Bride's Wedding Planner

Bride's Wedding Planner
Author: Brides' Magazine Editors
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2004-03-30
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0345466241

For nearly seventy years, couples have turned to BRIDE’S Magazine for inspiring, insightful, and reliable wedding-planning advice. Now the editors have packaged that knowledge, as well hundreds of helpful planning hints, in a hands-on wedding workbook to help couples create the wedding of their dreams—whether a formal, black-tie party or a joyful gathering in the family backyard. Within these pages, you’ll find the latest, most creative ways to pull off a gorgeous and personally meaningful event, explained in full detail. In one easy guide, you’ll have the how’s and why’s of wedding-planning, plus the space to map it all out. BRIDE’S Wedding Planner is your one-stop wedding organizer. It will answer all your questions and cover every detail, supplying crucial timetables, charts, checklists, and glossaries, to guide you down the aisle in style. Inside, you’ll find: • Smart shopping and money-saving tips on everything from your gown to stationery, flowers, caterers, photographers, and more • Realistic timetables and a list of necessary appointments for each step along the way—a handy budget planner to help you map out your overall spending plan, and track expenses as you go • Contract tips to help protect your rights and stretch your wedding dollars • Dozens of ideas for putting together interfaith, destination, long-weekend, theme, ethnic, and other types of special weddings • Modern guidelines for wording invitations • Hundreds of handy Web resources to speed your planning • Workbook pages for organizing and sketching out the day you’ve dreamed of—with dozens of pages to note recommendations, appointments, observations, and reminders; space to keep crucial lists; as well as indispensable pockets where you can save swatches, clippings, business cards, and all your other wedding-related information. With all of this and more, BRIDE’S Wedding Planner is the only wedding planner you’ll need!

Time Management for Event Planners

Time Management for Event Planners
Author: Judy Allen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2009-12-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470739002

Event planning never stops. This industry goes 24/7, 365 days a year. Planners work evenings, weekends, and holidays, often far away from their home base, organizing and running events that simply must go on, and go smoothly. Missing a critical deadline is not an option in the event planning field. Time management errors can cost a company a potential sale, lose them an existing customer, and damage their professional reputation. Burnout and chaos are real risks in this hectic world of deadlines and multiple projects. Planners often find themselves working down to the wire against crushing deadlines and a mountain of obstacles that impede their progress. Too frequently, there is not enough time to get the job done properly, let alone to spend on personal or professional pursuits. And for many involved in the event planning field, there is the extra dimension of travel to factor in, juggling multiple projects on a daily basis across a multitude of time zones. For smooth event implementation, and for business success, it is essential that planners know how to manage their own time as well as they manage an event. Time Management for Event Planners teaches readers how to successfully manage their workload, and do what matters most, when it matters most: Analyze and prioritize tasks. Structure your workload and your day for maximum performance. Identify red-flag activities that hinder productivity. Reduce stress-producing time crunches. Identify when extra help is needed, as well as how to delegate, outsource, and even partner with suppliers in crunch periods. Work with rather than against deadlines. Save time using technology. Manage multiple projects, even in multiple time zones. Balance your personal and professional life. Whether you are an event planner, a hospitality professional, in public relations or other related fields, Time Management for Event Planners offers time-saving tips, techniques, examples, and expert insight that will help you get time on your side.

Digital Dilemmas

Digital Dilemmas
Author: Cristina Venegas
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2010-01-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0813549108

The contentious debate in Cuba over Internet use and digital media primarily focuses on three issuesùmaximizing the potential for economic and cultural development, establishing stronger ties to the outside world, and changing the hierarchy of control. A growing number of users decry censorship and insist on personal freedom in accessing the web, while the centrally managed system benefits the government in circumventing U.S. sanctions against the country and in controlling what limited capacity exists. Digital Dilemmas views Cuba from the Soviet Union's demise to the present, to assess how conflicts over media access play out in their both liberating and repressive potential. Drawing on extensive scholarship and interviews, Cristina Venegas questions myths of how Internet use necessarily fosters global democracy and reveals the impact of new technologies on the country's governance and culture. She includes film in the context of broader media history, as well as artistic practices such as digital art and networks of diasporic communities connected by the Web. This book is a model for understanding the geopolitic location of power relations in the age of digital information sharing.

Detectives and Dilemmas

Detectives and Dilemmas
Author: Winnie Reed
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Emma’s heading out for an assignment. One she’s been looking forward to until a phone call derails her plans and gives her a different agenda. And with it comes a dilemma. Deke’s back. Detective McHottie’s been absent. And now there’s a dead body in a portapotty. Dilemmas? That’s quite the understatement as Emma finds herself embroiled in the drama of a new murder and at the same time confuzzled by the absence of a heartthrob and the reappearance of another!

