Product Description

You finally said “yes!” and decided to throw in your lot with Mr. Right. But before you can embark on your new lives together there’s the little detail of your wedding. Handled correctly, it can be what it should be—the most wonderful day of your life. With Wedding Kit For Dummies in your corner, you can guarantee that your wedding celebration is everything you always dreamed it would be.

Whether you’re planning an intimate affair, a huge event, or something in-between, this book/CD package arms you with checklists, templates, worksheets and other useful tools to help you manage all the details. And you get expert tips and advice on, among other things, how to:

• Select the perfect venue
• Track your guest list and RSVPs
• Choosing the food and flowers
• Finding a good photographer
• Negotiate rates with caterers and musicians
• Nail down the wedding-day agenda
• Outfit your wedding p arty
• Plan a destination wedding

Marcy Blum has created magical weddings for hundreds of couples. Now in Wedding Kit For Dummies she shares her tricks-of-the-trade on all aspects of planning, organizing, and pulling off a wedding without a hitch, including such crucial topics as:

• Financing your wedding and staying within your budget
• Seating for meals, tracking gifts, creating invitations and finding the perfect far-away destination for a destination wedding
• Getting all the details of the ceremony right—from choosing an officiant and who walks with whom to cueing the music and dealing with the jitters
• Throwing a whiz-bang reception—covers all the bases including meals, music, flowers, the cake, the bar...all the way down to the send-off

On the bonus CD-ROM you’ll find:

• Live links to top wedding Web resources
• Templates, forms, worksheets, and sample contracts
• A calculator to help you plan your reception
• Spreadsheets to keep track of all your budget details

Your complete wedding planning survival guide, this all-in-one kit is the one accessory every bride-to-be absolutely must have.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #414535 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-05
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Amazon.com
If you're planning a wedding, accept it now--there's a ton of details mucking up the happy path to the altar. There is so much on your mind that it's easy to freeze up and forget everything, or go crazy and paper the house with cryptic post-it notes. "After all," say authors Marcy Blum and Laura Fisher Kaiser, "a wedding is a complex affair to orchestrate, and keeping track of all those details, phone calls, expenses, and decisions is a job and a half." Organization is key.

Wedding Kit for Dummies breaks the whole planning process down for you with a series of questions, charts, and spreadsheets. Intended as a companion piece to Weddings for Dummies, this book does not help you word your invitations or tell you where your step-grandmother should be seated. Rather, it helps you knowledgeably talk with your stationer (How much extra are the vellum invites? Should the date be written out or numeric?) and helps you chart who will escort whom down the aisle and when.

Weddings can be ridiculously complicated, and almost everyone involved--especially the bride--is running on high. Wedding Kit for Dummies aims to lessen the stress with its comprehensive checklists, examples of contracts (for the caterer, hotel, flowers, DJ, etc.), and Excel spreadsheets (invitation list, RSVP list, budget tracker). Included is a CD-ROM that prints out hard copies of the lists and runs the spreadsheets (you'll need Windows 95 or later or Mac OS 7.5.5 or later to use the CD). And since so many couples plan on using the Internet, Wedding Kit for Dummies includes the Web addresses of many wedding-oriented sites. --Dana Van Nest

From Library Journal
This book/CD-ROM package from the authors of Weddings for DummiesR is not a repeat of previous information but rather a collection, with cross references, of resources and tools for executing the ideas presented in the earlier title. Templates for worksheets, forms, and checklists will help couples track expenses, fine-tune guest lists, negotiate contracts, and compare vendors and sites. These are intended to be generic enough for couples to personalize and customize for their own situation.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Publisher
Includes online resources to help couples research everything from reception sites to wedding bands to gift registries on the internet.

Features a CD-ROM function that calculates the square footage of the reception area, plus seating and food arrangements based on attendance and budget.

Provides tips, worksheets, checklists, and sample contracts to aid couples in choosing the right vendors for the event.

Gives couples a variety of song titles and readings to choose from to make the ceremony and reception special.

Customer Reviews

Disappointed
I ordered this book again, since the first one I purchased, the cd was broken. The seller, returned my money and told me to keep the book...but what I really wanted was the cd. So I ordered the book again. Now, I have the cd and it is only good for 30 days.

Almost requires the other book
I thought Wedding Kit For Dummies would be Weddings for Dummies plus the CD, it's not. It actually references stuff that's in the other book as if I'm going to buy both.

All in all it's not bad, it's just frustrating.

HONOST
The book I purchased was no in the condition which it stated and this seller was very honest about it. The seller gave me the option to have a full refund since the book did not come with the CD. I'd buy from this person again.