The Wedding Expert: 400 Things You Need to Know to Plan Your Big Day

The Wedding Expert: 400 Things You Need to Know to Plan Your Big Day

by Bettie Bradley
The Wedding Expert: 400 Things You Need to Know to Plan Your Big Day

The Wedding Expert: 400 Things You Need to Know to Plan Your Big Day

by Bettie Bradley

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Overview

From a true expert and icon in the wedding industry, the editor-in-chief of Today's Bride magazine, comes the ultimate handbook for brides planning their big days.
     In The Wedding Expert, Bettie Bradley, a wedding industry veteran and the editor-in-chief of Today's Bride magazine, shares with brides and grooms more than 400 things that, over the course of her thirty-year career, she's learned are vital to the wedding planning process and to keeping everyone involved happy. Whether it's announcing the news with loved ones and colleagues (hold off on that Facebook status until Mom knows!), planning your budget and negotiating with vendors (email with your vendors where possible--paper trails are good, just in case), finding interesting ways to marry your family's traditions with your modern style, deciding the size of the wedding (they who pay get final say!), or remembering to show appreciation to your loved ones, Bettie Bradley offers practical, thoughtful, and expert advice to make every wedding day a success.

     Sweetly designed, bursting with over 400 tips and ideas, and featuring sample budgets and invitations, quizzes, and even Bettiequette--wedding etiquette, Bettie Bradley-style--The Wedding Expert is a charming and indispensible guide for the biggest day of your life.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780449016398
Publisher: Appetite by Random House
Publication date: 12/16/2014
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

BETTIE BRADLEY has been an observer of changing traditions and new trends for decades and loves offering brides and grooms all the possibilities in planning their own weddings. A former talk show host and, for the past 30 years, Editor-in-Chief of Today's Bride magazine, Bettie is an expert on all things wedding.

Table of Contents

Introduction Weddings then, weddings now 1

1 The Engagement 5

2 The Budget 11

3 The Ceremony 27

4 The reception 43

5 Wedding Fashion 55

6 The Wedding Party 77

7 The guest list 87

8 Invitations and Stationery 93

9 The Nogotiations 107

10 Flowers and Decor 115

11 Photography and Videography 123

12 Transportation 131

13 The Menu 139

14 Marriage Mixes 149

15 Celebrations 155

16 The Toasts 169

17 The Gifts 181

18 The Honeymoon 195

19 Quiz Time 203

20 Ask Bettie 217

21 How to Avoid the Ten Most Common Mistakes 235

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