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| Real Weddings: A Celebration of Personal Style | 
enlarge | Author: Mallory Samson Publisher: Clarkson Potter Category: Book
List Price: $40.00 Buy Used: $0.82 You Save: $39.18 (98%)
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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 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: No dust jacket. Good shape, medium wear.
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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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