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| Bridal Bargains, 8th Edition: Secrets to throwing a fantastic wedding on a realistic budget (Bridal Bargains) | 
 enlarge | Author: Denise Fields
Publisher: Windsor Peak Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  325 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1889392227
Dewey Decimal Number: 395
EAN: 9781889392226
Publication Date: October 25, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent book!!!! June 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book has so many great ideas to save money on your wedding. I HIGHLY recommend any new bride to read this book!!!!!!
A Great Book for the Novice Bride June 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I got this book from the local library once I got engaged. It's full of great information--not only how to plan a wedding on a particular budget, but also how to avoid some of the scams and pitfalls that riddle the wedding industry. I read it all at once before I actually started planning and wished I had bought it so I could refer to it throughout our 18-month engagement. A good friend recently got engaged, and her birthday was just about 2 months later, and I knew exactly what to get her: this book! If you don't have the first clue about planning a wedding (or even if you do), this book tells you everything you need to know and helps you get organized, too. Highly recommended.
 i'm sending the book back for my money June 16, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
this book was not at all helpful for planning a wedding in southern california, UNLESS i wanted a super CHEAP looking wedding.
don't read this book if you want a NICE wedding at a bargain (such as a high-end designer gown at a huge discount, NOT pay full price for low-end designer gown).
months after going through the nightmare of trying on 100+ dresses and finally finding one, i read the gown section last night for "fun." i realized then that the reason why i felt so lost in my initial gown search was because i was holding on to this book like a Bible and the information (such as designer's styles, price range, etc) it provided was misleading and outdated.
the authors hate david's bridal (i don't blame them) and vera wang and are more forgiving of other designers such as monique lhuillier, reem acra, priscilla of boston (in which case, they don't even review melissa sweet, vineyard, and plantinum line), etc.
i can go on and on about why i don't think this book was good, but i'll save my time and return the book since we did not even save $50 after reading this book.
A "Must Have" for brides and mothers of the bride May 27, 2008
When my daughter was planning her wedding, she and I each had a copy as we were doing long distance planning. I highly recommend it and recently purchased the latest edition to give as an engagement gift.
 Some good advice, if you can get past the tone and typos... May 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A friend recommended this book to me right after I got engaged. I found it to be helpful in certain areas, but there are also a lot of annoying things about this book. First, the negatives:
1) I found the authors' tone throughout the book to be extremely irritating and depressing. It's clear that they have a vendetta against the entire wedding industry. Yes, I get it, wedding-related services are appallingly overpriced. But these authors take the doom-and-gloom, everyone-is-out-to-get-you thing way too far. It makes you want to jump off a cliff, not jump into wedding planning. Also, they take issue with bridal magazines being vehicles for advertisements, but then they repeatedly advertise their own other books and their website throughout this book. Hypocritical, much?
2) TYPOS. I have literally never read any publication with this many typos before. It seemed like practically every page had a major error on it. Clearly these authors need to get a better editor.
3) I found it frustrating that many of the average prices they quote are inaccurate depending on where you live. I live in the NY area, and while the authors do acknowledge that major metro areas will usually have higher prices, I wish they would have done a little more research into exactly how much higher. Often they quote the "high end" for a vendor as being a certain price, when in NY really it might be hundreds of dollars more.
Now, for the good stuff: if you can get past the angry tone and all the typos, the book actually does have some good advice on planning in general and on saving money. What I found most helpful were the lists of websites, online discount sources, and stores in various cities. If you're newly engaged, there's a lot of information that will help you figure out where to start with planning and which sources will best fit your budget. Also, the authors do offer a money-back guarantee on the book, so if you hate it you don't really have anything to lose!
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