Product Description

Every wedding moves through the same series of planning steps, but the time, money, energy and emotion invested can vary tremendously. Couples who use the tools and techniques the experts use are prepared to do what matters, when it matters most. With the logistics in order, they have the freedom to enjoy the events leading up to their special day as well as time to relax and plan their future life together.

As they work their way through the planning stages, couples will find that their initial stress over planning their wedding day has disappeared. Couples committed to creating a memorable, meaningful wedding day will come to view the wedding planning process not as an ordeal to get through, but as a fun experience.

Judy Allen is a professional event planner and shows brides a step-by-step approach to minimize the complexity of planning the wedding day. When an event is planned in these 10 stages, whether over six weeks or a year or longer, the planner will always be in control of the process, will not go over budget and will find the whole process relaxed and stress free.

The 10 stages:
1. Visualization: Wedding-Day Dreams
2. Decision Making: What Matters Most
3. Designing a Realistic Blueprint
4. Choosing the Perfect Wedding and Reception Site
5. Selecting the Right Wedding Vendors
6. Before You Sign on the Dotted Line: Questions to Ask
7. Organizing Wedding-Day Timelines and Wedding-Day Flow
8. Wedding-Day Flow Sheets
9. Wedding Supplier Previews and Wedding-Day Rehearsal
10. On-Site Wedding-Day Orchestration

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #487258 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 224 pages

Review
"Allen helps brides tame the chaos and get to the altar on time." -- BRIDES AND BOUQUETS 2005 BOOK SMART Good advice to guide brides to the altar and beyond By Chandra Orr Copley News Service

One of the most popular wedding planners on the market. If Monica Geller("Friends")bought a wedding planner, this would be it. -- Jewish News of Greater Phoenix

About the Author
Judy is a professional event planner, founder of Judy Allen Productions, who has created, produced and flawlessly executed successful special events with up to 2,000 guests in more than 30 countries. She has designed and produced memorable events such as Disney’s theatrical opening-night gala for Beauty and the Beast, and the orchestration of Oscar winning director Norman Jewison’s 25th anniversary celebration for Fiddler on the Roof. The events she has done range from weddings to very exclusive social VIP events and multimillion-dollar, multimedia corporate themed extravaganzas such as new car launches filled with special effects.

Judy is one of the leading authorities on event planning and the author of four bestselling professional books on the subject: Event Planning: The Ultimate Guide to Successful Meetings, Corporate Events, Fundraising Galas, Conferences, Conventions, Incentives and Other Special Events (John Wiley & Sons, 2000), The Business of Event Planning: Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of Successful Special Events (John Wiley & Sons, 2002), Event Planning: Ethics & Etiquette: A Principled Approach to the Business of Special Event Management (John Wiley & Sons)and Marketing Your Event Planning Business: A Creative Approach to Gaining the Competitive Edge (John Wiley & Sons). She has also written an "Entertaining Ideas" column for New York Post PageSix.com, as well as feature articles and expert columns for magazines and newspapers.

Customer Reviews

Straightforward and helpful wedding planner
I have purchased four different wedding planners and miscellaneous wedding planning books over the last year and this is one worth buying. All the wedding related books I have purchased have some helpful things and some not so helpful things but this one I have not found a page in it that has not been helpful. The book breaks the planning process down into ten easy steps to simplify the planning process. This book also has a handful of different questionnaires for you and your fiancée to take. The wedding vision questionnaire helps you better understand each other's "dream" wedding and then helps you to make that into "our dream wedding". It also includes questionnaires for choosing a ceremony site, reception site, supplier questionnaires and many worksheets to help you plan your big day. As you will see if you look at reviews of the other event planning books by this author she knows what she is talking about when it comings to planning a corporate party or a wedding. I would highly recommend this book to anyone planning a wedding who would like to not go insane in the process.

Excellent organizer!
I bought this book/organizer because I can be a little [...] retentive with details and I wasn't sure exactly where to start since I'm the first in my family to plan a wedding in the last 20 years. it has been extremely helpful in both information and organization. It does work! Plus, there are a ton of worksheets in it that think of things I would normally have forgotten about until it was too late. Very helpful!

This planner gives careful attention to all wedding tasks
Your wedding vision is the starting point in Your Stress Free Wedding Planner - Expert's Best Secrets to Creating the Wedding of Your Dreams by Judy Allen. After couples complete an independent questionnaire, they will have a better understanding of their thoughts and dreams about creating a custom wedding. This planner gives careful attention to all wedding tasks, therefore, leaving no assignment unaccomplished. The only drawback for this planner would be difficulty removing the pages from its spiral binding as the planner recommends for copymaking.