Wedding Books

This book is the best on this subject! I've found it extremely valuable. It's very well written and very easy for non-legal professionals to understand. The sample forms are fully explained and are very easy to alter to my business' specific needs. I'm also better able to explain my contracts to my clients!

I think this is a must have for any professional photographer who doesn't have the option of having legal representation on retainer.

With access to download all of the forms in the book, and wonderful legal advice from an attorney-turned-photographer, this book is a must-have for all photographers! It covers everything from simple model releases to employee forms, to commercial contracts. There is something for everyone!

I'm very disappointed I'm buying books because I like to learn,If you want a a really good book on digital photography, try Scott Kelby's Digital Photography book.

The digital age has arrived and Bill Hurter depicts why it is also the golden age of photography. Digital photography offers an unlimited ceiling of opportunity for both photographers and their clients, especially in the feild of wedding photography. In this book you will acquire the knowledge to exploit these opportunities to produce premium images. The format transitions nicely from the preparation stages to equipment, techniques, workflow, color perfection, photoshop strategies and digital albums. The words of dozens of accomplished professionals illustrate from cover to cover and their insight help exemplify the author's quest.

I didn't come away learning much about weddings; however, the images are inspiring. Maybe you should buy this book combining with Glen Johnson's who has more practical tips and suggestions.

Since I am new to wedding photography, I was looking for a how to, trick of the trades, how to enhance my shooting skill kind of book. I did not find much of info in this book that I need. There are many very nice photographs in the book but little of explanation on how the the photographs were taken, etc.

I guess I need to look for another wedding photography book.

Most of the information seems to be filler. A lot of info in this book is in your manual that came with your camera. Some very nice photographs which were taken by various photographer but not as much as I was looking for in the way of how to!! As improvement from where I am. I gave the book one star but wish I had bumped it up to 2 or 3. I can always learn something from any book. I just didn't personally gain as much as I would have liked from this one. If a person learns one two or three or more very good pointers from a book it may be worth the cost. We all work hard for what we get paid and I just like to get the most for the bucks I spend. That just didn't seem to be the case with this book.

I first checked this book out at my Library, but I got tired out the overdue fees and finally purchased it. I used a couple of the designs in the book as the basis for my invitations. The instructions are great and there are a variety of designs and ideas. People still tell me that we had the most beautiful invitations!

This book has easy to follow directions in back on how to do everything and has many cute ideas.
They mainly have the how-to of wedding invitations so if you are looking for a variety of ideas this isn't the book for you.

This is a so-so book, at best. It doesn't show that many ideas, and they are largely focused towards invitations. If you're not making your invitations, this book probably isn't worth looking at. There are a few things to glance at, but all in all, this book shows nothing new and isn't really worth buying. I was disappointed by what was in the book---with a very few exceptions, it's all about using different papers to make invitations.

I just did my first wedding with the help of this little book and it proved to be an excellent resource for me. I would highly recommend it to anyone who needs a little help. There are several weddings inside to choose from, or as I did, to take elements from different ones and put them together.

I'm looking forward to using this book.

Thanks,
Rev. Alisa Parlette

This is one of those must have books for any new minister. If a minister ever had a question about conducting a service, this manual can guide you through with ease. I highly recommend this book and will be looking to purchase other material by this author.

Jim Henry's "Wedding Manual" was most helpful to me personally. I recently officiated over my first wedding and needed ideas of how to do what "those preachers" did for weddings.

This book not only provided the typical, traditional service. It contained many different types of weddings, so I could pick and choose (along with the couple) just what was appropriate. The variety gave the couple some new angles to consider to make their wedding unique to them.

If you are looking for a starting point on how to conduct weddings, or need some fresh ideas on the same, this is the book for you.

This book has a good look at the contemporary wedding services for the new Pastor.
Much of this books ceremonies are just reprints of standard wedding text. However I enjoyed the introduction and the general set-up of the text.

~ Pastor Dave Plunkett

I was the bridesmaid in my friends wedding and this book provided me with the know how on delivering an exceptional toast worthy of my best friend's wedding.I would highly recommend this book to anyone.A must own

I bought this book based upon some of the other reviews that said it was great and they couldn't have been more wrong. I needed the book on short notice so it cost me $25 and it was absolutely useless. There is nothing useful in this book at all. I ended up just winging the toast because I didn't have time to look for another book.

This book really allowed me to enjoy my daughter's wedding. Not only was it a great help to the wedding party it was also a great help to me and my husband. We were able to give loving, appropriate toasts with a minimum of nervousness. I highly recommend it.

This is a very cool book! I was recently in my cousin's wedding and had to give a couple of speeches about the bride and groom and it really gave me a lot of good ideas. There was lots to choose from so that I sounded like I knew what I was talking about. Even my mother liked it. Well worth it.

My brother got married recently and I was the best man. The thought of getting up and giving the toast at the reception was really scary to me so he got me this book to help. When I read through the book I found several that made a lot of sense so I combined a couple together and added a few things of my own. It turned out great and I know I couldn't have done it without this book.

