This book is loaded with money-saving tricks and organizing tips, as well as lots of encouragement, all designed to help you determine the budget for your wedding - and then stick to it. You'll find dozens of creative, innovative ideas that will not only save you money, but make planning your wedding a fun, friend-and-family-involving process you'll savor in memory forever. In this new edition you'll find actual case histories of four weddings - how the brides stayed within their budgets without sacrificing the quality and elegance of the day, the latest wedding trends - how to be fashionable at a low price, money-saving tips for the groom, updated, average costs for everything from flowers to wedding gowns, reception food to photographers, for nine regions nationwide, creative new cost-cutting ideas contributed by recent brides, complete instructions on how to set up a wedding notebook to keep track of every aspect of planning your wedding, detailed questions to help you focus on your idea of the "perfect wedding" before you start planning, and a "what to do when" calendar/timetable for quick reference.
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Diane Warner is the best-selling author of 23 books, including Diane Warner's Contemporary Guide to Wedding Etiquette, Complete Book of Wedding Vows, Big Wedding on a Small Budget, Complete Book of Wedding Toasts, and Diane Warner's Big Book of Parties. She lives with her author-husband in Tucson, Arizona.
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Very comforting.,
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This review is from: How to Have a Big Wedding on a Small Budget: Cut Your Wedding Costs by Half--Or More! (Paperback)
Boy, some really mean-spirited reviewers below! I bought the first edition of this book in 1990 when I was overwhelmed with planning my own wedding, and every other planning guide just assumed my family would jump at the chance to spend $10K (then the average wedding cost) on a one-day event. I thought then and still think this book was one of the best purchases I made that year, not because the ideas were so wonderful but because Warner's tone was so very encouraging -- you CAN have a classy wedding on a budget, even if you've never planned a large scale event before. I think so highly of it, I've recommended it to several friends. I found the organization suggestions particularly helpful. Yes, many of the ideas are found in other books, but how many wedding planning guides are you going to buy? This is a wedding, not the invasion of Normandy. The best aspect of this book is that it makes you think creatively of ways you can save money on your special day -- if you don't want to rent chairs from the local funeral home, maybe you can rent them from some other community organization. True, not everybody does have a cutting garden at their disposal, but I plan an annual event for 300 people at the height of the Maryland azalea season where people regularly "donate" cuttings from their bushes. If a suggestion isn't appropriate for your situation, move on. Just think creatively. And buy the book.
29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
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Pass this book up!!,
By "pixieface5" (Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Have a Big Wedding on a Small Budget: Cut Your Wedding Costs by Half--Or More! (Paperback)
I seriously doubt whether or not Diane Warner has planned anyone's wedding except her daughter's. Some of her "brilliant" money-saving ideas are just plain laughable. Can't afford a big cake? Make one out of Styrofoam and have someone stand behind it, serving a regular sheet cake. Can't afford a honeymoon? Tell everyone you know you're going to the Bahamas and stay at home for a week. Give me a break. Sometimes, cutting corners cuts good taste right in half.
26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
How to have a really weird wedding on an unrealistic budget,
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This review is from: How to Have a Big Wedding on a Small Budget: Cut Your Wedding Costs by Half--Or More! (Paperback)
When we announced our engagement, all of our recently married friends gave us the books they used during their wedding planning and this book ended up with us. The title spoke to our needs since we are paying for the event ourselves yet would like to have a fancy affair. I agree with an earlier post which suggested that the author has most likely never planned a wedding other than her daughter's. She speaks of the specific budget cutting steps her family took and expects that they would work for everyone. She tries (but fails) to come across as an expert, but I found myself hesitant to trust her ideas. The amount of money in the various budgets she suggested were rediculously low to the point where I am sure she was making them up - she couldn't have honestly found these prices anywhere (believe me - I have tried). Some of her suggestions were just sad and I found myself wanting to hear from her daughter to see if she had really been happy with her wedding because I could not imagine including some of these very cheesy suggestions in my wedding. A much more helpful book is Bridal Bargains.Good luck with the plans!
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