| | The Sweet Potato Queens' Wedding Planner/Divorce Guide
Brand: Random House Audio
You are cordially invited to attend...brbrThe Sweet Potato Queens are bona fide experts at planning a marvelous marriage (and ending oneâflip this book right on over if you're looking for advice on dumping a deadweight hubby!), so who better to provide this handy wedding planner? And even if you're not planning your own nuptials, surely you have dreamt about your perfect day, regardless of whether you've met Mr. Right yet! In this essential manual, you'll learn:brbr⢠How to plan a truly regal weddingbrbr⢠What to wear (and what not to wear) to your own wedding, or to anyone else'sbrbr⢠How to organize the sassiest games and sauciest entertainment for the occasionbrbr⢠How to plan and prepare the greasiest, tastiest wedding vittles for your big-ass guestsbrbrbrbrYou are hereby summoned to appear . . .brbrThe Sweet Potato Queens know a thing or two about ending a marriage (and beginning oneâflip this book on over if youâre planning on attaching yourself to the ol' ball and chain!), so who better to provide this crucial divorce guide? Besides, whether youâre getting your own personal divorce or not, chances are youâll be calling Mr. Right Mr. I-Donât-Think-So sometime in the future! In this practical handbook, you'll learn:brbr⢠How to survive even the nastiest divorce while maintaining your queenly composure brbr⢠Why itâs appropriateâand necessary!âto throw divorce showers and send out divorce announcements brbr⢠Why love is even better the second, third, or fourth time aroundbrbrbriFrom the Hardcover edition./i | *$16.95 |
 | Something Old, Something Bold: Bridal Showers and Bachelorette Parties
Brand: Rutgers University Press
P"With wonderful insight, Montemurro examines the wildly popular bachelorette party and the enduring bridal shower and in doing so, reveals the conflicting messages that surround contemporary womanhood."BR --Amy L. Best is author of Prom Night:Youth, Schools and Popular Culture and Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars/p P"This highly accessible study explains why bridal showers are considered dull and boring while bachelorette parties have become the fling of choice. Something Old, Something Bold shows how the sexual revolution has transformed the way contemporary brides approach marriage.BR --"ÂElizabeth Pleck, author of Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding/p P"This well written, fascinating book takes a common ritual and uses it to explain the social construction of gender, class and marriage. People interested in changing gender roles as well as behavioral science majors and graduate students will get a lot out of this book: at the very least insight into the transitions women go through as they redefine themselves sexually and emotionally -- from single and available to married and monogamous. No doubt, most readers will be surprised how much bachelorette parties reveal about women's ambivalence about this transition to marriage and how many women see the passage to marriage as bittersweet."BR --Pepper Schwartz, author of Love Between Equals: How Peer Marriage Really Works/p P"Montemurro's in-depth analysis demonstrates that both wedding showers and bachelorette parties are not simply meaningless social gatherings but are sociologically important rituals that reproduce gender relations in complex ways. Montemurro succeeds at making the seemingly ordinary, sociologically extraordinary."BR --Mindy Stombler, editor, Sex Matters/p PPContemporary weddings in the United States can be extravagant, highly ritualized, and costly affairs. From the intricate details of the wedding dress, to the painstaking selection of flowers, to the festively-packaged favors offered to guests, they are often the culmination of months of fastidious planning and preparations./p PPIn Something Old, Something Bold, sociologist Beth Montemurro takes a fresh look at the wedding process, offering a perspective not likely to be found in the slew of planning books and magazines readily available to the modern bride. Focusing on two eventsÂbachelorette parties and bridal showersÂMontemurro draws upon years of ethnographic research and interviews to explore what these prenuptial events mean to women participants and what they tell us about the complexity and ambiguity of gender roles. The innovation of the bachelorette partyÂa celebration of the bride-to-beâs premarital sexual identityÂand the addition of men to the domestically oriented shower have often been thought to indicate gender convergence and a more progressive attitude toward power relations between men and women. But Montemurro suggests that this is not always the case. Through these events, the bride-to-be is initiated into the role of wife by her friends and family, who present elaborate and exaggerated scenarios that demonstrate both what she is sacrificing and what she is gaining./p PPUltimately, Montemurro argues, prenuptial rituals contribute to the stabilization of gender inequalitiesÂthat American society at the turn of the twenty-first century is still very much married to tradition and traditional conceptions of masculinity and femininity./p | *$59.80 |
| | The Hindu Wedding Planner
Brand: Sacred Books Inc | *$15.00 |
