The DIY wedding manual How to create your perfect day without a celebrity budget
Book - 2010
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Oxford :
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[2010]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- 148 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 9781845284053
- Preface
- Wedding timeline
- 1. Stationery
- Setting a colour palette
- Setting a wedding theme
- Deciding on fonts
- Save the date cards
- Invitations
- Evening invites
- Order of service booklet
- Table stationery
- How to organise a table plan
- Place cards
- Thank you cards
- Budget busters
- 2. Venues
- Budget busters
- Choosing a venue
- Questions to ask potential venues
- Types of venues
- Marquees
- 3. Reception
- Deciding on your reception venue
- Selecting the right package
- Arranging the seating plan
- Decorating your reception venue
- Budget busters
- Speeches
- After dinner entertainment
- 4. Getting married abroad
- Budget busters
- Organising your paperwork
- Pros and cons of getting married abroad
- Do a reccy
- Information for guests
- Packing for a wedding abroad
- Wedding abroad checklist
- Wedding insurance
- Things to consider when getting married abroad
- 5. Transport
- The night before the wedding
- Choosing your transport
- Budget busters
- 6. Photography
- A little planning goes a long way
- Hiring the right photographer
- Questions to ask prospective photographers
- Planning your photographs
- Budget busters
- 7. Music
- Music for the ceremony
- Prelude
- The processional
- Wedding hymns
- The departure
- Music for the reception
- Band vs DJ
- First dance
- Party music
- Budget busters
- 8. Flowers
- Budget busters
- Flowers in bloom
- Foliage
- Meanings of flowers
- Keeping your wedding flowers
- Buttonholes
- Hand-tied bouquets
- Floral table centerpieces
- 9. Food and drink
- Food suppliers at venues
- Budget busters
- Providing your own food and drink
- Afternoon tea
- Buffets
- Holding a BBQ
- Themed foods
- Canapés
- Welcome drinks
- Budget busters
- Desserts
- After dinner delights
- 10. Wedding cakes
- Traditional wedding cakes
- Making a wedding cake
- Filling your cake
- Covering your cake
- Adding decorations
- Stacking your wedding cake
- Cupcakes
- Alternative options for wedding cakes
- Budget busters
- 11. The wedding dress
- How to find your dream dress
- Deciding on a dress shape for your figure
- Choosing the right fabric
- Budget busters
- The veil
- Choosing your bridesmaid and flower girl dresses
- Budget busters
- 12. Hair and make up
- Starting a beauty regime
- A simple beauty regime to follow
- Beauty treatments
- Homemade beauty treatments
- Wedding hair
- Long hair
- Short hair
- Practice makes perfect
- Choosing the perfect hair accessories
- Wedding make up
- Make up must haves for brides
- Tools of the trade
- A step-by-step guide to doing your own wedding day make up
- Wedding day emergencies
- Budget busters
- 13. Favours
- Ideas for favours
- Budget busters
- Index