An easy, elegant, and pocket-sized gift book packed with everything a bride needs to plan her dream wedding. This petite handbook is a personal wedding planner you can carry in your pocket! The perfect engagement present or planning handbook for any soon-to-be bride, this manual is packed with tips to plan, execute, and enjoy the perfect engagement and wedding, including: • How to Set a Budget
 • How to Select Your Attendants
 • How to Find the Dress
 • How to Make Your Guests Comfortable
 • How to Handle Showers and Parties

“This reference guide is a one-stop-shop for everything you're currently frantically Googling.”—Cosmopolitan

“The perfect engagement present for any couple getting ready to take the plunge.”*—Philadelphia Weekly

• “A must-have!”—Anna Jedrziewski, Retailing Insight

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  Michelle Park Lazette is a marketing strategist by day and a novelist with her own independent press, Flying Snake Press, by night and weekend.

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  **An easy and elegant pocket-sized guide packed with everything a bride needs to plan a wedding–from setting a date to enjoying the big day.

  **You’re basking in the glow of your recent engagement. But now you actually have to plan the wedding! It can be an overwhelming prospect. Where do you even begin?

  This mini-manual will help you not only envision but perfectly execute and actually enjoy your wedding, with expert advice on:

• How to Set a Budget
• Choosing Your Ceremony Venue
• How to Obtain a Marriage License
• Choosing Your Guests

• How to Write Your Vows—Or Not
  Plus tips on selecting your vendors, curating the details, customizing your traditions, handling delicate situations, and much, much more!
  

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  **TABLE OF CONTENTS

  INTRODUCTION**

  FIRST STUFF FIRST
  What to Do Now That You’re Engaged
  Six Questions to Ask Your Intended
  How to Insure Your Ring and Your Wedding
  Picturing Your Wedding
  Choosing Your Guests
  How to Set a Budget
  How to Set the Date
  Choosing Your Reception Venue
  Choosing Your Ceremony Venue

  BIG PICTURE STUFF
  How to Pick Your Photographer and Love Your Photos
  Hiring a Videographer
  How to Pick a Planner
  Feeding Your Guests
  Stocking the Bar
  Dreaming Up Dessert
  How to Select Your Soundtrack
  Five Questions to Ask Your Officiant
  Choosing Your Stylist
  Figuring Out the Flowers
  Arranging Transportation
  How to Select Your Attendants
  How to Find the Dress
  Regarding Toasts

  DETAIL STUFF
  How to Handle Showers and Parties
  Selecting the Gifts You Give
  Dressing Your Wedding Party
  How to Accessorize Your Wedding Look
  Selecting Your Rings
  Gift Registry Tips
  Invitations
  Choosing Your Traditions
  How to Select Readings
  How to Write Your Vows—Or Not
  Setting the Day-Of Timeline
  How to Personalize Your Programs
  How to Pick Favors
  Picking a Guestbook
  Eight Steps to Seating Everyone
  How to Make Your Guests Comfortable
  How to Obtain a Marriage License

  WEDDING (AND BEYOND) STUFF
  Nurturing Your Relationship
  Rehearsal Essentials
  Tipping Your Vendors
  How to Postpone or Cancel
  Handling Delicate Situations
  Difficult Convos Cheat Sheet
  Taking a Honeymoon
  How to Change Your Name

  THE CHECKLIST

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS