Great Wedding Tips from the Experts : What Every Bride Can Learn from the Most Successful Wedding Planners,9780737301120

Great Wedding Tips from the Experts : What Every Bride Can Learn from the Most Successful Wedding Planners

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780737301120
ISBN10: 0737301120
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-10-01
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
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Summary

Creating a dream wedding requires imagination, energy, and enough experience to make certain that things run smoothly. Yet, few couples can anticipate all of the intricacies of planning such an unforgettable event. Robbi Ernest III, the man who literally pioneered and organized the modern profession of wedding consulting, has gathered advice from hundreds of wedding experts to provide essential tips for creating a perfect wedding.

Author Biography

Robbi Ernst III, is the founder and president of June Weddings, Inc.®, an association for event professionals, and has 20 years experience in wedding and event planning.

Table of Contents

Foreword xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
Congratulations! 1(8)
Can We Talk Money?: The Wedding Budget
9(24)
Consideration of Finances
12(1)
Appointing a Financial Minister
13(1)
Creating Wedding Budget Spreadsheets
14(4)
Determining Realistic Costs
18(2)
Where's the Money Going to Come From?
20(1)
Contracts: Get Everything in Writing
20(2)
Tracking Your Disbursements
22(4)
Determining Priorities
26(1)
Ask a Friend or Hire a Professional?
27(2)
Traditional Manner in Which Costs Are Divided
29(3)
Bucking the Trends
32(1)
Getting Organized with a Plan of Attack: Hiring the Right Team
33(24)
The Guest List
33(4)
Setting the Date
37(2)
The Ceremony and Reception Sites
39(2)
Your Plan of Attack
41(1)
Creating Your Tools: Resource and Wedding Day Binders
42(4)
Assembling the Right Team
46(7)
Common Points on All Vendor Contracts
53(1)
Other Important Vendor Information
54(3)
Hiring Your Team Leader: The Professional Wedding Consultant
57(26)
Finding a Competent Professional Wedding Consultant
59(3)
How Wedding Consultants Work
62(11)
Can a Wedding Consultant Really Save You Money?
73(2)
Can a Wedding Consultant Really Save the Day?
75(1)
How Wedding Consultants Charge
76(5)
The Wedding Consultant's Contract
81(2)
Who's Going to Do What and When?: The Wedding Day Schedule
83(10)
Creating the Schedule
84(3)
The Ceremony
87(4)
The Reception
91(2)
Let's Party: The Engagement, Wedding Attendants, and Celebrations
93(18)
The Engagement
94(4)
Selecting Those Who Are Going to Stand Up for You
98(7)
Gifts for the Wedding Party
105(1)
Showers and Other Pre-wedding Parties
106(3)
The Rehearsal Dinner
109(2)
Where, Oh Where?: Selecting the Site, Officiant, and Tradition
111(12)
The Religious Site
112(2)
Officiants, Premarital Instruction, and Ceremonies
114(3)
On-Site Wedding Coordinators or Consultants
117(1)
The Nonreligious Ceremonial Site
118(1)
The Reception Site
118(3)
Your Contracts with the Sites
121(2)
When Dresses Become Gowns: The Bridal Gown and Mothers' and Attendants' Dresses
123(36)
Researching the Gown of Your Dreams
128(5)
Shopping for Your Gown
133(6)
Veils
139(2)
Being Measured for Your Gown
141(3)
Placing Your Order
144(1)
Your Gown Salon Contract
145(1)
Alterations
146(1)
Custom Designed and Made
147(3)
Short-Term Care of Your Gown
150(1)
Gown Preservation
151(4)
Mothers' Dresses
155(1)
Attendants' Dresses
156(3)
Invitations, Notes, and Things: Your Stationery
159(24)
Placing Your Order
160(1)
Types of Printing
161(1)
Elements of the Invitation
161(9)
Thank-You Notes
170(2)
The Wedding Announcement
172(1)
Other Stationery Concerns
173(5)
Divvying Up the Invitations
178(3)
Gifts
181(2)
``Cocktails, Anyone?'': The Wedding Reception
183(44)
Types of Reception Sites
184(2)
Types of Receptions
186(7)
Interviewing Caterers
193(5)
Deciding the Dinner Menu
198(3)
Rentals
201(1)
The Caterer's Proposal
202(4)
The Wedding Cake
206(9)
The Flow of the Reception
215(10)
The Receiving Line
225(2)
We Walk into the Lily of the Valley to Create a Scene: Flowers, Decorations, Lighting
227(18)
Shopping for a Floral Designer
231(5)
The Floral Designer Goes to Work
236(1)
Decoration Trends
237(2)
Design Elements Your Floral Designer Can Provide
239(3)
Preserving Your Bouquet
242(3)
Smile ... You're Gonna Be in Pictures: Your Photographer and Videographer
245(24)
Portraiture Photography
246(1)
Photojournalism
247(1)
Candid Photography
248(1)
Environmental Photography
249(1)
Progressive Photography
250(1)
Artistic Photography
250(1)
Costs
250(1)
Other Important Terminology
251(8)
Finding the Right Photographer
259(5)
Finding the Right Videographer
264(5)
The Language of the Soul: The Music
269(16)
Finding and Interviewing Musicians
269(1)
Hear the Musicians Perform
270(4)
Selecting the Music
274(1)
Music for the Ceremony
275(3)
Music for the Reception
278(5)
The Musicians' Contract
283(2)
Epilogue: Sure, You're Having a Wedding, But It's the Marriage That's Important 285(4)
Resources 289(16)
Suggested Reading 305(4)
Index 309

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