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| The Smart Couple's Guide to the Wedding of Your Dreams: Planning Together for Less Stress and More Joy | 
 enlarge | Authors: Judith Sherven, James Sniechowski
Publisher: New World Library
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1577313410
Dewey Decimal Number: 395.22
EAN: 9781577313410
Publication Date: November 4, 2005
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Product Description
Each year, millions of couples wed, and millions of relationships — involving brides, grooms, families, and friends — are undermined by power struggles, fights, and stress before the big event arrives. Often overrun by others' demands, couples may be too exhausted to experience the outpouring of love meant for them. Now savvy brides and grooms can turn to The Smart Couple's Guide to the Wedding of Your Dreams. It encourages couples to explore their wedding desires, be realistic about budgets, and be firm in their decisions, and it walks them through practical steps to make these goals a reality. Co-written by two therapists, themselves a happily married team, the book emphasizes recapturing the meaning and joy of the occasion while making informed choices together. Each chapter provides exercises and suggestions to help with specific decisions on vows, location, parents' roles, and more, ultimately showing couples how to express their style while honoring family and religious traditions. These decision-making skills also help establish a precedent for a long and happy marriage.
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 Lone Dissenter August 9, 2008
This was not the book for me. Although I could see other readers enjoying it, I did not find the book very practical. Nor did I agree with some of the suggestions. For instance, I felt that the writers glossed over the concept of wedding favors. They advised not to do them. I would have preferred suggestions on different types of favors that are cost-effective.
It's not a bad book but I did not find it very useful for my needs. I am leaning towards a more traditional wedding and I needed help on details concerning planning. I preferred Joyce Scardina Becker's "Countdown to Your Personal Wedding". Her book is a different type, however, more oriented towards planning and instructions on how to go about wedding planning and information on procedures (i.e what items a seamstress should be looking at during wedding dress fittings).
If you get the Smart Couple's Guide to...I advise that you also buy a book that is geared towards the details of planning a wedding. Unless you are an extremely organized and knowledgeable person when it comes to weddings. As interesting as it is to read, I wouldn't go it alone with the Smart Couple's Guide. I appreciated Ms. Becker's expertise in wedding planning and organization and turned to it more than I turned to the Smart Couple's Guide. I do reiterate that they are two different types of books. I hope that helps.
When your husband-to-be doesn't want to be a bit player at his own wedding November 9, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm in my 40s and getting married for the first--and only--time in a few months. My fiance was feeling a little left out of the planning process, so I bought 2 copies of this book, one for him and one for myself. It's been a great discussion tool, and we've both made lots of notes all over the pages. The book covers the details of wedding planning but with a focus on keeping the relationship and the meaning of the celebration central. No matter what other planning guides you own -- and you will need others that do go bananas over flowers and bridesmaids' dresses if that's your thing, and God knows there are plenty of them out there-- please pick up a copy, or two, of this one. It lets you convert the stress and commericalism of planning your wedding into a relationship-deepening experience.
The Real Deal on Weddings & Marriage September 26, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
As relationship trainers, motivational speakers, and workshop leaders, the authors of this book have credentials. Drs. Sherven & Sniechowski wrote Be Loved for Who You Really Are (St. Martin's Press, 2003), The New Intimacy (Health Communications, 1997), and Opening to Love 365 Days a Year (Health Communications, 2000). Married since 1988, they also have the personal experience of marriage longevity in the difficult-to-navigate labyrinth of relationships. Their co-authored book, The Smart Couple's Guide has personality as well as practical advice.
Divided into fifteen chapters, Drs. Sherven & Sniechowski thoroughly discuss aspects of the wedding plan. The authors offer true-life cases from hundreds of couples as examples of those who chose to plan their wedding together. These examples are used in a variety of settings: from "Popping the Question" to "To Change Names, or Not." Dispersed throughout the book are insights from the authors' own co-created wedding. The authors even research the history behind wedding customs, yet empower the wedding couples to co-create their specific style of wedding according to the themes and traditions of their own choosing.
The Smart Couple's Guide...is not a wedding planner, but a useful source of suggestions that illustrate how a couple can plan their wedding (and marriage) together. The authors state: "By living out your commitment as a couple throughout the planning process, you will experience new possibilities and new levels of awareness." Pre-marital relationship building skills is a main theme of the book; the authors cite values such as honesty and integrity as the foundation of the wedding, not the number of tiers on the cake or names on the invitations. To strengthen those skills, the authors give the reader questionnaires regarding "The Ten Key Issues of Married Life" and "Financial Truth."
Whether it is the reader's first or fourth marriage, whether the reader is age thirty or seventy, The Smart Couples Guide to the Wedding of Your Dreams is a must-read prior to the "big day." After all, the wedding day is a step into the maze of marriage. This book will steer the reader by offering clarity and reality to the couple as they journey together.
review by Lynn C. Tolson
This book can make you a hero! May 8, 2006
How many weddings are so stressful that the most exciting thing to the newlyweds is getting the darned thing over with?
I know the feeling and so do a lot of others who've gone through the "traditional wedding routine." You know, the one where the bride-to-be is the total organizer, worker, chooser, and the groom-to-be is out of the picture until the big day.
The stress and anxiety of these scenarios will be lessened if not vanquished for any couple who is fortunate enough to read "The Smart Couple's Guide To The Wedding of Your Dreams."
How cleaver, inventive, and couple-enhancing can one book be? Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski, best-selling husband and wife relationship team, have put together a book that will make heroes out of those of us who give it as an engagement gift.
The success of any relationship relies partly on synergy. That's what happens for a couple who is made stronger in their decisions and philosophy by acting together as a power-sharing team rather than two people acting independently. This book guides the wedding couple to experience that throughout their wedding planning - from engagement through the honeymoon. That way they can experience a romantic yet sound start to their wedded life. I was intrigued all the way through this book by the inventive and creative things that most pre-wedding couples never even think about. While I don't yet have a wedding planned, I thoroughly enjoyed the book from that angle alone.
Tom Justin
www.tomjustin.com
Las Vegas, NV
This Book Touches All Areas of Planning a Wedding! January 10, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a Wedding Officiant, I can guarantee that Judith & Jim hit the "Dream Wedding" target dead center. I am pleased to recommend this book to every couple whose ceremony I perform. The perfect gift for the Bride and Groom. More than just another book about weddings! Love it! CelebrateIntimateWeddings.com
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