 | The Conscious Bride: Women Unveil Their True Feelings About Getting Hitched (Women Talk About) by Sheryl Paul
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 A lot goes on emotionally for brides -- here's a book to help make sense of all the anxiety
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 | Between "Yes" and "I Do": Resolving Conflict and Anxiety During Your Engagement by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Buy used from: $0.01 Focusing nicely on the other relationships -- how your relationship with single friends, your parents, your siblings, even future in-laws can become strained
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 | The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say "I Do" by Susan Piver
Buy used from: $0.01 Find out if your life goals match your fiance's -- before you get married.
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 | Let's Elope: The Definitive Guide to Eloping, Destination Weddings, and Other Creative Wedding Options by Scott Shaw
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Admit it -- you've thought about eloping! Great rationale for shrugging off the traditions and having a truly memorable wedding
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 | Beyond Vegas: 25 Exotic Wedding and Elopement Destinations Around the World by Lisa Tabb
Buy used from: $6.53 Romantic, cool places for eloping or holding a destination wedding. And they should know -- they got married enough times!
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 | The Budget Wedding Sourcebook by Madeline Barillo
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $0.25 Ok, if you have to be traditional, you might as well avoid matching the national debt to get there. Great money-saving, creative ideas that don't sacrifice style and luxury.
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 | Bridal Bargains: Secrets to Throwing a Fantastic Wedding on a Realistic Budget by Denise Fields
Buy used from: $0.01 More great money-saving ideas, including everything I did wrong when I bought my gown (should have read this one earlier!)
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 | The Everything Wedding Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Survive Your Wedding Day and Actually Even Enjoy It! (Everything Series) by Janet Anastasio
Buy used from: $0.01 This book still assumes every bride has $20,000 to spare, but the back third of the book is worksheets for everything -- the ultimate organizer!
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 | The Best Friend's Guide to Planning a Wedding: How to Find a Dress, Return the Shoes, Hire a Caterer, Fire the Photographer, Choose a Florist, Book a Band, ... Still Wind Up Married at the End of It All by Lara Webb Carrigan
Buy new: $13.25 / Used from: $0.01 A wedding planner that actually makes you laugh -- my favorite chapter is "Your Groom and What To Do With Him"
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 | The Couple's Wedding Survival Manual: How To Tie The Knot Without Coming Unraveled by Michael R. Perry
Buy used from: $0.01 If you're married at the end of the day, then the wedding was a success. The rest are details. How to get married without killing your relationship
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 | Anti-Bride Guide: Tying the Knot Outside of the Box by Carolyn Gerin
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $0.01 The suggestions still require parting with a significant amount of money, but it does give you permission to be a little weird
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 | Otherwise Engaged: A Novel by Suzanne Finnamore
Buy new: $10.26 / Used from: $0.01 A little light reading -- if you've been watching in horror as you turn into a "bride-to-be"
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 | From Beginning to End by Robert Fulghum
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Fulghum was a minister for many years, and in this book he shares some wedding rituals that reflected the couple, not the institution. I made my fiance read this one.
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 | It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It by Robert Fulghum
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Contains, among other tales, the story of the world's most disastrous wedding.
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 | Weddings for complicated families : the new etiquette for couples with divorced parents & those planning to remarry by Margorie Louise Engel
Buy used from: $3.99 Odds are good that either your parents or your fiance's are no longer married -- how to navigate this tricky terrain. Out of print but worth looking for
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 | What No One Tells the Bride: Surviving the Wedding, Sex After the Honeymoon, Second Thoughts, Wedding Cake Freezer Burn, Becoming Your Mother, Screaming about Money, Screaming about In-Laws, etc. by Marg Stark
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $0.01 If you watched Monica from "Friends" getting even more neurotic after the wedding was over and saw yourself, this book is for you. All about what happens next.
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 | Crib Notes for the First Year of Marriage by Everett De Morier
Buy used from: $0.01 It's not over yet! Making the transition from bride to wife
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 | You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.00 It's said, constantly, that communication is key to a good marriage. Tannen analyzes the differences in men and women when they talk to each other
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 | The Bride and Groom's First Cookbook by Abigail Kirsch
Buy new: $21.37 / Used from: $0.01 In case, like me, you really don't know how to cook!
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