 | How to Start a Wedding Planning Business
Brand: Lulu.com
The Industry Standard Certification Course, covering wedding etiquette, wedding design, coordination and directing, as well as the business of planning weddings and operating a wedding planning company. "What the other courses fail to tell you". Topics such as how to stay in business and how to avoid the most common mistakes. | *$125.00 |
 | Simple Stunning Weddings: Designing and Creating Your Perfect Celebration
Brand: Stewart, Tabori and Chang
The three biggest trends in weddings are simplicity, personalization, and colour! Wedding designer and expert Karen Bussen focuses on these elements as she shows couples how to design their own weddings without going crazy or broke. Simple Stunning Weddings is the first wedding design book to focus on the WHERE of the event. Location is the first and most important decision; everything else flows from it. Bussen then shows how to create unifying themes with colour, flowers, and personal touches; how to talk to vendors; how to decide where to spend the wedding budget; how to adapt the design for every budget - for example, by changing tablecloths from silk to cotton; striking flower arrangements that use only one or two flower types, which can be a significant cost saving; and advising the reader when it is actually faster, safer, and less expensive to hire someone else to do a job than to tackle it oneself. | *$17.69 |
 | Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings
Brand: Disney Editions
BRMany a little girl begins dreaming about her wedding before she has even developed her first crush. She imagines herself walking down a flower-adorned aisle, eating a scrumptious cake, wearing a beautiful white gown, and dancing with a dashing groom. When the time comes for a bride-to-be to start planning her wedding, she often has a detailed vision of what it will look like./BRBRDisney certainly knows a thing or two about making dreams come true, so what could be better than a wedding planned by the professional event coordinators at Disneyâs Fairy Tale Weddings? Disney plays host to over two thousand weddings each year, with ceremonies occurring at both Walt Disney World and Disneyland. Among the options available to couples getting married at the Parks are four exquisitely-designed wedding stylesâthe Couture Wedding Collectionâcreated by master party planner David Tutera. However, these couture weddings are only available to those getting married on Disney property, and for many couples, this is simply not a practical option. But doesnât every bride deserve to feel like a princess on her wedding day?/BRBRI style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"Disneyâs Fairy Tale Weddings /Iwill help couples to plan a perfect weddingâcomplete with Disney charmâno matter where the ceremony is held. With his signature attention to detail, David Tutera tells the stories of ten very different couples whose dreams culminated in ten very different weddings. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific theme; among them are a beach wedding, a Disney World wedding, a garden wedding, a Disneyland wedding, an Indian wedding, and a modern wedding. Beautiful photography showcases the intricate invitations, incredible centerpieces, fabulous floral arrangements, and detailed décor, and tips from David instruct brides as to how they can achieve similar looks for their weddings. Acclaimed wedding gown designer Kirstie Kelly, who designs dresses inspired by the Disney Princesses, contributes advice on fashion throughout the book, and her gowns are featured in three of the weddings. /BRBREach chapter is associated with a Disney Princess, and includes suggestions for brides who want to bring a bit of Disney magic to their weddingsâwhether that means arriving at the ceremony in Cinderella's coach, or serving an âUnder the Seaâ wedding cake covered in purple scallop shells. With I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"Disneyâs Fairy Tale Weddings /Ias inspiration, any bride can turn her wedding into a fairy tale come true. /BRBRBR | *$29.58 |
 | Marriage Customs of the World: From Henna to Honeymoons
Brand: ABC-CLIO | *$69.95 |
 | How to be a Wedding Planner
Brand: AuthorHouse
Do you want to be a wedding planner? Then this book is for you! If you want to start your own Wedding Planning business, or hope to get a job in an established wedding planning company, then having an overview of the role, the business, the highs and the lows is imperative. This book will provide you with an overview of the wedding market, wedding styles, wedding law, and customer's expectations. Where best to start than by learning from a well established wedding planner? "How to be a Wedding Planner" takes you through setting up a successful wedding planning business, designing the services you want to offer to be unique and affordable, and shares ideas, experience and provides thought provoking questions to help you consider what it is your business will do, services it will offer and how to charge for the services that will be provided. This book tells of the different activities needed of a wedding planner on the wedding day, as well as understanding the pre-wedding activities that are needed to ensure that the wedding day is a success. "How to be a wedding planner" enables you to learn the secrets of the trade, provides templates to support you during the early stages of setting up a wedding planning business, and can be referred to over and over again, wedding after wedding. | *$39.36 |
 | A Very Pink Wedding: A Gay Guide To Planning Your Perfect Day
Brand: HarperCollins UK
DIVWhether you are planning an intimate ceremony or a Vegas-inspired celebration, this is the ultimate step-by-step guide to walking down the aisle. Tailored exclusively for gay couples, this handbook covers ever aspect of wedding planning, including creating a timeline, choosing a gay-friendly venue and honeymoon location, finding the right cake, sending invitations, and makingâand sticking withâa budget. Useful checklists and a useful resource section packed with suppliers, websites and organizations is also of included. Charming personal anecdotes and case studies of gay men and lesbians who have already tied to the knot round out this invaluable reference for creating your perfect day./DIV | *$36.93 |
 | Wedding Directing and Coordinating: A Training Manual with Challenging Stories and Scenarios
Brand: Westview Publishing, Inc.
