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Weddings: A Complete Guide to All Religious and Interfaith Marriage Services (Life-Cycle Bookshelf)

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Very useful for people planning a wedding outside the church, but who want to use or incorporate traditional text. It's the only book I've found which provides this range of traditional source material as the basis for a customized ceremony that isn't just new-age blather.

This book is a bit old by now, and some of the general information about wedding planning is probably best supplemented by more recent books, or wedding planning websites, etc. I would certainly not recommend this as your only resource for overall planning!

However, it's a wonderful sourcebook for ideas for different types of weddings and different wedding traditions. Best of all, it includes a number of full services from various religious traditions, so that those who want to have a traditional wedding but don't want to be bound to a specific service can select their favorite vows, blessings, and prayers from a wide range of services. If what you want is an ultra-contemporary wedding where you write your own vows, this probably won't help very much. If, however, you are firmly rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition and want to see how various parts of that tradition have approached weddings, this is just what you want.