The Bride's Money Book: How to Have a Champagne Wedding on a Ginger-Ale Budget [Paperback]

Pamela A. Piljac (Author), Pamela A. Lach (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1996

Here is help for budget-minded couples who want to cut their wedding expenditures and get the most for their money. Covering all the traditional wedding expenses, this guide shows couples how to tactfully approach the question of who pays for what and how to calculate their personal expenses to determine how much they can contribute to wedding costs. Includes checklists.

Product Details

• Paperback: 98 pages
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press; 1st edition (April 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556522614
• ISBN-13: 978-1556522611
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,283,554 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Did not live up expectations, January 21, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bride's Money Book: How to Have a Champagne Wedding on a Ginger-Ale Budget (Paperback)

The book consisted of mainly stories of other weddings. Only one story showed how they budgeted and that couple went over budget. The budget wedding cost over $10,000. Ginger-ale is cheaper than that. The wooksheets in the book look useful but you can find similar charts in other better resources. Don't waste your money.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource!, July 26, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bride's Money Book: How to Have a Champagne Wedding on a Ginger-Ale Budget (Paperback)

This book is an outstanding tool to use for establishing and following a reasonable wedding budget. By using the checklists and service provider question sheets, we were able to uncover the "hidden costs" charged by many providers and were in a much better position to negotiate favorable arrangements. We saved at least $2,000 - $3,000 by following the recommendations in this valuable planning guide!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Good Starting Point, September 13, 2001

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Weddings From The Heart ~ Jean A. Neuhart (Dayton, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bride's Money Book: How to Have a Champagne Wedding on a Ginger-Ale Budget (Paperback)

As a Professional Bridal Consultant I am always on the look out for helpful resources to add to my library to use assisting brides plan their own weddings. This book presents some good ideas  the questions to ask service providers is definitely beneficial since each bride, whether or not on a strict budget, needs to be an informed shopper. The tips offered in the later chapters are useful as they give each bride many cost saving ideas which she can choose from. Although these tips can often be found in other sources (bridal magazines, planners, web sites) it is nice (and time saving) to have them all in one place.

There is no one way to have a ceremony and reception as the "Sample Weddings" section explained, however only one included the budget used, and it was over budget. Also, paying [their estimated expense] for dinner is NOT budget minded. It may have been helpful to know where Rachel and Mark's reception was taking place, since weddings (and budgets) vary from places like New York or Los Angeles to the Midwest.

I must disagree with the statement on page 7 which states, "people seldom use wedding consultants unless they are having a larger, more expensive wedding." Many of my brides had small guest lists and low budgets... I would think that the brides with less money to spend would want the assistance of a professional to ensure that their hard earned dollars are spent wisely.