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| Notes from the Mother of the Bride (M.O.B.) | 
 enlarge | Author: Sherri Goodall
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.8 x 0.4
ISBN: 1402202415
Dewey Decimal Number: 395.22
EAN: 9781402202414
Publication Date: March 1, 2004
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A wedding is a rite of passage not only for the bride but for her mother as well. The mother of the bride may be producing the largest party of her life, and she needs the support of an experienced event planner who's been through it all! Includes: -- The sensible wedding (as opposed to the blind, excessive, orgiastic blowout gala) -- Get prepared for this mother of all plan-a-thons -- Time is money-how to prioritize -- If you can survive the guest list, the rest will be a piece of cake -- Trying to stay focused while flinging away money -- Flowers, champagne, food and other necessary evils -- The wedding day, an out-of-body experience -- Post-wedding observations: if I had it to do over, I could still make the same mistakes All the while, you'll learn how to stay on good terms with the bride (keep your mouth shut), how the father of the bride can stay on good terms with the bride (pay promptly, leave everything to the M.O.B. and keep his mouth shut) and the best way to deal with the groom, the wedding party, the groom's family and everyone else involved in this second most exciting day of your life (the first was, of course, your own wedding!). Lively, funny and eminently useful, no M.O.B. can afford to be without this guide!
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Love, Laughter, and Sweet, Soulful Advise! June 4, 2004
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
What a brilliant little book. I loved it, loved it! Why? Humor and sage advise, that is why. Amidst life stresses laughter is the saving grace. Her 10 Commandments for the M.O.G., mother of the groom, and the F.O.B., father of the bride, are priceless. I recited them to my husband and there was shock and whining about #4. "Thou shalt not expect an invitation to the bachelor party; thou shalt not grumble and whine about it." These things simply must be said. Then the glorious #7 " Thou shalt understand fathers never truly "give their little girl (aka the bride) away." The sage advise for the M.O.G.? "Thou shalt not expect a postwedding, next morning phone call from thy baby boy." and the very reasonable #8 "Thou shalt ferry thy son to the altar in one reasonably sober piece, especially if there has been a bachelor party the night before."Above and beyond the humor there is such heart in this little gem. The author and her husband did such beautiful heart felt things for their precious child, and we are inspired to do the same. Amidst the whirlwind, "the F.O.B. did a spendid thing: he invited B. to a weekend get-away for a prewedding father-daughter meaningful experience...there is very little room, if any, during the plan-a-thon for fathers and their little girls about to become brides to have alone time. My bride-to-be and my husband went to an island, walked on the beach, reminisced and allowed me my last sane weekend." There is such heart in this book that other mother of the bride books miss, skirt, or perhaps simply do not care about at all. A wedding isn't just having everything together, it is about coming together in heart and spirit. What gentle, great, bonding can you do that takes an event and makes it so much more? How do you fit in the loving, personal memories? This couple did such loving, thoughtful, gracious and bonding things with the daughter. Thus I am inspired with tools I would not have thought of before and for that I am truly thankful. Sweet M.O.B., for example, took her daughter and the bridesmaids for a day at the spa, another sweet bonding experience...some time out. A day of sharing, laughter, and relaxation. Brilliant! Personally, I did not know about a bridal gown mecca in New York called Kleinfeld's but I do now. My daughters and I are planning on making a weekend of New York, bridal gown shopping at Kleinfeld's, mother daughter photos sessions, Broadway plays. It will make a beautiful memory in the Book of Life. I would never have thought about it had I not read this book. This woman has class, laughter, love and inspiration flowing in her veins. I want to give my daughter more than a wedding and if you do too, then buy this gem of inspiration and sanity. Amidst all of the things that will make you laugh and cry there are short "grayed in" spots of vital information. Order extra boutineers, flowers,...have an emergency kit for the wedding, needles, thread, bandaids...wear your shoes a lot before the wedding, break those suckers in so that the wedding party is not cripled, hobling and wounded by nights end. Ms Goodall reminds the M.O.B. constantly that her mantra must be, "Whose wedding is this anyway?" It is your daughters and this book simply is a gem to help you arrive at the 1st anniversary sane, happy, with beautiful heartfelt memories, and a lot of laughter. I smile everytime I think about this book, and Sherri Goodall's sweet, heartfelt, loving, great, jovial advise. Where else can you go to get such advise as The Big Picture, or Trying to stay focused while flinging away money? If I have a choice between laughing or crying myself through this event, please Lord, let me laugh and Sherri Goodall has been my saving grace.
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