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A Practical Wedding: Creative Ideas for Planning a Beautiful, Affordable, and Meaningful Celebration


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A Practical Wedding: Creative Ideas for Planning a Beautiful, Affordable, and Meaningful Celebration

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An Insanity-Free Wedding: It Can Happen!

Getting engaged is exhilarating…until it sets in that a wedding costs three times what you thought, and takes five to ten times the effort it reasonably should. And then there are the expectations: from calligraphy invitations to satin chair-covers, all those things that Must Be Done or everyone will be Horribly Offended. Or will they?

A Practical Wedding helps you create the wedding you want—without going broke or crazy in the process. After all, what really matters on your wedding day, what you’ll remember ‘til you’re old and gray, is not so much how it looked as how it felt. In this refreshing guide, expert Meg Keene shares her secrets to planning a beautiful celebration that reflects your taste and your relationship. You’ll discover:

  • The real purpose of engagement (hint: it’s not just about the planning)
  • How to pinpoint what matters most to you and your partner
  • DIY-ing your wedding: brilliant or crazy?
  • Affording a wedding without having to cut your guest list
  • How to communicate decisions with your family
  • Why that color-coded spreadsheet is actually worth it

Wedding Zen can be yours. Meg walks you through everything from choosing a venue to writing vows, complete with stories and advice from women who have been in the trenches, the Team Practical brides. So here’s to the joyful wedding, the sensible wedding, the unbelievably fun wedding! A Practical Wedding is your complete guide to getting married with grace.




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    35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars the best wedding planning book I've read, December 11, 2011
    This review is from: A Practical Wedding: Creative Ideas for Planning a Beautiful, Affordable, and Meaningful Celebration (Paperback)
    I'm a professional wedding planner. When I first started planning weddings five years ago (for friends, I had no idea at the time that I'd one day be doing this professionally) I read pretty much every wedding planning book I could get my hands on that didn't seem totally insane, because that's what I do when I want to learn about something - I read. And while I picked up some helpful pieces here and there, there was not a single book that I loved overall. I wish that this book had been around then.

    Now, I didn't learn anything from this book, but that's because, well, I now do this professionally. However, if you're not a professional wedding planner? You will learn things. Good things. Things like how to find an affordable venue, and that it's OK to sometimes cry during the planning process, and why you should focus on your ceremony, and when and why you need to ask for help.

    It's a wedding planning book that manages to deal with both logistics (important... Read more
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    12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars The new wedding-planning bible for the sane bride, December 18, 2011
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    This review is from: A Practical Wedding: Creative Ideas for Planning a Beautiful, Affordable, and Meaningful Celebration (Paperback)
    I've been reading A Practical Wedding, the blog, since my engagement in early 2009. I'm not sure how I stumbled across it, but somehow, in my search of wedding blogs to consume my time and give me ideas on my own wedding planning, I found Meg as she was planning her wedding, and was struck by her wisdom. This was a woman who had her head screwed on straight: a woman who understood that it's about the commitment, not the décor; it's about the people, not the "pretty."

    Here's the thing about the APW blog: it is updated daily with information, inspiration, words of wisdom, and discussion. There is so much goodness in the blog that you could get lost in there for days, chasing links and discovering the smart things that other people have discovered in their own wedding -- and life -- experiences. The A Practical Wedding book distills this wisdom into a 200-page guidebook of sorts, in the order that you will probably need the information. It paces you through the... Read more
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    10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous book, December 14, 2011
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    This review is from: A Practical Wedding: Creative Ideas for Planning a Beautiful, Affordable, and Meaningful Celebration (Paperback)
    This well-written, thoughtful, empathic, humorous and tender guide to weddings and all that surrounds them is a wonderful book. It will work not only for the about-to-be-married but also for their families and friends. Ahh, sanity at last in the wedding community. A Practical Wedding: Creative Ideas for Planning a Beautiful, Affordable, and Meaningful Celebration
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