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| Weddings | 
 enlarge | Author: Colin Cowie
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $75.00
Buy Used: $1.32
You Save: $73.68 (98%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3
Dimensions (in): 12 x 8.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0316246611
Dewey Decimal Number: 395.22
EAN: 9780316246613
Publication Date: February 2, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Used - Good
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good introductory wedding book August 11, 2008
I spent a very pleasant Sunday afternoon reading this glamorous book. It is a good first step in deciding how you want to be married and how you are going to spend your wedding budget. While there are plenty of visually extravagant suggestions, readers are continuously reminded to tone these down to realistic size without spreading too many ideas out too thinly. I could hardly agree more.
Alas, I could not prevent myself from imagining numerous future brides becoming completely carried away after having seen so many photos of luxurious, ornately-clad tents and page after page of hugely expensive and rather risque flower arrangements. Preferred the book for Cowie's advice rather than the very lavishly staged photos.
Bought it for ideas for my weeding February 27, 2008
I bought this book so I can find ideas for my wedding flower decoration,
I thought I would find lots of pictures and get a lot of ideas. It didn't help me much. But still, is a good book for other information like planning, etiquette, etc.
 Weddings Colin Cowie November 10, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Was a bit disappointed that it was just a collection of various weddings and their stories. Was looking for more practical hints.
 Not a single thing I would do March 4, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Thank goodness I checked this book out from the library before buying it! I flipped through the whole 250-page book in literally 15 minutes. There is a ton of print in teeny tiny font. Personally, I don't care that much for what Colin Cowie has to say, I am more interested in the pictures that he gathers to give a visual image of a wedding. I didn't read any of it because it was so small and there seemed to be so much that I can only imagine how much useless filler was in there.
The pictures, what I actually care about, were of poor quality. The book was published in 1998 but many of the weddings screamed 1980s. The pictures were small, with poor lighting and lacked a glossy, professional finish.
I don't know if the point of the book was to show a ton of different wedding styles and to give everyone ideas no matter what your wedding will be - but that's not the point I got. The headings of the weddings were things like "Formal garden party", "Informal party under a tent", but they all looked exactly the same. The decorations, dresses and menus all seemd very old-fashioned with gilded angles, poofy sleeves and roses galore. There were more roses in this book than I think I have seen in my entire life. And for a girl whose wedding will have hydrangeas (which were shown once or twice as a filler with roses), it wasn't particularly helpful.
In a nutshell, I thought this was an uninspired book with poor quality pictures and too much verbiage. I didn't see a single thing that I even stopped to think, "Hm, would I want that in my wedding?", I just blew past everything because nothing was appealing.
I got this book for a different reason August 20, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While this book is a FANTASTIC book for those who want inspiration for those starting a wedding... I bought this book for an entirely different reason. I am an artist and I am always looking for books with fantastic photography to help inspire my drawings and paintings. This book has some AMAZING photography and has some absolutely sensual moments. The mood is set throughout the book, very full of life and sensuality and unbelievably fresh. The array of flowers, the silkiness of the dresses, the ambience of the swagging fabrics, the smoothness of the linen tablecloths, it is all eye candy.
Even if you aren't planning a wedding (like me), this is a fine book for your collection and a must have for photography enthusiasts who like wedding photos.
I highly recommend it!
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