THIS NEWLY REVISED and UPDATED edition of WEDDING DIRECTING - How to Be a Professional Wedding Director - is designed for anyone involved in planning, preparing, or presenting weddings, from the bride to the caterer to the director. This manual will take you step-by-step to becoming a knowledgeable, capable, and professional person who will make a wedding run smoothly and anxiety-free for the wedding couple. | *$35.03 |
 | Simply Creative Best of Weddings-2007 {Presented By} Better Homes and Gardens Creative Collection
Brand: Meredith Corporation | *$29.99 |
 | A Wedding Ceremony To Remember: Perfect Words for the Perfect Wedding
Brand: Brown Books
This is the second edition of the best selling book which now includes 9 complete up-to-date ceremonies for today's modern bride. There is no other book like it in that you can choose a ceremony "as it is written" or you can use the worksheets in the back of the book to mix and match elements from each of the different ceremonies to make it more personal. You can even add personal information from other resources. There are also additional Wedding Vows, Ring Exchange Vows, Readings, Prayers and/or Blessings, and Wedding Traditions from which to choose. | *$17.95 |
 | A Designer's Book of Bridal Gowns
Brand: The Fashiondex, Inc.
Now the dress that every girl dreams about can be made to order, with IA Designer's Book of Bridal Gowns/i, available from The Fashiondex. PWritten by artist, fashion designer, and seamstress Debby Roosa, A Designerâs Book of Bridal Gowns gives designers and the women theyâre designing for a personal invitation to create the gown ideally suited to the brideâs body type and type of wedding. Roosa highlights more than 1,600 different design details, including every imaginable type of sleeve, bodice, waistline, and skirt, and incorporates how each will mesh with the brideâs particular body type. From short to tall, thin to full-figured, and every body type in between, this book details the best way to emphasize the positivesâwhile detracting from things like big hips and a full tummy. PPerfect for brides, fashion designers, patternmakers, and tailors, IA Designerâs Book of Bridal Gowns/i showcases hundreds of ideas that also can be used for after-five and other special-occasion fashions. With fascinating sections like "The Wedding-Gown History" and "The Different Styles of Brides" Roosa offers unique, personal commentary sure to add a touch of warmth to what can often be a stressful event in a womanâs life. PChoosing the right wedding dress has just become as easy as saying "I do", with the publication of bA Designerâs Book of Bridal Gowns/b. | *$40.00 |
 | Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Brand: Cambridge University Press
While Victorian tourism and Victorian sexuality have been the subject of much critical interest, there has been little research on a characteristically nineteenth-century phenomenon relating to both sex and travel: the honeymoon, or wedding journey. Although the term 'honeymoon' was coined in the eighteenth century, the ritual increased in popularity throughout the Victorian period, until by the end of the century it became a familiar accompaniment to the wedding for all but the poorest classes. Using letters and diaries of 61 real-life honeymooning couples, as well as novels from Frankenstein to Middlemarch that feature honeymoon scenarios, Michie explores the cultural meanings of the honeymoon, arguing that, with its emphasis on privacy and displacement, the honeymoon was central to emerging ideals of conjugality and to ideas of the couple as a primary social unit. | *$36.20 |
 | The Knot Ultimate Wedding Lookbook: More Than 1,000 Cakes, Centerpieces, Bouquets, Dresses, Decorations, and Ideas for the Perfect Day [Hardcover]
| *$51.96 |
 | Accessorizing the Bride: Vintage Wedding Finery Through the Decades
Brand: Schiffer Publishing
Beautifully photographed and exhaustively researched, this romantic journey through fifteen decades of bridal fashion offers a comprehensive, yet intimate, look at wedding costume c.1860 to the present day. Using original wedding portraits and hundreds of full color photographs, this enchanting book chronicles the changing image of brides, from petticoats and parasols associated with Victorian bustle gowns, to late 1990s bustiers and pashminas, with emphasis on the supporting garments and accessories that add finishing touches to each unique and timeless style. It is a look over our shoulder at those brides of the past, a tribute to the skills of their seamstresses and designers, and a sentimental torch passed to the brides and fashion designers of the future. Accessorizing the Bride is a must have reference for fashion collectors, costumers, vintage clothing dealers, dress designers, and historians. The gowns and accessories within these pages are set in historical context, with notations on design, fabrication, embellishment, provenance (where known), and estimated current value. | *$35.95 |
 | Your Personal Wedding Planner
Brand: A Solid Image
