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ISBN: 1885221924

ISBN13: 9781885221926

Weddings: The Magic of Creating Your Own Ceremony

Name: Excellent source of vow and ceremony ideas and styles
Item: Weddings: The Magic of Creating Your Own Ceremony
Rating: 5
Author: Thriftbooks.com User

By Henry S. Basayne and Linda R. Janowitz

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Book Overview

Praised as the best book of its kind, Weddings is not about food, fashion, or flowers. It is a guide to creating innovative ceremonies. Couples will discover an inspiring array of rites: secular and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1885221924

ISBN13:9781885221926

Release Date:January 1999

Publisher:Bookpartners

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.84 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Excellent source of vow and ceremony ideas and styles

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago

This book is proving to be an excellent source of ideas, wording, and suggestions for our ceremony. It covers everything from formal, traditional content to very informal and untraditional approaches, including same sex unions, etc. . Everything from openings, vows, ring exchanges, vow renewals, closings, thanking people, prose, poetry, music, and even how to handle stage fright. Lots of detailed examples and material to work with for ideas. What a gold mine! I dreaded writing vows from scratch -- this makes it fun and it stimulates ideas. When I first flipped through it (lent to me by my sis-in-law) I didn't yet appreciate its value, but now that we are writing our vows it is *immensely* helpful and really helps us formulate what we're trying to express. It's got a wide range of material, and has lots of non-religious material also. Once I see the examples, then pretty soon my own unique words come tumbling out. Tons of great real text from what feels like real people and situations.

One of the most useful wedding books!

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago

This is a fantastic, practical resource for all types of wedding ceremonies - it provides not only sample wording, but advice on choosing rituals and readings, and things to consider for setting the tone of your wedding. There are full, sample ceremonies and lots of great information. Highly recommended!

Best Wedding Vows book

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago

I've read a bunch of wedding vow books, and this is the only one that I've found to be really useful. It not only covers writing vows, but also writing statments of appreciation, the celebrant's address, music, opening, closing, etc. It also asks some excellent questions, like how are people going to know the ceremony is starting? How are they going to know it is over? How are you going to put a ring on the grooms finger while you are holding a bouquet? I'm certainly not experienced with writing ceremonies; this book was a great help.

Best Ceremony Book of the 8 I read

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago

I don't usually come back to write reviews of the stuff I read, but I felt I really should for this book. My fiance and I are writing our own ceremony (not just the vows) and we kept coming back to this book for ideas. It poses questions to you that get you thinking in the right direction, has several good examples and is appropriate for those planning a non-religious ceremony or a religious ceremony. So many of the books I read focused on the vows only, or still had the traditional church overtones we were trying to avoid. It focuses on what's important to you as a couple, and it's been a great process for us to go through together. I highly recommend it!