Storied Weddings

Storied Weddings
Author: Aleah Valley
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1423649427

Shape your wedding into a beautiful occasion that goes beyond the look, to one that shares your story. An inspiring book–meets–planning tool brimming with realistic tips and beautiful imagery; Storied Weddings encourages you to examine your tastes, family history, hobbies, styles, and other bits and pieces of your story to weave into your wedding celebration, your storied wedding. Filled with wedding florals, venues, cocktail recipes, bouquet recipes, table setting ideas, color pairings, and more, the book also features charming stories from past couples, real wedding images, and insightful pro tips throughout. A thoughtful Q&A brings a spark to the process—incorporating these questions will encourage couples to really personalize every detail—to bring to life your vision for a timeless celebration that is perfectly you. With fifteen years of planning and designing weddings and celebrations, Aleah and Nick Valley are known as industry leaders who happily share their knowledge and creativity. Their work has been published in Brides Magazine, Sunset Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, Style Me Pretty, and more.

The Night Before the Wedding

The Night Before the Wedding
Author: Natasha Wing
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 059322504X

Here comes the bride...and the flower girl! This springtime wedding is the latest occasion to be celebrated in Natasha Wing's best-selling series. It's the night before her sister's wedding, and one little flower girl sure is excited! But will complications on the morning of the big day bring down everyone's happy moods? Any little girl who has dreamed of being a flower girl--and their numbers are legion--will love this fun, rhyming story told in the style of Clement C. Moore's Christmas classic.

Merry Ever After

Merry Ever After
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1977
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Contrasts the way children of different social classes were betrothed and married during the Middle Ages.

The Wedding Ringer

The Wedding Ringer
Author: Kerry Rea
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 059320185X

A woman who wants nothing to do with love or friendship finds both in the unlikeliest ways in this hilarious and heartwarming debut by Kerry Rea. Once upon a time, Willa Callister was a successful blogger with a good credit score, actual hobbies, and legs that she shaved more than once a month. But after finding her fiancé in bed with her best friend, she now spends her days performing at children's birthday parties in a ball gown that makes her look like a walking bottle of Pepto Bismol. Willa dreams of starting fresh, where no one knows who she used to be, but first she needs to save up enough money to make it happen. Maisie Mitchell needs something too: another bridesmaid for her wedding. After a chance encounter at a coffee shop, Maisie offers to pay Willa to be in her bridal party. Willa wants nothing to do with weddings—or Maisie—but the money will give her the freedom to start the new life she so badly desires. Willa's bridesmaid duties thrust her into Maisie's high-energy world and into the path of hotshot doctor Liam Rafferty. But as Willa and Maisie form a real friendship, and Liam's annoyingly irresistible smile makes her reconsider her mantra that all men are trash, Willa's exit strategy becomes way more complicated. And when a secret from Maisie's past threatens to derail the wedding, Willa must consider whether friendship—and romance—are worth sticking around for.

OMG! Wedding Stories

OMG! Wedding Stories
Author: Alex A. Lluch
Publisher: WS Publishing Group
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2010-07
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1934386979

The many details and aspects of wedding planning mean something is bound to go awry on the Big Day. After reading this book, readers will realize, no matter what goes wrong on their wedding day, it probably won't compare to these funny, crazy and outrageous true wedding stories sent in by members of WedSpace.com, the top social networking site for engaged couples to network with other brides, guests, and local vendors. OMG! Wedding Stories will have engaged couples and wedding guests laughing, gasping in shock, and thinking, "Thank goodness that wasn't me!" This great gift book will help brides and grooms keep in mind, no wedding is perfect, and the least you can do is laugh about it.

