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| The Perfect Wedding Reception: Stylish Ideas For Every Season | 
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| Author: Maria Mcbride-mellinger
Creator: Ross Whitaker
Publisher: Collins Living
Category: Book
List Price: $40.00
Buy Used: $6.95
You Save: $33.05 (83%)
New (31) Used (36) Collectible (2) from $6.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0060192984
Dewey Decimal Number: 395.22
EAN: 9780060192983
Publication Date: January 1, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Waste of Money!! February 3, 2004
7 out of 16 found this review helpful
There are better books out there. This is a big waste of money. The book was not what I was expecting.
OSTENTATIOUS IDEAS FOR EVERY SEASON BUT NOT EVERY BRIDE August 18, 2003
54 out of 70 found this review helpful
If Kennedy or Vanderbilt is your last name and I mean The Kennedys and The Vanderbilts, if Bill Gates is your wedding sponser or if you are a member of the Royal Family then this book is for you. If you live in the real world you may not want to bother reading a book that would embarrass even Martha Stewart. Even if your wedding budget isn't that of a small nation you can uncover some ideas to use on a realistic day of bliss. But I would leave out the "Honeymoon bed out in the open" next to a swamp unless you are marrying Jeff Corwin or the Crocodile Hunter. Look at page 116 and see if you would like to spend your wedding night there but McBride-Mellinger says "far from sight of the area's inhabitants". It's also far from sight of a bathroom,room service and Walgreen's to get some mosquito spray and close to sight for anything with four or six legs or even eight hairy ones that hopefully would be four groomsmen rather than a spider. As in all the weddings in the book, the cakes are works of art, the prettiest I've ever seen (pgs 106&107, 214&215 "a masterpiece" and the chapter on Confections) and the flowers are magnificent. If you read this book make sure to have a dictionary for all the $2.00 words as it must have been written with a word processor in one hand an a Thesaurus in the other. Also, a really good cook book will come in handy to try and figure out what everyone was eating. McBride-Mellinger is even so helpful as to tell you how to dress the "help" as if in this day and time the guests even know what to wear, where the "help" should go to the bathroom, and to prepare food incase they work more then four hours. But do show respect because Maria McBride-Mellinger has a very high opinion of herself and a much over inflated ego. "The Perfect Wedding Reception" is that: perfectly ostentatious,pretentious,over the top and prefectly not for middle class America. The book is a "perfect" waste of a good tree. For over 30 years I have been a floral artist and wedding planner with the experience of over 500 weddings in all parts of the US and Europe.
creative suggestions June 11, 2003
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book suggests many creative ways to make your wedding reception fun and unique. The author describes 4 weddings (one for each season) thoroughly and with an artist's eye for detail and color. She also provides an extensive index for all aspects of reception preparation and planning. The pictures vividly display the character of each wedding, bringing them to life. I would have prefered some extra examples with illustrations of decorationg ideas for each season that were not part of the featured wedding. It would have been nice to have some more practical examples of possibilities. The featured weddings are gorgeous but, for people like myself, a bit out of reach financially. Surely, one can put a creative, unique twist on some less eccentric styles to make them equally as special, beautiful and perfect for any wedding.
Very helpful April 12, 2003
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
There are some wonderful suggestions here to make your day special. You will read this and remember the little things to do. One recommendation would be to direct readers to Katherine's Song, the wedding song in Defenders of the Holy Grail (Ken Agori)...this is THE song for this millenium. Of course, this may belong more at the service, but at the reception for the first dance, WOW!! THis book is worth the money...
 Over priced February 25, 2003
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book was a bit over priced and not very useful. I would suggest The Perfect Wedding by Maria McBride-Mellinger.
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