Your Personal Wedding Planner is a bride's must have companion while planning the wedding of her dreams. Your Personal Wedding Planner is a complete wedding organizer that includes OVER 275 Money Saving Tips (usually known only to wedding industry insiders) on everything from Attire to Transportation. Your Personal Wedding Planner includes: *Over 275 Money Saving Tips *1 Year Calendar *Wedding Countdown Checklist *Budget Worksheet *Wedding Day Itinerary *Vendor Negotiating Tips *Guest List Planner *Seating Planner *Honeymoon Checklist *Much, Much, More Use just ONE tip from this book and it pays for itself! Every girl wants the Wedding of Her Dreams- now every girl can have it, even on a realistic budget. | *$49.99 |
 | Your Interfaith Wedding: A Guide to Blending Faiths, Cultures, and Personal Values into One Beautiful Wedding Ceremony
Brand: Praeger
p"Alternative" wedding ceremonies are quickly becoming the norm in the United States as ethnic cultures merge and people willingly embrace love where they find it. Couples planning an interfaith, interethnic, or interracial marriage often encounter difficulty identifying the right rituals and language for their ceremony or struggle to appease their parents or relatives. This book will help couples learn more about each other's faiths and family mindset, freeing them to create a wedding that truly blesses their married life./pp/ppReverend Brockway explains her motivation to write this text: "This book was a very personal mission for me. As an interfaith minister, I deal with so many diverse couples, from so many different backgrounds, but the common denominator with all couples boils down to love. So the book focuses on celebrating the love between the couple as the most important part of the ceremony, and weaves in honoring family, cultures, and traditions in a way that is personally meaningful to the couple."/p | *$44.95 |
 | Weddings from the Heart: Contemparary and Traditional Ceremonies for an Unforgettable Wedding
Brand: Fine Communications
From the author of True Love comes a book for the millions of couples who don't want a traditional religious wedding ceremony, but are afraid to write their own. Includes five complete wedding ceremonies, and couples can use them as is or mix and match parts. Two-color throughout; line drawings. | *$5.48 |
 | The Superstitious Bride: A Book of Wedding Lore
Brand: Diggory Press
Superstitions from all over the world covering everything from getting engaged to arranging the honeymoon suite. Thereâs advice on picking your bridesmaid (never choose a redhead as she will steal your Groom) the âlanguage of flowersâ in the bridal bouquet (orange blossoms represent eternal love), numerology regarding your new married name, setting the wedding date (Saturday is bad as it is ruled by Saturn, an unlucky planet associated with negative energies like jealousy), choosing the wedding outfit (never buy a wedding dress that was first set aside for a wedding that never actually happened as it is jinxed) the ceremony, (rose petals are thrown before the Bride as she walks down the aisle to ward off the evil spirits that live beneath the ground from coming up at her), the wedding breakfast (bridesmaids should not wash the dishes or they will fall out with the married couple) plus much more! POther examples from the book; BR~ The person who gives the third gift to be opened at a Bridal Shower will have a baby within a year. BR~ The Bride will have fair weather if she feeds the cat well just before leaving for church. BR~ If separate wedding photos are taken of the Bridge and Groom, their marriage will fall apart. BR~ When dancing at the reception, the Bride must not take both her feet off the floor at the same time as the fairies will then gain the upper hand and will kidnap her. BR~ Giving a chamber-pot as a wedding gift brings good luck to the newlyweds. BR~ On coming home, the Bride should hide her girdle in the threshold of the house, so that the Groom will step over it and bring eternal luck and desire to the marriage. | *$9.99 |
 | Southern California Weddings: Captivating Destinations and the Finest Resources
Brand: Panache Partners LLC
P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormalFabulous photographs depicting Southern California weddings, venues, and vendors fill the pages of this impressive coffee-table guide. Ideal for inspiration while planning a wedding or as a keepsake after attending one, the book serves as a comprehensive tool for the best of the best in a dozen hand-picked localesÂBeverly Hills, Santa Barbara, and Malibu, to name a few. Showcased within are the regionâs top event planners, hotels, floral designers, entertainers, caterers, cake and invitation artists, and other relevant people and places. This tour through Southern California features tips, hints, and recommendations for making the most of a wedding experience in a celebrated destination./P | *$29.70 |
 | BlackBerry Soul Celebrations: A Handbook for African-American Bridal and Baby Showers
Brand: BlackBerry Soul
