1000 Best Secrets for Your Perfect Wedding

416 Pages·2004·0.6 MB·english

by  Naylor

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Sharon Naylor
Copyright © 2004 by Sharon Naylor
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Naylor, Sharon.
1000 best secrets for your perfect wedding / by Sharon
Naylor.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-4022-2022-7 91-4022-0271-7 (alk. paper)
1. Weddings--Planning. 2. Wedding etiquette. I. Title:
One thousand best secrets for your perfect wedding. II.
Title.
HQ745.N3867 2004
395.2'2--dc22
2004012239
Printed and bound in Canada
WC 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For Madison and Kevin

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
PART ONE:The First Steps
Chapter 1: Sharing Your Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 2: Style and Formality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 3: Setting the Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Chapter 4: Location is Everything . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
PART TWO:Planning Your Ceremony
Chapter 5: Building a Beautiful Ceremony
That’s You. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 6: Wedding Vows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Chapter 7: Closing Your Ceremony . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
PART THREE:Dressing Up in Style
Chapter 8: Gorgeous Gowns and Colors for You . . 95
Chapter 9: Gorgeous Gowns and Colors for
Your Bridesmaids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Chapter 10: Wraps and Accessories for You....119
Chapter 11: Looking and Feeling Gorgeous
on Your Wedding Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Chapter 12: Dressing Your Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Chapter 13: Dressing Up the Children . . . . . . . . 151
Chapter 14: The Rings.......................163
Chapter 15: Your Flowers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
PART FOUR:The Party of Your Lives
Chapter 16: Setting the Scene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Chapter 17: Setting the Tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Chapter 18: A Menu to Savor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Chapter 19: Just Desserts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Chapter 20: Give Your Guests a Show . . . . . . . . . 269
Chapter 21: The After-Party. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
PART FIVE:Additional Details
Chapter 22: Impressive Invitations . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Chapter 23: Photos and Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Chapter 24: Getting a Ride. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Chapter 25: A Place to Stay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Chapter 26: Wedding Weekend Plans . . . . . . . . . 347
Chapter 27: A Token of Appreciation. . . . . . . . . . 353
Chapter 28: Making the Last Moments Count. . . 377
Note from the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
About the Author. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Acknowledgments
Agreat big thank you to my editors at Sourcebooks,
Deborah Werksman and Kelly Barrales-Saylor, for
years of effort in creating projects that we can share
with you…and also to my tireless and fearless agent
Meredith Bernstein for always coming through for
me. What a great team!
Many, many thanks to my family and my closest
of friends, my writer’s community at the American
Society of Journalists and Authors, my wedding
industry colleagues at the Association of Bridal
Consultants and the International Special Events
Society, plus the very valued and very talented wed-
ding experts who shared their advice with me for
this book: Leslie Vismara of Vismara Invitations,
David Walzog and Chris Diviney from the Westmin-
ster Hotel, Brenda K. Maynard from Party Plus,
Sarah Stitham from Charmed Places, Dana Smith
Acosta from Charming Favors, Casey Cooper from
Botanicals in Chicago, Rich Penrose from Dean
Michaels Studio, and, of course, the fabulous Crys
Stewart from WeddingBells magazine and her
amazing publicist Julie Berry, who always delivers
the finest in wedding resources when I call.