Bridal Bargains: Secrets to Throwing a Fantastic Wedding on a Realistic Budget (Bridal Bargains)

published	October 25th 2006 by Windsor Peak Press
binding	Paperback
isbn	1889392227 (isbn13: 9781889392226)
ebook
pages	480
description	The national best-seller the wedding industry does NOT want you to read! Bridal Bargains teaches couples all the tricks to saving money on a wedding--...more [close] The national best-seller the wedding industry does NOT want you to read! Bridal Bargains teaches couples all the tricks to saving money on a wedding--and how to avoid pitfalls and scams. With the average wedding costing $20,000, Bridal Bargains is the solution to tying the knot without breaking the bank. [close]
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Marissa rated it:

06/25/08

bookshelves: currently-reading

recommended to Marissa by: Got it for free from my previous job
recommends it for: Anyone getting married in the near future

This is a great book for people who haven't ever planned a massively scaled party before. Thanks to my previous job- corporate event planning- I've got 3 "practice runs" of them under my belt (each for 250+ people, 2 buffet & 1 sit down all on budget(s)- <20K, ,<30k, & 45K- and in Manhattan) and I feel prepared to plan my own wedding. However, this book has been invaluable for dealing with the wedding industry specifically. The same venues that I have worked with in th...more This is a great book for people who haven't ever planned a massively scaled party before. Thanks to my previous job- corporate event planning- I've got 3 "practice runs" of them under my belt (each for 250+ people, 2 buffet & 1 sit down all on budget(s)- <20K, ,<30k, & 45K- and in Manhattan) and I feel prepared to plan my own wedding. However, this book has been invaluable for dealing with the wedding industry specifically. The same venues that I have worked with in the past do charge an enormous markup just for saying the word "wedding". I am shocked and dismayed by this practice. However, I intend to keep pursuing my dream of getting married somewhere in NYC, without going into debt. This book is chockful of dead on advice for the novice planner and yet still has tidbits even for someone like me. For example- order a small designer wedding cake for display and order enough frosted sheet cake to feed the rest- since it will really be sliced in the kitchen anyway-invaluable!!!!
I was a little dismayed by the wedding dress section but perhaps it's because I know I don't need a Vera Wang. While it has loads of helpful places to get 10-50% off desigenr gown prices- it was kind of vague on where to go if you didn't care for a designer name for a dress you can only wear once. Well, I went to Filene's "Running of the Brides" at the end of the day and got a lovely, unique dress for $250. No, I don't know if it's a designer dress, the designer's tag was ripped off (must have been a sample at a store). However, I know it is a beautiful dress with solid consutruction and I would have gladly paid $250 to buy it as a formal gown. (I certainly would not have paid the 7K the tag said it's original price was. For 7K for a single use dress, it better have jewels sewn into it or a little gnome to massage my feet through the evening!) At Filene's I was able to run around the store with 2 close friends pulling whatever dress I felt like to try on- no sales person hovering over me and no pressure tomake a decision. Yes, there were a lot of trashed dresses but there were a lot of great ones too- you do have to look, really look at every dress on every rack- and try on anything that catches your eye! The evening spent trying on 40 someodd gowns was one of the most fun evenings I've had in a long time. Who doesn't remember playing dress up as a kid? With only 30 other brides and families looking at dresses- everyone was helpful and so nice! We all took pictures and shared dresses. (Word of caution- don't bring any men with you, you can't use the dressing rooms and carrying 400 pounds of silks and taffetas back and forth is exhausting- I had no qualms about running around the store in spanx, as many of the other girls did, but I felt bad for the men- they were uncomfortable and didn't know where to look and they couldn't sit or hide anywhere.)

But I digress... In short- this is a great wedding planning book- I do not intend to look at any wedding magazines or other planning books. I had given it to my sister-in-law whne she was pallning her wedding and she loved it and gave it back to me now that I'm planning my own! (This was a regift of the best kind!) :)
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