Are you tired of playing the same old games at every Baby shower? PAre you dreaming of hosting a Bridal Shower that will be talked about as much as the wedding? PThen you need BlackBerry Soul Celebrations ¯ a one-of-a-kind handbook for Bridal and Baby Showers that not only offers pages and pages of ready-to-use games that reflect the African-American lifestyle but party-planning worksheets and additional resources to get you organized. Traditional and non-traditional bridal and baby shower games with a cultural flair will inspire the party-planning diva in you. You will have a choice of more than one hundred innovative games in addition to creative themes that will surely enhance your event. PThere are also games that pay tribute to the African-American man. Celebrate those men brave enough to attend your event by playing games from the Especially for the Brothers section. See how well both the men and women at your event remember a few of televisionâs favorite father figures such as Cliff Huxtable, James Evans, Bernie Mac and Michael Kyle. PFor the party-planner there is nothing available like it in today's market. BlackBerry Soul Celebrations provides a recipe for making a successful shower. Available worksheets reduce the preparation process and smooth the path to success. No longer will needless hours be spent on customizing generic games or reusing games played at previous events due to a lack of creativity. Shower hosts will now be able to offer their guests games that not only reflect their lifestyles but also emulate their traditions and values. BlackBerry Soul Celebrations makes a wonderful gift for a special friend or family member, and is key to making your event a memorable occasion. PSpice up your event with BlackBerry Soul Celebrations. PJust like adding a sprinkle of brown sugar or a dash of cayenne pepper, this book will add a soulful flavor to any shower. | *$120.86 |
 | Polish Wedding Customs Traditions
Brand: Hippocrene Books
From best-selling author, Sophie Hodorowicz Knab, comes this unique planning guide for people who want to organise and celebrate a Polish-style wedding. Sections titled Engagement, Bridal Flowers, Wedding Clothes, Ceremony, Reception and even Baby Names, will assist the bride and groom to be through every step of the wedding process. Special tips on 'How to Draw from the Past' at the end of each chapter provide helpful suggestions on how to incorporate Polish traditions into the modern wedding, to make it a truly distinctive and unforgettable event. | *$35.71 |
 | Our Marriage: An Anniversary Keepsake Book (Keepsake Books)
Brand: Stewart, Tabori and Chang
Our Marriage: An Anniversary Keepsake Book An elegant anniversary book, Our Marriage provides couples with a special place to author their own unique story. Spacious pages allow plenty of room to record the most heartfelt thoughts about memorable experiences together. Each year has a number of reflective fill-in-the-blank entries that offer husband and wife an opportunity to document their shared history in detail about family, home, special traditions, events, and travels. Blank sheets of archival glassine protect photographs, and a large keepsake pocket holds ephemera. The book also includes a comprehensive list of traditional and modern anniversary gifts. | *$207.27 |
 | Signature Sasha: Magnificent Weddings by Design
Brand: Beaufort Books
Signature Sasha: Magnificent Weddings by Design was honored as the Gold Medal winner of the 2011 IPPY (Independent Publishers Award) in the Home Garden Category. brbrThis stunning, hard cover wedding design book features beautiful photography of all aspects of wedding design, including never before seen weddings designed by Sasha Souza Events. A culmination of her many years as a top wedding designer, iSignature Sasha: Magnificent Weddings by Design/i provides brides grooms, event planners, caterers, designers and florists with unique design inspiration and is the first book of its kind to offer details on event design from inspiration to execution.brbr iSignature Sasha:span /spanMagnificent Weddings by Design/i not only provides stunning images to use for inspiration, but is also chock full of guidance on how to go about creating events that are one of a kind. span /spanComprehensive advice ranging from color couture, to floral; to creating inspiration board allows the reader to dream about their ideal wedding design. You can also follow along Sasha's memory lane as she showcases how other couples have chosen their own personal signature style by reading the background on eight "love story" real weddings.span /spanbrbr The book is filled with Sasha's fun, energetic, down to earth and romantic style which have made her one of the most acclaimed event designers in the world garnering her many awards given by industry peers and magazines alike.span /span | *$41.04 |
 | Bollywood Weddings: Dating, Engagement, and Marriage in Hindu America
Brand: Lexington Books
