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| Real Weddings: A Celebration of Personal Style | 
 enlarge | Author: Mallory Samson
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
List Price: $40.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 180
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 10.2 x 1
ISBN: 0609602349
Dewey Decimal Number: 395.22
EAN: 9780609602348
Publication Date: January 19, 1999
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Product Description
For every bride who wants a beautiful memory, for every parent who wants an affordable spectacle, and for every groom who wants to have fun, Real Weddings offers hundreds of ideas to inspire and delight. Filled with alluring photographs from one of America's leading wedding photographers and packed with advice from the managing editor of Bride's, the largest and most respected bridal magazine, this is an ideal guide for anyone involved in the planning and completion of a marriage celebration--one that should be unforgettable, manageable, and magical.
Renowned photographer Mallory Samson and editor Sally Kilbridge profile sixteen couples from around the country, each chosen for their creativity and variety of wedding size, setting, guest list, and budget, in order for readers to easily adapt any of the details to fit their own one-of-a-kind needs. The authors follow bride and groom through the decision-making process--from basics, such as selecting flowers suitable for a Christmastime wedding and finding an appropriate dress for a backyard ceremony, to unique touches, such as sending mountain-motif invitations for a wedding in Sun Valley, Idaho. Concluding each story with the big day, Kilbridge and Samson capture the excitement and romance as they highlight the touches that made the event so special: an aisle of shells for a beach processional, an African dance routine for an ethnic-flavored reception, and a couple who drove away from their Maine ceremony in a station wagon trailing lobster buoys and seaweed.
Throughout the book, interviews with wedding experts: a florist, baker, bandleader, consultant, makeup artist, couturiere, caterer, and hairstylist give suggestions for hiring and directing the professionals. Also included is a directory with suggestions for the ceremony reading and song selections and reception menu. Together, Samson and Kilbridge have produced a fresh, innovative package full of practical and inspiring ideas that will help anyone achieve a truly memorable day.
Turn dreams into reality with Real Weddings. Photographer Mallory Samson and Bride's editor Sally Kilbridge, along with sixteen creative and diverse couples, will inspire future brides, grooms, family members, and friends in planning a unique and magical day.
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 Nice but lacks a lot of helpful info. June 13, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I thought this book would be helpful in "celebrating personal style" - It doesn't. It celebrates some very nice but very expensive traditional or theme weddings. These weddings also seem to have limitless budgets (e.g. spare no expense last minute change of venue to the groom's family estate in the south of France). Simply put, This is a very nice picture album. Nice pictures, nice cover.
NICE. Not helpful! Very little info and advice. If you want planning, dress ideas, favor/craft how-to's, time and money saving ideas this is not that book.
Unexpected Disappointment November 30, 2001
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I expected to learn something new or fun and exciting for a person with a mid-level budget hence the title Real Weddings. All I read and saw were weddings for those people who do not have to worry about a budget. The pictures were beautiful as well as the weddings, but for those of us with mild incomes it was more of a Fantasy Wedding book as oppose to a Real Wedding.
not as expected September 29, 2001
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
i expected this book to have better ideas and tips, but i was surprised with the modest level of creativity it contains
What about the music? November 21, 2000
0 out of 36 found this review helpful
I recommend the wedding song for the new couple be the very special one in the book Defenders of the Holy Grail. It is in the scene where Katherine married Reed.
Not What I Expected August 9, 2000
48 out of 50 found this review helpful
I agree with the reviewer below from Seattle. This book is about fantasies. It is rather obvious that most of these brides and grooms have money and are not living in the "real world". I found very few of these weddings to be truly original. Almost all of them were rather large and had more than 100 people in attendance. I have a love/hate relationship with this book. The photography was lush and I must admit I am a little jealous of some of these couples; they had absoulutely beautiful weddings. However, my wedding is in seven weeks and because my fiance and I are paying for the large majority of it, we cannot have absolutely everything we could ever want. I cannot imagine being able to afford a second wedding dress (because I didn't like the first one) and scouring racks in a designer's store to find it. I only found one idea useful and that was what my fiance and his attendants will wear. These couples are simply very "well-off" and can afford anything. And that is just the plain and simple truth. If someone is going to write a book on "Real Weddings" it should include couples planning weddings from various economic backgrounds with various budgets and levels of creativity-not just wealthy individuals with mostly cookie-cutter versions.
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