Bride and Groom Story

Bride and Groom Story
Author: Alex A. Lluch
Publisher: WS Publishing Group
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2009-06
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1934386499

Documenting the story of your love and your wedding can be heartwarming, funny, and can even relieve some of the stress of planning a wedding. How would you both describe your first kiss? When did you know he or she was The One? What was the craziest part of planning the wedding? Bride & Groom Story is a one-of-a-kind keepsake that asks the humorous, loving, and tough questions about love and marriage. Bride & Groom Story provides a unique opportunity to record the details of a relationship over the years, including the wedding and plans for the future. Questions on topics such as milestones, vacations, family, sex, dreams, and the wedding help readers create a treasured record of their love, memories, and future together. This book also includes a special front-cover photo window for photo of the couple. Engaged couples will love filling out this book together, or friends will enjoy giving it as a gift for wedding showers and engagement announcements. Couples will want to look back on their responses for years to come, or even pass the book on to children and grandchildren.

Vogue Weddings

Vogue Weddings
Author: Hamish Bowles
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0307957063

An exquisite collection of nearly 400 iconic, inspirational wedding photographs of royalty, models, artists, actors, musicians and designers who have appeared in Vogue through the magazine’s 120 year history. Showcasing the work of legendary photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Patrick Demarchelier, Jonathan Becker, Norma Jean Roy, Mario Testino, Irving Penn, Arthur Elgort, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, and Annie Leibovitz, Vogue Weddings will transport you to a myriad of romantic settings around the world, from storied castles, palaces, and cathedrals, to weddings by the sea or in the countryside. Here are the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in London; Sofia Coppola and Thomas Mars in Italy; Kate Moss and Jamie Hince in the Cotswolds; Lauren Bush and David Lauren at the RRL Ranch in Colorado; Marina Rust and Ian Connor in Maine; Lauren Davis and Andrés Santo Domingo in Cartagena, Colombia as well as such iconic photos as Bianca and Mick Jagger in the car after their wedding in St. Tropez. A chapter on models’ weddings includes portraits of Natalia Vodianova, Coco Rocha, Maggie Rizer, Stella Tennant, Lara Stone and Cindy Crawford among others in their own wedding dress choices. Vogue Weddings also features behind-the-scenes details from Hamish Bowles; personal wedding stories from Mario Testino, Plum Sykes, Marina Rust and Sarah Mower; and fashion portfolios created by the magazine’s editors of bridal photo shoots, many including couture.

Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
Author: Ada Calhoun
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-05-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393254801

Seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage. We hear plenty about whether or not to get married, but much less about what it takes to stay married. Clichés around marriage—eternal bliss, domestic harmony, soul mates—leave out the real stuff. After marriage you may still want to sleep with other people. Sometimes your partner will bore the hell out of you. And when stuck paying for your spouse’s mistakes, you might miss being single. In Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, Ada Calhoun presents an unflinching but also loving portrait of her own marriage, opening a long-overdue conversation about the institution as it truly is: not the happy ending of a love story or a relic doomed by high divorce rates, but the beginning of a challenging new chapter of which “the first twenty years are the hardest.” Calhoun’s funny, poignant personal essays explore the bedrooms of modern coupledom for a nuanced discussion of infidelity, existential anxiety, and the many other obstacles to staying together. Both realistic and openhearted, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give offers a refreshing new way to think about marriage as a brave, tough, creative decision to stay with another person for the rest of your life. “What a burden,” Calhoun calls marriage, “and what a gift.”

Wedding Stories

Wedding Stories
Author: Diana Secker Tesdell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781841596235

"An anthology of 22 stories about getting married by great writers from across the past two centuries"--

One Perfect Day

One Perfect Day
Author: Rebecca Mead
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2008-07-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1440634025

Astutely observed and deftly witty, One Perfect Day masterfully mixes investigative journalism and social commentary to explore the workings of the wedding industry-an industry that claims to be worth $160 billion to the U.S. economy and which has every interest in ensuring that the American wedding becomes ever more lavish and complex. Taking us inside the workings of the wedding industry-including the swelling ranks of professional event planners, department stores with their online registries, the retailers and manufacturers of bridal gowns, and the Walt Disney Company and its Fairy Tale Weddings program-New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead skillfully holds the mirror up to the bride's deepest hopes and fears about her wedding day, revealing that for better or worse, the way we marry is who we are.