Tied in Knots: Funny Stories from the Wedding Day [Paperback]

Lisa Taggart (Editor), Samantha Schoech (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 16, 2006

Your wedding — the moment you’ve been waiting for your whole life — is tomorrow. The invitations have been sent out, the caterer and florist are lined up, and the bridesmaid dresses have all been exquisitely hand tailored. The location is spectacular and the officiant is your best friend. The weather is going to be great. There’s only one fear: that something unplanned and unexpected will happen.

With biting humor, twenty true stories share the side-splitting details of wedding mishaps and mistakes. A momentous event for all, weddings bring together people — who may not know each other or know each other too well — to create an idealized vision of the occasion. But different cultural expectations, emotional outpourings, jealous ex-lovers, rules of etiquette, and lots of champagne can blur that vision, making for laugh-out-loud experiences no one ever expected, yet everyone can relate to.

These funny women — brides, bridesmaids, guests, relatives, and strangers — know that wedding gowns can fall apart, that chocolate shavings will melt under the sun, and that dirty dancing isn't just a movie. They capture the essence of bad luck, bad taste, and bad decisions surrounding the big day in this witty, entertaining book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Seal Press (March 16, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580051758
• ISBN-13: 978-1580051750
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,184,266 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #46 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Weddings > Showers

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a relief! So funny., March 13, 2006

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Book Me "BookMe101" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tied in Knots: Funny Stories from the Wedding Day (Paperback)

Finally a book that doesn't tell you you have to be perfect. The writers in this collection are smart, honest and funny but they are not perfect and that's the fun. I have been helping my friend plan her wedding for the last year and this book was such a relief from all the cake tasting and dress shopping and diet worries. It's not anti-wedding at all, it just has a sense of humor about the whole thing. You have to read "Bridezilla"--it's so good!

5.0 out of 5 stars Helps Any Bride to See "The Big Picture!", October 30, 2008

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Sally Shields "author of, The Daughter-in-Law... (Bronx, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tied in Knots: Funny Stories from the Wedding Day (Paperback)

This is a book that most everyone can relate to! There are so many emotions attached to the wedding day, this book will help bring a smile to any bride's face and help her to remember that the most important thing is the marriage - and maybe not neccessarily just the "big day" - and to help see the bigger picture! A great read - thoughtful, funny and insightful.

3.0 out of 5 stars Funny stories, kind of long, August 14, 2008

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A. Hills (Memphis, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tied in Knots: Funny Stories from the Wedding Day (Paperback)

I bought this book to read the week before my wedding to try and relax and get my mind off more stressful things. The stories were good but too long for me to read in one quick sitting and concentrate on while preparing for the wedding. I haven't finished the book yet and my wedding has passed, yet the stories still seem too long. The book is good, I would just recommend starting to read more than a week before your wedding!