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We know, we know, traditions die hard, but more and more of us are getting married these days and we want to forge our own fete. Forget the Bridal Galleria, forget the country club, The Anti-Bride Guide is the ultimate guide to creating the ultimate party. Fun to read and illustrated throughout with line drawings, each chapter (the place, the dress, the food, etc.) offers up fabulous advice and unusual ideas for those brides looking for more than the usual haunts and the standard fare. Dozens of unique tips throughout give the bride great insider advice on how to deal with all the wedding eventualities (last minute lipstick stain on dress, what to do about a facial break out on wedding day, etc.) A quick planner and resource guide at the end keeps the bride on track. Tabbed chapters have pockets for stuffing brochures and clippings, and a flexi-pocket at back manages the overflow.
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Carolyn Gerin is the president of Subset, Inc., a three-person design/web firm in San Francisco. She works extensively with Hachette Filipacchi Home Group designing ad campaigns for Elle Decor's Go Glamour Galore ad campaign and Met Home's Passport to Design campaign. She had three fun and affordable wedding celebrations: one in San Francisco, one in Washington D.C., and one in Paris. Stephanie Rosenbaum is a San Francisco-based writer and regular contributor to the Bay Guardian and San Francisco Magazine.
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Most of the wedding guides we've seen assume you'll get engaged at least a year before your wedding date and that you'll happily spend every spare minute of those twelve months interviewing caterers and going to bridal salons. Read the first page
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Most of the wedding guides we've seen assume you'll get engaged at least a year before your wedding date and that you'll happily spend every spare minute of those twelve months interviewing caterers and going to bridal salons. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Spiral-bound
I was going mad reading articles and brochures for weddings which went on about how important every aspect of a wedding is. They each implied that if you didn't get it "right" your day would be ruined and people would talk about how awful your flowers/invitations/favours were for years afterwards! The truth is your day is more likely to be as wonderful and unique as you are once you build it around your own personal taste and personality. This book is a great antidote to the wedding industry and pushy relations. It has all sorts of ideas to get your creative juices going and great practical advice for having a calmer, happier day. I found it a wonderful and fun start to my wedding research and used many of its tips. In then end we had quite a traditional day, that everyone involved was really happy with, and I enjoyed every minute of it. Friends keep telling us that it was the best wedding they'd been to in years - in part because we put our own stamp on it and that made people feel more emotionally connected to us and our happiness.
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79 of 79 people found the following review helpful
Nothing new to see here.
12 Feb 2005
Format:Spiral-bound
Meh. The other negative reviews were right. This book was about as "out of the box" as the wedding sections in Cosmo or Glamour and seemed geared towards women with lots of money, time, and inclination to plan a wedding.
The format of the book is like this:
Veils: Who says you have to wear a veil? You totally don't. But if you want one, here is the same advice on veils that you get in any bridal magazine of wedding planning book.
Bouquet: Who says you have to carry a bouquet? You don't have to! But if you want to here is some completely unoriginal crap that the authors copied and pasted out of a tepid and shallow bridal article...
The book actually listed alternative colors for wedding gowns, such as green, brown, orange, silver, and ruby. You mean, if i don't want to wear white, I can wear another color??? How utterly original! I never would have thought of that one on my own!
You get the idea.
There's some serious product placement going on here, too. So the author is "friends" with someone at Benefit Cosmetics who then gives advice on wedding make-up. (First tip: Use Benefit Cosmetics!) Surprise, Benefit Cosmetics is the first listing in the Make-up section of the Resource Guide. Give me a break.
I was irritated by the author's constant reference to her own wedding but in the third person, as if she had collected testimonials from other brides. Gerin's wedding stories are about how she had to have a wedding on each coast and a party in France and offered such innovative and fresh advice like "Drink lots of water on the plane."
The practical advice is okay, but was covered with more accuracy and completeness in the other books I bought.
I did get a couple solid slices of advice from this book which is how it earned one star. I honestly appreciate the "Anti-Bride Timeline" on page 128, the Beauty Countdown on page 122 (get waxed two days before your wedding... check!), and the Day-of Checklist on page 135. I am hard pressed to imagine that I will use much else from this book, however.
If you find this used for less than $1, go for it. The checklists are worth it. But if you already have any other bridal guide, there's no point in getting this one. Putting a retro-graphics cover on the same, tired old crap doesn't make it interesting. It just makes it another bridal industry rip-off.
