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1001 Ways To Save Money . . . and Still Have a Dazzling Wedding By Sharon Naylor ( McGraw-Hill )
Release Date: 2001-08-09
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The bestselling guide, updated with new websites and ideas Sharon Naylor believes that every bride deserves to have the wedding of her dreams. With this new edition of 1001 Ways to Save Money . . . and Still Have a Dazzling Wedding, she arms brides with more than 1,001 proven money-saving hints, tips, and strategies for creating a fabulous wedding without breaking the bank. Writing with verve and an infectious enthusiasm for all things bridal, Sharon walks readers through every wedding-related event-from announcing an engagement to planning a honeymoon to writing thank-you notes. She reveals where to cut corners and where not to, how to help families and bridal parties save money, where to find free assistance, and how brides can keep from feeling as if they're shortchanging their dreams just to save a few bucks. For this revised edition, the author has put together an up-to-the-minute list of Web addresses and contact information for the best on-line, print, and brick-and-mortar bridal sources.
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 Guaranteed to turn you into a bridezilla. ( jcameron76 )
I have never seen a more offensive wedding planning book, especially one claiming to help save money. This author suggests buying or borrowing a wedding etiquette book, but it appears that she has never read one! She advocates greed, selfishness, and poor form in general. She masks this with statements like this one when discussing honeymoon and mortgage (!) registries: "Warning: it is never appropriate to ask for money as a wedding present, so you're going to have to be subtle about this kind of registry." ARE YOU KIDDING? She's basically saying, it's never acceptable but you can do it anyway as long as you're sneaky.
Gross.
She makes certain aspects of weddings sound essential and then talks about how to save money on them. Engagement parties, engagement announcements, videographers, favors... These are all wonderful things to have if you can afford it, but she makes it sound like you'll be so sorry if you don't.
Don't waste your time on this book, and for the love of all that is good, don't follow its recommendations, unless you want your wedding and you as a bride to be remembered for all the WRONG reasons. Go for "Bridal Bargains" instead. It is honest, frank and doesn't read like it's been written by the money-sucking bridal industry as a whole.
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 Take it or Leave it... ( tnharrington )
In my opinion, it isn't worth paying for this book--all the same information is available, for free, at wedding websites. I bought a ton of wedding books--and never used them becaue I had all I needed online for free. If you aren't a computer-y person, then go for it...but if you know how to browse websites, save your money for the centerpieces, photography, or other wedding detail.
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 Helpful ( nich42384 )
This book has some creative ideas on how to save money and is worth looking at if you have a wedding coming up. I read it before my wedding, and I don't know that it saved me A LOT of money, but it did help me think of some creative personalized things to do.
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 Full Of Wonderful Cost Cutting Ideas..... ( cranberry_juice33 )
As a bride2be I am very glad books like this exsist, because like many of you my soon to be groom and I dont have a large budget to throw this wonderful fantastic never to be forgotten wedding and reception, were both two hard working people with bills to pay. We want a wonderful wedding but within cost reason no sense in going overboard, were practical the $$ could be used best elsewhere, yet it is "my" day and I want it to be special, I want to be the princess I've always dreamed of being, and thanks to budget minded books like this one I can have my cake and eat it too with a lil $$ to spare.....!
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Good for those that don't know much about weddings ( casalino2 )
This book is good for those that have never planned a wedding or have never watched all of the wedding shows.
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