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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | The national best-seller the wedding industry does NOT want you to read! Bridal Bargains teaches couples all the tricks to saving money on a wedding--and how to avoid pitfalls and scams. With the average wedding costing $20,000, Bridal Bargains is the solution to tying the knot without breaking the bank. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Denise Fields | | Paperback: | 480 pages | | Publisher: | Windsor Peak Press | | Publication Date: | October 25, 2006 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1889392227 | | Package Length: | 8.8 inches | | Package Width: | 4.2 inches | | Package Height: | 1.2 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 83 reviews |
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6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 A great pick for anyone planning a wedding! May 25, 2007
By N. E.
I have been reading several wedding planning books during my engagement and have found this one to be the most helpful. Each section has dozens of interesting ideas and relevant information. I especially appreciated their reviews of various companies, stores, designers, etc.
Some books give cool suggestions but assume you have a limitless budget, while others sacrifice elegance in order to drastically cut costs. This book strikes a perfect balance between those two extremes and has excellent advice for planning a very nice wedding at a reasonable cost.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Great Resource Book May 18, 2007
By Cindy
I'm in the process of planning my own wedding. This book has been very helpful in many aspects of wedding planning. It talks about different kinds of wedding invitations offered by different companies. It gives ratings to brands of wedding gawns and bridesmaids' dresses. Then there are sections on photographers, florists, etc. There are also suggested websites to get more information. It's been a great book for me to read before talking to vendors. This book has been more helpful to me than wedding planning books.
14 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 Completely disappointing Mar 08, 2008
By Allison Carr
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.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Some good advice, if you can get past the tone and typos... May 08, 2008
By anonymous
A friend recommended this book to me right after I got engaged. I found it to be helpful in certain areas, but there are also a lot of annoying things about this book. First, the negatives:
1) I found the authors' tone throughout the book to be extremely irritating and depressing. It's clear that they have a vendetta against the entire wedding industry. Yes, I get it, wedding-related services are appallingly overpriced. But these authors take the doom-and-gloom, everyone-is-out-to-get-you thing way too far. It makes you want to jump off a cliff, not jump into wedding planning. Also, they take issue with bridal magazines being vehicles for advertisements, but then they repeatedly advertise their own other books and their website throughout this book. Hypocritical, much?
2) TYPOS. I have literally never read any publication with this many typos before. It seemed like practically every page had a major error on it. Clearly these authors need to get a better editor.
3) I found it frustrating that many of the average prices they quote are inaccurate depending on where you live. I live in the NY area, and while the authors do acknowledge that major metro areas will usually have higher prices, I wish they would have done a little more research into exactly how much higher. Often they quote the "high end" for a vendor as being a certain price, when in NY really it might be hundreds of dollars more.
Now, for the good stuff: if you can get past the angry tone and all the typos, the book actually does have some good advice on planning in general and on saving money. What I found most helpful were the lists of websites, online discount sources, and stores in various cities. If you're newly engaged, there's a lot of information that will help you figure out where to start with planning and which sources will best fit your budget. Also, the authors do offer a money-back guarantee on the book, so if you hate it you don't really have anything to lose!
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Finally, a wedding book with budget tips for the rest of us... Jun 18, 2007
By Erin
Finally, a book for those of us who are planning to get married for far less than the average of $20k+ that an American wedding goes for these days. My fiancee and I are planning a wedding for next spring. I've seen many wedding planning books, and the redundancies between them--the same old warmed-over inventory of checklists and idiotic tips like "if you're planning an outdoor wedding, make rain plans"--become clear after reading just two or three.
This book, though, is the best I've seen. It's full of great tips to save money and plan a wedding on a budget, and the best part of the book is the extensive research and tips on working the wedding gown industry to your advantage--probably one of your single largest expenses. There's even a complementary website that grades different wedding gown suppliers/designers--the website access information is printed in the book.
I only have two critiques of the book:
1. It's not proofread all that well--I found spelling and syntax errors with a degree of regularity. To me, this detracts from the credibility of the book.
2. This really applies to almost all wedding planning books, but it annoys the heck out of me that brides are assumed to lead the wedding planning (e.g. the title "Bridal Bargains.") How about "Wedding Bargains"?
A central tenet of this book is not being pressured into making huge purchases for your wedding just because social convention suggests you should--instead, you should have a wedding that matches you and your fiancee's personalities. I'm surprised that the authors would make this excellent point, and then leave the social convention of the bride planning the whole event by default entirely unexamined. Really, aren't we finally, FINALLY past the era where the bride automatically assumes all of the responsibility of organizing this huge event--as if the groom has no stake at all in this ceremony where two people announce their love to one another in front of friends and family? The division of responsibility in organizing a wedding celebration should be the choice of the couple (and if the bride wants to go nuts with the planning, she should be able to have at it), not some sad, time-worn social expectation of how a wedding should be planned.
That said, this is still an excellent purchase. If you must spend money on one wedding planning book, make it the current edition of this book. It's absolutely worth the money.
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