You want it to be the wedding you’ve always dreamed of: a sunny day, a beautiful dress, a gorgeous cake, and a chapel filled with flowers, friends, family, and the one you love. But, how do you get there when your mom is miffed, your fiancée feels left out, your bridesmaid isn’t speaking to you, and your future in-laws want to bring their grandkids. Dr. Rita, New York City’s “Marrying Therapist,” has all the answers. This enthusiastically upbeat and enlightening book is a great help to any bride-to-be, and full of practical solutions before, during and after the wedding.

A therapist provides advice for the potential bride on how to prepare for a wedding, deal with family members, overcome cold feet, and adjust to being a newlywed.

Theme Puppets is a totally new concept in elementary education developed by a teacher with many years of classroom experience. The Birth of a Nation: Theme Puppets book contains 56 reproducible puppet patterns which can be used to make stick puppets about 6' wide and 10' tall - not counting handles. Children can cut out, color and mount on posterboard or cardboard these puppets. There are abundant suggestions for teachers to use with children to make puppet shows. The puppet patterns include George Washington, Betsy Ross, Thomas Jefferson and many other important historical figures of the time. Included also are background notes on the Revolutionary War period and a list of literature for use as reference material for the children. Parents may also use the book as a stimulating educational activity at home.

It's the essential wedding planner elegance. This mother-daughter team of professional wedding coordinators show brides how to have the perfect wedding while adhering to a realistic budget.

As a bride, you worry about finding the perfect dress, choosing the location for the reception, and keeping your wedding expenses within a certain budget. But beyond the straight ABCs of planning a wedding lie the more personal, emotional issues that can threaten to unravel your perfect day: jealous friends, bratty bridesmaids, complicated extended families, and pre-wedding jitters. Thankfully, help is here! From wedding and relationship experts Dr. Dale Atkins and Annie Gilbar comes Wedding Sanity Savers—the ultimate troubleshooting guide for the sticky situations that arise on the road to happily ever after. From the day you get engaged until the day you say “I do,” Wedding Sanity Savers provides fresh, frank advice that you won’t find in other wedding books. With over 300 Q&As from real brides that tackle issues including body image, friends and exes, divorced parents, in-laws, merging religions and cultures, money questions, planning mishaps, sticking up for yourself, and more, Wedding Sanity Savers gives you the strategies you need to make tough decisions, finesse difficult scenarios, stay true to yourself, and keep smiling throughout it all.

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Readers getting married for the first time, or the second or even third time, are absolutely inundated with information. They want a unique wedding, but they can't afford to spend that kind of money. They want to please their families, but not at the expense of pleasing themselves. They have questions upon questions, but they don't want a rehash of the same old information. They expect and deserve inside advice from brides who have been there. Enter The Unofficial Guide to Planning Your Wedding. By teaching readers to sit down and focus on the kind of wedding they want, it allows them to come through the event with their sanity and their pocketbooks intact. The practical tools and checklists detail what to expect to spend on the caterer, the florist, the photographer, etc., as well as how to handle such sticky situations as intermarriages, divorced parents, and family feuds. And best of all, it reminds readers about the elements of a truly unique wedding.

Offers expert tips and inside advice on every aspect of organizing a wedding. US origin.

Finalist for the National Indie Excellence Book Awards, 2015 — LGBT Nonfiction and Marriage How to make any wedding liberating, brave, and sexy. This post-DOMA 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—from how he and his husband connected via MTV’s The Real World to the real world of their marriage—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: 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 the 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.

The Knot Guide for the Mother of the Bride explains the bridal planning process from start to finish, with special attention to the responsibilities of the mother of the bride, such as engagement announcements and parties, interacting with the groom's family and managing finances. Every aspect of the wedding tradition is covered from Mum's point of view, whether the etiquette of gift registries or how to organize a receiving line.