Anti-Bride Etiquette Guide: The Rules - And How to Bend Them [Paperback]

Carolyn Gerin (Author), Kathleen Hughes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2, 2004

Following the best-selling Anti-Bride Guide and Bridesmaid's Guide down the aisle comes the essential, smart, and sassy etiquette guide for the not-so-traditional bride. This feisty and straightforward advice book fills a huge gap in the wedding etiquette market. A riot to read and packed with bold illustrations, it walks the bride through everything from invitations and seating arrangements to money matters and family feuds. Whether fielding classic conundrumswho pays for whator decidedly modern situationsthe maid of honor is a manAnti-Bride Etiquette Guide offers sensitive advice for skillfully navigating the rough spots. Inventive solutions for dodging outmoded traditions ensure that brides will keep everyone from grooms to grandmothers happy. For the bride who doesn't want to sacrifice the wedding of her dreams or her loved ones' feelings, Anti-Bride Etiquette Guide has the answers.

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About the Author

Carolyn Gerin is the principle of her own graphic design firm in San Francisco. She is the co-author of Anti-Bride Guide .

Kathleen Hughes is a freelance writer based in San Francisco. Turned off by traditional weddings, she discovered her inner Anti-Bride when her sweetie of many years got down on one knee.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (December 2, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811844587
• ISBN-13: 978-0811844581
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #618,504 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #17 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Weddings > Etiquette

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Anti-Bride Series
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A quiet storm amidst the social media milieu, Anti-Bride, the reality-driven, bestselling 3-book Chronicle Books series was the first voice in the alterna-bridal pop cultural space in 2002, inspiring countless blogs in its wake. Carolyn Gerin, series creator, and co-author, is all about celebrating the rich diversity of brides, budgets and styles with an eye on the alternative, her own wedding being the inspiration. The Anti-Bride series and site introduced the notion that a one-size-fits-all wedding is a thing of the past, while innovation and DIY style is the future. Cited as a Top 100 Wedding Blog 2010 by Bridetide.com, and a Top 10 Wedding Trend 2010 by The Knot, the Anti-Bride series, and Antibride.com continues to gain print and online momentum. The editorial angle: fresh ideas in weddings as they pertain to new traditions, travel, music, entertaining, fashion (including sustainable, handmade, and green), design, trend, and lifestyle, focusing on the art of celebrating your union on your terms. Carolyn also serves as Sr. Editor of Destination I Do Magazine, the number one destination, wedding, romance travel magazine in the world, with an eye on the road less traveled.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great tips, concise, but maybe a bit too concise, January 31, 2005

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JC Chupack (Gurnee, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Anti-Bride Etiquette Guide: The Rules - And How to Bend Them (Paperback)

I have recently become engaged, and I'm dreading planning a wedding. I picked up this book because the questions are already beginning, and I was hoping to find some polite ways to tell people to back off. This book does offer some suggestions there, and overall, it helped me become a bit more excited about the process without drowning me in details. I do wish that they had included more than they did in this book. For example, they give some suggested text for invitations. They tell you that "request the honour of your presence" is only to be used for ceremonies held at a place of worship. However, "request the honour of your presence" is used in *all* of their suggested formal wordings. They didn't provide a single example of the etiquette for a formal wording for a wedding held outdoors or in a banquet hall or other non-religious location. Considering that they suggest alternate locations in several places (and even recommend destination weddings as an option, which I found refreshing as I'm figuring on having one), this omission was glaring. There's several other little things like that where I feel a few more pages would have made this book perfect.

Still, I do recommend this book. I haven't looked at any other wedding guide or book, and I feel like I have a grasp of what is needed, what obstacles may come up, etc. The tone is terrific, and the structure is easy to follow when read as a whole or in tidbits here and there.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars don't be fooled by the cute cover, March 31, 2005

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Natasha (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anti-Bride Etiquette Guide: The Rules - And How to Bend Them (Paperback)

This book is a clone of every other etiquette book on the market with slightly edgy cover art to disguise the fact that they still say you aren't allowed to tell anyone where you're registered. Etiquette is etiquette whether you're an anti-bride or not, and I suppose it's my own fault for thinking this book would tell me something different from all the others.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Thanks, Anti-Bride!, March 29, 2007

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K. Fournier "kr!sten" (austin, tx, usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Anti-Bride Etiquette Guide: The Rules - And How to Bend Them (Paperback)

This book, the third in the "Anti-Bride" guide, is an alternative to all the Martha Stewart, cookie-cutter do-it-by-the-book books on weddings. This book is incredibly helpful if you, like me, were the first of your friends to get married. Clueless about how to handle your divorced parents and that black sheep uncle? Do you have to invite your boss you hate? Do you have to invite your friend's evil girlfriend he just met? How do you make a seating chart? What if the bride's parents aren't paying, or the maid of honor is a dude? All of these questions and tons more are answered in this book, and it'll tell you whether your crazy ideas are considered socially acceptable in a modern world (and generally, they probably are.) Special thanks to Jennifer, my bridesmaid extraordinaire and BFF 13 years strong, who bought me this book when my fiance and I were wallowing knee-deep in wedding planning ignorance.