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Radiant Bride: The Beauty, Diet, Fitness, and Fashion Plan for Your Big Day
Want to look and feel better than ever on your wedding day? Look no further.
Radiant Bride is a holistic guide to beauty, diet, fitness, and fashion designed to take you from "Yes" to "I do" (and even through to the honeymoon!) gorgeously -- and sanely. You'll stop counting calories, obsessing over hours spent (or not spent!) at the gym, and trying crazy beauty fads. Instead, you'll have access to the insider tips author and holistic wellness expert Alexis Wolfer shares with celebrities and her clients, so that your skin radiates, your hair shines, and your dress flatters your figure perfectly. The book includes expert advice
-Personalized detox and diet plans
-Gown-shopping tips to help you find the most flattering options for your body shape and skin tone
-Fitness routines designed to target the areas your dress shows off
-Hair and makeup guides
-Meal plans for beauty from the inside out
-Bachelorette tips, so you can party without jeopardizing your goals
-When to schedule a facial, manicure, haircut, etc.
-Packing your wedding-day survival kit
-Your honeymoon beauty routine
-And much more!
Radiant Bride is a holistic guide to beauty, diet, fitness, and fashion designed to take you from "Yes" to "I do" (and even through to the honeymoon!) gorgeously -- and sanely. You'll stop counting calories, obsessing over hours spent (or not spent!) at the gym, and trying crazy beauty fads. Instead, you'll have access to the insider tips author and holistic wellness expert Alexis Wolfer shares with celebrities and her clients, so that your skin radiates, your hair shines, and your dress flatters your figure perfectly. The book includes expert advice
-Personalized detox and diet plans
-Gown-shopping tips to help you find the most flattering options for your body shape and skin tone
-Fitness routines designed to target the areas your dress shows off
-Hair and makeup guides
-Meal plans for beauty from the inside out
-Bachelorette tips, so you can party without jeopardizing your goals
-When to schedule a facial, manicure, haircut, etc.
-Packing your wedding-day survival kit
-Your honeymoon beauty routine
-And much more!
232 pages, Paperback
First published January 5, 2016
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December 13, 2016
Of all four wedding books I bought for planning my big day, this was the least helpful and most frustrating. If your wedding journey follows the stereotypical American path (white dress, bridesmaids, father walking you down the aisle) this book may actually be a perfect fit for you, but if you're in any way different (in a homosexual relationship? want a colorful dress? not changing your name? perhaps you're in a heterosexual relationship and you *gasp* were the one who proposed? or maybe you don't have the so-called 'average' wedding budget of tens of thousands of dollars? etc. etc.) then this book has the potential to drive you up the wall. It definitely did me. If I could go back, I would never have purchased this book in the first place.
All that being said, I admit the book does have some great tips. My money wasn't COMPLETELY wasted here. The big problem is, I had to really work in order to dig them out. For every “Ah-ha!” moment, I went through a hundred groans first. There were entire chapters I basically skipped because they were completely useless or irrelevant. I understand it's not possible to write a book specifically tailored to every unique bridal situation, but that doesn't mean this book couldn't have been more inclusive.
It did get better in the last half. The closer the advice got to the wedding day, the more relevant, helpful, and universal it became. I also appreciated the inclusion of a honeymoon and “Radiant Wife” section at the end but these still came with the same frustrations as the previous chapters. I plan to keep the book until I actually go on my honeymoon so I can reread that section immediately beforehand but the "Radiant Wife" bit is definitely not good enough for me to keep this book indefinitely.
Although I wasn't very happy with the book overall, I did like the pretty illustrations which were well-placed throughout. The book visually is gorgeous and the paper and finishes chosen for the pages and covers make for a pleasant tactile reading experience. The layout, fonts, spacing, organization, etc. are all very well done and make the book fairly easy to digest. These things are probably what drove me to buy this book after I glanced through it at the bookstore. Unfortunately, the appearance alone can't make up for the unhappiness and disappointment I felt while reading the actual contents.
All that being said, I admit the book does have some great tips. My money wasn't COMPLETELY wasted here. The big problem is, I had to really work in order to dig them out. For every “Ah-ha!” moment, I went through a hundred groans first. There were entire chapters I basically skipped because they were completely useless or irrelevant. I understand it's not possible to write a book specifically tailored to every unique bridal situation, but that doesn't mean this book couldn't have been more inclusive.
It did get better in the last half. The closer the advice got to the wedding day, the more relevant, helpful, and universal it became. I also appreciated the inclusion of a honeymoon and “Radiant Wife” section at the end but these still came with the same frustrations as the previous chapters. I plan to keep the book until I actually go on my honeymoon so I can reread that section immediately beforehand but the "Radiant Wife" bit is definitely not good enough for me to keep this book indefinitely.
Although I wasn't very happy with the book overall, I did like the pretty illustrations which were well-placed throughout. The book visually is gorgeous and the paper and finishes chosen for the pages and covers make for a pleasant tactile reading experience. The layout, fonts, spacing, organization, etc. are all very well done and make the book fairly easy to digest. These things are probably what drove me to buy this book after I glanced through it at the bookstore. Unfortunately, the appearance alone can't make up for the unhappiness and disappointment I felt while reading the actual contents.
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