 | Jewish Weddings: A Beautiful Guide to Creating the Wedding of Your Dreams
Brand: Simon Schuster
There is nothing more daunting to a newly engaged couple than planning their wedding. For Jewish couples, balancing religious and aesthetic needs can be especially tricky. Rita Milos Brownstein provides inspiration and practical advice in IJewish Weddings,/I a lavishly illustrated guide to creating a wedding that both honors Jewish culture, ritual, and tradition and reflects the lives and personalities of the bride and groom. P Beginning with a brief history of the Jewish wedding (including wonderful stories of Ibarshert,/I couples whose love was clearly meant to be), Brownstein guides the bride and groom through the pleasures of the engagement party and Jewish bridal shower to choosing a Iketubah/I (marriage contract), wedding ring, and invitations. She describes traditional Jewish customs and rituals, then suggests ways to personalize the Ichuppah,/I or wedding canopy; music; wedding programs; and even the chairs. Brownstein includes the joyous times after the wedding and gives the new couple tips on how to create a Jewish home and original ideas for thank-you notes. P Of course, Brownstein doesn't forget about food, with menu suggestions for an engagement party and a bridal shower tea party, as well as for the wedding reception and ISheva Brachas,/I the traditional week of festive meals following the wedding. Delicious, mouth-watering recipes for Salmon Roll with Dill Sauce, Green Bean Bundles, Potato and Leek Soup, and Poached Pears will please even the most finicky couple. Brownstein supplies tips on how to keep a kosher kitchen as well. P The book also offers glimpses of seven real-life Jewish weddings. From a jubilant outdoor celebration in San Diego, California; a dazzling New York City affair; a classic Hasidic wedding in Hartford, Connecticut; to an elegant affair in Palm Beach, Florida, these stories will inspire any bride and groom in planning their own wedding, no matter where they live. P Illustrated with more than 200 gorgeous color and black-and-white photographs, IJewish Weddings/I is an indispensable book for any Jewish couple. | *$30.00 |
 | Our Marriage Memory Book: A Year-by-Year Anniversary Keepsake
Brand: Sourcebooks Casablanca
pCelebrate the years of your marriage with this lasting keepsake. With pages to record each year's memorable events and the details of your married life, Our Marriage Memory Book gives you a beautiful way to chronicle your journey through the years together. You'll find space to paste in pictures, and customizable pages in the back give you room to create a book that's as unique as your marriage. This timeless anniversary album is a gift you will cherish forever./p | *$24.99 |
| | The Lesbian and Gay Wedding Album: An All-In-One Photo Documentary Planner
Brand: Spirit | *$35.00 |
| | Your Wedding: A Planning Guide/B1175
Brand: St Anthony Messenger Pr | *$5.95 |
| | Wedding Keepsake Box
Brand: Stewart Tabori Chang
Collect all of the special mementos, including the invitation, announcement, menu, and place cards in the Keepsake Box. Bring the Keepsake Box to the ceremony and reception to keep gift envelopes from guests, and afterwards, store the response cards with personal greetings and congratulations from friends and family. Designed to complement the Wedding Planner and Photo Album, the Keepsake Box makes the perfect gift. PAvailable in three other patterns for Home, Garden, and Travel, Stewart, Tabori Chang's Keepsake Boxes come with nine letter-size folders and a sheet of stickers to personalize your folders or the spine of the box. Photo Albums are also available in three other patterns, hold 112 photographs and come with a sheet of stickers to personalize the spine. | *$1,263.49 |
 | Working With the Professionals to Get the Wedding You Want
Brand: Time Life Education | *$18.95 |
| | Engendering Song: Singing and Subjectivity at Prespa Albanian Weddings (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Brand: University Of Chicago Press
DIVFor Prespa Albanians, both at home in Macedonia and in the diaspora, the most opulent, extravagant, and socially significant events of any year are wedding ceremonies. During days and weeks of festivities, wedding celebrants interact largely through singing, defining and renegotiating as they do so the very structure of their social world and establishing a profound cultural touchstone for Prespa communities around the world.brBRCombining photographs, song texts, and vibrant recordings of the music with her own evocative descriptions, ethnomusicologist Jane C. Sugarman focuses her account of Prespa weddings on notions of gendered identity, demonstrating the capacity of singing to generate and transform relations of power within Prespa society. iEngendering Song/i is an innovative theoretical work, with a scholarly importance extending far beyond southeast European studies. It offers unique and timely contributions to the analysis of music and gender, music in diaspora cultures, and the social constitution of self and subjectivity.br/div | *$58.97 |
 | Planning the Most Memorable Wedding on Any Budget [With Pocket Wedding Planner] [PLANNING THE MOST MEMORABLE WE]
Brand: Ws Pub Group | *$999.99 |
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