We all want to avoid nasty and expensive surprises. To do that, you need to learn the most efficient way to get vendors to do what you want, the way you want, and when you want. You need to learn the questions to ask when hiring a photographer.
Feeling overwhelmed by checklists with 300 "to do" items on them? How to Plan the Wedding You Really Want leads you from initial vision through final detail in the process of planning your big event. You'll learn how to approach each hurdle in planning a wedding, from deciding who pays for what, to choosing who to invite, to knowing the right questions to ask each of your vendors.
The focus of this book is not to tell you which choices are right or wrong, but to help you to recognize what's right for you. The authors polled friends, family members, friends of friends, friends of family members, co-workers, and acquaintances to bring you the truth about what it takes to plan the wedding you really want, from the perspective of women who've done so (or failed to do so--and you'll learn why). How many women have the same questions, the same issues, and the same regrets?
Better to learn from their mistakes than through your own hard experience.
Most books about planning your wedding are written from the perspective of wedding insiders-the planners, the vendors, the people who have a stake in getting you to think a certain way about your wedding. They won't help you learn the truth about how to deal with wedding vendors in order to create an event that truly fulfills YOUR vision, not theirs. How to Plan the Wedding You Really Want will.
In fact, each chapter in How to Plan the Wedding You Really Want ends with some "Words from the Groom." This male perspective to each step along the wedding-planning path will help you to better understand your fiancé and, with any luck, make you less likely to pull his hair out during this process.
To put it mildly, men and women tend to approach impending nuptials very differently. Let this book bring a bit of humor and good cheer to each of you as you work toward that day of days.
