Product Description

This newly revised guide shows how to plan a stunning wedding with all the trimmings but without all the expenses. In this completely updated 4th edition, brides and grooms will find:

-Case histories illustrating how four brides stayed within their respective budgets without sacrificing their wedding's quality and elegance -The latest wedding trends with guidelines for being fashionable at a low price -Creative new cost-cutting ideas, plus money-saving tips for the groom -Updated costs for everything, including flowers, wedding gowns, reception food and photographers, for 9 regions nationwide -Instructions and advice for tracking every aspect of planning a wedding -A quick-reference "what to do when" calendar/timetable

This book's dozens of creative ideas will not only help readers save money, but will make wedding planning a fun process!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35129 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781558706460
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From School Library Journal
The perfect book for those who dream of a princess' wedding on a peasant's income. Warner offers information on everything from invitations, dresses, food, flowers, music, and pictures to cost estimates from people all over America. While the fees may become dated, the suggestions for cost-cutting will not. Readers have to be really organized to pull this all off, but Warner helps them do that, too, by setting up a bride's notebook.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Warner's daughter announced that she and her fiance wanted to marry in four months and have a large, traditional wedding. This book is drawn from the copious notes Warner kept while investigating the buying, renting, baking, etc., needed for that wedding, as well as the suggestions she received from friends, relatives, and others along the way. She shows how to set up a plan and calendar. Frustrated with wedding books which did not cover actual costs, she includes here such information for seven geographical areas in the United States and offers some estimates for Canadian readers. Filled with numerous charts, organizational tips, and personal solutions, this is a practical dollars-and-cents consumer guide to maintaining a wedding budget by a woman who spent less than half the national average of $11,000. Recommended for wedding book collections.
- Mary Ann Wasick, West Allis P.L., Wis.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author
Diane Warner has helped thousands of soon-to-be brides with her seminars and books, including Beautiful Wedding Decorations & Gifts on a Small Budget.

Customer Reviews

Very useful but don't depend on the prices
Hopefully the more recent editions of this book have more accurate prices. Otherwise, it is an invaluable reference for anyone who is on a very strict budget. Note that this is not a book about how to save a little money. It is most useful for the under $5000 budget range, with ideas for do-it-yourself, rental and other very low-cost options. If you want to work with a consultant, use full-service vendors, and not do a lot of work, this isn't going to help you much. But for those with extremely low budgets, it is probably the most useful book published.

Not bad ideas
The previous review is a bit harsh. To be fair, the book has a number of different price catagories with suggestions on how to achieve them. You can go for the full boat and they give great high end suggestions. You can also cut corners in places and they have those suggestions as well. I didn't go for a foam cake, but if you don't care about the cake why the heck not? If it saves you money and you have a great wedding, who care? And as for using amatures: florists, photographers, DJ's, etc., they are very clear about getting recommendations and checking out their work BEFORE hand. Saving money means putting in extra work, that is the deal.

Steal this book!

While reading this book, I couldn't help but think that the first line should have been "if you're looking at this book in a bookstore, put it down and try to find it at your local library". Almost all the rest of the advice in the book is like that. Much of it is really clever. Some of it is downright tacky. However, I'm certain that just about all of it will save you money, just as the title boasts.