The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Wedding

If you have enough savvy to put together events of any kind, then you don't need a "wedding planning course." You just need this phenomenal book!!!

This book helped me in so many ways. I enjoyed planning my wedding because of this book. It was humorous, informative and had great worksheets. With so many thoughts and ideas flying around in your head when planning a wedding I needed this book to calm me down and bring me back down to earth. I gave this book to a few friends when they were planning their weddings and they loved it. I had a great time reading it. My wedding was more wonderful than I ever thought it would be. Most of the stress was lifted from all the info and humor I rec'd from this book. It was my wedding planning Bible! Although I lent it to friends I always make sure I get it back because reading all the worksheets I filled out brings me back to my wedding day.

Though I agree that the "bridal consultant advertising" was a touch excessive, I still found the book to be a lighthearted look at the realities of weddings. I used it in conjunction with other books and it was the only one that lifted my spirit at a time when even happy things become slightly traumatic. This books has done the rounds amongst my friends and family who have gotten married and they all loved it.

I got about 10 books for planning my Big Day. This is the one that is most helpful. It tells you things that other wedding planning books don't tell you: things that the author learned from experience. Other bridal planners & magazines just tell u the basics, the etiquette and the boring stuff. This sets you for the emotion part, too : the way your mom's gonna go crazy, how you'll scream at your fiance, and real life experiences,too. You'd need this if you're not hiring a wedding consultant.

When my husband and I started planning our wedding early last year, we had no idea where to start. This was the perfect book for us. It gave us the information we needed with a little humor to keep us from completely going nuts. We referred to it again and again for nine months. I even thought about bringing it to the wedding just in case but my husband talked some sense into me. We have since sent the book to a friend who is now using it to plan her wedding across the country. And, my husband and I have now started our own wedding related business because we felt like pros! Melinda Pajak www.sandiegoweddings.com