Your Vintage Wedding: Unique Ideas and Inspiration for Today's Bride (Hardcover)

~ Nancy Eaton (Author)

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Product Description

Your Vintage Wedding is a lavishly illustrated guide to the most popular types of twentieth-century weddings with advice on how to incorporate creative vintage details into your special day to add romance, fun, acrd unforgettable style. From the Art Nouveau elegance of the 1910s to the Art Deco Hollywood glamour of the 1920s; from the night-club and café society of the 1930s and 1940s to the Audrey Hepburn-era elegance of the 1950s, Your Vintage Wedding reveals what weddings were like during these periods and how to add vintage elements to invitations, flowers, photography, music, menus, and more -- including finding the perfect retro gown.

Playful, sophisticated, and filled with useful resources, this full-color book includes dozens of photographs to enchant and inspire. It features accounts and photos of actual vintage weddings, including a 1940s extravaganza on San Francisco's Treasure Island. Whether you dream of a 1910-style bash complete with potted palms, ropes of pearls, top bats, and dancing the tango or simply small touches that add beauty to the day, such as reviving the custom of wearing orange blossoms or tying lovers' knots in your bouquet ribbons, Your Vintage Wedding will help make it a day to remember.

About the Author

Eaton and her work have been featured on CNN Headline News and MSNBC, and in USA Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Glamour, and elsewhere. Her expertise on a wide range of vintage subjects makes her a popular choice on the speakers' circuit. She lives near Venice, Florida, where she is restoring a 1924 Mediterranean-revival home.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow; 1 edition (January 8, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688177530
• ISBN-13: 978-0688177539
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 8.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #745,967 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book for Vintage Wedding tips..., May 12, 2003

By	Bubbles (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This book is a wonderful read for anyone who is planning a vintage wedding, or at least to incorporate vintage details into their wedding. What I liked about this book is not how it focuses on what "they used to do" but how as a modern bride you can attain the same vintage feeling without trying to impossibly re-create the time period you most aspire to. Along with Vintage Wedding: Simple Ideas for Creating a Romantic Vintage Wedding by Daniela Turudich, these books are excellent for planning a unique, romantic and vintage wedding.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Attractive book, not as detailed as it could be, March 21, 2007

By	Glaphre (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews

This is a nice general overview of wedding fashion and trends from 1910-1950, especially if you want a vintage wedding but aren't yet sure of what era you are interested in. But I already knew what era I wanted to emulate (1910ish) and so most of the information I didn't really need. There is a lot more information for the later decades in the book than the earlier ones, and overall there could have been more information on the small details, such as favors, food, floral. For example, it listed trends for the 1910s but they were trends of the decade, not trends for weddings of that decade. Very pretty book, well laid out, nice photgraphs and "case studies" of recent vintage themed weddings, but if you want a specific decade, get this book from the library and look elsewhere for specific details.