This was the first Whitney Lyles book I've read, and I just loved it. It was a fast, fun, and easy read. I finished the book and just didn't want it to end.... and I found that she'd written more books! I was thrilled. If you want to relax with a book, here is a great one.

i love weddings, i love being a bridesmaid, i love chick lit. i should have loved this book, right?

i hated this book.

it felt forced - and it was not funny - i can't believe it was published.

I read some of the reviews on here which talked about how "laugh out loud funny" this book is and I couldnt wait to read it. BUT...now that I bought it and read it, I wish I had actually taken the time to read the bad reviews about it because this book is NOTHING like I anticipated it would be!
The writing is slow paced and was VERY hard to get into. This book is shorter than the usual books I read and it took me about twice as long just for the fact I WAS NOT INTO IT!!! I just kept reading though, hoping something good would was going to come like some of the reviews said.
Although there were a few funny moments, I was SOOO BORED out of my mind with this story that I seriously had to FORCE myself just to pick it up!!!
My advice is to save yourself the time and the money from reading this book. Unless you want a nice borring book to put you to sleep, I wouldn't bother!
My guess is the only reason this book has such high reviews is because the author rated herself!! Notice how most of the reviews are from "a reader" with no name? How the hell would someone give this book 5 STARS? Are you kiding me?

This book was just plain fun. Was the ending predictable? You bet, but who cares. I woke my husband up (a lot) laughing out loud. I did think the ending just a touch abrupt but it was a great ride getting there.

This book was a very "fast read". Situational parts of the book were very funny. I read them aloud to my retired father who was visiting and he asked to take the book home with him. He read it on the plane and said he really enjoyed it. This really surprised me as I can't recall that he has ever read a romance novel. I liked the fact that it doesn't contain graphic sex. Also, it was descriptive enough that I could picture "the movie" as I was reading it.

This book was really inspiring it teaches you that you can do things if you really set your mind into it and if you gives you some poems that teaches you about anything. This book was about that the the library was closing down and Willa was very surprised she loved that library so much. So then she told everyone to raise enough money to save the library so she ended up making dances with the help of her best friend Tina of course. JFK the boy willa likes also supported her and lets see how things end up with those two. It was really romantic and it also mention some parts of the first book " The Wedding Planners Daughter" i really recommend this to everyone and really you'll love it and just to warn you that once you read this book you just cant stop reading!

Willa is back and just entering her freshman year of high school. Things are going great. Her mom and her new husband, Willa's old English teacher, are happily running a Bed and Breakfast of sorts, and things have relaxed a bit.

But Willa has two new problems now - figuring out whether JFK loves her or some other girl, and keeping the Bramble Library from closing due to lack of funds. Working as the school's Community Service leader and hosting semi-romantic dances may just help Willa save the library -- and find some romance for herself.

Following in the footsteps of the first book in the series, THE WEDDING PLANNER'S DAUGHTER, THE CUPID CHRONICLES includes the perfect amount of humor to make a laugh-out-loud funny book, without overdoing it. The writing style keeps the reader intrigued throughout the entire story, and the characters are so easy to relate to that you feel as if you're really inside their heads.

This is by far my favorite tween series and I'd recommend it to everyone, no matter what their age. I think this series may even be a good read for 7th- or 8th-graders to read in class. I can't wait to read the third book of the series, WILLA BY HEART, and hope you decide to, as well.

Reviewed by: Harmony

Willafred Havisham is not your everyday Bramble, Cape Cod kind-of girl. She's the girl that sits in the corner and reads, rather than joining the party. But in the The Cupid Chronicles, Willafred, also known as Willa, steps out of the box and speaks up.Willa and her best friend Tina are enjoying their wonderful life in Bramble. But when Willa hears the news that the Bramble Board is closing the local library, Willa looks for ways to stop them. But with things getting in her way, like her cutie crush Joey(also known to Willa as JFK) who kissed her, then moved away. Well he moves back and is excited to see Willa again. Can she fight to save the library and fight against cupid for the chance at love with JFK? You will just have to read the book to find out!

Willafred Havisham is not your everyday Bramble, Cape Cod kind-of girl. She's the girl that sits in the corner and reads, rather than joining the party. But in the The Cupid Chronicles, Willafred, also known as Willa, steps out of the box and speaks up.Willa and her best friend Tina are enjoying their wonderful life in Bramble. But when Willa hears the news that the Bramble Board is closing the local library, Willa looks for ways to stop them. But with things getting in her way, like her cutie crush Joey(also known to Willa as JFK) who kissed her, then moved away. Well he moves back and is excited to see Willa again. Can she fight to save the library and fight against cupid for the chance at love with JFK? You will just have to read the book to find out!

