Your Special Wedding Vows [Hardcover]

Sharon Naylor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2004

Many couples choose to write their own vows, yet find the task daunting and difficult. Your vows, after all, are the center of your ceremony and should be meaningful and beautiful.

Your Special Wedding Vows offers couples new, fresh approaches to finding exactly what they want to say to each other in updated syntax that couples will be comfortable with, rather than old-fashioned, stiff and artificial words. Plus, it includes a worksheet to help couples get started, a large selection of traditional and nontraditional, religious and nonreligious vows, plus real-life examples and original vows for special circumstances such as second weddings, blended families and more.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Sharon Naylor is the author of 23 wedding planning books. She is the wedding Q&A specialist at NJWedding.com and a regular contributor to the top bridal magazines, including Bridal Guide, Bride Again, and Bride's. She is also a wedding content contributor to Bed Bath & Beyond. Sharon has written for Shape, Health, Self, Woman's Day, Cosmopolitan and dozens of additional national magazines. She is a member of the highly prestigious International Special Events Society, The Association of Bridal Consultants, and The American Society of Journalists and Authors, and she has won top honor awards from Writer's Digest magazine and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She currently lives in Madison, New Jersey.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca (March 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402202679
• ISBN-13: 978-1402202674
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #195,938 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #13 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Weddings > Ceremony

More About the Author

Sharon Naylor is the author of over 35 wedding planning books and as a noted wedding expert has appeared on top television programs including I Do! With the Knot, Get Married With Colin Cowie, Good Morning America, Primetime, Lifetime, ABC News, and many more. She has also been featured in InStyle Weddings, Modern Bride, Brides, Wedding Channel, The Wall Street Journal, Bridal Guide, Southern Bride, New York Bride, New Jersey Bride, and as the resident wedding Q&A expert and spotlight blogger at iVillage.

Sharon has always advised brides and grooms to prepare for the marriage, not just the wedding, and all of her books focus not just on planning details like designing a wedding cake or choosing a gown, but on the *relationships* that build between the couple and their in-laws, the relationships that may change between the couple and their single friends, and the relationships a couple can create between themselves and their wedding vendors. Weddings may be stressful to plan, but they don't have to create stress in your life. Sharon Naylor's 20+ years in the wedding industry have exposed her to so many different personality types trying to work together, she knows the kinds of clashes that can happen and she advises against every type of planning or communication mistake. The goal is, of course, a beautiful and personalized wedding day, but Sharon Naylor wants you to *enjoy* the process with the positive people you know, always taking the time to think about what's going *well* instead of what's still left to do or what's disappointing.

Sharon Naylor says she gravitated to wedding world because it's comprised of all of her favorite things: travel, gourmet food, floral design, fashion, photography, dance...and most importantly the gathering of far-flung friends and family to celebrate a happy occasion.

A recent newlywed, she lives in Morristown NJ with her husband Joe and she is currently the wedding spokesperson for several high-profile corporate brands.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just the help we needed! Terrific!, June 13, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Your Special Wedding Vows (Hardcover)

We were so nervous about writing our wedding vows. Neither of us is a fan of public speaking, and we didn't want to sound too corny. But then we found this book, and we worked together to pick out our selections from the GREAT quotes and poetry, answer the questions to get us thinking, and even practiced using the hints and secrets for speaking in public. We'll remember our wedding day vows forever, and they were so much better, so much more US, because we had this book. It's like we had our own coach helping us write them. We loved it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, October 10, 2011

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Stacey Busko (south bend, Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Special Wedding Vows (Hardcover)

Truly a helpful book and you can't go wrong for the price. Some really useful information that was helpful to myself and my fiance.

5.0 out of 5 stars special book for wedding vows, January 8, 2011

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A. Smith - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Special Wedding Vows (Hardcover)

If you are writing your own wedding vows, use this book for inspiration. It covers a wide range of beliefs and ideas about marriage. It has inspirational quotes that can be used in many ways than just the wedding vows.