iBollywood Weddings/i examines how middle to upper class second-generation Indian-American Hindus negotiate wedding rituals, including the dating and engagement processes. Many of these couples are (in Ramdya's neologism) "occasional Hindus" who display their Hindu religious background only on important occasions such as the rite of passage that is marriage. These couples (and their extended families) negotiate two vastly different cultures and sets of values inside a community that has itself largely pre-determined how to mix American and Indian/Hindu elements into this ritual. As a rule, the first generation organizes the wedding, which is largely Hindu, and their children coordinate the American-style reception. Instead of choosing either India or America, or arriving at a compromise in between the two, this community takes a "both/and" approach, embracing both cultures simultaneously. br /br /Ramdya's ethnographic fieldwork includes in-depth interviews of engaged couples, observation at their wedding ceremonies, wedding videography and photography, and material culture such as the clothing her participants wore on their wedding day. She explores pre-wedding day topics such as America's Indian-Hindu marriage market and bridal industry, then goes on to describe pre-wedding and wedding-day customs including the engagement party, kanyadan, and baraat. Bollywood, whose Indian origins grants it authenticity from the Hindu perspective and whose emphasis on romance accommodates American values, emerges as the key mediating third culture around which the community applies the both/and model to wedding rituals. The both/and model uncovered here reinforces the community's identity as ethnic and American even as it confirms that success in America need not be bought at the expense of one's religious background and cultural heritage. | *$53.60 |
 | Heaven on Earth: Honeymoon Islands
Brand: St. Christopher's
How do you find the perfect honeymoon - the holiday with the greatest potential to be treasured like no other? Heaven on Earth specialises in singular, inimitable experiences. Chapters roam from private islands in the Caribbean to buzzing metropolises - rooms range from those filled with state-of-the-art technology to rustic simplicity. However, all the locations have certain things in common: seamless service, indigenous mystique, and a range of experiences tailored for honeymooners. Far from the usual cliches, memorable experiences could include anything from swimming with endangered whale sharks, to a sand-between-the-toes dinner candlelit by the Southern Cross. The locations truly have been gathered as a labour of love. Unlike any other book in this genre, hotels can't buy their way in. Selected destinations were vetted, visited, and scrutinised to the finest detail, and only our favourites, those that soared above the rest, have been included in this elegantly designed book - your ticket to the perfect honeymoon. Expert romantics Sarah Siese (founder of Heaven and Earth) and Amanda Statham (travel editor of Cosmopolitan and You Your Wedding magazines) know their topic. They are lucky enough to travel the world in the name of duty and have the nerve to call it work; their collective knowledge has encompassed everywhere from Anguilla to Zanzibar. The buck stops here for romance unlimited. Marketing and PR will be carried out throughout 2011; leading up to the launch on Valentine's Day and afterwards at national launches, regional book signings and specialist travel and wedding exhibitions. Trade and national press are already asking for details and images for reviews. | *$25.65 |
 | The Ultimate Wedding Planner Organizer  [ULTIMATE WEDDING PLANNER ORG] [Hardcover]
Brand: W S Pub Group | *$37.95 |
 | Excellence in Wedding Planning: The Preliminaries...The Wedding Proper...The Celebrations
Brand: AuthorHouse
EXCELLENCE in WEDDING PLANNING takes the reader on a journey that leads to a destination! It begins with how to set up a wedding planning business and ends with the final good-bys at the wedding reception! Written from decades of personal experience, plus the knowledge gained by working with hundreds of students in thirty-five countries, the business part of the book will save a person desiring to be a wedding planner many hours of research. It spells out exactly what has to be done to start a wedding planning business and how to keep it successful. Those already working as wedding planners will find refinements to help take their business to a different level. Brides who are working without a professional planner will find EXCELLENCE in WEDDING PLANNING a great guide for what has to be done and when, information to give the wedding party and etiquette and guidelines for wording and addressing invitations in today's society. There is information about the choosing the most flattering gown for different figure types as well as a discussion of products in a Bridal Registry.Ever wonder why a bride wears,"Something old, some new and a lucky sixpence in her shoe?" Or, when wedding bands came into vogue? Why a wedding gown is white? Have they always been white? The origin of these and many other wedding traditions is discussed in a chapter written to enlighten and amuse the reader. If there is a wedding in your future, either as a planner or a bride, EXCELLENCE in WEDDING PLANNING is a "must read" book! | *$27.70 |
