Whether planning a grand wedding or an intimate affair, this book saves couples hours and helps readers plan with confidence and ease. Beverly Clark’s step-by-step suggestions, checklists, and worksheets, along with her special touches and unique ideas, let readers personalize their wedding, make it memorable, save money, handle divorced parents, address invitations, and more. New to this edition are tips on the latest wedding trends, details on multi-cultural and religious ceremonies, and updates on the role of the internet in wedding planning. Learn how to make creative favors and infuse the wedding with your own personal style with chapters on “Defining Your Wedding Vision” and “Planning Your Reception.” Tips on understanding contracts and avoiding consumer fraud, catching up on wedding trends and styles, and having a green wedding round out this essential guide.Which flowers are in season in June? How should you word invitations to a second wedding? What questions should you ask a caterer or photographer? Wedding-industry expert Beverly Clark gives you the answers to these questions and many more in her remarkably thorough guide, Planning a Wedding to Remember. The 23 chapters in this hefty, spiral-bound planner cover everything from announcing the engagement to developing a budget to planning flowers, photography, prewedding parties, and the honeymoon. Clark gives couples the information they need to start thinking about their special day, and then provides them with the organizational tools to create their own special, personal celebration. “Start by deciding what is most important to you,” she writes, “and plan the rest of the wedding around that.” But what’s truly unique and oh-so-useful about this planner is that in addition to Clark’s tips and tricks, it contains dozens of worksheets and checklists to help you organize, shop, make decisions, write thank-you notes, and attend to every last detail–without going nuts and succumbing to the wedding crazies.