The format of the book is like this:
Veils: Who says you have to wear a veil? You totally don't. But if you want one, here is the same advice on veils that you get in any bridal magazine of wedding planning book.
Bouquet: Who says you have to carry a bouquet? You don't have to! But if you want to here is some completely unoriginal crap that the authors copied and pasted out of a tepid and shallow bridal article...
The book actually listed alternative colors for wedding gowns, such as green, brown, orange, silver, and ruby. You mean, if i don't want to wear white, I can wear another color??? How utterly original! I never would have thought of that one on my own!
You get the idea.
There's some serious product placement going on here, too. So the author is "friends" with someone at Benefit Cosmetics who then gives advice on wedding make-up. (First tip: Use Benefit Cosmetics!) Surprise, Benefit Cosmetics is the first listing in the Make-up section of the Resource Guide. Give me a break.
I was irritated by the author's constant reference to her own wedding but in the third person, as if she had collected testimonials from other brides. Gerin's wedding stories are about how she had to have a wedding on each coast and a party in France and offered such innovative and fresh advice like "Drink lots of water on the plane."
The practical advice is okay, but was covered with more accuracy and completeness in the other books I bought.
I did get a couple solid slices of advice from this book which is how it earned one star. I honestly appreciate the "Anti-Bride Timeline" on page 128, the Beauty Countdown on page 122 (get waxed two days before your wedding... check!), and the Day-of Checklist on page 135. I am hard pressed to imagine that I will use much else from this book, however.
If you find this used for less than $1, go for it. The checklists are worth it. But if you already have any other bridal guide, there's no point in getting this one. Putting a retro-graphics cover on the same, tired old crap doesn't make it interesting. It just makes it another bridal industry rip-off.
85 of 93 people found the following review helpful
Not Anti Bride
3 Aug 2002
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This would not be a bad wedding guide if it didn't claim to be different. It is, generally, about the same as the others I've read. The most "anti" theme is the book is that you don't have to do what your family wants you to. But, there is plenty of discussion of etiquette, what to do, what not to do, etc. Sure there are a few nice ideas, but all bridal guides tend to have a few nice ideas. I was looking for a book that could really assist me in having a wedding that is *different.* I wanted something to help me get past all that brainwashing about what a wedding looks like. This book, instead, offers slightly alternative-ish ideas about how you might adjust existing traditions and how you don't have to listen to all your family. Not a bad wedding book, but just doesn't live up to being anything that different from what is already out there.
33 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Skip this book
4 Dec 2006
Format:Spiral-bound
When I finally came to grips with fact that my fella was not as exited about eloping as I was, I hypervenilated at the thought of a wedding... then eventually pulled up my boot straps and promptly bought every book on Amazon that purported to be about planning low key celebrations far, far from the land of bridezilla.
While the Anti-Bride series of books (oh yes, I did buy all three in a fit of panic) claims to be about not getting sucked in to the Wedding Industrial Complex, I found it to be just the opposite. To wit, the opening sentence from the planner: "A film reel of your wedding has probably been playing in your head since you dressed up Barbie and Ken and walked them down the aisle." Um, no.... and in fact this is precisely the kind of drivel I was hoping to avoid.
So don't judge a book by it's SexandtheCity cover, and instead spend your $ on the two sleeper hits from my book-buying spree: "How to Have an Elegant Wedding for $5000 or Less" and "How to Have the Wedding you Want (not the one everybody else wants you to have)"
I have found a creative use for these books, though: They've become the symbol of all wedding evil in our house. When I am really, really irritated with some stupid wedding detail my fella keeps these books handy for me to stomp on, curse at etc....
While the Anti-Bride series of books (oh yes, I did buy all three in a fit of panic) claims to be about not getting sucked in to the Wedding Industrial Complex, I found it to be just the opposite. To wit, the opening sentence from the planner: "A film reel of your wedding has probably been playing in your head since you dressed up Barbie and Ken and walked them down the aisle." Um, no.... and in fact this is precisely the kind of drivel I was hoping to avoid.
So don't judge a book by it's SexandtheCity cover, and instead spend your $ on the two sleeper hits from my book-buying spree: "How to Have an Elegant Wedding for $5000 or Less" and "How to Have the Wedding you Want (not the one everybody else wants you to have)"
I have found a creative use for these books, though: They've become the symbol of all wedding evil in our house. When I am really, really irritated with some stupid wedding detail my fella keeps these books handy for me to stomp on, curse at etc....
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