DEBRA'S DILEMMAS

DEBRA'S DILEMMAS
Author: Elma Jay
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1628384549

Debra Marie Scott seems to have everything going for her. She has a stable job that she actually enjoys, a wonderful family, great friends, a string of admirers, and the eye of a tall dark stranger intent on claiming her for his own. Finding herself in a nightmare of constant break-ins, bizarre phone calls, and disturbing notes, she is eager to put a stop to the horror that has consumed her every waking hour. With the aid of the police and anxious family members and friends, she plans to catch the psychopath using his own game of deceit and harassment. She trains and learns karate, determined to prepare herself for the mental and physical ordeal she must go through. But just when she thinks she has the upper hand, she discovers the tall dark stranger is not her only enemy, but it is someone in a circle of people she calls friends.

Wedding Planning For Dummies

Wedding Planning For Dummies
Author: Marcy Blum
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2012-11-28
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1118360354

The bestselling wedding planning guide—now updated! Congratulations, you're planning a wedding! Besides obtaining a fancy tuxedo and a stunning gown, organizing a wedding ceremony takes creativity, planning, and diplomacy. The whole ordeal can seem overwhelming at first, but with lots of guidance, you'll plan a wedding people will remember for ages. Wedding Planning For Dummies demystifies and simplifies all the details that go into the Big Day, providing inspiration and innovative ideas to personalize your wedding celebration and, of course, make it fun for everyone--especially you! Expert wedding planner Marcy Blum walks you step-by-step through everything you'll encounter as you plan your wedding, from choosing a reception site to picking a photographer—and everything in between. 20% new and updated content Keep track of expenses with a wedding budget Negotiate contracts and surf online for wedding deals Get those pesky financial technicalities out of the way Plan a weekend wedding, a themed wedding, same sex wedding, and other celebrations Plan for various wedding customs and rites Throw a great reception with music, food, drink, and cake The 4-1-1 on the latest and greatest trends in wedding registries, rings, photos, and the honeymoon Packed with tips for saving money and common kitsch you should avoid, this is the ultimate guide to satisfying everyone on the Big Day—while making all of your fairytale dreams come true.

Perfect Wedding Planning

Perfect Wedding Planning
Author: Cherry Chappell
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2008-09-04
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1407004522

Perfect Wedding Planning is an indispensable guide to every aspect of arranging and coordinating the wedding you've always wished for. Covering everything from booking the caterers to choosing the wedding favours, it walks you through exactly what you need to do and gives great advice about how to realise your dream without breaking the bank. With checklists to make sure you have everything covered, specialist tips from florists and photographers, and a unique chapter on getting married abroad, Perfect Wedding Planning has all you need to make your special day memorable and magical. The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.

Great Answers to Tough Career Dilemmas

Great Answers to Tough Career Dilemmas
Author: Mike Bryon
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011-09-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0749459263

Whether you are entering or re-entering the current job market, it can be a daunting prospect filled with self-doubt, a lack of knowledge and confusion. Great Answers to Tough Career Dilemmas helps you to overcome these setbacks by finding out which jobs you are suited for and providing information on how to get there. Beginning with a startling insight into the current job market with emerging trends and new opportunities, such as working for the super-rich and media technology, it provides a complete aptitude test and analyses to give you a clear picture of which jobs you would excel at. It then provides 900 career solutions along with routes to study, links to resources and potential employers. Along with real life case studies of successful career changers from all over the world, Great Answers to Tough Career Dilemmas provides advice, encouragement and inspiration to help you make the brave decision to follow your dream career.

Event Planning Ethics and Etiquette

Event Planning Ethics and Etiquette
Author: Judy Allen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 047096376X

The world of event planning can be alluring and dangerous at once-exotic locales, wining and dining, and people traveling without their spouses. In such situations the line between business and pleasure blurs and the nature of relationships gets cloudy. With a thoughtless act or a less-than-tactful word, long-lasting business relationships can be ruined forever. Beyond that, budgets are on the chopping block and competition for business is tight. In that environment, people often cut not just financial corners, but the ethical ones, too. There's a fine line between innocent perks and inappropriate gifts or kickbacks. Event planners today must navigate a minefield of potentially sticky situations that can easily blow up in their face. Without a professional code, lines of acceptable behavior are easily crossed. And what you do personally can hurt you professionally. Event Planning Ethics and Etiquette provides event planners with the companion they need to stay out of trouble, keep professional relationships healthy and profitable, avoid the riskier temptations of the lifestyle, and win business in a highly competitive market using ethical business practices. Explains how to establish policies and codes of behavior, in the office and onsite at events. Offers guidelines on when it is acceptable to accept a gift, what is acceptable, and what is inappropriate. Shows how to prepare yourself, as well as your staff, for what to expect, and how to handle the unexpected with business finesse. Covers business etiquette in event planning crisis management situations. Helps you to avoid putting yourself and your company at personal and professional risk. Features real-life examples and situations, and advice on how to handle them with poise and professionalism. Includes a list of "Event Planning Do's and Don'ts." Event Planning Ethics and Etiquette will be of value to the professional event planner; to event planning suppliers and clients working with industry professionals; as well as to those in related fields, such as public relations, administrative professionals, communications; and anyone in the hospitality, culinary, and travel industry.