Your Stress-Free Wedding Planner: Experts' Best Secrets to Creating Your Dream Wedding [Spiral-bound]

Judy Allen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2004

Use the tools and techniques the experts use for stress free planning

Every wedding moves through the same series of planning steps, but the time,
money, energy and emotion invested can vary tremendously. Couples who use
the tools and techniques the experts use are prepared to do what matters,
when it matters most. With the logistics in order, they have the freedom to
enjoy the events leading up to their special day as well as time to relax
and plan their future life together.

As they work their way through the planning stages, couples will find that
their initial stress over planning their wedding day has disappeared.
Couples committed to creating a memorable, meaningful wedding day will come
to view the wedding planning process not as an ordeal to get through, but as
a fun experience.

Judy Allen is a professional event planner and shows brides a step-by-step
approach to minimize the complexity of planning the wedding day. When an
event is planned in these 10 stages, whether over six weeks or a year or
longer, the planner will always be in control of the process, will not go
over budget and will find the whole process relaxed and stress free.

The 10 stages:
1. Visualization: Wedding-Day Dreams
2. Decision Making: What Matters Most
3. Designing a Realistic Blueprint
4. Choosing the Perfect Wedding and Reception Site
5. Selecting the Right Wedding Vendors
6. Before You Sign on the Dotted Line: Questions to Ask
7. Organizing Wedding-Day Timelines and Wedding-Day Flow
8. Wedding-Day Flow Sheets
9. Wedding Supplier Previews and Wedding-Day Rehearsal
10. On-Site Wedding-Day Orchestration

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Allen helps brides tame the chaos and get to the altar on time." -- BRIDES AND BOUQUETS 2005 BOOK SMART Good advice to guide brides to the altar and beyond By Chandra Orr Copley News Service

One of the most popular wedding planners on the market. If Monica Geller("Friends")bought a wedding planner, this would be it. -- Jewish News of Greater Phoenix

About the Author

Judy Allen is one of the world's leading authorities on staging, event. life experience and lifestyle design and the bestselling author of ten books for the professional, business and consumer markets. Allen, a master of creative design, has flawlessly executed successful special events - corporate, social, celebrity and wedding - for up to 2,000 guests at a time in more than 30 countries around the world. She has designed and produced memorable events such as Disney's worldwide theatrical opening-night gala for Beauty and the Beast, and the orchestration of Oscar-winning director Norman Jewison's 25th anniversary celebration for Fiddler on the Roof. Highly skilled in staging events that are strategically designed to be one-of-kind experiences and a master of transforming the energy of an event environment by engaging the senses with trademark primary design principles, Allen has worked closely with CEOs, CFOs, presidents and their executive staff, VIP and celebrity clients around the globe to create, implement and oversee their corporate business and social events.

The many diverse events that Allen has designed and executed extend from complex one-day events to elaborate arrangements of theme productions taking place over the course of a week. These events ranged from very exclusive VIP events to multimillion-dollar, multimedia fantasy extravaganzas that involved high-tech stage and show productions.

Allen, and her 2jproductions partner, Joe Shane, are now bringing their dynamic creative energy, innovative style and perceptive insight to home, life and lifestyle design and world class resorts around the world through Sensual Home Living™ and other initiatives.

2JPRODUCTIONS

246-432-0747

Judy Allen's Home, Life, Lifestyle Design Television and Website Series (Coming 2009)
Sensual Home Living™
Sensual Living for Two™
Sensual Suite(s)™ Designed by Judy Allen
Welationship(s)™
Wecation(s)™
Yearly Awarded World's 10 Best Sensual Living for Two™ Wecation ™ Destinations, Resorts & Welationship ™ Building Timeout for Two™ Activities Designed by Judy Allen

Best Selling Author:

Event Planning: The Ultimate Guide 2Ed (Wiley)
The Business of Event Planning (Wiley)
Event Planning Ethics & Etiquette (Wiley) -- A "must read" by Harvard
Marketing Your Event Planning Business (Wiley)
Time Management for Event Planners (Wiley)
Your Stress Free Wedding Planner (Sourcebooks) -- Amazon Top Seller
The Executive's Guide to Corporate Events & Business Entertaining (Wiley)
Plan A Great Wedding in Three Months or Less (Sourcebooks)
Masters of Discretion (Wiley)
Life 101: University of M.E.™ (2009)

