Wedding Chic: The Savvy Bride’s Guide to Getting More While Spending Less
Posted on : 23-10-2009 | By : admin | In : Kauai Wedding
Tags: Bride's, Chic, Getting, Guide, Less, More, Savvy, Spending, Wedding
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From Publishers Weekly
Building on Wildorfs previous book, City Chic: An Urban Girls Guide to Livin Large on Less, this valuable introduction to budget weddings and receptions is written in an enjoyably breezy style and packed full of helpful tips. Willdorf recently married, so she knows how expensive the whole affair can be; as she points out, the average cost for a wedding is approximately $22,000. Determined to cut expenses without sacrificing style, Willdorf had the weddin…
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Silly me – I thought that once I proposed and my fiancee cheerfully accepted, the hard work and all the planning (to pull off a great, suprise proposal) were done. How wrong I was! As I have quickly come to realize over the past few months, the wedding industry is a huge and often terrifying monster. As a groom-to-be without any sisters, I had no idea of what went into planning a wedding. Thankfully, Wedding Chic came to my rescue.
Photographers show you album after album of photos that all look identical (insert grandma here, make the groom stand here, etc.) and then they all tell you that one album will be $1000! Caterers push the overpriced (and usually bland) prime rib, while the musicians tell you that “have to have at least 8 musicians” for a wedding party of 100 people. Wedding Chic will help you to figure out where YOU want to spend your money so that instead of the caterer, band leader, cake baker, etc. telling you what you MUST spend your money on – you can make informed decisions and feel comfortable that you’re not walking down the aisle with the word “sucker” plastered on your forehead. Plus, Ms. Wildorf offers great tips for how to make your wedding unique and express something about who you and your fiancee are. She even includes some guidance for how to make your own invitations and floral arrangements (great ways to save some money)!
My advice: as soon (and maybe even before) you get engaged, get this book so you can have a great wedding and still save some of your cash for your honeymoon.
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i just got “wedding chic” yesterday and i’ve already marked it all up. despite the hours i’ve spent crouched in the wedding section of bookstores poring over wedding guides, i had yet to purchase anything. even the “anti-bride guide” seemed too adamantly anti to be more useful than cheeky.
the layout of “wedding chic” is clean and accessible and nina has great ideas. i especially love that each section goes through the traditional how-to and then the DIY version of the same thing (food, music, invitations etc…). nina peppers the book with real-life examples from her own wedding and friends weddings, and most importantly she gets that everyone is different. as a result there are tons of ideas and options for all kinds of people looking to have a chic wedding on a tight budget, (regardless of what “chic” and “tight” mean to you).
this book is a great resource, totally readable and appealing to a girl who never thought she would be spending all her time thinking about getting married.
I love this little book! I’ve been engaged for 6 months now and I just discovered this gem of a book a month ago on a friend’s bookshelf. Much of the information was no longer useful in my stage of planning, as I’m getting married in less than 2 months. But, reading over it confirmed that some of the ways my fiance and I went about cutting costs for the wedding were actually done before, and smart. And, just because we’ve found ways to spend less, doesn’t mean our wedding will turn out “cheap.” There have been other information useful to me from this point on. It’s a really savvy, and stylish. The illustrations are great, too! I’ve already purchased it for 2 friends who just got engaged.