The Big White Book of Weddings: A How-to Guide for the Savvy, Stylish Bride

The Big White Book of Weddings: A How-to Guide for the Savvy, Stylish Bride

by David Tutera
The Big White Book of Weddings: A How-to Guide for the Savvy, Stylish Bride

The Big White Book of Weddings: A How-to Guide for the Savvy, Stylish Bride

by David Tutera

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Overview

Entertaining expert David Tutera opens his files to reveal a wealth of detailed information about creating that perfect day, featuring advice about everything from wording invitations to negotiating with caterers, planning the meal to throwing an event on a budget.

The same insight celebrity entertaining and wedding expert David Tutera gives to his A-list clientele is now at your fingertips in The Big White Book of Weddings: David's ultimate "how-to" guide designed to get every bride down the aisle in style!

It's tough to be a bride on a budget—but David reveals his personal tips of the wedding trade that proves brides can be both sophisticatedly chic and realistically resourceful! Covering the entire wedding experience from brainstorming, budgeting, invitations, gift registries, food, music, traditional reception rituals, and even what happens after the wedding's over, Tutera has created a must-have for brides-to-be. Full of the personality that David brings to every wedding he plans and every TV show or magazine article he appears in, Big White Book of Weddings is the book every bride needs to make her wedding unforgettable for all the right reasons!

Includes sections such as:

- Create engaging menus and creative cocktails in "Eat, Drink and Be Married!"

- Be Perfectly Polished with "Etiquette for the Elegant"

- Make your entertainment a hit without needing a rock-star budget in "Strike up the Band"

- Go from "Ordinary to Extraordinary" with decor and floral tips from the pro


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780312565015
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date: 01/05/2010
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.38(w) x 9.56(h) x 0.97(d)

About the Author

DAVID TUTERA, celebrity wedding and party planner and designer, is the host of the award-winning WEtv show My Fair Wedding with David Tutera. Named as a "Top Trendsetter of The Year" by Modern Bride and called "Best Celebrity Wedding Planner" by Life and Style Magazine, he has also appeared on Oprah, The Today Show and The View. David's designs and products for "Disney's Couture Wedding Collection by David Tutera" can be found at Walt Disney World, and his wedding gown line, "David Tutera by Faviana" is available across America. He lives in New York City and encourages all to "celebrate life with style!"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: The "Other" Man in Your Life 1

1 Getting Started 101: The Planning Process: Think, Organize, Do (And Don't!) 7

Think About It: Brainstorming

Get Your Priorities Straight: ABCs of Organizing

Do Your Homework: Researching Before Acting

2 That Costs How Much?, or My Dad so won't Pay That: The Bride's Guide to Savvy Spending and Budgeting 15

Create Your Budget Before You Spend a Dime

What to Expect (and Questions to Ask When Researching Costs)

Budgeting with Vendors

The Stress-free Bride-to-Be

3 Scene-Setting for Your Wedding 41

The Perfect Date: Choosing When Your Wedding Will Take Place

That Special Time of Year: Holiday Weddings

In a Faraway Land: Destination Weddings

Location, Location, Location: Selecting a Ceremony and Reception Venue

4 Perfectly Polished: Etiquette for the Elegant 67

I'm Smiling Because I Have to Right Now: Being a Bride Who Is Nice and Considerate to All

Your A-List: Creating Your Guest List

Get the Party Started!: Choosing Your Bridal Party

Playing the Part: The Role of the Bride and Groom

Being well Received at Your Reception

Oh, You Shouldn't Have!: Registry and Gifts

From me to You: When to Gift Guests

Your Supporting Cast: Attendant Gifts

5 You're Invited!: Invites And Printed Materials 85

Creating a Buzz: Save the Dates

You are Cordially Invited: Invitations

What Do We Do Now?: Itineraries

The Run of Show: Programs

Places, Everyone!: Escort Cards and Place Cards

What's Cooking?: Menu Cards

The Paper Trail: Accents and More

Much Obliged: Thank-YouNotes

6 Fashion Forward 113

The Aisle Is Your Runway

Making Your Debut: Your Bridal Gown!

Amorous Additions: Accessories

Fashion for Your Bridal Party

Ready for My Close-up: Hair and Makeup

Men of the Hour: Groom and Groomsmen

"Everlasting" Love: Wedding Gown Preservation

7 Strike Up the Band: Entertainment! 139

Ceremony Serenades

Cocktail and Reception Music

And the Band Played On!: Hiring a Band

Spin My Song: Hiring a DJ

A Sweet Duet: DJs with Accompaniment

Showstoppers: Hiring Performers

Going Out with a Bang: Wedding Fireworks

8 Lights, Camera, Action!: Photography And Videography 159

Your Personal Paparazzi: Hiring a Photographer

Roll the Cameras!: Hiring a Videographer

9 Ordinary to Extraordinary: Your Wedding Decor 171

Designing Your Dream: Contracting a Design Vendor

What's Your Bridal Style?

Stop and Smell the Roses: Floral Decor

Decor the Halls

My People Will Call Your People: Contacting Rental Vendors

Let There Be Lighting!

10 Eat, Drink, and Be Married!: Food And Beverage 206

Creatively Incorporating Food and Festivity

Bottoms Up!: Cocktail Hour

Dinner Is Served: Dinner Receptions

A Taste of Things to Come: Menu Planning and Tastings

Playing with Your Food: Food as Entertainment

Let Them Eat Cake!: Faultlessly Finding Your Future ConFection

11 Get Me to the Church on Time!: Timelines and Logistics 226

In Due Time

Down to the Minute!: Three Schedule Scenarios

When Time Is on Your Side: Lapses Between Ceremony and Reception

Point A to Point B: Transportation

Don't Do the Pink Stretch Lima: Transporting Yourself to Your Wedding

Which Way Do We Go?: Directions for Guests

There and Back: Transporting Your Bridal Party and/or Guests

The Driving Force: Valet

Checking It Twice

12 The Main Event: Ceremony and Reception 246

Places, Everyone!

Greeting and Seating

Here Comes the Bride: Processional

Mastering Ceremony

Do You Take This Man?: Vows

Make It Official: Hiring an Officiant

There Goes the Bride: Recessional

To Give Is to Receive: Receiving Lines

Celebrate Good Times: Your Cocktails and Reception

And Now . . . the Announcement of the Bridal Party

May I Have This Dance?: Special Dances

Cheers!: Toasts Given on Your Special Day

Let the Games Begin!: Cake, Garter, Bouquet

Favorite Favors

Closing: Happily-Ever-After-The-Wedding's-Over 274

Index 277

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