(Book). In The Bride's Guide to Musicians: Live Wedding Music Made Easy and Affordable , renowned harpist Anne Roos draws upon 25+ years of experience to guide you every step of the way in planning the musical portion of your perfect wedding. She also helps you find cost-effective ways to include live music in your overall wedding budget. With tips from internationally recognized wedding professionals, this fun guide is designed to be the only book you'll need when you go shopping for your wedding musicians. It comes complete with worksheets, checklists, and more! You'll learn * how you can afford live music (and all kinds of other frills) for your wedding * how to choose the perfect musical selections for your wedding day * how to find great wedding musicians * how to audition musicians before you hire them * what you need in a performance agreement (including sample contracts!)

(Book). Professional harpist Anne Roos draws upon her years of experience working with wedding planners and brides to guide the reader every step of the way to becoming a successful wedding musician. Readers will also get insider advice from internationally recognized wedding planning professionals, comprehensive worksheets, and checklists that provide all they need to know to plan their business and performances, and even sheet music arrangements of traditional wedding music. This is a must-have book for musicians and bands who want to keep their calendar full with high-paying wedding ceremonies and receptions.

This unique book features an audio CD containing samples of 99 classical music pieces for weddings and lyrics from 100 of the most popular wedding songs. It also includes information and advice on how to select bands, musicians and DJ's.

From walking his daughter down the aisle to greeting guests with a smile, the father-of-the-bride has a lot more than just finances to worry about on his daughter's big day. This handy pocket guide features everything the FOTB-to-be should know: Understanding wedding speak and bridal terms (what are those women talking about?) € Who pays for what? € Dealing with stress and conflict € Blending families with ease € The right clothes, the right toast € Wedding day duties € and more

When his little girl is getting married. . . . The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Being the Father of the Bride, second edition, covers everything every bride’s father needs to know to make it from engagement to honeymoon with his sanity—and, if he’s lucky, his wallet—intact. Written with the interests of the bride in mind, this new edition provides nervous fathers with a new chapter on how to make a memorable wedding day toast, complete with several sample speeches.

A complete guide to selecting every piece of wedding music, from before the ceremony to the last dance. It contains: a CD with excerpts from 99 of the most popular classical pieces for weddings, which can help you select music for before, during and after the ceremony, the cocktail hour, during dinner, etc.; lyrics for 100 of the most popular songs for weddings; and hundreds of song titles with genre, artist and album. These songs are organized into tables, making it easy to choose music appropriate for each moment of the wedding. This unique guide also contains valuable information and advice on how to select bands, musicians and DJs, in addition to useful worksheets to simplify the selection process. Illustrations.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). A great collection of popular, classical and sacred songs for wedding musicians or engaged couples who are planning their service. Over 40 categorized songs, plus a website to hear audio clips! Choosing the perfect wedding music has never been easier! Songs include: Bless the Broken Road * Canon in D * Everything * Forever in Love * God Gave Me You * Grow Old with Me * I Will Be Here * In My Life * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring * The Lord's Prayer * Love Never Fails * Marry Me * Ode to Joy * Trumpet Voluntary * When You Say Nothing at All * and more.

With the average cost of weddings today at over $20,000, it’s no wonder that today’s savvy, budget-conscious brides are looking for deals to get the wedding of their dreams at a fraction of the cost. But in today’s world where extreme couponing and the number of wedding sweepstakes competitions is on the rise, for the modern bride, discounts and bargains are simply not enough. For these brides, only free will do. Enter The Bride's Guide to Freebies, the book that shares insider secrets on how to potentially get thousands of dollars worth of merchandise and products for your wedding for free. No, this is not a book of suggested bargains and discounts. Rather, this book provides freebie-finding strategies on everything from the dress to the food to the entertainment, information on what to say (and not say) to score lots of swag, and how to foster positive relationships with vendors that result in spectacular add-ins. And each and every tip and strategy featured in the book is designed to give the budget-conscious bride the ultimate payoff: lots of wedding goods and extras… for absolutely zero money.

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.