Willafred Havisham is not your everyday Bramble, Cape Cod kind-of girl. She's the girl that sits in the corner and reads, rather than joining the party. But in the The Cupid Chronicles, Willafred, also known as Willa, steps out of the box and speaks up.Willa and her best friend Tina are enjoying their wonderful life in Bramble. But when Willa hears the news that the Bramble Board is closing the local library, Willa looks for ways to stop them. But with things getting in her way, like her cutie crush Joey(also known to Willa as JFK) who kissed her, then moved away. Well he moves back and is excited to see Willa again. Can she fight to save the library and fight against cupid for the chance at love with JFK? You will just have to read the book to find out!

I really got a huge kick out of this book. It has some really useful information. It's funny. But it's also real good spririted. A definite must read for any engaged guy.

My mother-in-law gave me this book as a gift shortly after I popped the question. It was full of really great stuff, and it was fun to read. I would wholeheartedly recommend it. "Mom" was also super-cool enough to give me a couple of other excellent gifts -- believe it or not -- that I would also VERY STRONGLY recommend: the book "Men Are From Mars, Women are from Venus" , the DVD "New Sex Now", and "Goddess Worship" on video. All in all these four little gifts made a HUGE impact on some very amazing weeks of my life.

Why isn't there a "zero stars" option?

I'm sorry, but this book contains some of the most gawd awful advice I have ever seen dispensed to anyone planning a wedding.

Is it supposed to be a joke? If it is, Peter van Dijk missed the mark. Don't even file under Humor - file in the trash.

If the rest of this book is anything like the section on wedding videography, the author does his readers a great disservice. Evidently, Mr. van Dijk felt he needed a comic-villain to ridicule.

His stereotyping of professional videographers and what we do (yes, I'm one of them) is insulting, based on ignorance, and many years out of date ("ugly Klieg light"? Excuse me? They're almost 100 years old!). Extremely light-sensitive cameras have been around for several years. We don't blind you any more.

Apparently, the author wasn't happy with the person who recorded his wedding. Therefore, he has made it his mission to convince others that they too will be unhappy. Never mind that your children and grandchildren (not to mention even YOU) might cherish your video 25 or 50 years from now, the great van Dijk has spoken!

Are some videographers "miserable little cretins"? I suppose so - just like some photographers, bakers, and authors. But the vast majority of us perform a valuable and creative service for our clients, and take pride in preserving the most important day in a young couple's life.

One star for at least trying to be funny. So you're going to buy this book anyway? "Fine, be that way. But don't come crying to me, Wedding Boy. I told you so. I told you so. I told you so. I told you so."

This has to be the most archaic writing I have ever seen. I am not sure if Mr. van Dijk has ever spoken to or participated in vendor selection. His stereotyping of vendors is offensive and unacceptable!

The sad part is that a groom will pick this book up and think how miserable planning a wedding is and how to skimp on things that he should not.

Peter van Dijk has done more harm to the wedding industry than "The Electric Slide"!

It is the first wedding book that I like out of three that I have. Easy to read and understand, covered every area that I had questions about, nice and light humor. Full of useful examples and advices. I immediately saw how implementing some new techniques from this book can improve my work.

I was disappointed with this book. There were some good ideas such as formal posing, but otherwise, outdated. A better wedding photography book by far is "Digital Wedding Photography" by Glen Johnson.

I have bought several books on posing and wedding photography. This is my first covering the most important aspects of the wedding photography business. Although it admits the prevailing tendency of admitting casual, journalistic photos on a wedding album, it still thoroughly explains the conventional wedding photos. It also describes how to deal with the business side of this activity. I consider this book a good very good source for those of us who would like to enter on this field of photography.

I've been reading through this and have found it very informative. I'm happy with my purchase.

If you lean more towards wedding photojournalism, you'll find this book annoying. The author takes stab after stab at the photojournalistic style and concentrates on listing which images you can sell after the wedding.

I found the photography examples rather cheesy and old. The "Posing" chapter starts with a full page image of a bride and groom (almost smack in the middle of the photograph) and the groom's arms hanging down to his sides. I'm new to wedding photography, but even I know that's poor posing! It has some good points, but I wasn't too impressed.

If you're into Traditional style of photography, this is a very good book for you to read. The author breaks the wedding down to almost every kind of picture you should create and how to make it sell at the end. It will be useful to you.

So far, after having read 4 separate books on wedding photography this is my least favorite.

I am a student in a very rigorous AP/IB program (this year I took 9 AP and IB exams combined.) I can say with no hesitation that out of all the books I have used to review my respective subjects this is the absolute worst. The entire book is written as if you should already know everything by taking the class. Due to that fact, why not just use your own class notes? I'm sure that they will be of higher quality, and more suited to review the appropriate material than this sorry excuse for a review book. It is very hard to find a page in this book that does not have significant grammatical errors, but also in which the author does not pose at least 5 rhetorical questions; I'm sorry but when I paid my 20 dollars for this book I didn't realize comedy and lack of information would be the return on my investment. I would recommend the other review book on this subject without even having seen it.

Of all the few books I've found on comparative government this is the only one that actually has good stuff in it. it just doesn't have any practice essays or multiple choice before the final practice tests. That's what I needed the most.