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Storied Weddings

Author : Aleah Valley

Publisher : Gibbs Smith

Page : 380 pages

File Size : 23,22 MB

Release : 2018-11-06

Category : Reference

ISBN : 1423649427

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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

Author : Natasha Wing

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 19 pages

File Size : 29,45 MB

Release : 2021-01-12

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 059322504X

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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

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Publisher :

Page : 64 pages

File Size : 31,69 MB

Release : 1977

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN :

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



How I Planned Your Wedding

Author : Susan Wiggs

Publisher : Harlequin

Page : 241 pages

File Size : 35,25 MB

Release : 2011-01-25

Category : Reference

ISBN : 1426884443

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Bestselling author Susan Wiggs literally wrote the book on happily-ever-after love. But orchestrating her daughter Elizabeth's real-world wedding turned into a different story altogether, and one that takes two to tell—the mother and the bride. Here is the all-too-true tale of a mother and daughter collaborating on life's ultimate celebration—a dream wedding. Often poignant, sometimes irreverent and always hilarious, this charming book is also packed with useful advice from both ends of the cupcake-tasting table. Join mother and daughter as they wade through the trenches of flowers and favors, grueling gown decisions…and the cold, cruel realities of a budget. With luck, love and loads of patience, they come out on the other side, bloodied but unbowed, replete with life lessons—and closer than ever before.



Vogue Weddings

Author : Hamish Bowles

Publisher : Knopf

Page : 386 pages

File Size : 50,51 MB

Release : 2012-10-30

Category : Photography

ISBN : 0307957063

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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.



A Lovely Love Story

Author : Edward Monkton

Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing

Page : 38 pages

File Size : 47,91 MB

Release : 2006-12

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 0740763083

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In this gift book for special occasions, two friends realize they fit together perfectly and discover that differences shouldn't be an obstacle to loving each other.



The Wedding Ringer

Author : Kerry Rea

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 15,29 MB

Release : 2021-11-09

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0593201841

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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.



The Best Party of Our Lives

Author : Sarah Galvin

Publisher : Sasquatch Books

Page : 241 pages

File Size : 28,93 MB

Release : 2015-01-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1632170132

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This moving collection of true stories about gay weddings shows how LGBT couples have overcome cultural and personal obstacles to their unions, made wedding traditions their own, and what everyone can learn from them. Told in a series of essays that mimics the course of a traditional wedding, from engagement to walking down the aisle to the honeymoon and beyond, The Best Party of Our Lives invites readers to reflect on what makes their own relationships unique, and the significance of public celebrations of love. With chapters each focusing on a different couple's love story, the challenges they faced, and the lessons they learned, the book offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the changing face of marriage. The perspective these trailblazing couples gain by examining and remaking marriage for themselves will inform anyone who is planning a wedding and inspire anyone who has ever been in love.



Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

Author : Ada Calhoun

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 35,75 MB

Release : 2017-05-16

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0393254801

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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.”



To Have and to Hold

Author : Betsy St. Amant

Publisher : Zondervan

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 33,94 MB

Release : 2016-08-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0310395895

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To Have and to Hold: Three Autumn Love Stories By Betsy St. Amant, Katie Ganshert & Becky Wade They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection. Love Takes the Cake: A September Wedding Story by Betsy St. Amant Charlotte Cantrell is always the baker; never the bride. When Will, a regular at Charlotte’s bakery, catches her attention, she can only hope that he is the reliable man this single mother has always hoped to find. The problem is that he’s regularly stopping in to buy cookies for another girl. But when Charlotte is hired to bake a host of wedding goodies for a difficult bride and finds out Will is the best man, she has the perfect opportunity to get to know him better—and find out how serious Will is about this other girl in his life. The Perfect Arrangement: An October Wedding Story by Katie Ganshert Amelia Woods is a small-town wallflower and the proud owner of Forget-Me-Nots, a quaint flower shop. Her love life has always been a bit lackluster—until she ends up in an embarrassing fender-bender with handsome Nate Gallagher. Meanwhile, Amelia’s younger brother, William, has proposed to his girlfriend. Amelia would be excited except she has evidence that the fiancée is not who she says she is. It seems Nate is the only one available for any advice-giving, and he’s good at it—and pretty fun to talk to, too. As Amelia works to craft the perfect flower arrangements for other people, she begins to wonder if real love is better than the dream. And if it is, will Nate still be interested when he learns who she is? Love in the Details: A November Wedding Story by Becky Wade When Josh returns to his hometown of Martinsburg, Texas, to help his best friend get married, he didn’t intend to run into church wedding coordinator—and ex-girlfriend—Holly. He can’t help but pine after the girl he never got over. Holly broke up with Josh years ago in an attempt to ensure his future success. But she loved him then and still loves him now. As she helps him plan his best friend’s wedding, she longs to be with Josh but doesn’t feel worthy of his big-time lifestyle when she is more comfortable in her small-town world. Will Josh and Holly be able to keep things as they are when their true feelings threaten to surface at every turn?