Weddings for Grownups: Everything You Need to Know to Plan Your Wedding Your Way (Paperback)

by Carroll Stoner (Author) "Why do weddings sometimes look so complicated?..." (more)
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Product Description
This expanded edition of the popular planner (more than 20,000 copies of the original sold) features common sense advice and practical ideas for every type of wedding. A full range of checklists helps to speed engaged couples through every part of the planning process.

About the Author
Carroll Stoner is the founder of The Wedding Company, a workshop and seminar/consulting business geared towards working women. She lives in Chicago, where she writes a regular column for Bridal Guide Magazine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books; Revised edition (January 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811814211
• ISBN-13: 978-0811814218
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #465,561 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

52 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A perfect how-to for a woman confident in her own style!, September 2, 1999

By A Customer

If you want to overdose on froofy bouquets, fairy princess dresses and hard sales pitches about your wedding being "your day," avoid this book. If you've got a strong sense of style that you're not seeing in Bride's Magazine, a genuine wish to make the wedding a special celebration for all your loved ones, and a sincere longing to avoid becoming Bridezilla, get the book.

It's not going to give you bouquet ideas, it's not going to tell you how to shave $1000 off your dress price, it's not going to show you how to hand-make your favors.

But this book will help you keep everything in perspective and create the ceremony and reception that you want to have, not the one other people think you should have. It will give you the backbone to go your own way when faced with yet another bridal boutique consultant who seems to think that every woman wants a 12-foot train.

This book is a sanity check and wedding-planning outline wrapped in one. I heartily endorse reading this before you even *think* about buying a copy of Modern Bride.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a wonderful, wonderful book--the ONE to make sure you buy, October 7, 1998

By A Customer

If you had to buy one wedding book, this would be it. At last a book for those of us who aren't 'princesses' and aren't planning to spend all of our families' disposable incomes and all of our time for the next twelve months on our weddings. As an example, one of the weddings Ms. Stoner describes is a potluck reception where the bride had to make a choice between having food or having a band. Now that's like the decisions most of us have to make--unlike so many books for brides. Other nice things: discussing how and where to purchase an untraditional bridal gown (if you don't want to spend 3K to look like Cinderella), decisions and budget sheets, how to plan a wedding in a hurry, etc. Practical, helpful, and best of all, reassuring.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All the advice you'll need is right in this book, April 8, 2000

By	Thorn_2030 (Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews

This book was easily the most helpful book I read when planning my wedding. Sure, Martha Stewart was ready to give advice. And yeah, Modern Brides was there with the same articles they run year after year. But this book made me realize that I could make my TRUE dreams a reality. It made me realize I wasn't horrible for not sharing the same wedding vision as my mother. It made me believe that I could do *my* wedding, *my* way (which meant including the wishes of my groom), and still have it turn out beautiful, and even better, be a good representation of who my husband and I are, and let our loved ones see the character our marriage would take on, from the very beginning.

Of all the books I read when planning my wedding (and I read a lot!), this one gave me the courage to have the wedding I really wanted, and the strength to not be guilted or bullied into the wedding I didn't want.

Everytime I hear that someone is planning a wedding, I recommend this book. No others. Just this one. It's really all the advice you'll need.