Wedding Planning in Simple Steps debuts as the first book from Vikki Valentine, a new author with Nikki Bond Books. Ms. Valentine offers tips for brides seeking help with organizing wedding tasks.
The book’s major thrust involves calculating your budget and then choosing your priority item. After that, all other items become necessities. For example, if you choose your venue as your priority item, your flowers, photographer, and even your dress become necessity items. Along the way, Ms. Valentine takes a light approach to a time that is often one of the most stressful in a woman’s life.
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One of those areas of stress is how much to spend on the wedding. The book offers a worksheet for calculating available wedding funds. Ms. Valentine also points out many other resources that brides may overlook.
Once you know your budget, the next step is to choose your highest priority item. In the following chapters, Valentine offers both priority and necessity options for each wedding planning item. So, brides with a venue priority can skip to the necessity options for other items such as the wedding cake.
Wedding Planning in Simple Steps looks at the lighter side of this major life event. Each chapter begins with a cartoon and Ms. Valentine includes many humorous anecdotes from her own wedding experience.
If a wedding is in your future, and especially if you want to get married on a reasonable budget, you need a copy of Wedding Planning in Simple Steps. If you are not tying the knot, but know someone who is, this book would make a great gift.
