Conscious Bride's Wedding Planner

by Sheryl Paul

This book is designed to be both a source of inspiration and a practical tool. It guides you through the minefield of the prenuptial subconscious with an engaging series of exercises. Find solutions to your nagging doubts by creating personal rituals, holding structured conversations with yourself, and keeping a written journal of your experiences. When you’ve clarified your expectations for yourself, share them with your spouse-to-be and everyone else touched by your wedding. The Conscious Bride's Wedding Planner offers brides a unique combination of practical and emotional help in the form of an excellent event-planning and organizational resource and provides expert support and advice from an author who has successfully counseled thousands of brides. Readers will be in good hands as they are provided step-by-step guidance from the engagement through the wedding ceremony and honeymoon. This case-bound hardcover book includes beautiful art, photographs, checklists, worksheets, a 12-month calendar, tabbed sections, a section for vendor contact information, and more! Sections cover setting a realistic budget, choosing a wedding location, creating a guest list, finding the right dress, ceremony ideas, and choosing food, flowers, and music. Paul also gives the reader tools for staying in sync with their mate throughout the planning while learning how to compromise. The Planner will also serve as a keepsake journal that can be referred to throughout the wedding experience.

Genres: Nonfiction

252 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2003

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this was a really great book. My husband and I were more concerned with having a low key wedding and focusing more on the marriage we were creating. I read this in lieu of any sort of pre-marriage counseling - I’m not sure how it compares (orbthat it’s necessarily a suitable substitute), but there were worksheets to complete and did make me do some thinking on topics I hadn’t considered before.

[Bianca Mogos · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is more than a wedding planner. It’s a guide to such an important transition in your life. Sure, there are practical aspects you need to consider and which are named and discussed in this book, but it also focuses on the inner work you need to do before your wedding day: grieving loses, letting go of past relationships, setting an intention and calling for action why you want to get married and mostly focusing on the marriage more than on the wedding day. This books stresses the idea that you should not strive to make that one day “perfect”, which is not possible, even though the wedding industry makes you believe that, at the expense of your relationships, but rather to have a meaningful passage and a wedding day in which you’re present and which you can enjoy.

[Nancy Valentino]

I read this book the whole way through, but technically I haven't *finished* it, because I haven't done all of the activities in it. This is a book that deals with the internal side of weddings and provides scaffolding to assist you in doing the "emotional work" that comes along with such a big life transition. This was something that really interested me and it's certainly a fascinating read that made me think about things from a different perspective. That said, I don't think I've found it as useful as I could have yet because we're not that close to our wedding and I'm not having a lot of the feelings that the book suggests I might have to work through. It will be interesting to see if it becomes more relevant and if the need to do this "emotional work" becomes more pressing as the date draws closer.