The Knot Ultimate Wedding Lookbook

by Carley Roney, Editors of The Knot

You want a wedding that will wow your guests, but where do you begin? Carley Roney, founder of the world’s most popular wedding destination, The Knot, has compiled The Knot Ultimate Wedding Lookbook to make the entire wedding-planning experience enjoyable. 
  
More than 1,000 gorgeous color photographs give couples endless inspiration for their wedding day, and useful tips, time lines, and lists help the lovebirds flawlessly pull off every detail. Each chapter is bursting with creative and classic ideas to make the day as meaningful as it is

Save-the-date cards do double duty when printed on coasters or delicate handkerchiefs.

An auspicious bird’s nest adds a beautiful and rustic touch for carrying rings at a farm wedding.

Dressing A retro bride goes glam with a feathered veil and pearl button–accented gloves. A casual groom and his mates add a personality pop with chocolate-brown Keds to match their wedding chinos.

Cocktail For a low-key affair, mini grilled cheeses dipped in shot glasses of tomato soup satisfy.

Fruit slices suspended in crystal vases overflowing with Crayola-bright poppies and orchids offer a cheery setting.

White lace frosting details that match the bride’s dress and the couple’s monogram turn a pale green cake into a chic masterpiece.

From classic white-on-white palettes to floral themes to fun fantasy ideas, the choices are limitless. Purple, pink, red, robin’s egg blue—find inspiration at every turn in all the colors a bride can dream of! And The Knot Ultimate Wedding Lookbook is loaded with money-saving ideas that don’t sacrifice style. Expert advice and rich images add up to a delicious visual feast and essential resource to help you create an event as special as you are as a couple.

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference, How To, Adult

288 pages, Hardcover

First published December 21, 2010

Reviews

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of nice photos to use as inspiration when talking to florists, etc. (Though the photos are all CLEARLY more expensive than I would expect most people to be able to afford.)

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful pictures and some good ideas.

[Ruby Escalona · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book for getting ideas and other inspiration

[Rachel Laskowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book definitely helped me with some ideas and tips for my wedding.

[Wizard · Rating 4 out of 5]

7/10

[Tina · Rating 2 out of 5]

The knot books just aren't that helpful. Some pretty visual inspiration, but only depicting weddings of brides with huge budgets.

[Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

In my opinion, this book is a lot of what is wrong with weddings and, more to the point, the wedding industry. First of all, all the weddings pictured clearly had large budgets. There isn't a lot of room for weddings deviating from the "main stream" here, and by that I mean largely formal and clearly expensive. It's also mostly pictures, so while the visual inspiration is there, there is no information on how to duplicate something. That being said, some of the pictures are beautiful, though not necessarily to my taste. I did like like flipping through it just in terms of seeing different things, even if the vast majority are things I would not consider. And I got one idea from it: tying wedding programs to chairs so they double as decoration (page 57). Though to be fair, it's just one small picture, it just happened to catch my eye. So that's the real way I would use this book, see what simple (or not-so-simple) idea catches the eye.

[nicole · Rating 2 out of 5]

A collectional of wedding inspiration and advice from the editors of The Knot.

This book came accidentally via ILL when I requested The Knot's Book of Lists. Our wedding planning is well under way and luckily our venue won't need much decoration for, as luck would have it, it's a library! The rest writes itself.

But the logistics are proving to be far harder to wrangle than we imagined and alas this book didn't provide what we needed. Some of the advice, such as information on invitations, was helpful but really it was mostly eye candy that was old hat from their website, Pinterest and the legions of wedding blogs I read on a daily basis.

I would suggest it for those working with a blank canvas or looking to replicate another wedding aesthetic.

[Grace Tolman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ok so I'm not getting married anytime soon (did that 9 years ago.) but man oh man how I loved this book. It had a plethora of amazing ideas, the photogprahy is fabulous and the color combinations is something I can use for my craft projects. Got this book from the library but I'm putting it in my must buy list.

[Rebekah · Rating 4 out of 5]

The pictures is this book were super pretty with amazing photography. There were quite a few ideas but very soon, they were quite mainstream and expensive on the wallet. But there were a few ideas that could be replicated for other events which was useful for me since the reason why I borrowed this was more for a party rather than a wedding.

[fruitcake · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful book with many great photographs and ideas for a wedding. The books talks about ideas for a small-budget wedding, but the photos are clearly representative of a wedding where there was a very large budget. Still, it's worth a look just to be inspired by the color combinations.

[A. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful ideas for weddings, but unfortunately it would cost thousands to have these types of weddings. I am planning on a smaller-scale wedding, but this book still gave me ideas of what I can make myself, and what I would like to have. My creativity is flowing now!

[Ellie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great photos and practical tips to create the look that you want. The photos are of weddings with large budgets, but one can certainly take the ideas and suggestions and make them ones own. Great for inspiration.

[Lou · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the color combos in the book. Definitely a library check out, don't buy it.

[Sarah Toton]

I'd say this was a pretty good look book and a good place to start if you want to know what kind of style you should be looking for