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 224 pages
• Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca (October 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402202970
• ISBN-13: 978-1402202971
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 10.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #892,412 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Judy Allen is one of the world's leading authorities on staging, event and lifestyle design and the bestselling author of ten books for the professional, business and consumer markets in addition to being course adopted by Universities around the world. Harvard deemed Allen's book on business ethics a "must read" for all business professionals involved in corporate events. Allen's Event Planning series of books has been translated into seven languages and Allen's books have sold over eight million dollars in retail sales.

Allen, a master of creative design, has flawlessly executed successful special events--corporate, social, and celebrity--for up to 2,000 guests at a time in more than 30 countries around the world. She has designed and produced memorable events such as Disney's worldwide theatrical opening-night gala for Beauty and the Beast, and the orchestration of Oscar-winning director Norman Jewison's 25th anniversary celebration for Fiddler on the Roof.

Highly skilled in staging events that are strategically designed to be one-of-kind experiences and a master of transforming the energy of an event environment by engaging the senses with trademark primary design principles, Allen has worked closely with CEOs, CFOs, presidents and their executive staff around the globe to create, implement and oversee their corporate and social business events.

The many diverse events that Allen has designed and executed extend from complex one-day events to elaborate arrangements of theme productions taking place over the course of a week. These events ranged from very exclusive VIP events to multimillion-dollar, multimedia fantasy extravaganzas including seven new-car product launches and involved high-tech stage and show productions.

Allen is now bringing her dynamic creative energy, innovative style and perceptive insight to self discovery, self development, self investment and home, life experience, life environment and lifestyle design through her new suite of books that will be launched beginning fall 2012 and other initiatives.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

60 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Straightforward and helpful wedding planner, November 7, 2004

By 

N. West (California) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Your Stress-Free Wedding Planner: Experts' Best Secrets to Creating Your Dream Wedding (Spiral-bound)

I have purchased four different wedding planners and miscellaneous wedding planning books over the last year and this is one worth buying. All the wedding related books I have purchased have some helpful things and some not so helpful things but this one I have not found a page in it that has not been helpful. The book breaks the planning process down into ten easy steps to simplify the planning process. This book also has a handful of different questionnaires for you and your fiancée to take. The wedding vision questionnaire helps you better understand each other's "dream" wedding and then helps you to make that into "our dream wedding". It also includes questionnaires for choosing a ceremony site, reception site, supplier questionnaires and many worksheets to help you plan your big day. As you will see if you look at reviews of the other event planning books by this author she knows what she is talking about when it comings to planning a corporate party or a wedding. I would highly recommend this book to anyone planning a wedding who would like to not go insane in the process.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent organizer!, November 9, 2006

By 

Kimberly Parsons "Kimmy the bookworm" (Granite City, IL United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Your Stress-Free Wedding Planner: Experts' Best Secrets to Creating Your Dream Wedding (Spiral-bound)

I bought this book/organizer because I can be a little [...] retentive with details and I wasn't sure exactly where to start since I'm the first in my family to plan a wedding in the last 20 years. it has been extremely helpful in both information and organization. It does work! Plus, there are a ton of worksheets in it that think of things I would normally have forgotten about until it was too late. Very helpful!

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This planner gives careful attention to all wedding tasks, March 23, 2005

By 

BestWeddingSites.com "Editor" (National) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Stress-Free Wedding Planner: Experts' Best Secrets to Creating Your Dream Wedding (Spiral-bound)

Your wedding vision is the starting point in Your Stress Free Wedding Planner - Expert's Best Secrets to Creating the Wedding of Your Dreams by Judy Allen. After couples complete an independent questionnaire, they will have a better understanding of their thoughts and dreams about creating a custom wedding. This planner gives careful attention to all wedding tasks, therefore, leaving no assignment unaccomplished. The only drawback for this planner would be difficulty removing the pages from its spiral binding as the planner recommends for copymaking.