
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Seasonal Flower Arranging
by Ariella Chezar and Julie Michaels
This lavishly photographed book from renowned floral designer Ariella Chezar provides step-by-step instructions for 39 seasonal floral arrangements and projects that celebrate the splendor of flowers, the bounty of the changing seasons, and the wild beauty of nature in your home.
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Martha Stewart Weddings
by Editors Of Martha Stewart Weddings
Since the debut of Martha Stewart Weddings in 1995, it has been the premier resource for couples looking to plan and personalize their big day. This guide is packed with original ideas and tried-and-true advice for which the brand has become known. From the engagement to the day itself, every detail is covered. With 300 full-color photographs, Martha Stewart Weddings is the most gorgeous and practical wedding book on the market and a keepsake for every bride.
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Wedding Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell
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.
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Stuff Every Groom Should Know
by Eric San Juan
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.”
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The New Art of Capturing Love
by Kathryn Hamm and Thea Dodds
The first guide to posing and sensitively capturing same-sex couples on their big day. The New Art of Capturing Love shatters the “old standards” of wedding and engagement photography by showing how inappropriate they can be for today’s diverse couples, then shares easy-to-implement poses and techniques that can be applied to any couple (and wedding party), no matter their orientation, to create lasting memories.
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Stone Fox Bride
by Molly Rosen Guy
Ditch the storybook wedding, banish Bridezilla, and walk down the aisle in truth and in style: You are a Stone Fox Bride and this is your bridal guide.
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How to Have the Wedding You Want
by Christine Egan
Finally! The book that understands what today’s bride-to-be really needs: realistic strategies and creative options from women who’ve been there, strong support, diplomatic skills, and a great sense of humor. And what she doesn’t need: more “expert advice.” Have the wedding you want: special, meaningful, lots of fun, and perfectly suited to you and the one you adore. Because theme colors come and go, but love is forever.
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