How to Have a Big Wedding on a Small Budget
You can have it all!\ All the trimmings, lovely decorations, a beautiful gown for the beautiful bride, 300 guests for a buffet dinner—without mortgaging your home or making payments for the rest of your life. And no one will ever guess you didn't pay full price.\ This book is loaded with money-saving tricks and organizing tips, as well as lots of encouragement, all designed to help you determine the budget for your wedding—then stick to it. You'll find dozens of creative, innovative ideas...
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How to Have a Big Wedding on a Small BudgetFourth Edition By Diane Warner This newly revised guide shows how to plan a stunning wedding with all the trimmings but without all the expenses. In this completely updated 4th edition, brides and grooms will find: -Case histories illustrating how four brides stayed within their respective budgets without sacrificing their wedding's quality and elegance -The latest wedding trends with guidelines for being fashionable at a low price -Creative new cost-cutting ideas, plus money-saving tips for the groom -Updated costs for everything, including flowers, wedding gowns, reception food and photographers, for 9 regions nationwide -Instructions and advice for tracking every aspect of planning a wedding -A quick-reference "what to do when" calendar/timetable This book's dozens of creative ideas will not only help readers save money, but will make wedding planning a fun process! Diane Warner has helped thousands of soon-to-be weds with her seminars and books, including Beautiful Wedding Decorations & Gifts on a Small Budget. She lives in Turlock, California. Library Journal Warner's daughter announced that she and her fiance wanted to marry in four months and have a large, traditional wedding. This book is drawn from the copious notes Warner kept while investigating the buying, renting, baking, etc., needed for that wedding, as well as the suggestions she received from friends, relatives, and others along the way. She shows how to set up a plan and calendar. Frustrated with wedding books which did not cover actual costs, she includes here such information for seven geographical areas in the United States and offers some estimates for Canadian readers. Filled with numerous charts, organizational tips, and personal solutions, this is a practical dollars-and-cents consumer guide to maintaining a wedding budget by a woman who spent less than half the national average of $11,000. Recommended for wedding book collections.-- Mary Ann Wasick, West Allis P.L., Wis.
Introduction: There's Gonna Be a Wedding! (Getting Over the Initial Shock)1Chapter 1Guess What? You're It! (How to Be Your Own Wedding Consultant)8Chapter 2Dream It Up and Write It Down (Preplanning and the Calendar)18Chapter 3She'll Wear Satin and Laces (Become a Cinderella Without a Fairy Godmother)28Chapter 4What a Handsome Bunch! (Outfitting the Wedding Party Without Breaking the Bank)42Chapter 5Would a Rose by Any Other Name ...? (Beautiful Flowers--On a Budget)54Chapter 6What's Cookin'? (Fabulous Food for Pennies Per Person)70Chapter 7And-A-One-And-A-Two ... (Affordable Melodies)87Chapter 8Clever, Cute and Crafty (Ambiance on a Budget)94Chapter 9Say Cheese! (Capture the Memories at Affordable Prices)107Chapter 10Potpourri (Keeping Costs Down on All Those Little Extras)121Chapter 11Tips for Your Groom (Money-Saving Ideas for the Man in Your Life)135Chapter 12Bottom-Line Time (Budgets for All Price Ranges)149Chapter 13I Think I Can, I Think I Can (Putting It All Together)165Index167
\ Library JournalWarner's daughter announced that she and her fiance wanted to marry in four months and have a large, traditional wedding. This book is drawn from the copious notes Warner kept while investigating the buying, renting, baking, etc., needed for that wedding, as well as the suggestions she received from friends, relatives, and others along the way. She shows how to set up a plan and calendar. Frustrated with wedding books which did not cover actual costs, she includes here such information for seven geographical areas in the United States and offers some estimates for Canadian readers. Filled with numerous charts, organizational tips, and personal solutions, this is a practical dollars-and-cents consumer guide to maintaining a wedding budget by a woman who spent less than half the national average of $11,000. Recommended for wedding book collections.-- Mary Ann Wasick, West Allis P.L., Wis.\ \ \ \ \ School Library JournalThe perfect book for those who dream of a princess' wedding on a peasant's income. Warner offers information on everything from invitations, dresses, food, flowers, music, and pictures to cost estimates from people all over America. While the fees may become dated, the suggestions for cost-cutting will not. Readers have to be really organized to pull this all off, but Warner helps them do that, too, by setting up a bride's notebook.\ \
