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How to Have a Big Wedding on a Small Budget

Fourth Edition

By Diane Warner

This newly revised guide shows how to plan a stunning wedding with all the trimmings but without all the expenses. In this completely updated 4th edition, brides and grooms will find:

-Case histories illustrating how four brides stayed within their respective budgets without sacrificing their wedding's quality and elegance

-The latest wedding trends with guidelines for being fashionable at a low price

-Creative new cost-cutting ideas, plus money-saving tips for the groom

-Updated costs for everything, including flowers, wedding gowns, reception food and photographers, for 9 regions nationwide

-Instructions and advice for tracking every aspect of planning a wedding

-A quick-reference "what to do when" calendar/timetable

This book's dozens of creative ideas will not only help readers save money, but will make wedding planning a fun process!

Diane Warner has helped thousands of soon-to-be weds with her seminars and books, including Beautiful Wedding Decorations & Gifts on a Small Budget. She lives in Turlock, California.

Library Journal

Warner's daughter announced that she and her fiance wanted to marry in four months and have a large, traditional wedding. This book is drawn from the copious notes Warner kept while investigating the buying, renting, baking, etc., needed for that wedding, as well as the suggestions she received from friends, relatives, and others along the way. She shows how to set up a plan and calendar. Frustrated with wedding books which did not cover actual costs, she includes here such information for seven geographical areas in the United States and offers some estimates for Canadian readers. Filled with numerous charts, organizational tips, and personal solutions, this is a practical dollars-and-cents consumer guide to maintaining a wedding budget by a woman who spent less than half the national average of $11,000. Recommended for wedding book collections.-- Mary Ann Wasick, West Allis P.L., Wis.