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Modern Bride (1-year)
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| List Price: | $35.94 |
| Price: | $11.97 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details |
| Issues: | 6 issues / 12 months |
Availability: Your first issue should arrive in 12-16 weeks.
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Product Description
Modern Bride will give you even more fresh and unique ideas on how to plan the wedding of your dreams. You'll find more dazzling dresses for every bride's budget and style, new creative tips for planning the perfect reception, the latest ideas for a romantic honeymoon, plus lots of other essential info! It's a must-have guide for the newly engaged!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #335 in Magazine Subscriptions
- Formats: Magazine Subscription, Print
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
Who Reads Modern Bride ?
The Modern Bride reader is a woman, on average 28 years old, who wants her day to be filled with creative, personal touches that speak to her and her groom. She is searching for a dream dress and fabulous reception ideas that break out of the cookie-cutter wedding mold.
What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
- Bride to Bride: One of our most popular columns, it poses sticky questions (such as "A close friend declined our wedding invitation with a lame excuse. I’m so upset. Should I say something?") and real brides’ opinions.
- Four Dresses Under $900: Another big hit with brides, this column shows four gorgeous dresses at real-life prices
- How-To Guide: What You Really Want to Know: This is a fun twist on the traditional advice column because, as the title says, it focuses on the stuff a bride cares about most but can’t get the answers to anywhere else. (Example: How do I fit in a bathroom stall in my wedding dress?)
- Features: Modern Bride explores trends in features such as "The Death of Bridezilla," where it made the bold declaration that a more gracious bride is on the rise, and "Wedding Scams," an in-depth reported piece on the shadier aspects of wedding planning and how the bride can best protect herself. In addition, Modern Bride tackles issues of interest to women in this age bracket, such as our eight-page "Modern Bride’s Good-Health Guide" and "Wedding-Night Sex Moves." Lastly, each year Modern Bride names the most influential tastemakers in the industry in its "25 Trendsetters" feature, and announces the 50 World’s Best Honeymoons.
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Contributors:
Modern Bride’s features and essays are written by some of the most celebrated names in journalism and literature, including:
- Leslie Bennetts (contributing editor at Vanity Fair)
- Bob Morris (The New York Times)
- Dani Shapiro (The New Yorker, AVogue, Elle)
- Jancee Dunn (Rolling Stone, AVogue)
- Rory Evans (Glamour, Self, Cookie, Martha Stewart Living)
- Iris Brosch (Vogue Italia, French Marie Claire, The New York Times))
- Stephanie Pfriender Stylander (Conde Nast Traveler, Interview)
- Alastair Taylor Young (fashion campaigns include Bulgari, Giorgio Armani, and Lancome)
Gorgeous photography, clean, simple art direction and an honest voice all reach out to capture the bride-to-be, helping her plan a wedding as unique as she is.
Advertising
The ads in the magazine reflect all the categories that a Modern Bride is drawn to as she plans her wedding—financial institutions, wedding dresses, beauty products, retail stores, tabletop and home products, hotels and honeymoon locations, and food and wine.
Awards
- 2004 FiFi Award for Excellence in Fragrance Coverage
- 2004 American Photography #21 Juried Selection
- 2006 Merit Award, SPD for photography story
- 2006 Merit Award, SPD for photography spread
Customer Reviews
Helpful Magazine, Horrendous punctuality
I subscribed to Modern Bride as a gift to my fiance. Aside from not receiving our first issue until 3 months after the subscription, I only received about 3 issues total. Months went by without anything being delivered. While customer service at Modern Bride was very accomodating and helpful, nothing happens immediately. When planning a wedding, each and every month is precious. Especially during the initial stages of wedding planning. To have finally gotten this subscription problem under control was exhausting. Plus, by this time most of the wedding details were finalized, the magazines I received became useless. If you're under 12 months to your wedding date, you should strongly consider if now is a good time to begin a subscription with Modern Bride.
Middle of the road
This magazine seems to try to capture the whole bridal audience, but fails. It seems to want to catch the attention of the affluent bride as well as the budget bride. It fails at both. It's decent to look at if you want pictures of gowns and bridemaid's dresses. Overall the result is ho-hum. Most of the advertisers seem to have low quality, low inspiration products.
Customer Service Lacking
Although I found the magazine itself to be interesting and colorful, with a good series of articles on marriage and relationships, I found that customer service was very dissapointing. I missed an issue back in October, and have contacted customer service 3 times to have them resend the issue I missed. It is now March, and I still haven't received my replacement. Just a heads up!
