A Modern Girl's Guide To Getting Hitched: How to plan, survive and enjoy your wedding - Softcover

Ivens, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749922680 ISBN 13: 9780749922689

Publisher: Piatkus, 2002

Synopsis

Discover the truth about weddings with this fun, witty, self-help book for brides-to-be.

A Modern Girl's Guide to Getting Hitched gives tips, guidance and case studies on how to plan for your big day, cope with your families and friends, and achieve your own goals. Entertaining and informative, it tells the truth about weddings that the magazines don't dare to mention.

Topics covered include:
*Coming to terms with never being able to pull men again!
*Dealing with the details that will drive you mad - and discovering the available options
*Looking like a princess - without having to behave like one
*Creating the right service for you
*Speeches - choosing the right people for the job and controlling their content
*Choosing a bridesmaid without losing all your female friends
*Learning how to balance being a wedding bore with a full-time job
*Judgement Day - including common disasters and last minute fixes.

A Modern Girl's Guide to Getting Hitched is a must-have, light-hearted guide to one of the most unintentionally stressful days of a woman's life.

About this title

About the Author

Sarah Ivens, PhD, is the best-selling author of eleven lifestyle and wellness books, including A Modern Girl's Guide to Getting Hitched and Forest Therapy: Seasonal Ways to Embrace Nature for a Happier You, and the founding Editor in Chief of OK! magazine in the US. A Londoner, who now lives in Canterbury, Kent, after 19 years in the US, where she ran OK! magazine in New York City, worked for the drama development team at HBO and certified as a life coach in Los Angeles and learned how to two-step in Texas.

She holds a PhD in Comparative Humanities from the University of Louisville, Kentucky, her work focusing on the changes and choices faced by women during the reign of Elizabeth II, and how the ideas of home and homeland shape a woman's life. She has given lectures at universities around the world and written for academic journals on socioeconomic class and gender. She also has an MA in English Literature and has collaborated as a ghostwriter with many celebrities on their bestselling memoirs and self-help books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Piatkus
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749922680
• ISBN 13: 9780749922689
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192