Everything you need to plan the wedding of your dreams. When it's time to start planning your special day, there is no better source to turn to than Modern Bride. The #1 bridal magazine gives you expert advice every step of the way--from selecting the perfect sites for the ceremony and reception to handling the potential conflicts and special challenges that today's couples face. Now Modern Bride Complete Wedding Planner offers you the most thorough, up-to-date information on every aspect of your engagement and wedding. Here you'll find: * Checklists, charts, and worksheets to keep you organized and guarantee that you don't overlook anything * Best choices for your invitations, ceremony, music, reception, flowers, and bridal gown * A quiz that identifies priorities and points out potential complications before they arise * Contemporary solutions for solving today's etiquette dilemmas with common sense and tact * Tips for planning ethnic, theme, and honeymoon weddings, as well as marrying again and reaffirmation celebrations * Sample budgets for actual weddings in different regions

Written in conjunction with Modern Bride magazine by acknowledged authorities with a combined experience of 37 years in the wedding planning field, this reference/workbook realistically addresses the myriad issues, challenges and decisions that today's recently engaged couples must face. Offers superlative advice on everything from wedding budgets, dressing, flowers, music, preparing for marriage (including prenuptial agreements, health testing and stress) to reception options, selecting attendants and marrying again.

SPECIAL OFFER! A one-year (6 issues) subscription to Modern Bride magazine is included with the purchase of this book. Please see the back flap of the book for offer and refund details. When it’s time to start planning for your special day, there’s no better source than Modern Bride. This stylish, contemporary guide is packed with all the information and advice you need to create the wedding of your dreams, from planning the perfect ceremony and reception to surviving any challenges you may face on the way to your big day. It’s simply the most inspiring, thorough and up-to-date wedding planner you’ll find anywhere.

A contemporary guide for today's mother of the bride shares expert guidelines on everything from getting the most out of wedding-planning sites and navigating sticky situations to observing social media etiquette and working with future in-laws. --Publisher's description.

Cele Lalli, Editor-in-Chief of America’s #1 bridal magazine, answers all of your wedding etiquette questions. Getting ready for your wedding is tremendously exciting, and you’re going to have so many questions! But now you can have personalized advice at your fingertips from America’s foremost wedding expert. As Editor-in-Chief of Modern Bride, Cele Lalli has spent years helping couples make their dream weddings come true. Anticipating and solving today’s complications is her special domain. She can answer all your questions with tact, skill, and knowledge, giving you the advice you need on: •Announcing the engagement •Wording the invitations •Sharing wedding expenses •Choosing attendants •Determining the guest list •Selecting everyone’s attire •Organizing the shower and bachelor bash •Dealing with divorced parents •Arranging interfaith, intercultural, and interracial weddings •Planning long distance weddings •Handling any special situations •Personalizing the ceremony and reception •Ensuring that the big day runs smoothly In addition, over 125 quick tips covering the basics of wedding etiquette at a glance round out this invaluable guide. Modern Bride Guide to Etiquette is the perfect companion to Modern Bride Wedding Celebrations: The Complete Wedding Planner for Today’s Bride.

This book is for any couple—same or opposite sex—seeking a personalized wedding that dignifies the relationship and the individual self. No “new normal” here—this guide emboldens you to harness your unique, brazen, queer truth; to be creative; and to plan your wedding your way. Every fiancé faces the question, how do I become something new without losing myself? Using his own story, author Mark O’Connell reflects on conflicts that arrive during wedding transitions, as well as various other transitions throughout your lives. As a psychotherapist, O’Connell offers ideas to bridge relational gaps with your partner, family, and friends. As a professional actor, he also offers insight into the ways your wedding is a theatrical production and how this can help you to conceptualize the event, consolidate your efforts, and increase creative collaboration as a couple. This will serve you not only on your big day, but also for the rest of your time together. Whether we’re straight, gay, or other, weddings inspire us to carve out more fun, freedom, recognition, life space, love space, and connubial space than we’ve ever had before.