Anti-Bride Wedding Planner: Hip Tools and Tips for Getting Ahead

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Summary: This wedding planner really inspires
Review: Finally! A hip wedding planner for the modern bride who's not interested in throwing yet another generic wedding. This planner really inspires with its clever and creative ideas that really get you brainstorming. The well-thought-out lists and questionnaires help you prioritize and simplify the millions of decisions that need to be made, and the questions for vendors really help put you on the right track to getting the best people on board for your big day. This planner provides not only suggestions for "outside-of-the box" planning, it's also full of "Anti-Bride Tips" that can literally save you a lot of headache, time and money. There are also plenty of pages left open for notes to brainstorm and collect your thoughts, and pockets to neatly file your samples, pictures, vendor info, receipts, etc. I even love the look and feel of this book, which really reflects the spirit of the Anti-Bride concept: it's sharp color scheme and graphics are really hip and highly stylized, making it really stand out from the other, more standard, ho-hum, chunky wedding planners. It's compact size makes it easy and convenient to carry around with you everywhere. Finally, to truly organize the busy bride, I really like the "Phone Book: Important Info at a Glance" section included to really keep key information handy. There will be no flurry of panic to find that one important piece of information somewhere at the bottom of... my purse(?!) While planning one of the most important days of my life, the Anti-Bride Wedding Planner will definitely be my closest companion and confidant for the months ahead while I plan a unique, meaningful and memorable event for me and my husband-to-be. I highly recommend the Anti-Bride Wedding Planner and will definitely be getting copies in the future for friends planning to get hitched.

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Summary: Great Resource for Budget & Style
Review: I was thrilled with the content of this book. It was filled with great ideas that I could not find in other bridal planning guides. Each chapter presented great money-saving ideas, while still mainting elegance and good taste. Also, I loved all of the "hip- tips" related to creating a great sense of ambience for our wedding. Would highly recommend.

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Summary: This Planner Has Everything You Need
Review: This wedding planner really delivers as advertised - this IS the ultimate tool for the nontraditional bride. This planner is compact because there is no wasted space or fluff, just relevant information that I'll need to plan my wedding. I especially like the clever and witty writing style of the authors that make reading this planner fun and entertaining as it is practical and creative for planning a wedding to remember.

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Summary: This Planner Has Everything You Need
Review: What the world (or at least this bride to be) needs is a wedding planning book that helps brides-to-be to devise a wedding that expresses the couple's individual style and celebrates the meaning of their marriage. This planner would help brides sidestep the wedding industry and its overhyped and overpriced products to create a satisfying ceremony and fabulous celebration. At the very least, it would help brides decide which of the wedding traditions and consumables are for them, and which they want to rethink according to ther own lights.

I read the previous book, The Anti-Bride Guide, and it fit the above description well enough that I sprung for this planner. However, in the interval between the Guide and the Planner, pernicious editors or writers from In-Style Magazine have turned it into a different concept.

While the other book helped people devise their own look that doesn't neccesarily involve white and veils, this one advises on waists and bodices and suggests that you wear canary colored diamonds to be unique. While the other book helped you come up with great ideas for catering your own wedding, this one skips all that in favor of a list of questions to ask caterers. Etc. If you have an indie or DIY outlook, this isn't your book, though you could get a few ideas from it.

To be fair, it does deviate from that model in a few instances (like flower and invitation concepts), and it definitely offered some creative ideas. There were even a couple I'll use. But overall, it was the same old thing.