Wedding experts agree: Today?s bride and groom want a wedding that reflects who they are?without regard to tradition, convention, or in-laws. This guide shows you how to:
Break with tradition?on a budget!
Present nontraditional ideas to parents and grandparents
Build in time for visiting friends and family
Incorporate shared passions into the ceremony
Use elbow grease and inventiveness for a DIY wedding
Deal with vendors and suppliers
You will identify ways you can express your individuality during your wedding celebration, from rehearsal dinner to the morning-after brunch. The memories you take away will be of a ceremony celebrating your love?your uniqueness as a couple.
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Sharon Naylor (Morristown, NJ) has been named "The Foremost Wedding Author in the Country." She is the author of thirty-five wedding books and has appeared on Good Morning America, The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet, Inside Edition, Get Married, Lifetime, and many other national shows. She is the iVillage weddings etiquette expert, and their featured blogger on stress-free wedding planning. She has been featured in InStyle Weddings, Brides, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride, New Jersey Bride, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and on Martha Stewart Weddings on Sirius Satellite Radio.
Product Details
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Adams Media; Original edition (December 18, 2009)
Sharon Naylor is the bestselling author of over 35 wedding books, including The Bride's Guide to Freebies, The Mother of the Bride Book, Mother of the Groom, Bridesmaid on a Budget, and many more award-winning titles. In addition to being the wedding expert for GorgeouslyGreen.com, she is a columnist at Bridal Guide, Southern Bride, Polka Dot Bride, New Jersey Bride, and other top bridal sites, and has appeared as a wedding and entertaining expert on Good Morning America, Better TV, Get Married, ABC News, Primetime, Inside Edition, and more.
She has been featured in InStyle Weddings, Brides, New York Weddings, Destination I Do, Glamour, Redbook, Woman's Day, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and others, and is a syndicated columnist at Creators Syndicate.
She is also the destination wedding and honeymoon spokesperson for the Best-Of award-winning, eco-friendly Rosewood Resorts Caneel Bay and Jumby Bay, and the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, among others. Visit her website www.sharonnaylor.net for more on her books and media appearances, and to get her free worksheets, articles and more, and follow her on Twitter @sharonnaylorwed.
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 25+ 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.
This book was a great wedding reference guide. All wedding books I've read were traditional which did not suffice my needs. Whereas this book allowed me to gain ideas for nontraditional ideas. This book also prepared us how to budget visiting all tables/guests meanwhile enjoying the party ourselves.
Lastly, this book had great info on rehearsal dinners and the morning after brunch that most wedding books exclude. The wedding was an absolute blast, surpassed my expectations, and I have this book to thank.
I bought and read this book and passed it along to a friend who's getting married again (for the third time!).
There's tons of free info available about weddings, particularly online, but 'Your Wedding, Your Way' is an outstanding resource definitely worth its purchase price literally a thousand times over. It gives the kind of advice you'd get from hiring an experienced wedding planner -- kind of like a planning-your-wedding Bible.
If you want a unique wedding -- maybe a "Shakespeare in the woods" theme, for example -- this book helps you create a fabulous event (and stay on budget!).
Even if you've been a bridesmaid more times than you'd like to remember or you've been down the aisle once or twice before, 'Your Wedding, Your Way' is packed with great ideas and information: Sharon Naylor shares experience and perspective with pearls of wisdom to help create a one-of-a-kind celebration for your day.
I really, really enjoyed reading 'Your Wedding Your Way' by Sharon Naylor. My friends had read a few by her before and really liked them so when I started planning my wedding they recommended this one specifically. Upon planning my wedding I encountered a dilemma when I found myself wanting to stray from the 'traditional' wedding. I was struggling with not wanting to upset my family and mother-in-law by breaking with tradition but this book helped me garner the confidence to really plan the wedding I knew was what I wanted, as well as worth my money. While reading this book, I felt that Sharon Naylor really knew what she was talking about and that she could genuinely relate to what I was dealing with. I also love the quotes/testimonials she includes from fellow brides-to-be as well as the blank lines that gave me a chance to jot down some notes on the topic. I also found myself using the sources in the back of the book a lot while planning my wedding- she includes them for all different things such as Gowns, Shoes, Accessories, etc. Really loved this book! Look forward to recommending it to other friends of mine! thanks!
