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

by Judy Allen (Author)

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

Product Description
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

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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: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #389,384 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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)

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.

21 of 22 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)

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!

19 of 20 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

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.