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Are you hearing bells?, May 10, 2007
This review is from: Altared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think About Contemporary Weddings (Paperback)
Altared is a fanciful journey down the aisle of matrimony, ushered in with smiles, laughter and poignant moments. It is a compilation of wedding stories, edited by Colleen Curran, where each of the 27 authors artfully recalls a wedding experience from a personal perspective. This bouquet of witty, wedding tales is told in charming, eloquent writing.
We shop with Martha Stewart and recall Princess Diana's beautiful mega-wedding. Wedding cash outlay is debated and often shelled out in the thousands of dollars, for that dream that seems to be as much a part of our lives as other inevitable events. It is a glamour moment in fine satin, but also that real moment of sought-after harmony, a harmony often achieved, but also caught in the struggle of conflicting tastes, ideas and expectations.
The journey will not soon be forgotten and the reader may join in with fond memories or future inspiration. It is a reminder that although expensive elegance may be important, equally important is the handmade contribution and the kindness, love and adventure that touches each story.
Butter cream is blended with bitter chocolate and makes this a fun, fast read. It's about lives "altared," and in a good way.
Colleen Curran, who edited these stories, has just published a first novel, Whores on the Hill--an unabashedly sexual and mesmerizing read.
Armchair Interviews says this is bound to entertain anyone who has ever fallen in love or attended a wedding.
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So glad I found this., May 9, 2007
This review is from: Altared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think About Contemporary Weddings (Paperback)
I swear I have a hundred female friends who are getting married in the next year (or hoping to!), and now I've found the perfect gift to give to all of them for their bridal showers (real or imaginary).
Every experience a you could have as a past, present, or future bride is well documented here with wit and grace from an amazing collection of writers.
After reading a few essays, you begin to see quite clearly why the process of getting married makes us crazy. But more importantly, and this seems to be the overall message of the book, however insane your wedding may make you feel, you aren't alone! Countless brides before you have experienced the same trials and tribulations, joys, disappointments, and blessings you will.
For brides-to-be, Altared is like a reassuring best-friend, who happens to tell stories both hilarious and heart-wrenching.
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Perfect Balance!, July 6, 2010
This review is from: Altared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think About Contemporary Weddings (Paperback)
I titled this review "Perfect Balance" because I really think that most of the essays in this book strike a perfect balance between skepticism of the "Bridal Industry" and humility about the little Bridezilla that lurks somewhere within every bride.
The book was also wedding-positive without being naive. Many of the stories really changed my perspective on what my upcoming wedding will mean and made me think about different aspects in different ways, but never encouraged magical thinking or glorified spending or overstressing.
The bottom line of the majority of the stories was the beauty and meaning of love, which is what a wedding should be about. This book will make you think!
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