Brides (1-year)

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Who Reads Brides?
Brides is written for a woman engaged to be married. She comes to Brides for help and inspiration in creating a wedding that, while being uniquely about her and her fiance, will also delight her friends and family. She expects Brides to help her stay on budget as it walks her through the nuts and bolts of the wedding process, using timetables, dos and don'ts, checklists, and other user-friendly devices.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
Regular sections of Brides include:

• Fashion and Beauty: Runway bridal gowns paired with perfect accessories; dresses that fix specific figure flaws; new color combos for the bridal party; wedding-day beauty tips and tricks.
• Bridesmaids gifts under $50
• The 411: Wedding Planner basics.
• Stylish reception details
• Top event planner's ideas and secrets
• Etiquette Police Q&A
• Reader roundup
• Quick Fixes to wedding emergencies

Feature Articles: Features often solve problems, including reining-in budgets, coping with guest lists, and personalizing every inch of the wedding day. Stories cover fashion, beauty, accessories, flowers, receptions, jewelry, real weddings, and honeymoons.

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Contributors:
Brides’ contributors are all experts in the world of weddings: celebrity event planners, A-list chefs, award-winning photographers, and top beauty stylists.

Magazine Layout
Brides aims for a clean, contemporary, and beautiful environment in which information is conveyed in a simple, reader-friendly manner.

Comparisons to Other Magazines
Brides is the authority, the bible, the magazine that America trusts to help a woman put together one of the most important days in her life. Brides created this magazine category, and sets the standard for bridal magazines.

Advertising
Jewelry, cosmetics, tableware, fragrance, stationery, small electronics, personal hygiene, footwear, travel, accessories, formalwear and bridal fashion.

Awards
Brides win design awards (SPG) on a regular basis, and its individual editors have won journalism awards in their markets, including travel, beauty, and features.

Product Description

Brides will give you even more fresh and unique ideas on how to plan the wedding of your dreams. You'll find more dazzling dresses for every bride's budget and style, new creative tips for planning the perfect reception, the latest ideas for a romantic honeymoon, plus lots of other essential info! It's a must-have guide for the newly engaged!

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Editorial Reviews

Who Reads Brides?
Brides is written for a woman engaged to be married. She comes to Brides for help and inspiration in creating a wedding that, while being uniquely about her and her fiance, will also delight her friends and family. She expects Brides to help her stay on budget as it walks her through the nuts and bolts of the wedding process, using timetables, dos and don'ts, checklists, and other user-friendly devices.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
Regular sections of Brides include:

• Fashion and Beauty: Runway bridal gowns paired with perfect accessories; dresses that fix specific figure flaws; new color combos for the bridal party; wedding-day beauty tips and tricks.
• Bridesmaids gifts under $50
• The 411: Wedding Planner basics.
• Stylish reception details
• Top event planner's ideas and secrets
• Etiquette Police Q&A
• Reader roundup
• Quick Fixes to wedding emergencies

Feature Articles: Features often solve problems, including reining-in budgets, coping with guest lists, and personalizing every inch of the wedding day. Stories cover fashion, beauty, accessories, flowers, receptions, jewelry, real weddings, and honeymoons.

Past Issues:

Contributors:
Brides’ contributors are all experts in the world of weddings: celebrity event planners, A-list chefs, award-winning photographers, and top beauty stylists.

Magazine Layout
Brides aims for a clean, contemporary, and beautiful environment in which information is conveyed in a simple, reader-friendly manner.

Comparisons to Other Magazines
Brides is the authority, the bible, the magazine that America trusts to help a woman put together one of the most important days in her life. Brides created this magazine category, and sets the standard for bridal magazines.

Advertising
Jewelry, cosmetics, tableware, fragrance, stationery, small electronics, personal hygiene, footwear, travel, accessories, formalwear and bridal fashion.

Awards
Brides win design awards (SPG) on a regular basis, and its individual editors have won journalism awards in their markets, including travel, beauty, and features.

Product Details

• Format: Magazine
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Publisher: Conde Nast Publications
• ASIN: B000K0YFUG
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
This magazine subscription is provided by Conde Nast Publications

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great ideas, January 22, 2007

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Orangegirl31 "orangegirl31" - See all my reviews

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Even though I'm in the wedding industry, there are a lot of things about getting married that I didn't know. I have found this magazine great for ideas from the big stuff down to the very smallest detail.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Magazine, August 10, 2008

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QuixoticOther "QuixoticOther" (Washington) - See all my reviews

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As with all Bridal magazines, this one is FULL of ads which can get a little bit old. But, aside from Martha Stewart Weddings, it seems to have the most variety from edition to edition. Definitely worth the subscription as opposed to Modern Bride.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best value among bridal magazines I've seen, December 16, 2011

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I get Martha Stewart's, Brides, and Bridal Guide magazines. (I'm a magazine addict... and there was a magazine sale on Amazon...) The price for Brides magazine is pretty good, and I like that you get 12 a year. (Martha is only 4 and Bridal Guide is 6.) I can't say that it has really outstanding articles; a majority of the magazine is ads -- but I basically look through the ads/pictures to get ideas for what I want and rip them out when I find something I like.

The articles that they do have, I have found pretty helpful or at the very least entertaining. I think that their articles are better than Bridal Guide at least. Martha Stewart I feel is more crafty, but if you sign up to her wedding newsletter... you basically get the magazine in pieces through email for free anyway...

They have the basics - advise column, new/fun highlights, seasonal wedding spreads, male editor doing 1 task for his wedding a month, honeymoon planning section, and then usually a main article about one topic a magazine (i.e. picking your dress, choosing an officiant, etc.). I agree with a post I saw where it feels somewhat to be the same kind of stuff every month due to the majority of pages being ads, but I would say a lot of the ads change pictures month-to-month, so I still didn't mind. If you're looking for some really intense/in-depth articles I can't say this is the place to look.... but I don't think any wedding magazine will give you that.