| | Irish Wedding Traditions: Using Your Irish Heritage to Create the Perfect Wedding
Brand: Diane Pub Co
Irish Wedding Traditions is filled with long-forgotten historical and contemporary Irish touchesfrom vows and rituals to symbolic flowers, food, spirits, and song. In addition there are chapters on registering for gifts, dressing for the occasion, and designing the perfect Irish wedding invitation, as well as suggestions for tying the knot or honeymooning on the Emerald Isle. | *$105.00 |
 | Florever Wherever
Brand: Stichting Kunstboak (Acc)
This magnificent publication will show every aspect of this unforgettable day: the bridal bouquet, corsages, bridesmaids, car decoration, church/venue decoration, table arrangements and the wedding party. | *$55.26 |
| | Sewing for Special Occasions; Bridal, Prom and Evening Dresses
Brand: Unknown | *$39.95 |
 | Pressure Piping (Sugar Inspiration)
Brand: Merehurst Limited | *$5.95 |
 | Wedding Cakes and Cultural History
Brand: Routledge
The wedding cake is one of the most extraordinary of the familiar objects of the Western world. In this unique contribution to the anthropology of food, Simon Charsley traces its fascinating history, from late medieval feasts and rites, through the Victorian wedding breakfast and into the present. He shows that the wedding cake provides a vivid illustration of the traditions and traditional values inherent in all food and demonstrates the part that material culture plays in the process of change. This book should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in the fields of anthropology, cultural history and sociology. | *$31.95 |
 | Wedding Emotions
Brand: Stichting Kunstboak (Acc)
After their very successful debut Emotions by Life3 , three top florists Per Benjamin, Tomas De Bruyne and Max van de Sluis want to surprise the floral world with a new book. Bridal floral art like this has never been shown before. Obviously this beautiful album pays a lot of attention to the bouquet as well as to corsages, boutonniSres, car decorations and church ornamentations. But, Life 3 also adds another dimension. This publication contains elaborate reports of six extraordinary weddings, each with their own atmosphere which is materialised in the book. | *$54.97 |
 | Muslim Marriage in Western Courts (Cultural Diversity and Law)
Brand: Ashgate
This book describes and analyses the notion of Mahr, the Muslim custom whereby the groom has to give a gift to the bride in consideration of the marriage. It explores how Western courts, specifically in Canada, the United States, France, and Germany, have approached and interpreted Mahr. Although the outcomes of the cases provide an illustrative framework for the book, the focus is broader than simply the adjudicative endeavours. The work explores the concept of liberalism, which purportedly champions individuals and individual choice concurrently with freedom and equality. Tensions between and among these concepts, however, inevitably arise. The acknowledgment and exploration of these intertwined tensions forms an important underpinning for the book. Through the analysis of case law from these four countries, this study suggests that transplanting Mahr from Islamic law into a Western courtroom cannot be undone: it immediately becomes rooted in the countries' legal, historical, political, and social backgrounds and flourishes (or fails) in diverse and unexpected ways. Rather than being the concept described by classical Islamic jurists, Mahr is interpreted according to wildly varied legal constructs and concepts such as multiculturalism, fairness, public policy, and gender equality. Moreover, Islamic law travels with a multiplicity of voices, and it is this complex hybridity (a fragmented and disjointed Mahr) which will be mediated through Western law. Returning to the overarching concept of liberalism, the book proposes that distributive consequences rather than recognition occupy central place in the evaluation of the legal options available to Muslim women upon divorce. | *$85.41 |
 | Bodas Para Dummies/ Weddings for Dummies (Spanish Edition)
Brand: Norma S A Editorial | *$29.95 |
 | Alaska Wedding Workbook
Brand: The Marketing Group
Alaska Wedding Workbook is a printed, college-style workbook dedicated to assisting Alaskan brides in planning their wedding. | *$38.46 |
 | Documents of the Marriage Liturgy (Pueblo Books)
Brand: Liturgical Press | *$4.99 |
 | Wedding as Text: Communicating Cultural Identities Through Ritual (Routledge Communication Series)
Brand: Routledge
