Why do professional wedding planners, engaged couples, parents, clergy, and therapists rave about this book? Take Back Your Wedding combines wisdom from the world of family therapy with a realistic picture of how couples and families behave under the stress of planning a wedding. Weddings bring out the best and worst in all of us because they combine romance, money, loyalties, jealousies, new in-law relations, and endless practical decisions-all played out in front of your whole community of family and friends! No one get through this without times of frustration, confusion, and sometimes anger. This book is an essential guide to handing the stress, avoiding the common pitfalls, having a great wedding, and launching a successful marriage. The website from the book is www.TheFirstDance.com
Elizabeth Doherty Thomas is co-author, along with her father, William J. Doherty, Ph.D., of Take Back Your Wedding. While planing her wedding she saw the same wedding advice over and over: "It's your day, do what you want." The only problem she saw was people were in great distress and were looking for real solutions, not a quip that ignores the emotional connections we have with family and friends. Bill is a well-regarded marriage and family therapist so the two began to build principles around the most common wedding relationship issues that occur.
Elizabeth and Bill won a Modern Bride Magazine Trendsetter for their advice in 2007 and have been expanding the books advice and message through their website, www.TheFirstDance.com





