A must-have for the wedding registry
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I, like 99.99% of all women, shed hair like no other. When I first got married, I told my husband we needed to get a drain protector, but he assured me it wouldn't be a problem. Three months later when the honeymoon phase wore off and he had to spend a Saturday cleaning my hair out of the clogged shower drain, he learned to recognize that I'm always right and we purchased this product. We haven't had a single issue with the drain since. It's gross cleaning wet hair off of the protector after each shower, but that's the price of being a long-haired woman I guess.
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Mr. and Mrs. was the theme I used for our daughter's upcoming wedding.  I gobbled up anything I could find with Mr. and Mrs. on it, and these thank you cards were the necessity for getting her to do her thank you cards after the wedding was over.  I think they would even make a lovely gift idea for a bridal shower or wedding gift for a family member on a budget.  Quite lovely.
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This book is a very comprehensive guide to planning your own wedding.  The checklists are great and help keep you focused on what is important and when things need to be completed. The author covered questions to ask vendors, which is helpful in discovering hidden fees. She also mentions the best ways to save money and gives great advice for budgeting your wedding. Both traditional and nontraditional styles are covered in this book, so it should fit into almost any bride's style of wedding.

Tips for searching for more information and helpful websites (including discount websites) are included and were a great help. Every aspect of planning a wedding is covered--styles and fabrics of wedding dresses are even described.  This book even offers tips for what style dress is best for your body type.

I love that the book is both a cost savings guide and a guide to general wedding planning.  Whether you have a large or small budget, this book will help you plan a great wedding while sticking to your budget.

The organized bride will love this book. The order of the chapters, the checklists, the lists of questions to ask are all great tools to keep on track. Those brides that balk at organization should do their best to follow this guide, although they might feel some details are overkill. My only compliant is that the case studies, although helpful to hear advice from experts, were a bit long and sometimes repetitive.

I would recommend this book to any bride wanting to plan her own wedding.
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This book was an excellent resource to putting together a memorable wedding ceremony.  It is up to date and easy to read.
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I'm marrying in November and went to the library to look up books on wedding flowers; this one came out to be my favorite so far. Although some of the advice is a little too frou-frou for my tastes (if you want Spring flowers in December, then have at it!), the bouquets and flowers are gorgeous. I actually read the captions for the photos more than anything else.

The book is quite inspiring with several flower types that you never thought to use, plus interesting wrapping of the stems.

My biggest cheer is for the size and quality of the photos. You can search online all you like for beautiful bouquets, and most of the time you get pixelated crap with colors that don't match the flowers at all.
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Just a note:  If you are getting married in the Catholic church, your priest will likely give you a copy of this book for free.
It contains a lot of valuable information and also includes all the possible selections for your wedding Mass.  I love that it includes refelctions on each of the readings.  If you are having a hard time deciding which readings to choose, reading these reflections with your fiance might help make the decision easier.  If for some reason your parish doesn't use this, make sure you get a copy.
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Whether you are religious, spiritual or indifferent, or whether you are a heterosexual or same-sex couple (which we are) this book is a wonderfully helpful place to start to create your wedding ceremony. We read through the book, (Kindle Version) highlighted the verses/blessings/sayings that we liked, then we took everything that we liked and printed them on to index cards by section of the ceremony and then narrowed it down again to the ones that we really liked and then we edited the verses even further to our own liking and to something that was really fitting for us as a couple. Here is a hot tip: I ended up buying a second version of this book on iBooks because you can email yourself all the highlighted entries though iBooks and then I just copied and pasted all the sections we like into MS Word (or similar) and then printed everything thing on to index cards.
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I've been planning my wedding for the past few months and I've been relying on this book, Easy Wedding Planning Plus by Elizabeth and Alex Lluch, and Bridal Bargains by Denise and Alex Fields.  This book covers all the etiquette questions that crop up when planning a wedding (who are you supposed to buy gifts for, who is expected to pay for what, etc.)  It also offers a tremendous amount of other information such as tips for saving money, things to think about when selecting flowers, music, etc.  I'm giving it 4 stars instead of 5 because it won't stand alone.  I used the planning book to really keep everything organized, and the budget book offered a lot more specific advice on saving money (specific vendors, websites, etc.)
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Ordered this less than a week after getting engaged. I'm very organized and didn't find much use in the inspiration pages but I love that I can write in all the information for everything wedding in one place. The binder stickers peel off and I was able to customize it. I would highly recommend it
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This book helped my husband and me plan our 2011 wedding without having to hire a wedding planner.  It has so much practical advice on wedding logistics and on etiquette - we called it our "bible" because we consulted it so frequently on so many questions.  The most helpful thing about it was the advice on how to sequence the process of planning.  Before that, we were so overwhelmed with where to start and what to do next. I buy this book for all my friends when they get engaged, and they've all found it equally helpful.
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My Mom and I both got an issue of The Knot and WE LOVED IT! The articles are great, interesting, helpful. But by far my favorite section is the "special advertising section" for wedding gowns. I haven't seen this in any other bridal magazines that I have come across. Instead of randomly having advertisements for different designers (and having no idea how much they cost!) The Knot has compiled them all into one organized section with the price ranges for the designer noted. Now I can just highlight that section on my kindle rather than trying to find the specific gown somewhere in a magazine AND it saves me the time of looking up a gown only to find it is out of my price range. Love it!
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I used this wedding planner for my wedding. I found it to be well organized with check lists to remind me of all the things I needed to do before my wedding. I really liked the pocket dividers for stashing reciepts, brochures and various keepsakes. There is a place for business cards too.  This book is BIG! It will not fit in your purse, but that's what I liked about it. I did check out several other wedding planning books, but this one beat them all. The photographs are beautiful and an inspiration in themselves. I would recommend this planner for any couple planning a wedding.
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This is a wonderful reference book for anyone with a wedding on the horizon; or anyone who just needs a beautiful cake. Fabulous pictures and recipes.
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This handy little guide in packed full of great wedding information. I bought this as a gift and was able to mark several pages with post-its before wrapping it up and sending it along.
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This book is a delight to page through.  I found so many unique and creative ideas for my wedding...and inspiration to personalize the event.  It is exceptionally well laid out and dense with information.  I highly recommend this, especially for brides early in the planning process.
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I live by my bridal binder, its absolutely amazing. This was definetly the most expensive binder out of the ones that we were looking at but I think this one had the best breakdown. My fiance who is not very familiar with weddings like that wanted something that would give him the most information. Each tab gives different information from wedding experts and brides. It has clear and concise information about planning for the wedding. I also have been bringing the binder with us to each of our bridal appointments and asking the questions listed in the vendors sections. I created my own pockets to add our information into the binder as well. Overall I think the purchase was worth it and the binder has been very helpful to us.
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This has been a great help for my daughters wedding coming up.  I just love this, because we can see what is the latest and what we are thinking of doing?