From the author of The Proverbs Principle and The Sandcastles Guide to Starting and Managing Your Own Wedding-Planning Business comes the ultimate guide for anyone who is planning a wedding. Successful wedding planner Shari Grenier draws on years of personal experience as she explains every detail from the engagement to the honeymoon. Brides-to-be can be assured that they are getting the most complete wedding planning resource available. This book is the textbook for the Sandcastles Wedding Consultant Certification Programme. Worksheets and checklists help you track every detail, taking your wedding plans from stressed to blessed! From A (announcements) to Z (zoom lenses in wedding photography), this second edition of Weddingology covers these topics and much more: Wedding budgets Engagement etiquette Wording of a wedding invitation Wedding party Guests and gifts Ceremony and reception Writing your own vows Wedding fashions Wedding music Flowers Home weddings Renewing your vows

"Renowned wedding expert Shari Beck leads you through the complex steps of starting your business and keeping it running profitably"--Page 4 of cover

From the author of The Proverbs Principle and The Sandcastles Guide to Starting and Managing Your Own Wedding-Planning Business comes the ultimate guide for anyone who is planning a wedding.Successful wedding planner Shari Beck draws on years of personal experience as she explains every detail, from the engagement to the honeymoon. Brides-to-be can be assured that they are getting the most complete wedding-planning resource available-this book is the textbook for the Sandcastles Wedding Consultant Certification Programme.From A (announcements) to Z (zoom lenses in wedding photography), Weddingology covers such topics as Wedding Budgets Engagement Etiquette Wording of a Wedding Invitation The Wedding Party Guests and Gifts The Ceremony and Reception Writing Your Own Vows Wedding Fashions Wedding Music Flowers Home Weddings Reaffirmations And much more! Worksheets and checklists help you track every detail, taking your wedding plans from stressed to blessed!

In this autobiographical novel, Albania’s most renowned novelist and poet Ismail Kadare explores his relationship with his mother in a delicately wrought tale of home, family, creative aspirations, and personal and political freedom. “Houses like ours seemed constructed with the specific purpose of preserving coldness and misunderstanding for as long as possible.” In his father’s great stone house with hidden rooms and even a dungeon, Ismail grows up with his mother at the center of his universe. Fragile as a paper doll, she finds herself at odds with her tight–lipped and wise mother–in–law who, as is the custom for women of a certain age, will never again step foot over the threshold to leave her home. Young Ismail finds it difficult to understand his mother’s tears, though he can understand her boredom. She told him the reason herself in a phrase that terrified and obsessed the boy: “The house is eating me up!” As Ismail explores his world, his mother becomes fearful of her intellectual son—he uses words she does not understand, writes radical poetry, falls in love far too easily, and seems to renounce everything she believes in. He will, she fears, have to exchange her for some other superior mother when he becomes a famous writer. The Doll is a delicate and disarming autobiographical novel, an exploration of Kadare’s creative aspirations and their tangled connections to his childhood home and his mother’s tenuous place within it.

Internet and web technology penetrates many aspects of our daily life. Its importance as a medium for business transactions will grow exponentially during the next few years. In terms of the involved market volume, the B2B area will hereby be the most interesting area. Also, it will be the place, where the new technology will lead to drastic changes in established customer relationships and business models. In an era where open and flexible electronic commerce provides new types of services to its users, simple 1-1 connections will be replaced by n-m relationships between customers and vendors. This new flexibility in electronic trading will generate serious challenges. The main problem stems from the heterogeneity of information descriptions used by vendors and customers, creating problems in both manual trading and in direct 1-1 electronic trading. In the case of B2B market places, it becomes too serious to be neglected. Product descriptions, catalog formats and business documents are often unstructured and non-standardized. Intelligent solutions that mechanize the structuring, standardizing, aligning, and personalizing process are a key requisite for successfully overcoming the current bottlenecks of B2B electronic commerce while enabling its further growth. Intelligent Information Integration in B2B Electronic Commerce discusses the main problems of information integration in this area and sketches several technological solution paths. Intelligent Information Integration in B2B Electronic Commerce is designed to meet the needs of a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners in industry and graduate level students in Computer Science.