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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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Sound Copy. Mild Reading Wear.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Hugely helpful March 28, 2008
I highly recommend this guide to everyone planning a wedding. The book is stuffed full of great ideas and tips on how to find bargains for EVERY aspect of your wedding, from attire to reception sites to limousine companies and on and on. There are also a huge number of helpful tips, such as suggested questions to ask every vendor.
This book is aimed towards those who are planning to hire vendors for most (or all) of their wedding, rather than someone looking for do-it-yourself tips. Do-it-yourself ideas are occassionally touched on, but this is not a book for someone planning a rock-bottom budget wedding. Rather it is geared towards those looking to maximize the money they do spend on vendors and in bridal shops.
There is a money-back guarantee you will save $500! March 16, 2008
This book is exactly what brides need to combat the evil forces of the wedding industry who are determined to take our money. I was lucky to find this book early in the process, and I will never waste my money on any other books or wedding magazines as a result. This book will promote your sanity, and will not make you feel inadequate for wanting to have a reasonably priced wedding (as almost every other wedding-related publication/vendor will). The book even guarantees to save you at least $500 or your money back.
Wonderful - realistic view of bridal industry and what you need March 16, 2008
A wonderful book, period. I originally bought five other wedding planning books first and then bought this book later. Combined, this single book had everything and more that the other five books had collectively. Not only that, it was in a realistic tone that is understandable and relatable. For example, the cost of wedding photography is at first, a bit astonishing. In the book, they add the humor to initially addressing details on topics, like photography (and it was stressful for me, as who wants to spend more money than necessary) by prefacing the discussion with saying things like, "ok, you may want to set down for this one", etc.
While I was reading this book, I actually felt like I was not reading a book, but getting advice from a friend. I can't say that for the rest of the wedding planning books and I appreciated the realistic view as planning my own wedding (with the help of my wonderful husband) was stressful. I also did get the accompanying planner as well later on. The information is also in the planner; however, there are more details in the book itself.
In the end, I would completely recommend this book. However, also add that your wedding is yours and to go your own path. Honestly, I think the authors of this book would completely encourage that. I was impressed that the authors provided their contact information in the book and encourage their readers to contact them. I did not contact them, but intend to later with feedback as to what we did or did not use. Go to a bookstore and flip through this book. It's worth a look!
 Completely disappointing March 8, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this book because the reviews were overwhelmingly positive, and on a tight budget, I really could use some help. I can honestly say that there was literally nothing in this book that I hadn't a) read in my other wedding planning guides, or b) figured out for myself, based on common sense.
If you really aren't a creative thinker, and need some really common sense ideas for saving (i.e. cutting your guest list down?), it might be helpful, but I was really disappointed. At least they offer a refund if you don't like it. Which I didn't.
Carly Roney's "The Knot Complete Guide to Weddings in the Real World" isn't specifically for budget weddings, but it's way better than this book, because it makes great points for etiquette, creativity, saving money, and everything you could possibly want to know about weddings. My bride-on-a-budget advice is save your money, and don't buy Bridal Bargains.
This book is awful. March 3, 2008
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
I'm not one to normally write reviews, but this book is so awful that here I am. My biggest problems:
1. By the 8th edition, you would expect a book to be relatively (if not completely) free of typos. This book is riddled with misspellings, grammatical errors, and misused punctuation. To me, this is unacceptable.
2. This book is basically useless you live in a rural area, and the numbers the authors throw around are basically meaningless.
3. The authors have some bizarre biases. They rail against David's Bridal, anorexic models (mentioned at least three times) and most forms of basic wedding etiquette (they're especially ornery about this one, usually referencing such things in ALL CAPS).
4. They seem to have a penchant for promoting animal cruelty, as evidenced by their suggestions for having a live butterfly release (which is expensive and unnecessary, something that they're supposedly against) and using live goldfish as centerpieces. Not good.
5. REPETITION. This book could probably half as long as it is, if the authors didn't feel compelled to repeat themselves over and over and over.
Bottom line: don't waste your time and money with this book. All of the information in it can be found online, for free (and what's a better bargain than free?).
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