Product Description

Weddings cost an average of $27,000 (2007 national average). Do-It-for-Less! Weddings is an answer to that nightmare (and pre-marital debt) - a practical guide for brides- and grooms-to-be, showing them how to design and plan a lavish wedding on a tight budget. The book addresses everything a novice wedding planner needs to know, including information and insider tips on master timelines, budgets, invitations, locations, catering, cakes, flowers, food preparation and recipes, and more. Vivaldo offers tried-and-true tricks of the catering and event-planning trades and shows readers how to save thousands of dollars while creating the wedding of their dreams.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #683046 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781416205197
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Denise Vivaldo is a seasoned food professional with twenty years of experience planning and catering parties. She has planned and catered more than ten thousand parties, from numerous prestigious events and scores of post-premiere and wrap parties for Hollywood movies to parties for real people who require perfection on a budget. Vivaldo has also styled food for countless nationally syndicated television shows and is the author of How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business (sold more than 130,000 copies), How to Start a Home-Based Personal Chef Business, and Do It for Less! Parties.

Customer Reviews

An instructional compendium of sound advice and sensible ideas
Weddings are an expense in which many people really cannot afford their dream wedding because of the cost still find themselves plunging into extraordinary debt. Attention all Brides and Grooms (including their parents!) "Do-It-For-Less! Weddings" by Denise Vivaldo is a must! This instructional compendium of sound advice and sensible ideas is an invaluable resource and tool to help anyone at any income level achieve the wedding of their dreams. Denise Vivaldo, draws upon her twenty years of experience and expertise in planning and catering parties and wedding receptions to provide the aspiring couple and their parents with concrete, practical, easily applicable "how-to-do-it" advice that will result in making the wedding truly memorable as a life-changing event. Included are checklists, complete menus and recipes for service to 12, 25, 50 and 75 guests. Eight fresh ideas for seasonal weddings with a complete do-it yourself decorating plans. Bar basic and beverage guides, reception locations and tips on making all the details work, a resource section to guide you to all the right places to locate what you need for less and much more. Smart, rich in resources and easy to follow this is a must have guide for anyone getting married, "Do-It-For-Less! Weddings" is highly recommended for anyone planning a wedding and a useful, appreciated, and popular addition to community library collections as well.

fabulous resource!
Another great book by Denise Vivaldo!
Keeping costs within reason for
brides to be and their parents,
sharing a wealth of experience
and knowledge acquired over
a 20+ year catering and food
styling career....
This is a treasure!

Mary Jane Curry
Custom Cuisine
Camarillo, CA
[...]

Save money by making your own food
This book is primarily for people that want to save money by catering their own wedding. It has many receipes, tableware tips, and shopping lists for a variety of foods you could serve at your wedding. If you want to make the food yourself with help of friends/relatives this book could save you a lot of time and money. I was expecting a book that was "do it for less" on more aspects of wedding planning. If you are looking to save money on all apsects of your wedding, there are other books out there that do it better.