A wedding serves as the beginning marker of a marriage; if a couple is to manage cultural differences throughout their relationship, they must first pass the hurdle of designing a wedding ceremony that accommodates those differences. In this volume, author Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz documents the weddings of 112 couples from across the United States, studied over a 10-year period. She focuses on intercultural weddings--interracial, interethnic, interfaith, international, and interclass--looking at how real people are coping with cultural differences in their lives. br br Through detailed case studies, the book explores how couples display different identities simultaneously. The concepts of community, ritual, identity, and meaning are given extensive consideration. Because material culture plays a particularly important role in weddings as in other examples of ritual, food, clothing, and objects are given special attention here. br br Focusing on how couples design a wedding ritual to simultaneously meet multiple--and different--requirements, this book provides: br *extensive details of actual behavior by couples; br *an innovative format: six traditional theoretical chapters, with examples integrated into the discussion, are matched to six "interludes" providing detailed descriptions of the most successful examples of resolving intercultural differences; br *a methodological appendix detailing what was done and why these decisions were made; andbr *a theoretical appendix outlining the study's assumptions in detail. br br iWedding as Text: Communicating Cultural Identities Through Ritual/i is a distinctive study of those who have accepted cultural difference into their daily lives and how they have managed to do so successfully. As such, it is suitable for students and scholars in semiotics, intercultural communication, ritual, material culture, family communication, and family studies, and will be valuable reading for anyone facing the issue of cultural difference.br | *$37.69 |
| | Victoria and Albert Museum: Wedding Dress, 1740-1970
Brand: Balding Mansell, Wisbech | *$99.90 |
 | Performing Grief: Bridal Laments in Rural China
Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr
This is the first in-depth study of Chinese bridal laments, a ritual and performative art practiced by Chinese women in premodern times that gave them a rare opportunity to voice their grievances publicly. Drawing on methodologies from numerous disciplines, including performance arts and folk literatures, the author suggests that the ability to move an audience through her lament was one of the most important symbolic and ritual skills a Chinese woman could possess before the modern era.P iPerforming Grief/i provides a detailed case study of the Nanhui region in the lower Yangzi delta. Bridal laments, the author argues, offer insights into how illiterate Chinese women understood the kinship and social hierarchies of their region, the marriage market that determined their destinies, and the value of their labor in the commodified economy of the delta region. The book not only assesses and draws upon a large body of sources, both Chinese and Western, but is grounded in actual field work, offering both historical and ethnographic context in a unique and sophisticated approach. Unlike previous studies, the author covers both Han and non-Han groups and thus contributes to studies of ethnicity and cultural accommodation in China. She presents an original view about the ritual implications of bridal laments and their role in popular notions of "wedding pollution." The volume includes an annotated translation from a lament cycle.P This important work on the place of laments in Chinese culture enriches our understanding of the social and performative roles of Chinese women, the gendered nature of China's ritual culture, and the continuous transmission of women's grievance genres into the revolutionary period. As a pioneering study of the ritual and performance arts of Chinese women, it will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of anthropology, social history, gender studies, oral literature, comparative folk religion, and performance arts. | *$38.20 |
 | The Ultimate Wedding Planner Organizer, 2nd Edition [Ring-bound]
| *$39.99 |
 | Show Me How-Wedding Flowers
Brand: Show Me How Ltd | *$19.95 |
 | I Do: 100 Years of Wedding Fashion
Brand: Scriptum Editions
Filled with entrancing text and lavish, full-color photographs, I Do: 100 Years of Wedding Fashion offers a captivating review of the glorious and glamorous in bridal gowns during the last century. Readers will see how the ostentatious wedding gowns of the Edwardian era transformed into the knee-length, Chanel-inspired flapper gowns of the 1920s. By the 1930s, Hollywood reigned. Film-star weddings, publicized both on the silver screen and in fan magazines, brought a touch of glamour to the Depression-era bride. The 1940s war bride had to cope with make-do concoctions of muslin and parachute silk, while the '50s brought back romance, influenced by Dior's New Look and the American "sweetheart" line. And despite the rejection of marital bliss by the hippie counterculture and new feminism of the '60s, marriage survives and the white wedding is here to stay. Today, 21st-century brides are looking for the sophistication of couture fashion and the sexiness of today's sleek designs and sublime fabrics. This mesmerizing guide features 350 full-color photos of such famous brides as Princess Diana, Elizabeth Taylor, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Grace Kelly, and hundreds more. From the traditional to the avant garde, the wacky to the sublime, this is a magnificent source of fashion inspiration for brides-to-be, their mothers, and wedding professionals everywhere. | *$87.50 |
 | Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding (Life Passages)
Brand: University of California Press
The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture--romantic love and excessive consumption. For anyone who has ever wondered about the meanings behind a white dress, a diamond ring, rice, and traditions such as cake cutting, bouquet tossing, and honeymooning, this book offers an entertaining and enlightening look at the historical, social, and psychological strains that come together to make the lavish wedding the most important cultural ritual in contemporary consumer culture. brWith an emphasis on North American society, Cele C. Otnes and Elizabeth H. Pleck show how the elaborate wedding means far more than a mere triumph for the bridal industry. Through interviews, media accounts, and wide-ranging research and analysis, they expose the wedding's reflection--or reproduction--of fundamental aspects of popular consumer culture: its link with romantic love, its promise of magical transformation, its engendering of memories, and its legitimization of consumption as an expression of perfection. As meaningful as any prospective bride might wish, the lavish wedding emerges here as a lens that at once reveals, magnifies, and reveres some of the dearest wishes and darkest impulses at the heart of our culture. | *$44.94 |
 | Couture Bridalwear: Pattern Layout and Design
Brand: Batsford
divHere comes the bride...and all her trimmings! Create couture bridalwear from head to toe, including dresses, veils and headdresses, and learn decorative techniques such as embroidery, beading and lace. Comprehensive instructions and sketches of completed designs are included.br/div | *$24.95 |
 | Ceremonies and Celebrations: Vows, Tributes and Readings
Brand: Star Bright Books
This completely updated and expanded handbook, formerly entitled Ceremonies for Today contains vows, tributes and readings suitable for all manner of contemporary occasions - weddings, funerals, graduations, stepfamily unions, even divorce. Each occasion is handled with sensitivity and relevance, guaranteeing the handbook remains a classic for civil celebrants and those seeking a ceremony with a personal touch. Dally Messenger is the National President of the Australian Federation of Civil Celebrants. | *$83.50 |
 | Wedding Bouquets for Spring
Brand: Thrive Floristry | *$40.63 |
| | Hats for Brides Weddings
Brand: Unicorn | *$85.00 |
 | Weddings, Christenings Anniversaries in Lace (Batsford Lacemakers Library)
Brand: Batsford
divLacemakers who have mastered the basics love to celebrate with gifts and adornments that show off their skill and their caring. Twenty-four patterns come from lacemakers all over the world.br/div | *$69.30 |
 | The Bride's Book of Wedding Superstitions
Brand: Diggory Press
Superstitions from all over the world covering everything from getting engaged to arranging the honeymoon suite. There's advice on picking your bridesmaids (never choose a redhead as she will steal your Groom), the 'language of flowers' in the bridal bouquet (orange blossoms represent eternal love), numerology regarding your new married name, setting the wedding date (Saturday is bad as it is ruled by Saturn, an unlucky planet associated with negative energies like jealousy), choosing the wedding outfit (never buy a wedding dress that was first set aside for a wedding that never actually happened as it is jinxed), the Ceremony, (rose petals are thrown before the Bride as she walks down the aisle to ward off the evil spirits that live beneath the ground from coming up at her), the Reception (Bridesmaids should not wash the dishes or they will fall out with the married couple), plus many more! | *$9.99 |
 | South Asians and the Dowry Problem (Group on Ethnic Minority Studies (Gems),6,)
Brand: Trentham Books
Every year, thousands of young brides on the subcontinent are murdered, most often by burning, or are driven to suicide over dowry disputes. In some provinces it is virtually unknown; in others it is endemic. Among communities in the west, the affluent groups now spend vast sums on the daughters' dowries and on grand weddings, in efforts to enhance their social status. And cases of dowry deaths are being reported. Drawing on papers from three international conferences, this book reviews the law of dowry and the problems of its enforcement in India, its impact on Pakistan, Bangladesh and the UK. It also reports on dowry and hypergamy among Gujeratis and the excesses of dowry giving among Sikhs in Britain. Solutions to the problem are being sought, but in the meantime young women die every day. | *$90.52 |
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